Soviet and Russian actor and director, People's Artist of Russia, laureate of the Lenin Komsomol Prize Nikolai Burlyaev was born in Moscow on August 3, 1946.
I have tried myself in movies since my youth. For the first time it happened in 1957, when he and his brother Boris came to participate in the audition for the film “History Lesson”, where children were recruited. His brother Boris already by that time had a small acting experience, as he starred with the director V.V. Eisimot in the film
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Soviet and Russian actor and director, People's Artist of Russia, laureate of the Lenin Komsomol Prize Nikolai Burlyaev was born in Moscow on August 3, 1946.
I have tried myself in movies since my youth. For the first time it happened in 1957, when he and his brother Boris came to participate in the audition for the film “History Lesson”, where children were recruited. His brother Boris already by that time had a small acting experience, as he starred with the director V.V. Eisimot in the film “Two Friends”, and he came to shoot in this picture, and Nikolai Burlyaev did not pass the test and decided to leave this venture.
But in 1959, an accident helped him realize his dream. Once, passing along Gorky Street, a young man approached the boy and asked if he wanted to star in a movie. But the boy was suspicious of the stranger and even asked to show the ID. The young man turned out to be Andron Konchalovsky, who at that time was a student of VGIK and was preparing to shoot his thesis. So, in 1960, a picture came out.
"Boy and pigeon" Director A.S. Konchalovsky with Nikolai Burlyaev in the lead role. And in 1962, at the International Film Festival in Venice, the picture “Boy and Pigeon” won the “Bronze Lion of St. Mark” in a film competition for children.
In the same 1962, Nikolai Burlyaev starred in Andrei Tarkovsky in the film.
"Ivan's childhood" In the main role of a teenage intelligence officer who did not play war, but showed even many adults what war is.
In 1968 he graduated from the school named after V.B. Shchukin, the theater faculty, but after the school continued to act in films. On his account also not less famous paintings
Mom got married. "Risk,"
Military field novel .
In 1975, Nikolai Burlyaev graduated from the directorial faculty of VGIKA and from that time tried himself as a director. Under his leadership, a film almanac based on the stories of Saltykov-Shchedrin was published
Poshekhonskaya antiquities" And in one of the novellas "Vanka Cain", he played the main role. Also in 1979, he will play in his film “Choice”, in 1986 – in the film “Lermontov”.
Nikolai Burlyaev since 1992 is the General Director of the film concern “Russian Film”. Later he became Vice-President of the International Slavic Academy of Sciences, Education, Art and Culture.
In 2003 he made a documentary series “Holy Russia in the Fates of its Companions”.
Nikolai Burlyaev is married to Natalia Bondarchuk, a famous actress and director. Son Ivan graduated from the Tchaikovsky State Conservatory.