Nikita Sergejewitsch Michalkow

Nikita Michalkow (2005)

Nikita Sergejewitsch Michalkow (born October 21, 1945 in Moscow ; born Nikita Sergejewitsch Michalkow-Konschalowski , Russian: Никита Сергеевич Михалков ) is a Russian actor , film director , screenwriter and film producer .

Life and accomplishments

family

Nikita Michalkow comes from a Russian family of artists. He is the son of the poet Sergei Vladimirovich Michalkow , who wrote the Soviet and Russian national anthems, among other things. His mother, Natalia Konchalovskaya , daughter of the painter Pyotr Konchalovsky and granddaughter of the painter Vasily Surikov , was also a poet. Nikita Michalkow is also the brother of Andrei Konschalowski (actually Andrei Sergejewitsch Michalkow-Konschalowski) , who is also a film director, but unlike Nikita also works in the USA . Nikita's first wife Anastassija Wertinskaja , daughter of Alexander Wertinsky , is a well-known actress in Russia. His daughters Nadeschda Michalkowa and Anna Michalkowa as well as his sons Stepan Michalkow and Artyom Michalkow also appeared as actors and actresses in Russian films. His second wife, Tatyana Michalkova, is a well-known model in Russia .

actor

Michalkow made his film debut as an actor in Vasily Ordynski's Tutschi nad Borskom in 1961 . From 1963 to 1966 he trained as an actor at the Shchukin Drama School of the Vakhtangov Theater and then attended Mikhail Romm's directing courses at the VGIK film school in Moscow. During this time he played his first major role in Georgi Danelija's comedy Stopover in Moscow (1963). Under the direction of his brother Andrei, Michalkow played Prince Nedidow in A Nobility's Nest (1969) and Sibiriada (1979). His roles in the Eldar Ryazanov films Train Station for Two (1983) and A Bitter Romance (1985) were popular with viewers and earned him acting awards from readers of the Soviet film magazine Sovetsky Ekran . He has starred in over 40 films to date, including self-directed films such as The Barber of Siberia , where he played the Russian Tsar Alexander III. embodied.

Director

Nikita Michalkow in Moscow in 2018.

Michalkow has also directed it since the late 1960s. His successful works in the 1970s include the civil war film Strange Among His Equals (1974), the film adaptation of Chekhov's Unfinished Piece for a Mechanical Piano (1977) - for which he won a Golden Shell at the Festival Internacional de Cine de Donostia-San Sebastián 1977 - and the Goncharov film adaptation Days from the Life of Ilya Oblomov (1979) with Oleg Tabakow in the title role.

At the Moscow International Film Festival in 1983 he received a FIPRESCI Prize for the married drama Conversation Without Witnesses , and has been festival president since 2000. 1986/87 Michalkow shot the film Oci ciornie in Italy with Silvana Mangano and Marcello Mastroianni , in which short stories by Anton Chekhov are processed; Mastroianni won the Actor Award at the Cannes Film Festival in 1987 . Michalkow was nominated twice for Best Foreign Film by the Césars : in 1988 for Oci ciornie and 1992 for Urga . In 1991 he received a Golden Lion for Urga at the Venice International Film Festival . In 1993 he received a Nika for Urga for best director and a nomination at the Independent Spirit Awards, as well as a nomination for best foreign language film at the 1993 Academy Awards . 1994 won Mikhalkov at the International Film Festival in Cannes for The Sun, which we simulated the Grand Jury Prize and the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury and the the 1995 Oscar for best foreign language film . At the BAFTA Awards he was nominated for Oci ciornie in 1989 and for Utomljonnyje solnzem in 1996.

In 1996 Michalkow became jury president at the 46th Berlin Film Festival . At the Montréal World Film Festival in the same year he was awarded the Grand Prix Spécial des Amériques and in 1999 at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival with the Town of Karlovy Vary Award . After several years of creative hiatus as a film director, Michalkow completed his twentieth directorial work in 2007 when he was 12 . The remake of Sidney Lumet's The Twelve Jurors (1957) , in which the Russian filmmaker also played the leading role, premiered at the 64th Venice Film Festival , where the court drama was featured in the official competition. Michalkow received a special lion there for his complete work. The film was nominated for an Oscar in the category Best Foreign Language Film in 2008.

In 2010 he filmed Utomljonnyje solnzem 2, a sequel to The Sun That Deceives Us , in which he again played one of the leading roles alongside Oleg Menshikov . The film received an invitation to compete at the 63rd Cannes Film Festival , but remained without a prize. In Russia it was largely received critically.

producer

Mikhalkov was among the producers of the second most successful Russian film of all time, T-34 , which hit theaters in early 2019.

politics

On October 16, 2007, Mikhalkov wrote a letter to the President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, along with three other cultural workers . In that letter, they asked Putin to break the Constitution and rule a third term as president. The letter was published and sparked a lot of discussion. The content and literary style were very reminiscent of the propaganda of the earlier Soviet regime. The authors of the letter stated that they spoke on behalf of all artists.

A translation of some excerpts from the letter:

… This letter expresses not only the desire of the artists from Moscow and Saint Petersburg, but also of the artists from the southern areas and the north, the Urals, Siberia and the Far East. In the course of our activity you meet people from all parts of Russia. We want to assure you that they are all united in the desire to continue to see you as the head of our country ...

... Russia needs your political talent, your political wisdom. Vladimir Vladimirovich, we ask you very much to consider our hopes regarding your positive decision ...

For a film premiere in the annexed Crimea in 2014 , Mikhalkov and a press convoy flew in in a plane chartered by the Russian Defense Ministry. Despite his support for the annexation of Crimea, Mikhalkov spoke out in favor of the release of the Ukrainian filmmaker Oleh Sentsov, who was imprisoned in Russia .

In February 2016, Mikhalkov declared that it was "necessary to recognize the crimes of Gorbachev and Yeltsin at the state level." Their crimes had "led to the collapse of our country!"

Others

On August 31, 2015, Nikita Mikhalkov was banned from entering Ukraine . 16 other cultural workers from Russia were also affected by this ruling.

Filmography (selection)

Michalkow with his daughter Nadezhda at the Cannes International Film Festival 2010

actor

• 1959: Solnze swetit wsem according to IMDb
• 1961: Tutschi nad Borskom
• 1962: The Adventures of Krosch (Prikljutschenija Kroscha)
• 1963: Stopover in Moscow (Ja schagaju po Moskwe)
• 1966: Pereklitschka
• 1967: Stars on the hats (Csillagosok, katonák)
• 1969: An aristocratic nest ( Dworjanskoje gnesdo )
• 1970: Behind the house of the enemy ( Pesn o Manschuk )
• 1970: Lyubow Jarowaja ( Lyubow Jarowaja )
• 1970: The red tent ( Krasnaja palatka )
• 1972: The Postmaster ( Stanzionny smotritel )
• 1974: Strange among his own kind ( Swoi sredi tschuschich, tschuschoi sredi swoich )
• 1976: slave of love ( Raba ljubwi )
• 1977: Unfinished score for a mechanical piano (Neokontschennaja pjessa dlja mechanitscheskowo pijanino)
• 1981: The Hound of Baskerville ( Sobaka Baskerwilei )
• 1982: The Scapegoat ( Inspector GAI )
• 1983: Railway Station for Two (Вокзал для двоих)
• 1983: 250 grams: A Radioactive Testament ( 250 gramma )
• 1984: A Bitter Romance ( Schestoki romans )
• 1994: The sun that deceives us ( Utomljonnyje solnzem )
• 1996: inspector
• 1998: The Barber of Siberia ( Sibirski zirjulnik )
• 2000: Belief, Hope and Blood
• 2004: Épreuves d'artistes
• 2005: Schmurki
• 2005: The State Council ( Statski sowetnik )
• 2005: Persona non grata
• 2007: 12
• 2010: The sun that deceives us - The Exodus (Utomljonnyje solnzem 2)

Director

• 1971: Spokoiny den w konze woiny
• 1972: Fitil-No. 125
• 1974: Strange among his own kind ( Swoi sredi tschuschich, tschuschoi sredi swoich )
• 1976: slave of love ( Raba ljubwi )
• 1977: Unfinished score for a mechanical piano ( Neokontschennaja pjessa dlja mechanitscheskowo pijanino )
• 1979: Five Evenings ( Pyat Vecherov )
• 1980: Days from the life of Ilya Oblomov ( Neskolko dnei is schisni II Oblomowa )
• 1982: Relatives ( Rodnja )
• 1983: Conversation without witnesses ( Bes swidetelei )
• 1987: Black eyes ( Oci ciornie )
• 1991: Urga ( Urga )
• 1994: The sun that deceives us ( Utomljonnyje solnzem )
• 1998: The Barber of Siberia ( Sibirski zirjulnik )
• 2007: 12
• 2010: The sun that deceives us - The Exodus ( Utomljonnyje solnzem 2 )
• 2011: The sun that deceives us - The Citadel ( Utomljonnyje solnzem 3 )
• 2014: The Sunstroke ( Solnetschny udar )

Web links

Commons : Nikita Mikhalkov  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Nikita Michalkow in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Letter to Putin in Russian
2. ↑ Russian Director Nikita Mikhalkov: Opponents of Russian Annexation of Crimea Are "the Enemy" , Hollywood reporter , October 9, 2014
3. ↑ Никита Михалков - Дождю: "Коллективных писем я не подписываю". Как режиссер вступился за украинского коллегу Сенцова (Russian)
4. ↑ Gorbachev: Icon of Revolution or Symbol of Decline? , RBTH, March 2, 2016
5. ↑ СМИ: СБУ запретила въезд на Украину Никите Михалкову. In: RIA Novosti . August 31, 2015, accessed August 31, 2015 (Russian).