Director,
Writer,
Actor
Born in 1946, USSR (Russia)
 
Died in 2023
Nikolay DOSTAL
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Николай Николаевич ДОСТАЛЬ
Nikolaï DOSTAL
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Director
2016 - Monakh i bes (Монах и бес) [fiction, 114 mn]
2009 - Petya po doroge v Tsarstviye Nebesnoye (Петя по дороге в Царствие Небесное) [fiction, 97 mn]
2005 - Kolia - perekati pole (Коля — перекати поле) [fiction, 93 mn]
2003 - Stilet (Стилет)
2001 - Grazhdanin nachalnik (Гражданин начальник)
1997 - Politseyskie i vory (Полицейские и воры) [100 mn]
1995 - Melkiy bes (Мелкий бес) [fiction, 111 mn]
1992 - Malenkiy gigant bolshego seksa (Маленький гигант большого секса) [83 mn]
1991 - Oblako-ray (Облако-рай) [fiction, 80 mn]
1989 - Ya v polnom poryadke (Я в полном порядке) [80 mn]
1987 - Shura i Prosvirnyak (Шура и Просвирняк) [fiction, 86 mn]
1985 - Chelovek s akkordeonom (Человек с аккордеоном) [93 mn]
 
Writer
2005 - Kolia - perekati pole (Коля — перекати поле) from Nikolay DOSTAL [fiction, 93 mn]
1997 - Politseyskie i vory (Полицейские и воры) from Nikolay DOSTAL [100 mn]
1992 - Malenkiy gigant bolshego seksa (Маленький гигант большого секса) from Nikolay DOSTAL [83 mn]
1989 - Ya v polnom poryadke (Я в полном порядке) from Nikolay DOSTAL [80 mn]
1987 - Shura i Prosvirnyak (Шура и Просвирняк) from Nikolay DOSTAL [fiction, 86 mn]
 
Actor
1964 - Do svidaniya, malchiki! (До свидания, мальчики!) from Mikhail KALIK [fiction, 82 mn]
 
Site : IMDb

Author :

Awards :
Special Prize, "NIKA" Prizes, Russia, 2011
Monakh i bes :
Best Screenplay, Golden Eagle awards, Moscow (Russia), 2017
Petya po doroge v Tsarstviye Nebesnoye :
First prize, Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF), Moscow (Russia), 2009
Kolia - perekati pole :
First prize, "Vyborg" Russian Film Festival (formerly ''A Window to Europe''), Vyborg (Russia), 2005
Oblako-ray :
Special Prize, Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr, Sochi (Russia), 1991

Biography
Born in 1946 in Moscow. In 1970 he graduated from the journalistic department of the Moscow University, later – from the Higher Courses for Scriptwriters and Film Directors (class of G.Danelia). Debuted in directing in 1982. He got international fame with the film «Cloud Heaven» (1991) which was awarded with Silver Leopard at Locarno IFF. Among his most known works are winners of different international prizes «Shura and Prosvirnyak» (1987), «A Small Giant of Big Sex» (1992), «Cops and Robbers» (1998), «Nick The Rolling Stone» (2005) and others. «Pete on the Way to Heaven» won 3 Golden Eagle awards, 6 Nika awards and Grand Prix at the Moscow IFF.
 

commentaries
- Sept films russes sur la survie dans l’enfer du goulag Alexandra GOUZEVA, 2021, RUSSIA BEYOND
- Comment sont regardés les films sur la Grande Guerre patriotique dans la Russie actuelle ? Myriam DÉSERT, 2011, The Journal of Power Institutions in Post-Soviet Societies
- Pete on the Way to Heaven , Andrew CHAPMAN, 2010, rusfilm.pitt.edu
- Nikolai Dostal : Petia on the Way to Heaven (Petia po doroge v tsarstvo nebesnoe, 2009) , David GILLESPIE, 2010, kinokultura.com
- The Self and the Other in Recent Russian Cinema , Birgit BEUMERS, 2010, kinokultura.com
- The Stalin Era in Secondary Processing (Film Review Article) [Petia on the Way to Heaven, Nicolay Dostal, 2009] Mikhael KURAEV, 2010, artmargins.com
- 90-е. Кино, которое мы потеряли , Larisa MALUKOVA, 2007, Зебра Е ; 2007 г.
- Nikolai Dostal' : Penal Battalion (Shtrafbat, TV, 2004) , Alexander PROKHOROV, 2006, kinokultura.com
- Nikolai Dostal': Kolia Rolling in the Fields (Kolia—perekati pole, 2005) , Christine ENGEL, 2006, kinokultura.com