Film Director

Nikita Mikhalkov

Soviet and Russian filmmaker and actor

1945 - today

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His biography is available in 62 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 61 in 2024). Nikita Mikhalkov is the 145th most popular film director (down from 131st in 2024), the 298th most popular biography from Russia (down from 269th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Russian Film Director.

Nikita Mikhalkov is a Russian filmmaker who is most famous for his films Burnt by the Sun and The Barber of Siberia.

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Nikita Mikhalkov ranks #3 of 77 Film Directors born in Russia, inside the top 4% of that cohort.

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Nikita Mikhalkov's biography appears in 62 language editions of Wikipedia, more than 96% of all Film Directors.

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Among Film Directors

Among film directors, Nikita Mikhalkov ranks 145 out of 2,296. Before him are Michael Powell, Henri-Georges Clouzot, Sergei Bondarchuk, Volker Schlöndorff, Bille August, and Jim Jarmusch. After him are Wong Kar-wai, Ang Lee, Robert Benton, Erich von Stroheim, Masaki Kobayashi, and Alexander Dovzhenko.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1945, Nikita Mikhalkov ranks 75. Before him are Piero Ferrari, Linda Hunt, Bette Midler, Laurent Gbagbo, Levon Ter-Petrosyan, and Itzhak Perlman. After him are Massimo Moratti, Sam Anderson, Steve Martin, Moncef Marzouki, Junji Kawano, and Daniel Cohn-Bendit.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Nikita Mikhalkov ranks 298 out of 4,534. Before him are Boris Shaposhnikov (1882), Colmar Freiherr von der Goltz (1843), Natalya Naryshkina (1651), Varlam Shalamov (1907), Andrey Markov (1856), and Georgy Chicherin (1872). After him are Otto Nicolai (1810), Mikhail Mishustin (1966), Tamara Karsavina (1885), Aleksandr Lyapunov (1857), Chung Il-kwon (1917), and Roman Abramovich (1966).

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Among Film Directors In Russia

Among film directors born in Russia, Nikita Mikhalkov ranks 3. Before him are Andrei Tarkovsky (1932), and Konstantin Stanislavski (1863). After him are Vsevolod Meyerhold (1874), Andrei Konchalovsky (1937), Lev Kuleshov (1899), Vsevolod Pudovkin (1893), Elem Klimov (1933), Leonid Gaidai (1923), Alexander Sokurov (1951), Eldar Ryazanov (1927), and Ladislas Starevich (1882).

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