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Nikita Sergeyevich Mikhalkov (born 21 October 1945 in Moscow, Russia) is a Russian director and actor, and head of the Cinematographers' Union. His family has a tradition of art, as his father wrote children's books and the lyrics to the Soviet and Russian anthems, his mother was a poetess descended from artists, and his brother Creator/AndreiKonchalovsky is an accomplished film director in his own right.

Mikhalkov studied acting at the Moscow Art Theater and the Vakhtangov Theater, and later studied film at VGIK, where he met future celebrity director Creator/AndreiTarkovsky. Since then, his films have become famous at home and abroad. Unlike Tarkovsky, or his brother Creator/AndreiKonchalovsky, Mikhalkov has made more conventional, crowd-pleasing films, and has avoided auteur projects. On the one hand, many of his films have been at the top of Russian box-office history. On the other hand, he has been accused of being too conservative and not provocative enough.
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!!Nikita Mikhailkov as director

* ''Film/AtHomeAmongStrangers'' (1974) was his first big hit as a director. It is an {{Ostern}} starring AnatolySolonitsyn. Mikhalkov plays the bandit Shurik.
* ''Film/SlaveOfLove'' (1976) is another film set during the [[UsefulNotes/RedOctober Russian Civil War]], about an actress.
* ''Film/CloseToEden'' (1992) originally titled ''Urga''.
* ''Film/BurntByTheSun'' (1994) is Mikhalkov's most famous film, and is set in the time of UsefulNotes/JosefStalin. Mikhailkov plays a high-ranking officer, Comdiv Sergei Petrov.
* ''Film/TheBarberOfSiberia'' (1998) is another historical epic starring Creator/OlegMenshikov. Mikhailkov appears as Tsar Alexander III.
* ''[[Film/Twelve2007 12]]'' (2007), a Russian remake of ''Theatre/TwelveAngryMen''. Mikhailkov stars as the jury foreman.
* ''Film/{{Sunstroke}}'' (2014)

!!Mikhailkov as actor only:
* ''Film/{{Siberiade}}'' (1978, dir. Creator/AndreiKonchalovsky)
* ''Film/TheHoundOfTheBaskervilles'' (1980, dir. Creator/IgorMaslennikov)
* ''Film/StationForTwo'' (1982, dir. Creator/EldarRyazanov)
* ''Literature/TheStateCounsellor'' (2005, dir. Filipp Yankovsky)

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!!Tropes about or used by Mikhalkov:
* CostumePorn
* GloryDays: Often a DeconstructedTrope.
* ProductionPosse
* SceneryPorn
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