Mikhail Naumovich Kalik ( rus, Михаи́л Нау́мович Ка́лик}; 27 January 1927 – 31 March 2017) was a Soviet and Israeli film director and screenwriter.

Life and career

A descendant of a prominent

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Jewish family, Mikhail Kalik grew up in the heart of Moscow. As a teenager, he spent the

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in the evacuation in Central Asia. In 1949, he was accepted into the Moscow Film School (VGIK) where he studied under

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. In 1951, during the anti-cosmopolitan campaign under Stalin, he was arrested with several other students and accused of Jewish bourgeois nationalism and planning anti-Soviet terrorist acts. A sentence of ten years detention was pronounced against him. He was sent to Lefortovo Prison, then to

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labor camp near

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and later to other

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sites. He was released and rehabilitated in the era of

de-Stalinization De-Stalinization (russian: десталинизация, translit=destalinizatsiya) comprised a series of political reforms in the Soviet Union after the death of long-time leader Joseph Stalin in 1953, and the thaw brought about by ascension ...

. He came back to VGIK in 1954 under the direction of

Sergei Yutkevich Sergei Iosifovich Yutkevich (russian: Серге́й Ио́сифович Ютке́вич, 28 December 1904 – 23 April 1985) was a Soviet and Russian film director and screenwriter. He was a People's Artist of the USSR (1962) and a Hero of ...

and graduated in 1958. His first film was ''Ataman Codr'' codirected with Boris Rytsarev in 1958. His best known film is ''Man Follows Sun'' (1961), about a young boy who in one day experiences numerous facets of live, in his pursuit to see the sun. He emigrated to Israel in 1971. Because of the disastrous critical response he did not make a single feature film there after his first Israeli film ''Three and One'' in 1974. Encouraged by Soviet film authorities he directed the autobiographical film ''And the Wind Returneth'' in 1991. He died on March 31, 2017, after a serious illness. He is buried in Jerusalem.

Filmography

* 1958 — ''

Ataman Codr Ataman (variants: ''otaman'', ''wataman'', ''vataman''; Russian: атаман, uk, отаман) was a title of Cossack and haidamak leaders of various kinds. In the Russian Empire, the term was the official title of the supreme military commande ...

(Атаман Кодр)'' * 1958 — '' The Youth of Our Fathers (Юность наших отцов)'' * 1959 — '' Lullabye (Колыбельная)'' * 1961 — ''

Man Follows the Sun ''Man Follows the Sun'' (russian: Человек идёт за солнцем, Transliteration, translit. Chelovek idyot za solntsem) is a 1962 Soviet drama film directed by Mikhail Kalik. Plot The film follows a little boy through the meg ...

(Человек идёт за солнцем)'' * 1964 — '' Goodbye, Boys! (До свидания, мальчики)'' * 1968 — ''

To Love To Love (russian: Любить..., Lyubit...) is a 1968 Soviet drama film directed by Mikhail Kalik and Inna Tumanyan. Plot The film consists of four short stories, each of which asks the audience a question: "What is love?" Cast * Mihail B ...

(Любить…)'' * 1969 — '' The Price (Цена)'', TV * 1974 — ''

Three and One 3 is a number, numeral, and glyph. 3, three, or III may also refer to: * AD 3, the third year of the AD era * 3 BC, the third year before the AD era * March, the third month Books * '' Three of Them'' (Russian: ', literally, "three"), a 1901 ...

(Трое и одна)'' * 1991 — ''

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(И возвращается ветер…)

References

External links

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Mikhail Kalik at the Jewish Virtual Library
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