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Nikita Mikhalkov
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter, Actor Born: October 21, 1945 in Moscow, Russia Biography:Born to a family of celebrated painters and poets, Muscovite "Nikita Mikhalkov" is the younger brother of director "Andrei Konchalovsky". An actor in theater and films since the age of 16 (including his brother's "Dvoryanskoye Gnezdo" and "Siberiade"), Mikhalkov also studied cinema at Moscow's State Film School in the 1960s. He debuted as a director in 1970 with his diploma film A Quiet Day at the End of the War. He then returned to acting for a few years, finally unveiling his first full-length feature, "Svoy Sredi Chuzhikh, Chuzhoy Sredi Svoikh", in 1973. An avowed idolater of playwright Anton Chekhov, Mikhalkov adapted Chekhov's very first play, Platonov, into the autumnal dramatic film "An Unfinished Piece for Mechanical Piano" (1977). Mikhalkov won several awards for this effort, and would do so again for his subsequent films "Oblomov" (1980) and the Italian-produced "Oci Ciornie" ("Dark Eyes",... Full Biography
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