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Nikolai Burlyayev

A blond thin frail child, Nikolai Petrovich Burlyayev was born August 3, 1946 in Moscow and although he is best known for his title role in Andrei Tarkovsky’s “Ivan’s Childhood” (1962), his real career started a few years earlier on the stage.  Born into a family of actors he started his film career in the Andrei Konchalovsky short film “The Boy and the Pigeon” (1961); then worked with Tarkovsky again seven years later, as the teenage Boriska in “Andrei Rublev”(1966). One of his best adult parts was the lead role in the film “Voenno-polevoy roman” (War-Time Romance) (1983).

Nikolai Burlyayev is a graduate of the Film Directors’ Faculty of VGIK, where he studied under Mikhail Romm and Lev Kulidzhanov. He is a person endowed with a wide range of talents; well-known as an actor, film director, scriptwriter, and a public figure.

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 the son-in-law of Sergei Bondarchuk and Inna Makarova.

Nikolai Burlyayev 1946 –