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Nikita Mikhalkov

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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

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Nikita Mikhalkov is the 146th most popular film director (down from 131st in 2019), 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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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Nikita Mikhalkov ranks 146 out of 2,041. 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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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 3,761. 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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