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April 21, 1922, Rybinsk, Yaroslavl Governorate, RSFSR - August 10, 2001, near Vyborg, Leningrad Region, Russian Federation.
Film director, screenwriter, actor. Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1964). People's Artist of the RSFSR (1969). People's Artist of the USSR (13.08.1974) .
His father, Rostotsky Iosif Boleslavovich (1890-1965), was a doctor and later became a famous health worker. Mother, Rostotskaya Lydia Karlovna (1882-1964), - housewife.
In 1940, Stanislav graduated from high school and entered the Institute of Philosophy and Literature. In peacetime, Rostotsky was listed as a non-combatant after being drafted in 1940 due to a spinal disease. However, in February 1942 he was drafted into the army. First I had to serve in the 46th Reserve Rifle Brigade, stationed at the Surok station in the Mari ASSR. In September 1943, Stas Rostotsky "fled" to the front. He had a chance to fight as a private in the 6th Guards Cavalry Corps. He took part in battles, going from Vyazma and Smolensk to Rovno, and the corps ended the war in Prague. On February 11, 1944, near the city of Dubno, in Western Ukraine, Stanislav Rostotsky was seriously wounded. Then there were hospitals in Rovno and Moscow, operations, punctures, dressings. In August 1944, from a private guard, a holder of the Order of the Red Star, he turned into a war invalid of the second group, and in September he became a student at the Institute of Cinematography, in the workshop of G.M. Kozintseva.
Graduated from the directing department of VGIK (1952, workshop of Sergei Eisenstein and Grigory Kozintsev).
As a schoolboy he starred in Sergei Eisenstein's unfinished film Bezhin Meadow (1936). Since 1952 - director of the Maxim Gorky Film Studio. He taught at VGIK, author and co-author of scripts for his own films. Member of the Board of the Gorky Film Studio.
He walked easily and quickly, he danced dexterously, he famously drove a car, drove a boat with an outboard motor, threw a spinning rod a hundred meters and skillfully caught the most ordinary fishing rod. He always had a great mood, he smiled in any weather, knew how to talk to a stranger about the most important things and work, even if it was raining on the street and everyone was annoyed. All talented people are born twice, and fate offered Rostotsky to be born three times. She offered to re-learn to walk, run, dance, swim, jump, drive a car. She offered to forget that he was disabled, and he forgot. For life. And only sometimes before going to sleep, having unfastened the prosthesis, he for a moment let go of the reins. - Heel aches, if it was wrong. And the heel is somewhere under Korsun-Shevchenkovskiy.
After graduating from VGIK in 1952, Rostotsky worked as a second director at the Gorky Film Studio, where he independently made his debut in 1956 by staging a film from the life of the village "Land and People" (based on GN Troepolsky). The director's next work is also devoted to the village theme - "It Was in Penkovo" (1958, after SP Antonov), one of the most popular films of Soviet cinema with the participation of Vyacheslav Tikhonov, Svetlana Druzhinina and Maya Menglet. This picture clearly showed Rostotsky's inclination to a lyrical and confidential story about human destinies. Lyrics coming from the heart and sincere humanity of the stories told make Rostotsky's war films attractive - "May Stars" (1959), "On the Seven Winds" (1962), "The Dawns Here Are Quiet ..." (1972, after B.L. Vasiliev , Oscar nomination, USSR State Prize for 1975). The heroic actions of people during the war for Rostotsky are not associated with large-scale front-line actions, but with "quiet" events, which are not reported in the reports of the Sovinformburo.
It seems that Rostotsky's most perfect picture, We Will Live Until Monday (1968, the main prize of the 1969 Moscow Film Festival, USSR State Prize for 1970), a drama from school life, stands apart in Rostotsky's work. However, the catchphrase “Happiness is when you are understood” from a schoolchild's essay, defending the dignity of any person, be it a beloved teacher or a student unnoticed by anyone, a quiet pathos of selfless and selfless service to the cause - all this turns this picture into a key one, not only biography of the director, but also in the history of Russian cinema. The adaptation of Lermontov's short stories "Bela", "Maxim Maksimych" and "Taman" in the film "A Hero of Our Time" (1967) is not considered a great success for the director, although the choice of parts of the novel where Rostotsky was close to the lyrical themes of love, friendship between people and their contact with the world of “caring nature”. This motive of human unity with all living and animate was expressed in another version of Troepolsky's works - "White Bim Black Ear" (1978, main prize at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival, Oscar nomination, Lenin Prize for 1980) .
The reference to ancient history in the Soviet-Norwegian film And Trees Grow on the Stones (1985, co-director Knut Andersen), although not a great success, is closely connected with the cross-cutting themes of Rostotsky's lyric-patriotic work. In his last work "From the Life of Fyodor Kuzkin" (1989, after BA Mozhaev), he returns to the beginning of his own director's biography, again tells about "the land and people", only with greater openness and harshness. Later Rostotsky did not find a place for himself in Russian cinema and preferred to settle far from Moscow - near Vyborg. Stanislav Iosifovich is the author of numerous articles in the magazines "Art of Cinema", "Soviet Screen", chapters in collections of memoirs about S.M. Eisenstein, G.M. Kozintseve, A.N. Moskvine, L.F. Bykov. He is a member of the Union of Cinematographers of the USSR and the RSFSR, was the chairman of the jury of five Moscow International Film Festivals (1975, 1977, 1979, 1981, 1983). Wife - actress Nina Menshikova (1928-2007). Son - actor Andrey Rostotsky (1957-2002) .
Stanislav Rostotsky passed away in the late evening of August 10, 2001, driving his own car on the way from Vysotsk to Vyborg, where he was invited as a guest of honor to the 9th Window to Europe Film Festival. When only a few kilometers remained to the destination, Rostotsky suddenly felt a sharp pain in his chest and stopped the car. His wife, actress Nina Menshikova, who was sitting next to her, rushed to the phone, called an ambulance, but the team of doctors could not do anything ... According to the medical report, S.I. Rostotsky came instantly from a massive heart attack. The great film director was buried on August 15, 2001 in Moscow at the Vagankovskoye cemetery (site number 12A) .
In February 2002, the school of the city of Vysotsk, Leningrad Region, was named after the director Stanislav Iosifovich Rostotsky, who had lived in Vysotsk for over 15 years.

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