Nikolai Burlyayev
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| Nikolai Petrovich Burlyayev | |
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 Nikolai Burlyayev as "Ivan" in Ivan's Childhood |
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| Born | March 8, 1946  Moscow, Soviet Union |
Nikolai Petrovich Burlyayev (Russian: Николай Петрович Бурляев) (born August 3, 1946 in Moscow) is a renowned Russian actor. Being born into a family of actors, Nikolai started his actor’s carrier in filming and on theatre stage when a child yet. He is best known for his appearance in Andrei Tarkovsky's Ivan's Childhood as Ivan. He worked one more time with Tarkovsky seven years later, as Boriska in Andrei Rublev. One of his best adult works is the lead in the film Voenno-polevoy roman (War-Time Romance) (1983).
Nikolai Burlyayev is also a graduate of the Film Directors’ Faculty of VGIK, where he studied under Mikhail Romm and Lev Kulidzhanov. One of his remarkable films is Lermontov, where he also plays the lead.
Since 1991 Nikolai Burlyayev has been the founder and director of the annual Zolotoi Vityaz (Golden Knight) Moscow Film Festival of Slavic and Orthodox Peoples and since 1996 he has been the founder and chairman of the International Association of Cinematographers of Slavic and Orthodox Peoples.
He is married to Natalya Bondarchuk, and is therefore son-in-law to both Sergei Bondarchuk and Inna Makarova.
[edit] Selected Filmography
- 1962 : Ivan's Childhood as Ivan
- 1969 : Andrei Rublev as Boriska
- 1969 : Mama Married as Borka Golubev
- 1970 : Gambler as Aleksei Ivanovich
- 1971 : Checkpoint
- 1979 : Little Tragedies as Young Baron
- 1983 : War-Time Romance as Netuzhilin
- 1986 : Lermontov as Mikhail Lermontov
- 1994 : Master and Margareth as Jesus Christ
