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4 unusual facts about Nikita Mikhalkov


Nadezhda Mikhalkova

Nadezhda is the youngest daughter of actor and film director Nikita Mikhalkov and fashion designer Tatyana Shigaeva.

Nikita Mikhalkov

Without Witnesses (1983) tracks a long night's conversation between a woman (Irina Kupchenko) and her ex-husband (Mikhail Ulyanov) when they are accidentally locked in a room.

It featured Julia Ormond and Oleg Menshikov, who regularly appears in Mikhalkov's films, in the leading roles.

On September 8, 2007, Mikhalkov’s film 12, a modern adaptation of Sidney Lumet's court drama Twelve Angry Men, received a special Golden Lion for the “consistent brilliance” of its work and was praised by many critics at the Venice Film Festival.


Dead Man's Bluff

The stars of the film include famous Russian actors such as Nikita Mikhalkov (best known to American audiences for his work in Burnt by the Sun), Aleksei Serebryakov, Dmitri Dyuzhev, Aleksei Panin, Sergei Makovetsky, Igor Sukachev, Viktor Sukhorukov, and Renata Litvinova.

Golden Eagle Award for Best Leading Actor

Other noteworthy actors who were nominated at least twice are Fedor Bondarchuk, Nikita Mikhalkov, Aleksei Petrenko, Danila Kozlovsky, Vladimir Mashkov, Yevgeny Mironov, Bohdan Stupka, Viktor Sukhorukov and Aleksandr Baluev.

Leonid Utyosov

In it, Utyosov performed such hits as "Serdtse" (Heart), "Me and My Masha at the Samovar," and "Tired Sun", also known in English as "Burnt by the Sun" (revived by Nikita Mikhalkov as a theme for his eponymous Oscar-winning film).

Nikolai Skoblin

In addition, the kidnapping of General Miller is also fictionalized in Nikita Mikhalkov's award-winning film Burnt by the Sun.

Oleg Basilashvili

Among Basilashvili’s film partners were such actors as Alisa Freindlich, Lyudmila Gurchenko, Nikita Mikhalkov, Nonna Mordyukova, Evgeni Leonov, and Natalya Gundareva, among many other Soviet/Russian film actors.

Pavel Lebeshev

Pavel Lebeshev graduated from the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography in 1972 and worked with many famous Soviet and Russian directors, including Nikita Mikhalkov, Georgi Daneliya, and Larisa Shepitko.

Pyotr Konchalovsky

Nikita Mikhalkov is also a movie director who won the 1994 Best Foreign Language Film Oscar for Burnt by the Sun.


see also

Walking the Streets of Moscow

In the Moscow Metro Volodya unexpectedly makes a friend, Kolya (Nikita Mikhalkov), who is returning home after a hard night shift.