Nikita Mikhalkov

Nikita Sergeyevich Mikhalkov (born October 21, 1945, Moscow, USSR) - Soviet and Russian film actor, film director, screenwriter, producer, artistic director of the Theater and Cinema Center under N. Mikhalkov (since 2017). Hero of Labor of the Russian Federation (2020), People's Artist of the RSFSR (1984), three-time laureate of the State Prize of the Russian Federation (1993, 1995, 1999) and Lenin's Komsomol Prize (1978). Full Cavalier of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland".

Chairman of the Union of Cinematographers of Russia since 1998, president of the Moscow International Film Festival since 1999.