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Mikhalkov has an impressively long list of wins at the most prestigious film festivals, like Cannes, Venice, Moscow or Karlovy Vary. Following his movie's Oscar win for Best Foreign Language Film, Nikita Mikhalkov won a parliamentary seat in the then Prime Minister Victor Chernomyrdin's party.
Nikita Mikhalkov is the best-known Russian director of the late-Soviet and post-Soviet period. Mikhalkov was born in Moscow to a family of accomplished painters, writers, and arts administrators. His father was chief of the Soviet Writers' Union, and his brother, Andrei Mikhalkov-Konchalovsky, is also a successful director.
The Russian theatre and film director Andrei Konchalovsky is an elder brother of Nikita Mikhalkov, born August, 20, 1937.As a youngster he planned to pursue a career of a musician and learned to play piano but his love for cinema outweighed and he entered VGIK-the major state film school where he studied under Mikhail Romm.
Nikita Mikhalkov is a prolific and highly acclaimed actor, filmmaker, and screenwriter. He has been lauded with an Oscar and the Grand Prix at Cannes Festival for Burnt by the Sun . Hailing from a famous film family, his older brother is Andrei Konchalovsky, and in 1978 he starred in his brother’s acclaimed epic Siberiade .
Nikita's father, Sergey Mikhalkov, was best known as writer of children's literature, although he also wrote lyrics to his country's national anthem on three occasions spanning nearly 60 years – two sets of lyrics used for the Soviet national anthem, and the current lyrics of the Russian national anthem. Mikhalkov's mother, poet Natalia Konchalovskaya, was the daughter of the avant-garde artist Pyotr Konchalovsky and granddaughter of another outstanding painter, Vasily Surikov.
Apr 12, 2009 · In 12, director Nikita Mikhalkov brings to fruition a project ten years in the making. The film is something of a re-imagining of Sidney Lumet’s beloved American classic, 12 Angry Men, that doubles the original’s runtime and applies the thematic concerns of its predecessor to the social and political state of modern-day Russia. The claustrophobia and intense emotion of the original carries over into the frames of Mikhalkov’s adaptation, which was nominated for Best Foreign Language ...
Testvére, Andrej Szergejevics Koncsalovszkij szintén a filmrendezés terén építette ki karrierjét. Nyikita Mihalkov 1963 és 1966 között a Scsukin Színiiskolában sajátította el a színművészet alapjait, majd 1971-ben szerzett diplomát a moszkvai Filmművészeti Főiskola rendezői szakán. Mihail Iljics Romm tanítványa volt.
