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Sergey Gerasimovich Mikaelyan (‹See Tfd›Russian: Серге́й Гера́симович Микаэля́н; 1 November 1923 – 10 December 2016) was a Soviet film director 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. 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.
In 2015 he published a novella titled "Not Killed at Rzhev" (‹See Tfd›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, 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. 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.
Filmography
all 16
Movies 16
Director 16
My darling asterisk (2000)
Французский вальс (1994)
Разборчивый жених (1993)
Flight 222 (1985)
Love by Request (1982)
With Shared Love (1980)
Widows (1976)
The Bonus (1974)
Grandmaster (1973)
Расскажи мне о себе (1972)
Going Inside a Storm (1965)
I Accept the War (1963)
Разноцветные камешки (1960)
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Known ForDirecting
GenderMale
Birthday1923-11-01
Deathday2016-12-10 (93 years old)
Birth PlaceMoscow, Russia
CitizenshipsSoviet Union, Russia
Also Known AsSergei Mikaelyan, Сергей Микаэлян
AwardsHonored art worker of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Jubilee Medal "60 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", Medal "In Commemoration of the 850th Anniversary of Moscow", Zhukov Medal, Jubilee Medal "60 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR", Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin", Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", Order of the Patriotic War 1st class, Jubilee Medal "50 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", Jubilee Medal "Twenty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", USSR State Prize, Medal "Veteran of Labour", Order of the Patriotic War, Order of Glory, People's Artist of the RSFSR, Jubilee Medal "Thirty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", Jubilee Medal "50 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR", Jubilee Medal "Forty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", Jubilee Medal "70 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"
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