Mikhail Naumowitsch Kalik

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Mikhail Naumowitsch Kalik ( Russian Михаил Наумович Калик ; born January 29, 1927 in Arkhangelsk , RSFSR ; † March 31, 2017 in Jerusalem , Israel ) was a Soviet-Israeli director and screenwriter .

Life

Michail Kalik was born in 1927 in the Soviet Union , the son of a well-known theater artist . After studying at the State Institute for Theater Arts (GITIS), he was accepted into the class of Grigory Alexandrov at the Gerasimov Institute for Cinematography (WGIK), which is also state -run . In 1951 he was convicted of "Jewish, bourgeois, nationalist and terrorist plans" together with student friends and had to spend the sentence in a gulag . After Stalin's death he was released and was able to continue his studies in 1954, which he completed in 1958 in the master class of Sergei Jutkewitsch as a director. As a student he shot his first feature film with Ataman Kodr together with his fellow students Boris Ryzarew and Olga Ulitskaja in the studios of the Moldavian SSR . A long and fruitful collaboration with the composer Mikael Tariwerdijew began in his second film The Nineteen .

In 1967, in connection with the Six Day War, a new era of anti-Semitic reprisals began in the Soviet Union , which prompted Mikhail Kalik to emigrate to Israel with his family in 1971 . Therefore, writing about him was forbidden in the Soviet Union, his films were no longer allowed to be shown and his name was removed from the register of WGIK graduates. But in the last years of his life he was able to experience how his works were performed again in Russia .

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SURNAME Kalik, Michail Naumowitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Калик, Михаил Наумович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Soviet-Israeli director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH January 29, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Arkhangelsk
DATE OF DEATH March 31, 2017
Place of death Jerusalem