Russian film director Stanislav Rostotsky and others

Russian film director Stanislav Rostotsky and others

Cork Film Festival, Stanislav Rostotsky, Russia, Dermot Breen, Nina Menshikova

This is a black and white photo of the Russian director Stanislav Rostotsky with festival director Dermot Breen and two unidentified female colleagues. The small convivial group, all dressed in evening wear, stand together smoking and laughing. The photo is dated provisionally ‘1970s’ and notes that the lady wearing a floral high-necked dress, at the far left, is a ‘Russian actor’. Stanislav Rostotsky, standing on the far right, was a Soviet film director and screenwriter. Born to a Russian-Polish family in 1922, Rostotsky served as a photojournalist for the Red Army before becoming a film director. He directed more than 12 motion pictures between 1955 and 1989 – often with war as a running theme. Rostotsky served as President of the Moscow International Film Festival on a number of occasions until his retirement from the film industry after his final film in 1989 (From the Life of Fyodor Kuzkin) stating that he had nothing left to say. The 1967 Cork Film Festival programme notes that the festival showed Rostotsky’s film Bela (1966) that year. Two of his later films - The Dawns Here Are Quiet (1972) and White Bim Black Ear (1977) - were nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

The unidentified Russian actor in this photo might be his wife, the Russian actor Nina Menshikova (1928-2007). She had a prolific film career but acted in only one of Rostotsky’s films: We’ll Live Till Monday (1968). She was the mother of the Russian actor Andrei Rostotsky born in 1957. Like his father, Andrei too served in the Soviet Army before becoming an actor and director. He died in 2002 following a climbing accident while shooting his new film My Frontier.

University College Cork, Cork Film Festival, SMV Studios

Cork Film Festival Collection

University College Cork

1970

SMV Studios

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TIFF
JPEG

English, eng

1970
Cork, Ireland

Photo

217 x 168mm