
Nikita Mikhalkov
Born October 21, 1945 · Moscow, RSFSR, USSR
Nikita Sergeyevich Mikhalkov (Russian: Никита Сергеевич Михалков; born 21 October 1945; Moscow) is a Russian filmmaker, actor, and head of the Russian Cinematographers' Union. Mikhalkov is a three-time laureate of the State Prize of the Russian Federation (1993, 1995, 1999) and is a Full Cavalier of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland". Nikita Mikhalkov won the Golden Lion of the Venice Film Festival (1991) and was nominated for the Academy Award (1993) in the category Best International Feature Film for the film Close to Eden. He won an Academy Award (1995) for Best Foreign Language Film and the Grand Prix of the Cannes Film Festival (1994) for the film Burnt by the Sun. Mikhalkov received the "Special Lion" of the Venice Film Festival (2007) for his contribution to the cinematography and nominated for an Academy Award for the film 12 (2007). Mikhalkov was born in Moscow into the noble and distinguished Mikhalkov family. His great-grandfather was the imperial governor of Yaroslavl, whose mother was a princess of the House of Golitsyn. Nikita's father, Sergey Mikhalkov, was best known as writer of children's literature, although he also wrote lyrics to his country's national anthem on three occasions spanning nearly 60 years – two sets of lyrics used for the Soviet national anthem, and the current lyrics of the Russian national anthem. Mikhalkov's mother, poet Natalia Konchalovskaya, was the daughter of the avant-garde artist Pyotr Konchalovsky and granddaughter of another outstanding painter, Vasily Surikov. Nikita's older brother is the filmmaker Andrei Konchalovsky, primarily known for his collaboration with Andrei Tarkovsky and his own Hollywood action films, such as Runaway Train and Tango & Cash.
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Burnt by the Sun

The Son

Adventures of Krosh

Burnt by the Sun 2: Exodus

Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life

Flights in Dreams and in Reality

Humiliated and Insulted

Kin

A Slave of Love

12

The Red Tent

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Hound of the Baskervilles - Part 2

The Artist's Adventures

Oblomov

The Film That Went Wrong

A Joke

A Sentimental Trip to My Homeland. Music of Russian Painting

Who Is This Kusturica?

Not Like Dad 2: Granddad

Traffic Officer

The Red and the White

Close to Eden

A Nest of Gentry

Quiet Flows The Don

Putin's Witnesses

Sport, Sport, Sport

Burnt by the Sun 2: Citadel

At Home Among Strangers, a Stranger Among His Own

Persona non grata

An Unfinished Piece for Player Piano

Station for Two

The Station Master

The State Counsellor

Revizorro

Ruthless Romance

250 Grammes – A Radioactive Testament

Nikita

It Doesn't Hurt Me

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Hound of the Baskervilles

Beautiful Stranger

Sacrifices of Andrei Tarkovsky

The Sun Shines to Everyone

Roll Call

Aurora Borealis

Nikita Mikhalkov. Method

Stanislavski: Lust for Life

One Day of Mosfilm

Portrait of the Artist's Wife

Fat Stupid Rabbit

The Song of Manshuk

Clouds Over Borsk

Two Voices

Year as Long as Life

Life is a Thrill






















