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Nikita Mikhalkov

Producer, Actor, Director, Writer, Additional Credits
Born October 21, 1945 (78 years)
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.
Movies & Shows on Plex
  • T-34
  • Viking
  • Iron Ivan
Known For
  • Burnt by the Sun
  • 12
  • T-34
  • The Barber of Siberia
  • Close to Eden
  • Flight Crew
  • Burnt by the Sun 2
  • Dark Eyes
  • The Russia House
  • Unfinished Piece for the Player Piano
  • At Home Among Strangers, a Stranger Among His Own
  • Walking the Streets of Moscow
  • The State Counsellor
  • Blind Man's Bluff
  • Stalin
  • A Few Days from the Life of I.I. Oblomov
  • Siberiade
  • 1612: Khroniki smutnogo vremeni
  • Utomlennye solntsem 2: Tsitadel
  • Legend No. 17
  • Silver Skates
  • A Slave of Love
  • 72 Meters
  • The Turkish Gambit

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