Nikita Mikhalkov Filmography

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Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Sergei Makovetsky, Nikita Mikhalkov, Sergei Garmash, Alexei Petrenko

Synopsis: When a Russian youth is put on trial for the murder of his adoptive father, it's up to a room full of jurors divided by racism and prejudice to determine the boy's ultimate fate in director Nikita Mikhalkov's loose remake of Reginald Rose's 12 Angry Men. At the center of the storm is a broodingly Read More

Fat Stupid Rabbit

Actors: Alexander Bashirov, Alexei Maklakov, Nikita Mikhalkov, Sergei Bekhterev, Sofya Oleynik

Synopsis: Vodka, women, and wandering dreams define director Slava Ross black comedy set in a children's theater and centering on the lives of drunken actors who take the stage each day to perform as pigs, goats, and plants. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More

The State Counsellor

Crew: Producer

Persona non grata

Crew: Producer

Actors: Nikita Mikhalkov, Daniel Olbrychski, Andrzej Chyra

Epreuves d'Artistes

Actors: Pedro Almodóvar, Robert Altman, Michelangelo Antonioni, Roberto Benigni, Bernardo Bertolucci

Sibirsky Tsiryulnik

Crew: Co-producer, Director, Producer, Screen Story, Screenwriter

Actors: Nikita Mikhalkov, Marina Neelova, Nikita Tatarenko, Artem Mikhalkov, Georgy Dronov, Oleg Menshikov, Julia Ormond, Richard Harris, Alexei Petrenko, Vladimir Ilyin, Marat Basharov, Daniel Olbrychski, Anna Mikhalkova, Yevgeny Steblov

Synopsis: Love blooms amidst the backdrop of czarist Russia in Nikita Mikhalkov's The Barber of Siberia. The story opens in 1905 Springfield, MA, when a woman writes a letter to a young man in a military summer-training camp. He is currently being punished by one of his superiors, who forces him to wear a Read More

Revizor

Actors: Yevgeny Mironov, Nikita Mikhalkov, Marina Neelova, Oleg Yankovsky

Unizhennie i Oskorblennie

Actors: Nastassja Kinski, Nikita Mikhalkov, Anastasia Vyasemskaya, Sergei Perelygin, Victor Rakov

Synopsis: Love and desperation amongst the impoverished provides the basis of this romantic Russian melodrama that is based on a novel by Dostoyevsky and is set in St. Petersburg during the 19th century. The tale centers on the attempts of aspiring writer Ivan "Vanya" Petrovich to win the love of the Read More

Nikita Mikhalkov. Sentimentalnoe Puteshestvie

Crew: Director

Actors: Yevgeny Steblov

Anna 6-18

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Anna Mikhalkova

Synopsis: Home movies with a political edge are the focus of this documentary that chronicles the childhood of director Nikita Mikhailkov's daughter Anna. He began this film in 1980 when his daughter was only 6-years old. At that time it was illegal to make home movies in Russia so he and his friends were Read More

Burnt by the Sun

Crew: Associate Producer, Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Nikita Mikhalkov, Oleg Menshikov, Ingeborga Dapkunaite, Vladimir Ilyin, Vyacheslav Tikhonov, Svetlana Kryuchkova, Avangard Leontyev, Nadia Mikhalkov, Yevgeny Mironov, André Oumansky

Synopsis: Stalinist Russia, circa 1930, is recreated in this Russian-French film that focuses on a small, elite gathering of family and friends who appreciate the idealism of Stalin's visions because they do not have to experience its darker side of gulags and purges. The story focuses upon a single day in Read More

Vremya Lyubit I Vremya Nenavidet

Actors: Patriarch Aleksiy II, Anatoly Karpov, Garri Kasparov, Nikita Mikhalkov, Viktor Korchnoy

Urga

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Badema, Bayyartu, Vladimir Gostyukhin, Larisa Kuznetsova, Bao Yungyan

Synopsis: Veteran Russian writer-director Nikita Mikhalkov's film about the impact of modern civilization on an idyllic part of Mongolia won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival and was nominated for an Oscar as Best Foreign Film. A farmer (Bayyartu) and his wife, who live in a rural part of Inner Read More

Prekrasnaya Neznakomka

Actors: Grazyna Szapolowska, Voytsekh Malaykat, Beata Tyshkevich, Nikita Mikhalkov, Edward Zentara

Avtostop

Crew: Director

Actors: Nina Ruslanova, Vladimir Gostyukhin, Dzhordzhio Biavati, Lyubov Sokolova

Pod Severnym Siyaniem

Actors: Kodzi Yakuse, Andrei Boltnev, Marina Zudina, Nikita Mikhalkov, Anatoly Romashin

Dark Eyes

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Marthe Keller, Yelena Safonova, Pina Cei, Vsevolod Larionov

Synopsis: Oci Ciornie was an international co-production tailored for Marcello Mastroianni. It received good reviews in Italy and France, and Mastroianni was awarded "Best Actor" at the Cannes Film Festival. However, some in Russia felt that director Mikhalkov (who previously received wide acclaim for Read More

A Cruel Romance

Actors: Larisa Guzeyeva, Alisa Freyndlikh, Nikita Mikhalkov, Andrei Myagkov, Alexei Petrenko

Synopsis: Slow-paced and in some longer stretches, this period melodrama features the heroine Larisa (Larisa Guzeyeva) and her various, competing suitors. Sergei Paratov (Nikita Mikhalkov) dashes into Larisa's sister's wedding like a knight in shining armor and starts to court Larisa. Her head is turned Read More

Bez Svidetelei

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Irina Kupchenko, Mikhail Ulyanov

Synopsis: This absorbing movie is from beginning to end, no more than a dialogue that happens between a now-divorced couple when the ex-husband visits his former wife in her two-room apartment, intending to destroy her pending marriage to a colleague who has control over him and his career. Apparently the Read More

Vokzal Dlya Dvoikh

Actors: Oleg Basilashvili, Lyudmila Gurchenko, Nikita Mikhalkov, Nonna Mordyukova, Mikhail Kononov

Synopsis: In this lengthy romantic comedy, a married pianist runs away from a traffic accident and seeks refuge at an enormous railroad station where he experiences a string of bad luck. But the pianist also meets an older waitress (Lyudmila Gurchenko and the two -- after a long preamble -- start a romance Read More

Inspektor GAI

Actors: Sergei Nikonenko, Nikita Mikhalkov, Oleg N. Yefremov, Marina Levtova, Nikolai Parfenov

Railway Station For Two

Synopsis: A bittersweet love story between a pair of middle-aged people takes center stage in this 1982 Russian drama from director Eldar Ryazanov. After meeting by chance at a train station, Platon confesses to Vera that he'll soon be taking a legal fall for a crime his uncaring wife committed. Though Read More

Portret Zheny Khudozhnika

Actors: Valentina Telichkina, Sergei Shakurov, Nikita Mikhalkov, Mikhail Semakov, Vsevolod Shilovsky

Priklyucheniya Sherloka Kholmsa I Doktora Vatsona: Sobaka Baskerviley

Actors: Vasily Livanov, Vitaliy Solomin, Rina Zelenaya, Irina Kupchenko, Nikita Mikhalkov

Rodnya

Crew: Director

Actors: Nonna Mordyukova, Svetlana Kryuchkova, Andrei Petrov, Ivan Bortnik, Yuri Bogatyrev

Synopsis: Popular Russian director Nikita Mikhalkov was riding the crest of several well-received films (such as Slave of Love, 1976, or Five Evenings, 1978) when he opened this movie in the non-competing section at Cannes in 1983 -- so expectations were high. Unfortunately, this may have been one of his Read More

Oblomov

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Oleg Tabakov, Andryusha Razumovsky, Yuri Bogatyrev, Oleg Kozlov, Andrei Popov, Yelena Solovey

Synopsis: Russian director Nikita Mikhalkov takes a break from emulating his beloved Chekhov to film the classic Ivan Goncharov novel Oblomov. The title character (played by Oleg Tabakov) is a 19th century Russian civil servant and landlord who chooses to go to bed one day--and never get up. Preferring to Read More

Pyat Vecherov

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Lyudmila Gurchenko, Stanislav Lyubshin, Valentina Telichkina, Larisa Kuznetsova, Igor Nefedov

Synopsis: This nostalgic comedy drama is set during the time of "communal apartments" in the 1950s, when very diverse people had to share pre-revolutionary apartments. Here, a woman who lives in such an apartment in Moscow has likeable neighbors who always come to her at the wrong moment to watch TV. She is Read More

Sibiriada

Actors: Vladimir Samoylov, Vitaliy Solomin, Natalya Andreichenko, Nikita Mikhalkov, Pavel Kadochnikov

Synopsis: Sibiriada was controversial in the Soviet Union, but it received the Special Jury Prize at Cannes, the second most prestigious prize after the Palme d'Or. After making this film, director Mikhalkov-Konchalovsky moved to the West. In the story, the lives of two Siberian families lives are Read More

An Unfinished Piece for the Player Piano

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Alexander Kalyagin, Yelena Solovey, Yevgenya Glushenko, Antonina Shuranova, Yuri Bogatyrev

Synopsis: A dacha is a summer home for Russians, away from the hurly-burly of the city, and can be as primitive as a cabin or as elaborate as a palace. A much-favored place for gatherings of intellectuals, dachas are a favored literary setting. In this film, adapted by Nikita Mikhailkov from Anton Chekhov's Read More

Raba Lyubvi

Crew: Director

Actors: Yelena Solovey, Alexander Kalyagin, Rodion Nakhapetov, Oleg Basilashvili, Konstantin Grigoryev

Synopsis: Nikita Mikhalkov examines the plight of the filmmaker operating in an uncertain political climate in his irony-laden seriocomedy Slave of Love. The time is 1918, at the height of the Bolshevik revolution. A small group of filmmakers are hurriedly trying to complete a silent melodrama while the Read More

At Home Among Strangers, A Stranger Among His Own

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Yuri Bogatyrev, Anatoli Solonitsin, Alexander Kaidanovsky, Nikita Mikhalkov, Alexander Porokhovshchikov

Synopsis: Russian films made in the 1970s which deal with the Civil War (1918-21) there often have qualities which make them resemble American westerns. Nikita Mikhalkov is one of the better-known of the post-Soviet filmmakers; he won an Oscar for his 1994 film Burnt By The Sun. This very popular 1973 film Read More

Stantsionnyy Smotritel

Actors: Nikolai Pastukhov, Marianna Kushnirova, Nikita Mikhalkov, Gennadiy Shumsky, Valentina Ananina

Spokoynyy Den V Kontse Voyny

Crew: Director

Actors: Natalya Arinbasarova, Sergei Nikonenko, Irina Demina, Lev Durov, Alexander Kaidanovsky

Sport, Sport, Sport

Actors: Georgiy Svetlani, Lena Novozhilova, Vladimir Andreev, V. Lyakhov, Valery Brumel

Synopsis: What makes an athlete compete? How can he be made to endure the gruelling training most sports require? In this image-rich combination documentary and poetic drama, participants in sports including foot-racing, wrestling, speed-skating, swimming and gymnastics are seen in their daily lives and in Read More

The Red Tent

Actors: Sean Connery, Claudia Cardinale, Hardy Kruger, Peter Finch, Massimo Girotti

Synopsis: The true story of a tragic 1928 arctic expedition provides the basis for this adventure drama that was a joint Italian and Russian co-production. Peter Finch stars as General Umberto Nobile, who is visited in Rome by the ghosts of those whose lives were taken in his ill-fated mission forty years Read More

Pesn O Manshuk

Actors: Natalya Arinbasarova, Nikita Mikhalkov, Ivan Ryzhov, Viktor Avdyushko, Nurzhuman Ikhtymbaev

Nest of the Gentry

Actors: Irina Kupchenko, Leonid Kulagin, Beata Tyshkevich, Beata Tyszkiewicz, Tamara Chernova, Viktor Sergachev, Vasily Merkuryev

Synopsis: After suffering artistically at the hands of Russian censors (his Asya's Happiness wound up being shelved for two decades for a variety of obscure political reasons), director Andrei Konchalovsky briefly played safe with a brace of elegiac literary adaptations. The first of these was A Nest of Read More

The Red and the White

Actors: Andras Kozak, Krystyna Mikolajewska, Tibor Molnar, Jacint Juhasz, Jozsef Madaras, Tatyana Konyukhova, Mikhail Kozakov

Synopsis: Miklos Jancso has said, "To show things in bright colors is devastating." In Csillagosok, Katonak, he examines Hungarians fighting in the Red Army in 1918 during the bloody civil war in Russia. Utilizing horizontal compositions of vast landscapes and lateral tracking shots in a widescreen frame to Read More

Ne Samyy Udachnyy Den

Actors: Nikita Mikhalkov, Dunya Semenova, Vladimir Zamansky, Svetlana Svetlichnaya, Igor Kvasha

Pereklichka

Actors: Nikita Mikhalkov, Oleg Strizhenov, Marianna Vertinskaya, Tatyana Doronina, Vasily Merkuryev

Ya Shagayu Po Moskve

Actors: Alexei Loktev, Nikita Mikhalkov, Galina Polskikh, Yevgeny Steblov, Vladimir Basov

Synopsis: In this Russian comedy, a writer heading for Siberia becomes friends with a two other fellows. While one prepares to get married, the other takes off with him to meet another famous writer who likes his recent short stories. En route the two new friends meet a pretty store clerk and begin fighting Read More

Tuchi Nad Borskom

Actors: Inna Gulaya, Roman Khomyatov, Vladimir Ivashov, Natalya Antonova, Petr Konstantinov

Solntse Svetit Vsem

Actors: Valentin Zubkov, Liliya Aleshnikova, Tatyana Konyukhova, Yevgeny Burenkov, Nikolai Sergeyev

Synopsis: A WW II veteran tries to resume his civilian life after being blinded during the war. He is a school teacher; trying to ply his trade without sight is difficult and he nearly loses her job. His wife then leaves him. Still the fellow tenaciously keeps trying, especially after learning that his new Read More