Mikhail Mikhailovich Kozakov (in

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: Михаил Михайлович Козаков) (14 October 1934,

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– 22 April 2011,

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) was a Soviet, Russian and Israeli film and theatre director and actor.

Biography

Early life

Mikhail Kozakov was born on 14 October 1934 in

, the youngest of three brothers. His father Mikhail Emmanuilovich Kozakov was a Soviet writer and playwright of

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ish origin originally from the

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who served as a commissar in

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during the

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, then worked as a journalist in Leningrad. He was among the authors who collaborated on ''

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''.''Mikhail Kozakov (1989)''. Mikhail Kozakov. Fragments. — Moscow: Iskusstvo, pp. 107—113 (Memoirs) Kozakov's mother Zoya Alexandrovna Nikitina (née Gatskevich) was of mixed Serbian-

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descent. Her family moved from Odessa to St. Petersburg. She finished the

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and worked as an editor in publishing houses, the Leningrad Literature Fund (Litfund) and various magazines. This was her fourth marriage. She was arrested twice: first in 1937 following the arrest of her brother who served in the Imperial Russian Army during the civil war (he was sentenced to death while she spent a year in prison), then — in 1948 because of financial violations in Litfund (released in 1950). She was friends with many acclaimed writers who visited Kozakovs' apartment on the

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, including

Evgeny Schwartz Evgeny Lvovich Schwartz (russian: Евге́ний Льво́вич Шва́рц; , Kazan, Russian Empire – January 15, 1958, Leningrad, Soviet Union) was a Soviet writer and playwright, whose works include twenty-five plays, and screenplay ...

Mikhail Zoshchenko Mikhail Mikhailovich Zoshchenko (russian: Михаи́л Миха́йлович Зо́щенко; – 22 July 1958) was a Soviet and Russian writer and satirist. Biography Zoshchenko was born in 1894, in Saint Petersburg, Russia, according to h ...

, Anatoly Marienhof,

Boris Eikhenbaum Boris Mikhailovich Eikhenbaum ( rus, Борис Михайлович Эйхенбаум, p=ɨjxʲɪnˈbaʊm; 16 October 1886 – 2 November 1959) was a Russian Empire and Soviet literary scholar and historian of Russian literature. He is a repre ...

Anna Akhmatova Anna Andreyevna Gorenko rus, А́нна Андре́евна Горе́нко, p=ˈanːə ɐnˈdrʲe(j)ɪvnə ɡɐˈrʲɛnkə, a=Anna Andreyevna Gorenko.ru.oga, links=yes; uk, А́нна Андрі́ївна Горе́нко, Ánna Andríyivn ...

. During the war Kozakov was evacuated to the Molotov Oblast along with other Leningrad children where he lived from 1941 to 1944. He then returned to the city and continued the secondary education. His brother Vladimir volunteered for the frontline and was killed in 1945. His second brother Boris was accidentally shot in 1946 in his flat by his classmate.

Theatre

In 1956, Mikhail Kozakov graduated from the

Moscow Art Theatre School Moscow Art Theatre School is the studio school of the Moscow Art Theatre. It is a state educational institution that has existed since 1943. The initiator of the studio school was Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko.Mikhail Romm ''Murder on Dante Street'' was released, in which Kozakov acted, and in the autumn of that year he received the role of Hamlet in the performance at the

Mayakovsky Theatre Mayakovsky Theater (russian: Театр Маяковского; Московский академический театр имени Вл. Маяковского) is a theater in Moscow, Russia, founded in 1920, first as ''Terevsat'' (Theater of R ...

. From 1956 to 1959 Kozakov was an actor of the Mayakovsky Theatre. From 1959 to 1970 he was an actor of the

Sovremennik Theatre Moscow Sovremennik Theatre (russian: Московский театр «Современник») is a theatre company in Moscow founded in 1956. "Sovremennik" means "Contemporary".

. In the 1960s, Kozakov played several vivid roles, such as Cyrano de Bergerac (Cyrano de Bergerac of Rostand, director Efremov, 1964) in the play of the Sovremennik Theater; chamberlain from Schwarz's fairy tale "The Naked King" - a performance that in 1960 brought the theater a triumph, and then turned into a legend; Kistochkin in the comedy Aksenova "Always on sale" (director O. Efremov, 1965). On the stage of Sovremennik, Kozakov performed several more roles in the productions of Galina Volchek: Aduyev the elder in Ordinary History I. Goncharov (1966, State Prize of the USSR); Jerry Raiin in "Two on the swing" by W. Ibsen; The actor in M. Gorky's play "The Lower Depths"; Nicholas I in the "Decembrists" by L. Zorin (director O. Efremov); Master Zhivko in the "Masters" R. Stoyanov (Bulgarian director V. Tsankov), etc. In 1970, the actor left the Sovremennik. A year after he left the theater and its founder - Oleg Efremov. Following Efremov, Kozakov came to the Moscow Art Theater. There they were played by Lord Goring in "Ideal husband" Wilde (director Stanitsyn), Gusev in the play "Valentine and Valentina" Roshchina (director Efremov). In the Moscow Art Theater, Kozakov began to play Leonid Zorin's play The Copper Grandmother, where Rolan Bykov rehearsed Pushkin's role. The play was closed, and Kozakov went to the Theater on Malaya Bronnaya to Dunayev and Efros. Here the actor performed several more roles: Don Juan (Don Juan by J.-B. Molière, 1973); Kochkarev ("The Marriage" by NV Gogol, 1975); Rakitina ("A Month in the Country" by IS Turgenev, 1978). There, in Malaya Bronnaya, Kozakov staged two performances: Zorin's comedy The Pokrovsky Gate and O'Neill's play The Soul of the Poet. In 1986, Kozakov left the Theater on Malaya Bronnaya in Lenk. In 1986, he played the role of Polonius in Panfilov's Hamlet at the

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, later, in the late 1990s, Shadow of the Father in the same Hamlet by German director Peter Stein.

Film

In 1978, Kozakov made his debut as a film director, with the two-part television film ''

Nameless Star ''The Nameless Star'' (russian: Безымянная звезда, Bezymyannaya zvezda) is a 1979 Soviet romantic comedy television film directed by Mikhail Kozakov and based on the play The Star Without a Name by Mihail Sebastian. Plot The settin ...

'', based on the play of Mikhail Sebastian. Afterwards there were films '' The Pokrovsky Gate'' (1982), '' If We Believe Lopotukhin...'' (1983), ''Trustees'' by A.N. Ostrovsky (1983), ''Masquerade'' by M. Lermontov (1985) and others. During the years of perestroika, Kozakov left Russia. However, after working in the

Cameri Theater The Cameri Theater ( he, התיאטרון הקאמרי, ''HaTeatron HaKameri''), established in 1944 in Tel Aviv, is one of the leading theaters in Israel, and is housed at the Tel Aviv Performing Arts Center. History The Cameri theater was found ...

Tel Aviv Tel Aviv-Yafo ( he, תֵּל־אָבִיב-יָפוֹ, translit=Tēl-ʾĀvīv-Yāfō ; ar, تَلّ أَبِيب – يَافَا, translit=Tall ʾAbīb-Yāfā, links=no), often referred to as just Tel Aviv, is the most populous city in the ...

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, as an actor and director (the role of Trigorin in Chekhov's "The Seagull" in Hebrew, staging and playing in "Lover" Harold Pinter, etc.), Mikhail Kozakov chose to return to Russia. In Moscow, he created his own theater called "Russian Entreprise Mikhail Kozakov." Since 2003, Kozakov was actor of the

Mossovet Theatre Mossovet State Academic Theatre (Государственный академический театр имени Театр Моссовета) is one of the oldest theatres of Moscow, opened in 1923 and based at Bolshaya Sadovaya, 16. History Mos ...

("Venetian merchant" - Shylock, "King Lear" - Lear). The actor read poetry on stage, radio, television, and recorded discs. In 1999, the actor, together with saxophonist Igor Butman, staged a play-concert on Brodsky's verses "Concert for voice and saxophone". In 1997, Mikhail Kozakov's "Acting Book" was published, in which he tells about his life, about different times and people of art in them.

Death and personal life

In 2010 Kozakov was diagnosed with

lung cancer Lung cancer, also known as lung carcinoma (since about 98–99% of all lung cancers are carcinomas), is a malignant lung tumor characterized by uncontrolled cell growth in tissues of the lung. Lung carcinomas derive from transformed, malign ...

. He went through unsuccessful treatment in Israel and died on 22 April 2011 in a clinic near

. He was buried at the Vvedenskoye Cemetery in Moscow near his father, in accordance with his will. Kozakov was officially married five times. He left his last wife Nadezhda Sedova (47 years younger than him) in 2010 with a scandal, claiming that she had stolen his flat and that she was the cause of his illness, and fled to his fourth wife Anna Yampolskaya who lived in Israel along with their children Mikhail and Zoya. He had a daughter Katerina and a son Kirill, also a prominent Russian actor, from his first marriage to Greta Taar, as well as a daughter Manana from his second marriage to Medea Berelashvili.

Honors

Kozakov - People's Artist of Russia (1980), laureate of the State Prizes of the USSR (1967) and the RSFSR (1983), art director of the theater "Russian Entreprise Mikhail Kozakov"

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Actor

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Murder on Dante Street ''Murder on Dante Street'' (russian: Убийство на улице Данте, Ubiystvo na ulitse Dante) is a 1956 Soviet Union, Soviet drama film directed by Mikhail Romm. Plot Shortly after the end of World War II, in a small French town o ...

'' (1956) — ''Charles Thibault'' * '' Hard Happiness'' (1958) — ''Nikolai Nagorny'' *

The Sisters (1957 film) ''The Sisters'' () is a 1957 Soviet epic film directed by Grigori Roshal. It based on ''Sisters'' (1918–1922), the first part of Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy's '' The Road to Calvary'' trilogy. Production ''The Sisters'' was filmed in St. Pete ...

(1959) —''Valerian Onoli'' * ''The Golden'' ''Echelon'' (1959) — ''Cheremisov'' * '' Far from the Motherland'' (1960) — ''Hauptmann Saugel'' * ''Eugenia Grandet'' (1960) — ''Charles Grandet'' * ''Last Salvos'' (1960) — ''Gorbachev'' * ''

Baltic Skies ''Baltic Skies'' (russian: Балтийское небо) is a 1960 Soviet drama film directed by Vladimir Vengerov. Plot The film tells about military pilots defending Leningrad during World War II. Cast * Pyotr Glebov as Lunin (as P. Glebo ...

'' (1960) — ''Baiseitov, pilot'' * ''Crazy Court'' (1961) — ''Michel'' * ''

Nine Days in One Year ''Nine Days in One Year'' (russian: Девять дней одного года) is a 1962 Soviet black-and-white drama film directed by Mikhail Romm about nuclear particle physics, physicists and their relationships. The film is based on true eve ...

'' (1962) — ''Valery Ivanovich'' * ''

Amphibian Man ''Amphibian Man'' (rus. Человек-амфибия) is a science fiction adventure novel by the Soviet Russian writer Alexander Beliaev. It was published in 1928. Plot Argentinean doctor Salvator, a scientist and a maverick surgeon, giv ...

'' (1962) — ''Pedro Zurita'' *

The Bridge Is Built ''The Bridge Is Built'' (russian: Строится мост) is a 1965 Soviet drama film directed by Gavriil Egiazarov and Oleg Efremov. Plot The film tells about the Moscow correspondent who goes to Saratov, where the construction of a highway ...

(1965) — ''Mammadov'' * '' A Pistol Shot'' (1966) — ''Silvio'' * ''

Day of Sun and Rain ''Day of Sun and Rain'' (russian: День солнца и дождя, Den solntsa i dozhdya) is a 1967 Soviet family film directed by Viktor Sokolov. Plot The film tells about the 7th grade students Kolya and Alyosha, who do not like each othe ...

''(1967) — ''actor as Mishka Japonchik (cameo)'' * ''

The Red and The White ''The Red and the White'' ( hu, Csillagosok, katonák) is a 1967 film directed by Miklós Jancsó and dealing with the Russian Civil War. The original Hungarian title, ''Csillagosok, katonák'', can be translated as "Stars on their Caps" (litera ...

''(1967) — ''Nestor'' * ''The Tale of the Chekist'' (1969) — Belov * ''

Two Days of Miracles ''Two Days of Miracles'' (russian: Два дня чудес, Dva dnya dlya chudes) is a 1970 Soviet fantasy comedy film directed by Lev Mirsky based on the play ''Simply Awful!'' by Yuri Sotnik. Plot Young undereducated fairies Daisy and Violet fr ...

'' (1970) — ''professor-examiner of the Institute of Good Wizards'' * ''

Goya or the Hard Way to Enlightenment ''Goya or the Hard Way to Enlightenment'' (german: Goya – oder der arge Weg der Erkenntnis) is a 1971 East German drama film directed by Konrad Wolf. It was entered into the 7th Moscow International Film Festival where it won a Special Prize. ...

'' (1971) — ''Gilmarde'' * ''

All the King's Men ''All the King's Men'' is a 1946 novel by Robert Penn Warren. The novel tells the story of charismatic populist governor Willie Stark and his political machinations in the Depression-era Deep South. It was inspired by the real-life story of U ...

'' (1971) — ''Jack Burden'' * ''Grandmaster'' (1972) — ''Volodya'' * ''Childhood. Adolescence. Youth'' (1973) — ''Pyotr'' ''Alexandrovich'' * ''Acting'' (1973) — ''Alexander'' ''Stern'' * ''The Dombey and the Son'' (1974) — ''Sol'' ''Giles'' * '' Ivan and Marya'' (1974) — ''Cashier'' * ''Lev Gurych Sinichkin'' (1974) — ''Zefirov'' * ''

The Straw Hat ''The Straw Hat'' (russian: Соломенная шляпка, translit. ''Solomennaya shlyapka'') is a 1974 Soviet musical comedy television film directed by Leonid Kvinikhidze based on a play by Eugène Marin Labiche and Marc-Michel. Th ...

'' (1974) — ''Viscount de Rosalba'' * '' Car, Violin and Blot the Dog'' (1974) — ''musician playing violin and bass guitar'' and ''shashlik vendor'' * '' Hello, I'm Your Aunt!'' (1975) — ''Colonel Sir Francis Chesney'' * ''Yaroslav Dombrovsky'' (1975) — ''Andrey Vasiliev'' * ''The Theater of an Unknown Actor'' (1976) — ''Genrikh Genrikhovich'' * '' The Road to Calvary'' (1977) — ''Bessonov'' * ''

'' (1978) — ''Grig'' * ''The Life of Beethoven'' (1978) — ''Gioachino Rossini'' * ''Comedy of Errors'' (1978) — ''Anoifall'' * ''A Handsome Man'' (1978) — ''Lupachev'' * ''Deficit on Mazaev'' (1979) — ''Kira's lover'' * ''The State Border. Peaceful Summer of the 21st Year'' (1980) — '' Felix Dzerzhinsky'' * '' Sindicat-2'' (1981) — '' Felix Dzerzhinsky'' * '' December, 20th'' (1981) — '' Felix Dzerzhinsky'' * ''And I'm With you Again'' (1981) — ''Pyotr Yakovlevich Chaadaev'' * ''Comrade Innokenty'' (1981) — ''Sergei Vasilievich Zubatov'' * ''

The Sixth ''The Sixth'' (russian: Шестой, translit. ''Shestoy'') is a 1981 Soviet action film directed by Samvel Gasparov at Gorky Film Studio. Plot ''The Sixth'' is a parable about lawlessness and bureaucracy in the aftermath of the Great O ...

'' (1981) — ''Illary'' ''Danilovich'' ''Danilevsky'' * ''Who Is Knocking on the Door?'' (1982) — ''Actor playing Cyrano de Bergerac'' * '' The Pokrovsky Gate'' (1982) — ''Konstantin Romin 25 years later'' * Demidovs (1983) — ''Biron'' * ''Unicum'' (1983) — ''Iosif Timurovich Petrov, hypnotist'' * ''The hero of Her Novel'' (1984) — ''Erast'' ''Tsykada'' * ''An Incredible Bet, or a True Incident That Ended Successfully a Hundred Years Ago'' (1984) — ''Dudnikov, summer resident'' * ''Scenes From the Tragedy “Faust"'' (1984) — ''

Faust Faust is the protagonist of a classic German legend based on the historical Johann Georg Faust ( 1480–1540). The erudite Faust is highly successful yet dissatisfied with his life, which leads him to make a pact with the Devil at a crossroa ...

'' * ''Scenes From the Drama "Masquerade"'' (1985) — ''Arbenin'' * ''

Mister Designer ''Mister Designer'' (russian: Господин оформитель, Gospodin oformitel) is a 1987 Soviet horror film produced and directed by Oleg Teptsov, and based on the short story ''The Gray Automobile'' by Alexander Grin. Plot Set in St. P ...

'' (1988) — ''Grillio'' * ''And it Happened in Vichy'' (1989) — ''doctor'' * ''Fools Die on Fridays'' (1990) — ''Geliy Ivanovich'' * ''

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'' (1991) — '' Caesar Borgia'' * ''

Gisele's Mania ''Gisele's Mania'' (russian: Мания Жизели) is a 1996 Russian biographical drama film directed by Aleksey Uchitel. Plot The film tells the love stories of the famous Russian ballerina Olga Spesivtseva. Cast * Galina Tyunina as Olg ...

'' (1995) — ''Akim Volynsky'' * '' The Fatal Eggs'' (1996) —

Woland Woland (russian: Воланд) is a fictional character in the novel ''The Master and Margarita'' by the Russian (Soviet) author Mikhail Bulgakov, written between 1928 and 1940. Woland is the mysterious foreigner and professor whose visit to Mosco ...

* ''

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'' (1999) — ''Scottie Templeton'' * ''

Four Hands Dinner ''Four Hands Dinner'' (russian: Ужин в четыре руки) is a 1999 Russian musical drama film directed by Mikhail Kozakov. Plot The film takes place in Leipzig in 1747. Handel invites Bach to dine at the hotel and gradually they begin ...

'' (1999) — ''

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'' * ''24 Hours'' (2000 film) (2000) — ''Costa'' * ''Avalanche'' (2001) — ''Lev Borisov'' * ''Game in Modern'' (2002) — ''Frieze'' * ''Thieves and Prostitutes. The Prize is Space Flight'' (2004) — ''photographer'' * ''The Death of Tairov'' (2004) — ''Alexander Yakovlevich Tairov'' * ''Wonderful Valley'' (2004) — ''grandfather Said'' * '' We Are Playing Shakespeare'' (2004) — ''Narrator'' * ''Narrow Bridge'' (2005) — ''Yakushev'' * ''Hello, We are Your Roof!'' (2005) — ''Solomon'' * ''The Shift'' (2006) — ''Kharitonov, Academician'' * ''Creation of Love'' (2006) — ''Nahum Trakht'' * ''Carrot-Love'' (2007) — ''Dr. Kogan'' * ''Carrot-Love 2'' (2008) — ''Dr. Kogan'' * ''

Orange Juice (film) ''Orange Juice'' (russian: Апельсиновый сок) is a 2010 Russian comedy-drama film directed by :ru:Прошкин, Андрей Александрович, Andrey Proshkin. Plot The film takes place in a summer cottage in the Moscow ...

'' (2009) — ''Leonid, Dasha's father'' * ''Zoya'' (2010) — ''

Vladimir Rapoport Vladimir Abramovich Rapoport (russian: Владимир Абрамович Рапопорт, link=no; 6 November 1907, Vitebsk – 17 June 1975, Moscow) was a Soviet cinematographer. Vladimir Rapoport received the Stalin Prize four times: in 1942, ...

'' * ''The Guardians of the Network'' (2010) — ''Sergey Ivanovich Kalgarov'' * '' Boris Godunov'' (2011) — ''Pimen'' * ''

Fairytale.Is ''Fairytale.Is'' (russian: Сказка. Есть, Skazka. Est) is a 2012 Russian children's-fantasy-anthology film. Plot The picture consists of three short films. In the first segment, Dasha quarrels with her father and mother and falls into t ...

'' (2011) — ''Stanislav Dalievich Salvadorov, director of the school'' * ''Last Meeting'' (2011) — ''Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov'' * ''Carrot-Love 3'' (2011) — ''Dr. Kogan''

Director

* ''

'' (1978) * '' The Pokrovsky Gate'' (1982) * '' If We Believe Lopotukhin...'' (1983) * Petersburg Fantasy (1987) * Visit of a Lady (1989) * '' The Shadow, or Maybe all will end Good'' (1991) * ''

'' (1999) * Joker (2002) * Playing Shakespeare (documentary) (2004) * The Charm of Evil (2006)

References

External links

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Mikhail Kozakov. Life Line
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Biography

Early life

Theatre

Film

Death and personal life

Honors

Selected filmographyThe New York Times Movies/ref>

Actor

Director

References

External links

Selected filmographyThe New York Times Movies
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