Biography
Nikita Sergeyevich Mikhalkov (Russian: Никита Сергеевич Михалков; born 21 October 1945; Moscow) is a Russian filmmaker, actor, and head of the Russian Cinematographers' Union. Mikhalkov is a three-time laureate of the State Prize of the Russian Federation (1993, 1995, 1999) and is a Full Cavalier of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland". Nikita Mikhalkov won the Golden Lion of the Venice Film Festival (1991) and was nominated for the Academy Award (1993) in the category Best International Fea...
Known For
Complete Filmography

The Wizard of the Emerald City, Part 2
2027
Producer
The heroes journey to the Purple Country and confront the witch Bastinda.

Kraken
2025
Producer
A Russian missile submarine disappears without trace during a secret mission in the Greenland Sea. A vessel is deployed to search for it, captained by...

Not Like Dad 2: Granddad
2025
as narrator (voice)
On the verge of divorce, Max comes to his ex Irina's to pick up his son Dima for the autumn holidays, but then it turns out that the child has run awa...

The Poet
2025
Producer
Alexander Pushkin is young, brash and adored by high society. He is the star at every ball he attends, his fans revere his poetic talent, and young wo...

The Wizard of the Emerald City, Part 1
2025
Producer
Ellie lives in a distant city. One day, the evil witch Gingema conjured a hurricane that took Ellie and her dog Totoshka to the country of the Munchki...

The Bremen Town Musicians
2024
Producer
The legendary band of traveling musicians is back together! Troubadour and his friends - Donkey, Dog, Cat, and Rooster - rejoin to take on a heroic mi...

The Son
2023
as Himself (archive)
“The True Biography of Nikita Mikhalkov” is the story of one of the most famous Russian directors (and one of the most adored actors by the public), t...

Tzadik
2023
Producer
In 1942, Red Army officer Nikolai Kiselyov receives orders to evacuate over 200 Jewish women, children, and elderly men facing brutality and death in ...

The Film That Went Wrong
2022
In 1993, Nikita Mikhalkov made a feature film “Remembering Chekhov”. After the footage was edited, he realized that the film went wrong. thus he made ...

The Film That Went Wrong
2022
Screenstory
In 1993, Nikita Mikhalkov made a feature film “Remembering Chekhov”. After the footage was edited, he realized that the film went wrong. thus he made ...

The World Champion
2021
Producer
Some sporting victories are about more than just claiming a title. Some of them go down in history. The film follows the most dramatic and legendary s...
Крым Юлиана Семёнова
2021
as Self - Кинорежиссер

Bondarchuk. Battle
2021
as self
The new film about Sergei Bondarchuk is not a traditional description of the life of a famous director and not a biopic timed to coincide with a round...

White Whale
2021
Producer
Philip is very successful. Everything in his life happens according to his plan. He is a brilliant lawyer, winning all hopeless cases thanks to his in...

Couple From The Future
2021
Producer
Near future, 2040. Eugene and Alexandra have been married for 20 years, their relationship is like a dried apricot. Divorce from them also does not wo...

Stanislavski: Lust for Life
2021
as Self
A story about Konstantin Sergeievich Stanislavski, a twentieth-century theatre genius. Owing to his powerful extraordinary talent he managed to stay a...
БесогонTV «Если папа – коррупция, а мама – двуличие, какой у них будет ребенок?»
2021
БесогонTV «Jedem das Seine / Каждому свое»
2021

Fire
2020
Producer
Fires are raging in the Moscow region, and the forest protection airbase is on a rotation. However, experienced firefighters are in short supply and t...
БесогонTV «Не всё взбивается в масло»
2020
as Ники́та Серге́евич Михалко́в

Life is a Thrill
2020
as Self
This is a story about an amazing person who devotes his life to his students. Vladimir Fenchenko lit the hearts of hundreds of young filmmakers with l...

Silver Skates
2020
Producer
1899, the Christmas-time St.Petersburg. Ice-covered rivers and canals of the capital seethe with festive activities. On the eve of the new century tho...
БесогонTV «Проделки маркиза Карабаса»
2020
as Ники́та Серге́евич Михалко́в
БесогонTV «Клубок друзей»
2020
as Ники́та Серге́евич Михалко́в
БесогонTV «Парад мышей»
2020
as Ники́та Серге́евич Михалко́в

Streltsov
2020
Producer
By the age of twenty, Eduard Streltsov has everything one can dream of: talent, fame and love. He is the rising star of Soviet football. The whole cou...
БесогонTV «Антология фальши»
2020
as Ники́та Серге́евич Михалко́в

T-34
2018
Producer
In 1944, a courageous group of Russian soldiers managed to escape from German captivity in a half-destroyed legendary T-34 tank. Those were the times ...

Putin's Witnesses
2018
as Self - Director (archive footage)
Russian Federation, December 31, 1999. After President Boris Yeltsin's unexpected resignation, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin becomes acting president ...

The Coach
2018
Producer
Contemporary Russia. After he flubs a penalty kick, a humiliated national soccer player quits the game. He flees to a small town, where he decides to ...

Dovlatov
2018
Thanks
Dovlatov charts six days in the life of a brilliant, ironic writer who saw far beyond the rigid limits of 70s Soviet Russia. Sergei Dovlatov fought to...

Three Seconds
2017
Producer
The story is set at the 1972 Munich Olympics where the U.S. team lost the basketball championship for the first time in 36 years. The final moments of...

Plankton Salesmen
2017
as Self (archive footage)
A nostalgic look at the birth and death of arthouse film distribution in the early 2000s in Russia. The story of the Cinema Without Borders company a...

Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life
2017
as Self
An account of the life and work of legendary cinematographer and director Carlo Di Palma (1925-2004) and an emotional journey through the great moment...

Viking
2016
Producer
The early Middle Ages. A time of heavy swords and dark blood law. The ruling clan is in discord. The guilt for the accidental death of the brother has...

Flight Crew
2016
Producer
A story about bravery, self-sacrifice and human dignity put on trial by the merciless power of nature. A young pilot is fired from military air force ...

The Soul of a Spy
2015
Producer
The Russian spy in England, Alex Wilkie, is tasked with infiltrating American intelligence and identifying a mole – our intelligence officer, who tran...

Sunstroke
2014
Writer, Director, Producer
In a Crimean filtration camp, after the evacuation of the White Army, an unnamed captain is haunted by memories of a brief romance as he tries to unde...

The Iron Ivan
2014
Producer
He was called the Champion of Champions. The strength and strong-willed character Poddubniy composed legends. And 50 great fighter effortlessly overca...
Who Is This Kusturica?
2013
Emir Kusturica views himself as a rock musician and believes that he became a world-famous filmmaker by pure chance, as he shoots his movies only in b...

Legend No. 17
2013
Producer
Biopic of Russian ice hockey legend Valeri Kharlamov from early childhood, rising to the pinnacle of the sport and his untimely death

The Spy
2012
Producer
Spring 1941. Center of Moscow. Duel of the two intelligence services turns more and more tense.

Sacrifices of Andrei Tarkovsky
2012
as Self
Dedicated to the 80th anniversary of Andrei Tarkovsky. The film uses unique materials related to the years Tarkovsky spent in Italy, personal accounts...

Burnt by the Sun 2: Citadel
2011
as Col. Sergei Petrovich Kotov
The final part of Mikhalkov's trilogy about Divisional Commander Kotov finds him returning home during World War II having been betrayed, narrowly esc...

Burnt by the Sun 2: Citadel
2011
Director, Writer, Producer
The final part of Mikhalkov's trilogy about Divisional Commander Kotov finds him returning home during World War II having been betrayed, narrowly esc...

Burnt by the Sun 2: Exodus
2010
as Col. Sergei Petrovich Kotov
Epic film about WWII, a sequel to Utomlyonnye solntsem (1994). Evil Stalin is terrorizing people of Russia while the Nazis are advancing. Russian offi...

Burnt by the Sun 2: Exodus
2010
Writer, Director, Producer
Epic film about WWII, a sequel to Utomlyonnye solntsem (1994). Evil Stalin is terrorizing people of Russia while the Nazis are advancing. Russian offi...

Roadside House
2010
Producer
Returning to the city on a wet night highway, Sasha fails to control and makes a run over a lone pedestrian. Yielding to the entreaties of his wife Ta...

The Book of Masters
2009
Producer
A beautiful and kind girl, daughter of Baba Yaga, finds a magical stone Alatyr while walking in a field. It transforms her heart into a stone and puts...

Anna Karenina
2009
Producer
The film adaptation of the famous novel by Leo Tolstoy. The story of the illegal and tragic love of a married lady Anna Karenina for a brilliant offic...

1612: Chronicles of the Dark Time
2007
Producer
The czar of Russia has died and a power vacuum has developed. This period in the late 16th and early 17th century has been called "The Time of Trouble...

12
2007
as Juror #2
A loose remake of “12 Angry Men”, “12” is set in contemporary Moscow where 12 very different men must unanimously decide the fate of a young Chechen a...

12
2007
Director, Writer, Producer
A loose remake of “12 Angry Men”, “12” is set in contemporary Moscow where 12 very different men must unanimously decide the fate of a young Chechen a...

Fat Stupid Rabbit
2007
as Nikita Sergeyevich
An actor who performs for a children's theater lands a leading role in a new production.

Quiet Flows The Don
2006
as narrator (voice)
With World War I, the Bolshevik Revolution, and the Russian Civil War as backdrop, it's an old-fashioned, blood-and-guts narrative, filled with earthl...

It Doesn't Hurt Me
2006
as Sergei Sergeyevich
Three friends are in the entrance of a luxury home in the heart of the city. They are young, full of strength and energy, they have the talent, skill ...

Dead Man's Bluff
2005
as Сергей Михайлович (Михалыч)
Sergei and Simon have to deliver a suitcase full of heroin to Mikhalych or else they will be killed. There is one minor detail: the only problem-solvi...

The State Counsellor
2005
as Count Pozharsky
Third film based on Boris Akunin's "Priklucheniya Erasta Petrovicha Fandorina" series of novels. On a train from St. Petersburg to Moscow general Khra...

The State Counsellor
2005
Producer
Third film based on Boris Akunin's "Priklucheniya Erasta Petrovicha Fandorina" series of novels. On a train from St. Petersburg to Moscow general Khra...

Persona non grata
2005
as Oleg
A Polish ambassador finds his life falling into ruin following the death of his wife.

Persona non grata
2005
Producer
A Polish ambassador finds his life falling into ruin following the death of his wife.

The Turkish Gambit
2005
Producer
The film is based on the second book from the Adventures of Erast Petrovich Fandorin series of novels written by the Russian author Boris Akunin. The ...
General Kozhugetych
2005
Director, Writer, Producer
On the 50th anniversary of the Minister of Emergency Situations Sergei Shoigu, with whom the director has a long-term friendship.

72 Meters
2004
Producer
The film begins in the 1980s Soviet Union. Two best friends, Orlov and Muravyev, are serving at the Black Sea Navy Base in Sevastopol, Crimea. Both fa...

Russians without Russia
2003
Director, Writer, Producer
This is a seven-part picture that tells about the part of Russian society that unwillingly found itself outside the Fatherland.
Passion for Russia
2003
Producer

Mother
2003
Director, Screenplay, Producer
Documentary about director's mother.

Father
2003
Director, Producer, Screenplay
Documentary about director's father

Azazel
2002
Producer
Based on Boris Akunin's novel 'Azazel' (English title 'The Winter Queen') set in Moscow in 1876. The novel started a long series quite popular in Russ...
Book About the Church
2001
Producer
The film “The Book of the Church" tells about the Sacraments of the Russian Orthodox Church, fasts and holidays, about the Orthodox way of life and sp...

Tender Age
2000
Producer
A movie which at first seems like a simple life story of an ordinary young man slowly evolves into an extraordinarily told ballade with twofold meanin...

Still Waters
2000
Producer
Kashtanov, professor of medicine and famous Moscow surgeon, is experiencing midlife crisis. Suddenly he decides to leave everything and escape to the ...
Belief, Hope and Blood
2000
About the love of Lenin and the Finnish girl Mariot, from whom he had a child, who subsequently disappeared without a trace.
«The Barber of Siberia». How Did We Raise This
2000
Producer
Stop
1999
Producer
Metaphor: the train stopped, love stopped, life stopped, time stopped...

The Barber of Siberia
1998
as Imperator Aleksandr III
Douglas is a foreign entrepreneur, who ventures to Russia in 1885 with dreams of selling a new, experimental steam-driven timber harvester in the wild...

The Barber of Siberia
1998
Director, Writer, Producer
Douglas is a foreign entrepreneur, who ventures to Russia in 1885 with dreams of selling a new, experimental steam-driven timber harvester in the wild...

Ревизор
1996
as Anton Antonovich Skvoznik-Dmukhanovsky, the mayor

The Russian Idea
1996
Producer
The Russian entry in the BFI’s Century of Cinema series of documentaries

A Sentimental Trip to My Homeland. Music of Russian Painting
1995
Nikita Mikhalkov introduces his favorite paintings by Russian painters of the XIX century. The viewer is presented with a qualified look at the artist...

A Sentimental Trip to My Homeland. Music of Russian Painting
1995
Writer, Director, Producer
Nikita Mikhalkov introduces his favorite paintings by Russian painters of the XIX century. The viewer is presented with a qualified look at the artist...
Requiem of the Great Victory
1995
Director, Producer

Burnt by the Sun
1994
as Col. Sergei Petrovich Kotov
Russia, 1936: revolutionary hero Colonel Kotov is spending an idyllic summer in his dacha with his young wife and six-year-old daughter Nadia and othe...

Burnt by the Sun
1994
Director, Screenplay, Producer
Russia, 1936: revolutionary hero Colonel Kotov is spending an idyllic summer in his dacha with his young wife and six-year-old daughter Nadia and othe...

Anna
1993
as Himself
Director Nikita Mikhalkov documents the history of Russia from 1980 to 1991 by annually asking his daughter Anna such questions as "What do you love t...

Anna
1993
Director, Writer, Producer
Director Nikita Mikhalkov documents the history of Russia from 1980 to 1991 by annually asking his daughter Anna such questions as "What do you love t...

Beautiful Stranger
1993
as Pułkownik
Strangers on a train. Late in 1916, a brave and idealistic Russian officer in his 20s comes to his superiors' attention when he stands up to Rasputin ...

The King of Ads, Part 2
1993
Director
Part II of a compilation movie featuring European T.V. commercials directed by a variety of well-known directors from across Europe and the U.S. Compi...

Stalin
1992
Producer
The life and career of the brutal Soviet dictator, Josef Stalin. Through the eyes and memories of Anna Aliluyeva, Stalin’s granddaughter, the film tra...

Close to Eden
1991
as cyclist on the street of chinese city
A farmer and his wife live in a rural part of Inner Mongolia with their three children. Chinese population control policies prevent them from having a...

Close to Eden
1991
Director, Producer
A farmer and his wife live in a rural part of Inner Mongolia with their three children. Chinese population control policies prevent them from having a...

Auto Stop
1991
Director, Producer, Screenplay
Incredible adventures of an Italian test auto-racer in the exotic and so unpredictable Russia! Originally, this film was made as a commercial for the ...

The Russia House
1990
Producer
Barley Scott Blair, a Lisbon-based editor of Russian literature who unexpectedly begins working for British intelligence, is commissioned to investiga...

Humiliated and Insulted
1990
as Prince Valkovky
Based on the Fyodor Dostoevsky novel about a young woman who leaves her family to live with her lover whose father dead set on keeping them apart.

Aurora Borealis
1990
as Регинёв
The story of a man and a wolf-dog in East Siberia during the early 1900s.

The Lonely Hunter
1989
Screenplay
A man tracks down the men who raped his wife.

Dark Eyes
1987
Director, Story, Screenplay
Aboard a ship early in the 20th-century, a middle-aged Italian tells his story of love to a Russian.

My Favorite Clown
1986
Writer
Film is based on the eponymous book by V. Livanov. About a boy, who is adopted by the divorced man.

One Day of Mosfilm
1985
The film tells about the main stages of the history of the country's largest studio "Mosfilm", about the work of the creative team, introduces the vie...

A Cruel Romance
1984
as Paratov
In the town of Bryakhimov, noble but poor widow Harita Ignatyevna Ogudalova seeks to arrange marriages for her three daughters. She maintains an “open...

250 Grammes – A Radioactive Testament
1983
as Max Sjöman
Max Sjöman, Architect: "This is the story of my daughter. Her life was short. Short is not purposeless. I brick her picture into the cornerstone of an...

Without Witness
1983
Director, Writer
In visiting his ex-wife’s apartment a man learns that she plans to remarry a scientist named Valentin Shlyakhov. In his past, the man wrote a scathing...

Two Voices
1982
Fragments of all three short stories retrospectively pass before our eyes. The most difficult thing is not to lose the person who came into your life....

Flights in Dreams and in Reality
1982
as The Director
On the eve of his fortieth anniversary Sergei Makarov looks back at his life and learns that he has achieved nothing. He was not able to be happy and ...

Station for Two
1982
as Andrey
Platon Ryabinin, a pianist, is traveling by train to a distant town of Griboedov to visit his father. He gets off to have lunch during a twenty minute...

Traffic Officer
1982
as Valentin Pavlovich Trunov
A comic drama about a permanently going duel between Traffic Officer and powerful businessman.

Portrait of the Artist's Wife
1982
as Boris Petrovich
The events of several days spent by the married couple - artist Pavel Alekseevich and his wife Nina - in a small country boarding house. For him, this...

Kin
1981
as Waiter #1 / 1st Man On Photo
The story follows Maria Konovalova who travels from her rural village to visit her daughter Nina in the city. Maria's arrival exposes the stark contra...

Kin
1981
Director
The story follows Maria Konovalova who travels from her rural village to visit her daughter Nina in the city. Maria's arrival exposes the stark contra...

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Hound of the Baskervilles - Part 2
1981
as Sir Henry Baskerville
The second part of the Russian TV adaption.

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Hound of the Baskervilles
1981
as Sir Henry Baskerville
When Sir Charles Baskerville is found dead in his country house, Dr James Mortimer asks Sherlock Holmes for help to save Sir Henry Baskerville, the on...

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Hound of the Baskervilles - Part 1
1981
as Sir Henry Baskerville
The Hound of the Baskervilles is a 1981 Soviet film adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle's novel The Hound of the Baskervilles. It was the third installm...

Oblomov
1980
St. Petersburg, mid 19th century: the indolent, middle-aged Oblomov lives in a flat with his older servant, Zakhar. He sleeps much of the day, dreamin...

Oblomov
1980
Director, Writer
St. Petersburg, mid 19th century: the indolent, middle-aged Oblomov lives in a flat with his older servant, Zakhar. He sleeps much of the day, dreamin...

Siberiade
1979
as Aleksei Ustyuzhanin
The story about a very small god-forgotten village in Siberia reflects the history of Russia from the beginning of the century till the early 1980s. T...

Siberiade
1979
Producer
The story about a very small god-forgotten village in Siberia reflects the history of Russia from the beginning of the century till the early 1980s. T...

Five Evenings
1978
Director, Writer
Based on the play of the same name by Aleksandr Volodin "Five Evenings". The end of the 1950s. Aleksandr Petrovich Ilyin travels to the city where he...

Hatred
1978
Writer
Bolshevik coup. Dying, old Bulyga decided to reconcile his sons, whose paths had diverged at the beginning of the revolution. That's why he called the...

An Unfinished Piece for Player Piano
1977
as Nikolai Ivanovich Triletsky
On a summer day in late 19th century Russia, a group of bourgeois friends and acquaintances gather at a dilapidated country estate.

An Unfinished Piece for Player Piano
1977
Director, Writer
On a summer day in late 19th century Russia, a group of bourgeois friends and acquaintances gather at a dilapidated country estate.

Trans-Siberian Express
1977
Writer
An espionage thriller set aboard the train of the title. A group of agents try to thwart the Japanese-Soviet trade agreement by assassinating a Japane...

A Slave of Love
1976
as Ivan
During the Russian Civil War, the production of a silent melodrama runs into numerous complications.

A Slave of Love
1976
Director
During the Russian Civil War, the production of a silent melodrama runs into numerous complications.

At Home Among Strangers, a Stranger Among His Own
1974
as Есаул
Following the Russian Civil War, a loyal Red, Shilov, must prove he is at home among strangers as he attempts to recapture a shipment of gold that he ...

At Home Among Strangers, a Stranger Among His Own
1974
Director, Writer
Following the Russian Civil War, a loyal Red, Shilov, must prove he is at home among strangers as he attempts to recapture a shipment of gold that he ...

The Station Master
1972
In the early 19th century a traveler returns to the remote outpost he’d visited years before, anxious to see the station master’s lovely daughter once...

Risk
1971
Writer

A Quiet Day at the End of the War
1970
Director
As WWII comes to a close, a wounded Soviet soldier and a Kazak woman seek refuge in a church. In this holy place, they take time to rest and appreciat...

Sport, Sport, Sport
1970
A half-fiction half-documentary story about sport and it's importance in everyday life.

The Red Tent
1969
as Boris Chukhnovskiy
Torn by personal guilt, Italian General Umberto Nobile reminisces about his 1928 failed Arctic expedition aboard the airship Italia.

The Song of Manshuk
1969
as Valeri Yezhov
The story of the hero of the Soviet Union, Manshuk Mametova, machine-gunner of the 21st Guards Rifle Division of the 3rd shock army of the Kalinin Fro...

A Nest of Gentry
1969
as Prince Nelidov
A screen adaptation of the novel of the same name by Russian writer Ivan Turgenev. The film portrays the life of Russian landed gentry in the 1840s. A...

The Red and the White
1967
as White Officer
In 1919, Hungarian Communists aid the Bolsheviks' defeat of Czarists, the Whites. Near the Volga, a monastery and a field hospital are held by one sid...

Not the Most Lucky Day
1967
as Nikita
Based on the story by Yulian Semyonov "Dunechka and Nikita." One day in the life of a simple Soviet family. Spouses Stepanov's on that day decided to...
Pretty Mouth and Green My Eyes
1967
Director
Phone conversation between an abandoned husband and his friend.

A Girl and Things
1967
Director
This dialogue-free short film, Devochka I Veshchi (A Girl and Things), was one of Mikhalkov’s first student films, made under the tutelage of Mikhail ...

A Joke
1966
as Nágyenka udvarlója
Based on the short story of the same name by A.P. Chekhov.

Roll call
1966
General Zhuravlev fought on the fronts of World War II, and is now designing spacecraft. Sending a rocket with astronaut Borodin on the flight, he rec...

Walking the Streets of Moscow
1964
as Kolka
On a stopover in Moscow, a young writer Volodya makes friends with Kolya, who is returning home from a hard night shift. Just as Kolya is about to tak...

Adventures of Krosh
1961
as Vadim
The school year is over. The former nine-graders begin their summer internship, which proved for the kids to be a real school of grown-up life with it...

Clouds Over Borsk
1961
Tenth grader Olya Ryzhkova can't find understanding among the people around her.

The Sun Shines to Everyone
1959
Czechoslovakia, May 9, 1945. The end of the war has already been announced. Nikolai Savelyev dreams of returning to his hometown and teaching children...
Birth of an Empire
N/A
Producer
1698-1709 - ten years from the life of Peter the Great, during which he laid the foundations of the future Russian Empire. From the return of the Grea...
Королева Анна
N/A
Producer
The story of Princess Anna Yaroslavna, Queen of France.
Шоколадный револьвер
N/A
Director, Screenplay
About a prominent Russian director, whose daughter becomes the victim of a terrorist attack in Cannes. Blame for the tragedy rests on the shoulders of...
...A ya uezzhayu domoy
N/A
Director, Writer