Dmitrii Frolov
Dmitrii Alexeyevich Frolov is a Russian film director in independent experimental cinema and a director of photography.
Biography
Russian experimental filmmaker Dmitri Frolov is known for his abstract, atmospheric films that explore themes of memory, time, and existential reflection through minimalist visual storytelling. Frolov was born in Leningrad on February 27, 1966. In 1990, he graduated from the University of Cinema and Television. A screenwriter, director and cameraman, Frolov took part in more than 30 short films. He was included in several domestic film festivals – including Kinoshok in Anapa, Pure Dreams in St. Petersburg, and Cine Phantom Fest in Moscow – and foreign ones. He also shot music videos for the group Auktsion, and worked as the senior operator of the TV channel 100TV.He makes aesthetic experiments connecting with return to silent cinema on new level of film language.
He is a laureate of the National Award "TEFI-2008" in the nomination "Operator of a TV film / series".
In 2022 he won the special festival mention award at the first season of Casablanca Film Factory Awards.
Filmography
Director
;Films- 1987 – Dream
- 1988 – The Way
- 1988 – Metamorphosis
- 1988 – Theater. Afterword
- 1989 – Act
- 1989 – Clownery
- 1990 – Without words
- 1990 – The Second Birth
- 1991 – KARA
- 1991 – Psycho Attack Over Soviets
- 1991 – The Leaving
- 1991 – Beekeeper
- 1990–1993 – The Big Moon Nights
- 1994 – Do not august, 1991
- 1994 – Stairway to the sky
- 1995 – Above the Lake
- 1995 – Underwater Guest
- 1996 – Das Es
- 1997 – Be Careful!
- 1997 – Ten minutes of silence
- 1998 – The Little Sotmaid
- 1999 – Rumba
- 2000 – Decease
- 2001 – The Granny's Apocrypha
- 2002 – Tango Nightingale
- 2002 – The Two
- 1991–2003 – Phantoms of white nights
- 2004 – The daddy's meat
- 2006 – Above the Lake
- 2010 – Wellspring
- 2010 – The Birth of Music
- 2010 – Conversation
- 2016 – The Lone
- 2017 – Last Love
- 2018 – Winter Will Not Be
- 2019 – Moonlight People
- 2020 – Borodino
- 2021 – Astronaut's Uniform
- 2022 – Dreams of the Past
- 2024 – Adagio
- 2025 – Dinner
- 1991 – Let her know
- 1992 – The crazy city
- 2000 – Something like this
- 2000 – There will be no winters
- 2000 – Head-leg
- 2000 – Lady Dee
- 2000 – Far away
- 2002 – Yagoda
- 2002 – Catholics
- 2003 – Let
- 2017 – Time, back!
Cinematographer
- 1993 – The Battle of Leningrad
- 1994 – The life and adventures of 4 friends
- 1994–1995 – A series of documentary reports about Timur Novikov and the New Academy of Fine Arts
- 1995 – The acceptance of fate
- 1996 – Presence
- 1996 – After 300 years
- 1998 – Courant
- 1999 – Artist Gleb Bogomolov
- 2000 – How "Brother-2" was shot
- 2000 – Nobody writes to the Colonel
- 2000 – The Wizard of our city
- 2000 – Ugar
- 2001 – Dark Night
- 2001 – Daughter of Albion
- 2001 – Fairy Tales
- 2002 – Song
- 2002 – Mozart. Fantasy in the cafe
- 2003 – "Adjacent Rooms"
- 2003 – Kira
- 2004 – Living in History
- 2004 – Children of corn
- 2004 – Merry plumber
- 2005 – Light in August
- 2005 – "School of Baba Yaga"
- 2007 – "The color of time"
- 2008 – "Children of the Siege"
- 2008 – "Autograph of Time"
- 2008 – "Hello, the land of heroes!"
- 2009 – "My contemporaries"
- 2009 – "For Home Viewing"
- 2010 – "Vasily Turkin. The book about the fighter "
- 2010 – "The Seasons"
- 2013 – "A Successful Visit"
- 2017 – "Unknown Leningrad Region"
- 2017 – "Last Love"
- 2019 – "Moonlight People"
- 2022 – "Dreams of the Past"
- TV: 1996–1999 – series of programs "Line of Cinema"
Actor
| Year | Title | Role |
| 1987 | Dream | A character, a mime |
| 1988 | The Way | 1st Comrade |
| 1988 | Metamorphosis | Figure |
| 1989 | Clownery | Daniil Harms |
| 1993 | The Bigmoon Nights | A Man with an Accordion |
| 1993 | Shatanger Aylok | Unutor Flor |
| 2002 | Tango Nightingale | The Male |
| 2020 | Borodino | Bagration and Kutuzov's adjutant |
| 2022 | Dreams of the Past | Officer |