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Mikhalkov had appeared in more than 20 films, including his brother's Uncle Vanya (1972), before he co-wrote, directed and starred in his first feature, At Home Among Strangers in 1974, an Ostern set just after the 1920s civil war in Russia.
Not only did Mikhalkov direct the Academy Award-winning film "Burnt by the Sun" but he is also well-known as a versatile actor, having appeared in over 40 films, including the role of the Russian Tsar Alexander III in his own "The Barber of Siberia" (1998).
- January 1, 1
- 1.87 m
- Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]
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.
- Slave of Love, 1975
- Unfinished Piece For Mechanical Piano, 1977
- Dark Eyes, 1987
- Burnt by The Sun, 1994
One of the first successful films by Mikhalkov is a drama about silent film stars who, together with the film crew, run away from Moscow, which has just been captured by the Bolsheviks, to shoot a film on the Black Sea, hoping that the nightmare will soon end. The film perfectly depicts the illusions harbored by the intelligentsia, who awake to fac...
One of the best screen adaptations of Chekhov's works, the film is based on the play Platonovand motifs from some stories. Mikhalkov conveys with warm humor, slight grotesqueness and nostalgia Chekhov's thoughts on the meaningless and fruitlessness of the intelligentsia's altruistic impulses, on the chasm between the "simple folk" and those indulge...
Dark Eyes is Mikhalkov's most famous film outside of Russia. In it the director once again turned to Chekhov, to his famous short story Lady with a Lapdog,about an accidental meeting between a successful employee of a Moscow bank and a provincial married woman at a seaside resort, about an unexpected love that turns into a tragic dual between passi...
This is the most successful film out of the trilogy about Division Commander Kotov (played by Mikhalkov), a faithful communist who was one of Stalin's favorites, but right before the war, as with many of the dictator's pets, was arrested. This is a film about the moral dilemmas that everyone in the Stalinist era faced, about the perfidy of tyrants,...
- Valery Kuznetsov
Jul 3, 2024 · The greatest Nikita Mikhalkov performances didn't necessarily come from the best movies, but in most cases they go hand in hand. List below includes Fat Stupid Rabbit, Burnt by the Sun 2 and more films.
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Although he did not come to prominence as a director until the mid-1970s, Nikita Mikhalkov ranks among the most gifted Russian filmmakers of the entire post-World War II era.
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