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3Nikita 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.
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5Mikhalkov 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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7!!Nikita Mikhailkov as director
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9* ''Film/AtHomeAmongStrangers'' (1974) was his first big hit as a director. It is an {{Ostern}} starring AnatolySolonitsyn. Mikhalkov plays the bandit Shurik.
10* ''Film/SlaveOfLove'' (1976) is another film set during the [[UsefulNotes/RedOctober Russian Civil War]], about an actress.
11* ''Film/CloseToEden'' (1992) originally titled ''Urga''.
12* ''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.
13* ''Film/TheBarberOfSiberia'' (1998) is another historical epic starring Creator/OlegMenshikov. Mikhailkov appears as Tsar Alexander III.
14* ''[[Film/Twelve2007 12]]'' (2007), a Russian remake of ''Theatre/TwelveAngryMen''. Mikhailkov stars as the jury foreman.
15* ''Film/{{Sunstroke}}'' (2014)
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17!!Mikhailkov as actor only:
18* ''Film/{{Siberiade}}'' (1978, dir. Creator/AndreiKonchalovsky)
19* ''Film/TheHoundOfTheBaskervilles'' (1980, dir. Creator/IgorMaslennikov)
20* ''Film/StationForTwo'' (1982, dir. Creator/EldarRyazanov)
21* ''Literature/TheStateCounsellor'' (2005, dir. Filipp Yankovsky)
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24!!Tropes about or used by Mikhalkov:
25* CostumePorn
26* GloryDays: Often a DeconstructedTrope.
27* ProductionPosse
28* SceneryPorn

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