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Nikita Mikhalkov (b.1945)

Nikita Mikhalkov (b.1945). Descendant of Russian nobility. Comes from a family of successful writers and artists; son of the “ twice-anthem-writer ” Sergei Mikhalkov. Privileged, close to the inner circles of power. Conservative views. Leader of the Union of Filmmakers. Nikita Mikhalkov.

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Nikita Mikhalkov (b.1945)

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  1. Nikita Mikhalkov (b.1945) • Descendant of Russian nobility. Comes from a family of successful writers and artists; son of the “twice-anthem-writer” Sergei Mikhalkov. • Privileged, close to the inner circles of power. • Conservative views. • Leader of the Union of Filmmakers.

  2. Nikita Mikhalkov • Started early as an actor in film I Walk Through Moscow (1963). • Universally talented actor, starred in numerous films of many genres, including comedies. • In the 1990s – 2000s, the dominant figure in Russian filmmaking industry. Organized, in 1984, a film production centre “Three Ts”. • Joint productions with Western companies. Aesthetics “for export” (the opposite of his early films). • Allegedly, was going to run for presidency of the country.

  3. Selected films directed by Nikita Mikhalkov • 2010-2011 Burnt by the Sun 2 • 2007 12 (a remake of Twelve Angry Men by Sidney Lumet, 1957) • 1999 The Barber of Siberia • 1994 Burnt by the Sun • 1993 Anna: From Six Till Eighteen • 1993 Remembering Chekhov • 1991 Close to Eden • 1987 Dark Eyes (Oci ciornie) , starring Marcelo Mastroianni (based on Chekhov’s Lady with a Lap Dog) • 1979 Five Evenings • 1979 Oblomov (after a classical 19th cent. novel by Ivan Goncharov) • 1977 An Unfinished Piece for a Player Piano (based on Chekhov) • 1976 Slave of Love

  4. The Barber of Siberia: the most expensive film project ever in Russia (40 million dollars)

  5. Mikhalkov and his daughter Nadya receiving an Oscar (BFF) for Burnt by the Sun (1994)

  6. Reproducing the atmosphere • Action takes place on one day in the summer of 1936. • Not historically accurate: semi-caricature. • Six months before 1937, year of Terror. • Ominous signs at beginning of film: unmarked truck, news of show trials on radio, “House on the Riverbank”. • Pioneers, new festivals, air-raid drills.

  7. The Sun: Stalin • References Louis XIV le roi soleil • Title (Russian: Утомлённые солнцем, lit. Fatigued by the sun) • Tango was the hit of the time: occurs as refrain throughout. • Who will Marusia, Nadya tango with? • Invention of the random, burning “sun” that flashes through the film.

  8. The cast of Characters Between the old society and the new Kotov, a Red Army general, highly revered hero of the Civil War, Stalin’s friend, resembles Chapaev, rough diamond, doesn’t speak French. Marusia, his wife, from upper class family; Nadya, their daughter caught between the two Mitya, Marusia’s childhood friend she was in love with, absent for 8 years; a former White army officer, now an agent of NKVD, Stalin’s secret police. Kotov and Mitya are both victims and villains

  9. Space as a theme The problem of alienation in a transformed society (“at home among strangers, stranger among friends”) Literature as an important influence and source of the film’s aesthetics: Chekhov’s plays; Russian novels, A Nest of Gentlefolk. Contrast of comfortable, old-world dacha, and scary outside spaces

  10. Marusia and Mitya

  11. Nadya represents the Soviet future Kotov and Mitya in two triangles Battle with Mitya for future: daughter Battle for the past: Marusia Kotov and Nadya

  12. The Hamlet theme: Water – suicide – betrayal - exile Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears Had left the flushing in her galled eyes, She married. 0, most wicked speed, to post With such dexterity to incestuous sheets! It is not nor it cannot come to good; But break my heart, for I must hold my tongue!

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