Mikhail Ulyanov
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Mikhail Alexandrovich Ulyanov (Russian: Михаил Александрович Ульянов; 20 November 1927–26 March 2007) was a Russian actor who was one of the most recognizable persons of the official post-World War II Soviet theatre and cinema. He was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1969 and received a special prize from the Venice Film Festival in 1982.
Ulyanov worked in the Vakhtangov Theatre from 1950 and directed it from 1987. As regards movies, he was frequently cast in the parts of staunch Communist leaders like Vladimir Lenin and Marshal Zhukov. The Brothers Karamazov, a 1969 film he co-directed, was nominated to the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. He also starred in Tema (1979) and Private Life (1982), the films that won top awards at the Berlin Film Festival and Venice Film Festival, respectively.
More recently, he was acclaimed for the roles of Julius Caesar in the screening of Shakespeare's play (1990), Pontius Pilate in the film adaptation of The Master and Margarita (1994), and an avenging veteran marksman in The Voroshilov Sharpshooter (1999), directed by Stanislav Govorukhin. He died on March 26, 2007 of intestinal disease.
[edit] External links
- Mikhail Ulyanov at the Vakhtangov Theatre website
- Actor Mikhail Ulyanov died in Moscow (Russian)
- Mikhail Ulyanov at the Internet Movie Database
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