Years active 1964–present Role Film director Name Andrei Konchalovsky | Website www.konchalovsky.ru Awards | |
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Full Name Andron Sergeyevich Mikhalkov Other names Andron Sergeyevich Mikhalkov-Konchalovsky Occupation Film director, film producer, screenwriter Children Egor Mikhalkov-Konchalovskiy, Maria Konchalovskaya Books The Inner Circle: An Inside View of Soviet Life Under Stalin Parents Natalia Konchalovskaya, Sergey Mikhalkov Movies The Postman's White Nig, The Nutcracker in 3D, Runaway Train, Siberiade, Tango & Cash Similar People Julia Vysotskaya, Nikita Mikhalkov, Natalia Konchalovskaya, Egor Mikhalkov‑Konchalovskiy, Sergey Mikhalkov Profiles | ||
Ebrd film night with director andrei konchalovsky
Andrei Sergeyevich Mikhalkov-Konchalovsky (Russian: Андре́й Серге́евич Михалко́в-Кончало́вский; born August 20, 1937) is a Russian film director, film producer and screenwriter. He was a frequent collaborator of Andrei Tarkovsky earlier in his career. He is the son of Natalia Konchalovskaya and Sergey Mikhalkov, and brother to Nikita Mikhalkov who is also a well known Russian film director.
Contents
- Ebrd film night with director andrei konchalovsky
- THE POSTMANS WHITE NIGHTS Andrei Konchalovsky goEast 2015 Trailer
- Early years
- Career
- Personal life
- Accolades
- Documentaries
- Screenplays
- Music videos
- Production
- Acting
- Films about Konchalovsky
- Theatre projects
- Operas
- Bibliography
- References
THE POSTMAN'S WHITE NIGHTS / Andrei Konchalovsky - goEast 2015 - Trailer
Early years
Konchalovsky was born as Andron Sergeyevich Mikhalkov in Moscow, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, to an aristocratic family of Mikhalkovs, with centuries-old artistic and aristocratic heritage tracing their roots to the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. He changed his first name to Andrei and took his maternal grandfather's surname (Konchalovsky) as his stage name. He is the brother of filmmaker Nikita Mikhalkov and the son of author Sergei Mikhalkov.
He studied for ten years at the Moscow Conservatory, preparing for a pianist's career. In 1960, however, he met Andrei Tarkovsky and co-scripted his movie Andrei Rublev (1966).
Career
His first full-length feature, The First Teacher (1964), was favourably received in the Soviet Union and screened by numerous film festivals abroad. His second film, Asya Klyachina's Story (1967), was suppressed by Soviet authorities. When issued twenty years later, it was acclaimed as his masterpiece. Thereupon, Konchalovsky filmed adaptations of Ivan Turgenev's A Nest of Gentle Folk (1969) and Chekhov's Uncle Vanya (1970), with Innokenty Smoktunovsky in the title role.
In 1979 he was a member of the jury at the 11th Moscow International Film Festival. His epic Siberiade upon its 1979 release was favourably received at Cannes and made possible his move to the United States in 1980.
His most popular Hollywood releases are Maria's Lovers (1984), Runaway Train (1985), based on a script by Japanese director Akira Kurosawa, and Tango & Cash (1989), starring Sylvester Stallone and Kurt Russell. In the 1990s, Konchalovsky returned to Russia, although he occasionally produced historical films for U.S. television, such as his adaption of The Odyssey (1997) and the award-winning remake, The Lion in Winter (2003).
Konchalovsky's full-length feature, House of Fools (2003), with a cameo role by Bryan Adams as himself, set in a Chechen psychiatric asylum during the war, won him a Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival.
His film, The Nutcracker in 3D had its American release on November 24, 2010 and premiered in Estonia and Russia on January 1, 2011. The film had a reported $90,000,000 budget and brought in a total of $65,944 in its U.S opening weekend. The film was also critically derided, with Roger Ebert stating in his review of the film, "From what dark night of the soul emerged the wretched idea for 'The Nutcracker in 3D?' Who considered it even remotely a plausible idea for a movie?"
His film The Postman's White Nights won the Silver Lion at the 71st Venice International Film Festival.
In 2016 Paradise directed by him won the Silver Lion at the 73rd Venice International Film Festival. It was selected as the Russian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 89th Academy Awards.
Personal life
Konchalovsky has been married five times. His first wife was Irina Kandat. His second wife was Kazakh actress Natalia Arinbasarova, with whom he has one son: Yegor, born January 15, 1966. His third wife was Viviane Godet, with whom he has a daughter, Alexandra Mikhalkova, born October 6, 1971. His fourth wife is Irina Ivanova, with whom he has two daughters: Nathalia and Elena. His fifth wife is Russian actress Julia Vysotskaya; they have been married since 1998 and have two children: Masha (1999) and Piotr (2003).
After he came to America, while not working, he lived with Shirley MacLaine, then left her for Nastassja Kinski, who helped him secure a contract with producer Menahem Golan for Maria's Lovers.