Nikita Mikhalkov
Nikita Michalkov (1945, Russia), is the great grandson of the painter Vassily Surikov, grandson of the painter Pyotr Konchalovsky, son of the writer and poet Sergei Mikalhov anmd the writer and translator Natalie Konchalovskaya and half-brother of the director Andrei Michalkov-Konchalovsky (The First Teacher, A Nest of Gentry, Uncle Vanya, Love Romance). He trained at trhe Shchukin drama school and has since then acted in the films I Stroll in Moscow (1963), Red Tent (1969), A Nest of Gentry (1969), Station Chief (1972) and many others. Then he studied at the State Film Institute with e.g. Mikhail Romm. After graduation work, the short film A Calm Day at the End of the War, me made his directing debut with At Home among Strangers... (1974).
Filmography
A Quiet Day at the End of the War (1970, short), At Home Among Strangers, a Stranger at Home (1974), A Slave of Love (1977), An Unfinished Piece for a Mechanical Piano (1977), Five Evenings (1979), Oblomov/Several days in the Life of I.I. Oblomov (1979), Kinfolk.Family Relations (1982), Without Witnesses/A Private Conversation (1983), Oci ciornie/Dark Eyes (1987), Urga (1991), Anna: 6-18 (1993, doc), Burnt by the Sun (1994), 12 (2007), Burnt by the Sun 2 (2010).