Possessing an impeccable artistic pedigree, actor-writer-director Nikita Mikhalkov prospered during the Soviet era and survived the collapse of Communism, becoming his country's best-known and successful film director, not to mention a leading candidate to succeed Boris Yeltsin as President of Russia. His father was Sergei Mikhalkov, a poet and author of children's books, who wrote the lyrics to the Soviet national anthem and whose Communist Party ties (he was head of the Soviet Writers Union) helped shield Nikita from the censorship and persecution that forced other filmmakers to curb their careers or compromise shamefully with the government. His mother, Natalya Konchalovskaya, descended from aristocracy, was a poet-essayist and the great-granddaughter of Vasily Surikov, one of Russia's most famous painters, and her father Pyotr Konchalovsky was a major painter of the post-Impressionist school. Older brother Andrei Konchalovsky, also a renowned filmmaker, moved to the West and made a splash with "Runaway Train" (1985), but his subsequent Hollywood films failed to live up to its promise (or that of his epic "Siberiade" 1979). Remaining behind in his Russian homeland, Mikhalkov managed to forge the more acclaimed career.
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40% | | Silver Skates | Producer | - | 2020 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Stanislavski: Lust for Life | Unknown (Character) | - | 2020 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Coach | Producer | - | 2018 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Going Vertical | Producer | - | 2017 |
No Score Yet | | Flight Crew | Producer | - | 2016 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Sunstroke | Director, Screenwriter | - | 2014 |
No Score Yet | | Legend No. 17 | Producer | - | 2013 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Burnt by the Sun 2 | Col. Sergei Petrovich Kotov (Character), Director, Screenwriter, Producer | - | 2010 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Battle of Kursk | Kotov (Character), Director, Screenwriter, Producer | - | 2010 |
No Score Yet | | Utomlyonnye solntsem 2: Predstoyanie | Director | - | 2010 |
No Score Yet | | 1612 | Producer | - | 2007 |
76% | | 12 | Juror No. 2 (Character), Director, Writer | $125.0K | 2007 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Fat Stupid Rabbit | Nikita Sergeyevich (Character) | - | 2007 |
No Score Yet | | It Doesn't Hurt Me | Sergei Sergeyevich (Character) | - | 2006 |
No Score Yet | | Dead Man's Bluff | Sergey Mikhaylovich (Character) | - | 2005 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The State Counsellor | Unknown (Character), Producer | - | 2005 |
No Score Yet | | Persona non grata | Oleg (Character) | - | 2005 |
13% | | The Barber of Siberia | Imperator Aleksandr III (Character), Director, Writer | - | 1998 |
81% | | Burnt by the Sun | Col. Sergei Petrovich Kotov (Character), Director, Producer | $6.7K | 1994 |
No Score Yet | | Anna | Unknown (Character), Director | - | 1993 |
100% | | Urga | Director | $4.4K | 1991 |
90% | | Dark Eyes | Director, Screenwriter | $11.7K | 1987 |
No Score Yet | | Cruel Romance | Sergey Sergeyevich Paratov (Character) | - | 1984 |
No Score Yet | | A Private Conversation | Director, Screenwriter | - | 1983 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Railway Station for Two | Andrey (Character) | - | 1982 |
No Score Yet | | A Railway Station for Two | Unknown (Character) | - | 1982 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Hound of the Baskervilles | Sir Henry Baskerville (Character) | - | 1981 |
No Score Yet | | Kinfolk | Director | - | 1981 |
No Score Yet | | Oblomov | Director | - | 1980 |
No Score Yet | | Siberiade | Aleksei Ustyuzhanin (Character) | - | 1979 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Five Evenings | Director | - | 1979 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | An Unfinished Piece for Player Piano | Director | - | 1977 |
86% | | An Unfinished Piece for Mechanical Piano | Nikolai Ivanovich Triletsky (Character), Director, Screenwriter | - | 1977 |
No Score Yet | | A Slave of Love | Unknown (Character), Director | - | 1976 |
No Score Yet | | At Home Among Strangers, Stranger at Home | Aleksandr Brylov (Character), Director | - | 1974 |
89% | | The Red Tent | Unknown (Character) | - | 1971 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Nest of Gentlefolk | Nikita Mikhalkov (Character) | - | 1969 |
No Score Yet | | Walking the Streets of Moscow | Kol'ka (Character) | - | 1964 |