Dmitry Meskhiev: director, producer and actor

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Dmitry Dmitrievich Meskhiev is a famous Russian film director, actor and producer. He took part in the work on many interesting and memorable projects and made a significant contribution to the development of domestic cinema. In this article, we would like to tell you more about Dmitry, his biography and what exactly this person did for the development of Soviet and Russian cinema.

Director Meskhiev Dmitry: biography

The future film actor and director was born on October 31, 1963 in St. Petersburg (at that time - Leningrad).

Dmitry's parents devoted their whole lives to the art of cinema, and it is not surprising that, as an adult, Meskhiev devoted his life to the film industry, and achieved considerable success in this field.

Career

In April 1981, he began working at the well-known Lenfilm studio as a mechanic for filming equipment. From 1983 to 1988, Dmitry studied at VGIK at the directing department, and, as a student, took part infilming a picture by D. Dolin called "A Sentimental Journey for Potatoes".

The nineties of the last century became very productive for Meskhiev - Dmitry directed a huge number of commercials and music videos.

From 1990 to 2001, Meskhiev worked as a production director at the same Lenfilm studio, and in 2001 he left for the Turtle film company, where he became a producer. After another seven years, Dmitry was appointed director of the branch of the Russian World Studios company. And in 2010 he became her main producer.

The next year, Meskhiev was already the chairman of the Committee on Culture of the Government of St. Petersburg, and in 2012 he left this post of his own free will. In the same year, Dmitry created his own company, Kinodelo Production, which was engaged in the production and production of film and television projects. For the next two years, his firm produced and produced the feature film "Battalion" with other companies.

From 2015 to this moment, Dmitry has been the General Director of the State Autonomous Cultural Institution of the Pskov Region "Theater and Concert Directorate".

Filmography

As a director Dmitry Meskhiev worked on such film projects as:

• "The Devotees".
• "Wall".
• "Battalion" (this full-length feature film is now considered the most titled military picture in the history of Russian cinema).
• "The man at the window".
• "Seven booths".
• The Princess and the Pauper.
• Own.
• "Lines of Fate".
• “Peculiarities of national policy.”
• Kamkaze Diary.
• Mechanical Suite.
• Women's Property.
• "American".
• "The arrival of the train."
• "Above dark water".
• Cynics.
• Gambrinus.

In addition to working on the above films, Dmitry Meskhiev is engaged in producing. With its help, many fascinating paintings were created, here are some of them:

• "All smokers are damned."
• “Inherited Crime.”
• "Women's dreams of distant lands".
• “Cherkizon. Disposable people.”
• "Captain Ryumin's personal file".
• "Sisters".
• "My favorite dolt".
• "Promotion".
• "Such an ordinary life."
• "Lucky Pashka".
• "Random Witness".
• "Heart of Mary".
• Palm Sunday.
• "Possessed".
• "Betrothed Mummer".
• "Hot Asph alt".
• “A word to a woman.”
• Robinson.
• "Pure sample".
• Real Dad.

Private life

Dmitry Meskhiev prefers not to talk about his personal life. But his fans know very little - for example, that the director has been married several times.

In 2005, he married for the third time to the actress of the Lensoviet Theater Laura Lauri. Dmitry shot his wife in one of his paintings called "The Princess and the Pauper", but the marriagedid not last very long, and after a short time the couple broke up.

The following relationship, which is known to the public, the director had with a very young girl for Dmitry - Kristina Kuzmina was sixteen years younger than him. Their acquaintance took place on the samples of the same film "The Princess and the Pauper". Kuzmina did not pass them, however, after a whole year and a half, Meskhiev called the girl and offered to meet.

The couple worked a lot together, but despite this, the marriage also broke up, and Christina and Dmitry did not part as friends. After another quarrel, Dmitry Meskhiev decided not to give his ex-wife their daughter, who had previously lived either with her mother or with her father. This caused another high-profile scandal, which almost ended in a fight. As a result, Kristina Kuzmina decided to file a complaint with the police.