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Andrei Konchalovsky
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Director, Screenwriter Born: August 20, 1937 in Moscow, Russia Biography:Born into an artistic Russian family, Andrei Mikhalkov-Konchalovsky is the older brother of "Nikita Mikhalkov". He spent ten years at the Moscow Conservatory, training to be a concert pianist. He then went on to VGIK (the State film school), where he studied under "Mikhail Romm". Konchalovsky first attracted international critical attention in 1961 with his thesis effort, the short The Boy and the Pigeon. After co-scripting "Andrei Tarkovsky"'s "The Steamroller and the Violin" (1960) and "Andrei Rublev" (1966), Konchalovsky helmed his first feature in 1965, "The First Teacher". His 1967 follow-up, "Asya's Happiness", was suppressed by Soviet authorities until 1988; more acceptable were his adaptations of Turgenev ("A Nest of Gentle Folk", 1969) and Chekhov ("Uncle Vanya", 1972), as well as his drama "Romance of Lovers" (1974) and his epic "Siberiade" (1979). In 1980, Konchalovsky came to the U.S., but... Full Biography
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