FILM DIRECTOR

Nikita Mikhalkov

1945 - Today

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Nikita Sergeyevich Mikhalkov (Russian: Никита Сергеевич Михалков; born 21 October 1945) is a Russian filmmaker and actor. He made his directorial debut with the Red Western film At Home Among Strangers (1974) after appearing in a series of films, including the romantic comedy Walking the Streets of Moscow (1964), the war drama The Red and the White (1967), the romantic drama A Nest of Gentry (1969) and the adventure drama The Red Tent (1969). His subsequent films include the romantic comedy-drama A Slave of Love (1976), the drama An Unfinished Piece for Mechanical Piano (1977), the romantic drama Five Evenings (1978), the historical drama Siberiade (1979), the romantic comedy Station for Two (1983), the drama Without Witness (1983) and the romantic comedy-drama Dark Eyes (1987). Mikhalkov then directed, co-wrote and appeared in the adventure drama film Close to Eden (1991), for which he received the Golden Lion at the Venice International Film Festival and an Academy Award nomination. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nikita Mikhalkov has received more than 807,112 page views. His biography is available in 61 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 59 in 2019). Nikita Mikhalkov is the 131st most popular film director (up from 173rd in 2019), the 269th most popular biography from Russia (up from 343rd 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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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Nikita Mikhalkov ranks 131 out of 2,041. Before him are Claude Lelouch, René Clément, Michael Curtiz, Peter Weir, William Hanna, and George A. Romero. After him are Wong Kar-wai, Giuseppe Tornatore, Lasse Hallström, Erich von Stroheim, Lewis Milestone, and Jacques Demy.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1945, Nikita Mikhalkov ranks 51. Before him are Anton Zeilinger, Roger Glover, Ram Nath Kovind, Linda Hunt, Dési Bouterse, and Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta. After him are Bryan Ferry, Steve Martin, Keith Jarrett, José Feliciano, Daniel Cohn-Bendit, and Laurent Gbagbo.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Nikita Mikhalkov ranks 269 out of 3,761. Before him are Nikolai Yudenich (1862), Mykola Azarov (1947), Natalia Goncharova (1881), Vitaly Ginzburg (1916), Alexander Litvinenko (1962), and Patriarch Nikon of Moscow (1605). After him are Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin (1855), Yermak Timofeyevich (1532), Lyudmila Putina (1958), Princess Irina Alexandrovna of Russia (1895), Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich of Russia (1856), and Viktor Chernomyrdin (1938).

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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), Genndy Tartakovsky (1970), Lev Kuleshov (1899), Vsevolod Pudovkin (1893), Leonid Gaidai (1923), Elem Klimov (1933), Eldar Ryazanov (1927), and Ladislas Starevich (1882).

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