Sergey Gerasimovich Mikaelyan (russian: Серге́й Гера́симович Микаэля́н; 1 November 1923 – 10 December 2016)
was a
Soviet film director
A film director controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfilment of that vision. The director has a key role in choosing the cast members, p ...
and winner of the
USSR State Prize (1976). He directed ten films between 1965 and 1986. His 1983 film ''
Love by Request'' was entered into the
33rd Berlin International Film Festival
The 33rd annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 18 February to 1 March 1983. The festival opened with the out of competition film, ''Tootsie'' by Sydney Pollack.
The Golden Bear was awarded to the British film '' Ascendancy'' ...
.
Biography
Sergey Mikaelyan was born on 1 November 1923 in Moscow.
When he was seventeen he voluntarily served in the
Great Patriotic War and was wounded at
Rzhev
Rzhev ( rus, Ржев, p=ˈrʐɛf) is a types of inhabited localities in Russia, town in Tver Oblast, Russia, located southwest of Staritsa (town), Tver Oblast, Staritsa and from Tver, on the highway and railway connecting Moscow and Riga. It ...
.
In 2015 he published a novella titled "Not Killed at Rzhev" (russian: Не убит подо Ржевом) about his experiences in the war.
In 1951 he graduated from the directing department of
GITIS (workshop of
Boris Zakhava
Boris Yevgenyevich Zakhava (russian: link=no, Борис Евгеньевич Захава; May 24, 1896 – November 12, 1976) was a Soviet and Russian actor, theater director, pedagogue and theater theorist. People's Artist of the USSR (1967).
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,
Maria Knebel, A. Popov), and then, in 1959, the director's course at the
Mosfilm.
Sergey Mikaelyan staged performances in the Saratov, Gorky, Moscow, and Leningrad theaters. He also worked as the chief director of the Tashkent Russian Theatre named after M. Gorky (1954-1956).
Since 1956 served as director of the film studio
Lenfilm
Lenfilm (russian: link=no, Ленфильм) is a Russian production company with its own film studio located in Saint Petersburg (the city was called Leningrad from 1924 to 1991, thus the name). It is a corporation with its stakes shared betwee ...
.
From 1959 to 1961 was director at the
Gorky Film Studio.
Since 1989, Mikaelyan was the artistic director of the "Petropolis" studio. He died on 10 December 2016 in St. Petersburg and was buried in the
Serafimovskoe Cemetery.
Awards
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USSR State Prize (1976) for the film "Bonus" (1974)
*Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1976)
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All-Union Film Festival prize (1983) for the film "Love by Request" (1982)
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People’s Artist of the RSFSR (1983)
Selected filmography
* ''
Going Inside a Storm
''Going Inside a Storm'' (russian: Иду на грозу, Idu na grozu) is a 1966 Soviet drama film directed by Sergei Mikaelyan. It was based on the novel by Daniil Granin, who also wrote a screenplay together with Mikaelyan.
Plot summary
Pro ...
'' (1965)
* ''
Bare et liv – Historien om Fridtjof Nansen
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or figuratively used it means minimal.
Bare may also refer to:
People
* Bare (surname)
* Jader Volnei Spindler (born 1982), Brazilian football player nicknamed "Bare"
Places
* Bare Island ( ...
'' (1968)
* ''
Grandmaster'' (1972)
* ''
Bonus'' (1974)
* ''
Widows
A widow (female) or widower (male) is a person whose spouse has died.
Terminology
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'' (1975)
* ''
Love by Request'' (1983)
* ''
Flight 222'' (1986)
References
External links
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1923 births
2016 deaths
Mass media people from Moscow
Soviet film directors
Recipients of the USSR State Prize
Burials at Serafimovskoe Cemetery
Russian Academy of Theatre Arts alumni
High Courses for Scriptwriters and Film Directors alumni
Recipients of the Order of Lenin