Stanislav Iosifovich Rostotsky (Russian: Станислав Иосифович Ростоцкий; 21 April 1922, Rybinsk – 10 August 2001, Vyborgsky District) was a Soviet film director, screenwriter and pedagogue.

His grandfather Boleslaw Rostotsky served as a General in the Imperial Russian Army and a prosecutor on Emperor's personal order.

[2][3] His father Iosif Boleslawovich Rostotsky (1890—1965) was an acclaimed doctor, docent, author of 200 monographs, as well as a secretary of the Scientific Medical Council at the People's Commissariat for Health.

"In addition, a shell fragment hurt me in the head... Good thing the mates took my gun away — otherwise I would've probably shot myself.

Rostotsky received good recommendations and was sent to work at the Gorky Film Studio where he spent the next 35 years.

Unlike many other directors, he cast his wife only once, in a supporting role in the film We'll Live Till Monday (1968).

[18] As a journalist he was a regular contributor to a number of film periodicals and biographical books, wrote about Sergei Eisenstein, Grigori Kozintsev, Andrei Moskvin and Leonid Bykov.

According to him, young people needed positive emotions, but instead the latest Soviet and Russian films and art in general relied primarily on vulgarity and instincts.

[21][22] During the 1990s Rostotsky spent a lot of time at his house near the Gulf of Finland, fishing, as this was his favorite hobby.

He turned to cinema only once — to act in the 1998 TV mini-series At Daggers Drawn, an adaptation of the classic novel of the same name (director Aleksandr Orlov).

[24] In just a year his only son Andrei Rostotsky died tragically as he fell down a cliff while making preparations for his new movie.