Russian film director Nikita Sergeevich Mikhalkov (b. 1945) has also acted in more than 40 films. He received awards from Cannes and Venice, and won an Oscar for the Best Foreign Film, Burnt by the Sun (1994). Since Dec. 1997 he has been chairman of the Cinematographers' Union of Russia.
Discovered on 22-10-1985 in Nauchnyj by Zhuravleva, L. V.