Mikhail Mikhailovich Kozakov (in

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: Михаил Михайлович Козаков) (14 October 1934,

Leningrad Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

– 22 April 2011, Ramat Gan) was a Soviet, Russian and Israeli film and theatre director and actor.

Biography

Early life

Mikhail Kozakov was born on 14 October 1934 in

, the youngest of three brothers. His father Mikhail Emmanuilovich Kozakov was a Soviet writer and playwright of

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ish origin originally from the

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who served as a

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during the

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, then worked as a journalist in Leningrad. He was among the authors who collaborated on '' The I.V. Stalin White Sea – Baltic Sea Canal''.''Mikhail Kozakov (1989)''. Mikhail Kozakov. Fragments. — Moscow: Iskusstvo, pp. 107—113 (Memoirs) Kozakov's mother Zoya Alexandrovna Nikitina (née Gatskevich) was of mixed

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- Greek descent. Her family moved from

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to St. Petersburg. She finished the

Karl May School Karl May School (russian: Петербургская школа Карла Мая) is a secondary school in Saint Petersburg, Russia. History Founding In 1856, on the day of the Autumn Equinox (22 September), on the initiative of a few German f ...

and worked as an editor in publishing houses, the Leningrad Literature Fund (Litfund) and various magazines. This was her fourth marriage. She was arrested twice: first in 1937 following the arrest of her brother who served in the Imperial Russian Army during the civil war (he was sentenced to death while she spent a year in prison), then — in 1948 because of financial violations in Litfund (released in 1950). She was friends with many acclaimed writers who visited Kozakovs' apartment on the

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, including

Evgeny Schwartz Evgeny Lvovich Schwartz (russian: Евге́ний Льво́вич Шва́рц; , Kazan, Russian Empire – January 15, 1958, Leningrad, Soviet Union) was a Soviet writer and playwright, whose works include twenty-five plays, and screenplay ...

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Anatoly Marienhof Anatoly Borisovich Marienhof or Mariengof (russian: Анато́лий Бори́сович Мариенго́ф; 6 July (24 June O.S.) 1897 – 24 June 1962) was a Russian poet, novelist, and playwright. He was one of the leading figures of ...

Boris Eikhenbaum Boris Mikhailovich Eikhenbaum ( rus, Борис Михайлович Эйхенбаум, p=ɨjxʲɪnˈbaʊm; 16 October 1886 – 2 November 1959) was a Russian Empire and Soviet literary scholar and historian of Russian literature. He is a repre ...

Anna Akhmatova Anna Andreyevna Gorenko rus, А́нна Андре́евна Горе́нко, p=ˈanːə ɐnˈdrʲe(j)ɪvnə ɡɐˈrʲɛnkə, a=Anna Andreyevna Gorenko.ru.oga, links=yes; uk, А́нна Андрі́ївна Горе́нко, Ánna Andríyivn ...

. During the war Kozakov was evacuated to the Molotov Oblast along with other Leningrad children where he lived from 1941 to 1944. He then returned to the city and continued the secondary education. His brother Vladimir volunteered for the frontline and was killed in 1945. His second brother Boris was accidentally shot in 1946 in his flat by his classmate.

Theatre

In 1956, Mikhail Kozakov graduated from the

Moscow Art Theatre School Moscow Art Theatre School is the studio school of the Moscow Art Theatre. It is a state educational institution that has existed since 1943. The initiator of the studio school was Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko.Mikhail Romm ''Murder on Dante Street'' was released, in which Kozakov acted, and in the autumn of that year he received the role of Hamlet in the performance at the

Mayakovsky Theatre Mayakovsky Theater (russian: Театр Маяковского; Московский академический театр имени Вл. Маяковского) is a theater in Moscow, Russia, founded in 1920, first as ''Terevsat'' (Theater of R ...

. From 1956 to 1959 Kozakov was an actor of the Mayakovsky Theatre. From 1959 to 1970 he was an actor of the

Sovremennik Theatre Moscow Sovremennik Theatre (russian: Московский театр «Современник») is a theatre company in Moscow founded in 1956. "Sovremennik" means "Contemporary".

. In the 1960s, Kozakov played several vivid roles, such as Cyrano de Bergerac (Cyrano de Bergerac of Rostand, director Efremov, 1964) in the play of the Sovremennik Theater; chamberlain from Schwarz's fairy tale "The Naked King" - a performance that in 1960 brought the theater a triumph, and then turned into a legend; Kistochkin in the comedy Aksenova "Always on sale" (director O. Efremov, 1965). On the stage of Sovremennik, Kozakov performed several more roles in the productions of Galina Volchek: Aduyev the elder in Ordinary History I. Goncharov (1966, State Prize of the USSR); Jerry Raiin in "Two on the swing" by W. Ibsen; The actor in M. Gorky's play "The Lower Depths"; Nicholas I in the "Decembrists" by L. Zorin (director O. Efremov); Master Zhivko in the "Masters" R. Stoyanov (Bulgarian director V. Tsankov), etc. In 1970, the actor left the Sovremennik. A year after he left the theater and its founder - Oleg Efremov. Following Efremov, Kozakov came to the Moscow Art Theater. There they were played by Lord Goring in "Ideal husband" Wilde (director Stanitsyn), Gusev in the play "Valentine and Valentina" Roshchina (director Efremov). In the Moscow Art Theater, Kozakov began to play Leonid Zorin's play The Copper Grandmother, where Rolan Bykov rehearsed Pushkin's role. The play was closed, and Kozakov went to the Theater on Malaya Bronnaya to Dunayev and Efros. Here the actor performed several more roles: Don Juan (Don Juan by J.-B. Molière, 1973); Kochkarev ("The Marriage" by NV Gogol, 1975); Rakitina ("A Month in the Country" by IS Turgenev, 1978). There, in Malaya Bronnaya, Kozakov staged two performances: Zorin's comedy The Pokrovsky Gate and O'Neill's play The Soul of the Poet. In 1986, Kozakov left the Theater on Malaya Bronnaya in Lenk. In 1986, he played the role of Polonius in Panfilov's Hamlet at the

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, later, in the late 1990s, Shadow of the Father in the same Hamlet by German director Peter Stein.

Film

In 1978, Kozakov made his debut as a film director, with the two-part television film '' Nameless Star'', based on the play of Mikhail Sebastian. Afterwards there were films '' The Pokrovsky Gate'' (1982), '' If We Believe Lopotukhin...'' (1983), ''Trustees'' by A.N. Ostrovsky (1983), ''Masquerade'' by M. Lermontov (1985) and others. During the years of

perestroika ''Perestroika'' (; russian: links=no, перестройка, p=pʲɪrʲɪˈstrojkə, a=ru-perestroika.ogg) was a political movement for reform within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) during the late 1980s widely associated wit ...

, Kozakov left Russia. However, after working in the

Cameri Theater The Cameri Theater ( he, התיאטרון הקאמרי, ''HaTeatron HaKameri''), established in 1944 in Tel Aviv, is one of the leading theaters in Israel, and is housed at the Tel Aviv Performing Arts Center. History The Cameri theater was foun ...

in Tel Aviv, Israel, as an actor and director (the role of Trigorin in Chekhov's "The Seagull" in Hebrew, staging and playing in "Lover" Harold Pinter, etc.), Mikhail Kozakov chose to return to Russia. In Moscow, he created his own theater called "Russian Entreprise Mikhail Kozakov." Since 2003, Kozakov was actor of the

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("Venetian merchant" - Shylock, "King Lear" - Lear). The actor read poetry on stage, radio, television, and recorded discs. In 1999, the actor, together with saxophonist Igor Butman, staged a play-concert on Brodsky's verses "Concert for voice and saxophone". In 1997, Mikhail Kozakov's "Acting Book" was published, in which he tells about his life, about different times and people of art in them.

Death and personal life

In 2010 Kozakov was diagnosed with lung cancer. He went through unsuccessful treatment in Israel and died on 22 April 2011 in a clinic near Tel Aviv. He was buried at the

Vvedenskoye Cemetery Vvedenskoye Cemetery ( rus, Введенское кладбище, p=vʲːɪˈdʲenskəjə) is a historic cemetery in the Lefortovo District of Moscow in Russia. Until 1918 it was mainly a burial ground for the Catholic and Protestant communit ...

in Moscow near his father, in accordance with his will. Kozakov was officially married five times. He left his last wife Nadezhda Sedova (47 years younger than him) in 2010 with a scandal, claiming that she had stolen his flat and that she was the cause of his illness, and fled to his fourth wife Anna Yampolskaya who lived in Israel along with their children Mikhail and Zoya. He had a daughter Katerina and a son Kirill, also a prominent Russian actor, from his first marriage to Greta Taar, as well as a daughter Manana from his second marriage to Medea Berelashvili.

Honors

Kozakov - People's Artist of Russia (1980), laureate of the State Prizes of the USSR (1967) and the RSFSR (1983), art director of the theater "Russian Entreprise Mikhail Kozakov"

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Actor

* '' Murder on Dante Street'' (1956) — ''Charles Thibault'' * '' Hard Happiness'' (1958) — ''Nikolai Nagorny'' * The Sisters (1957 film) (1959) —''Valerian Onoli'' * ''The Golden'' ''Echelon'' (1959) — ''Cheremisov'' * ''

Far from the Motherland ''Far from the Motherland'' () is a 1960 Soviet spy film directed by Aleksei Shvachko and written by Yuri Dold-Mikhajlik, based on his novel ''And One Warrior in the Field'' ( (1957). Plot During the Second World War, a Soviet agent goes deep un ...

'' (1960) — ''Hauptmann Saugel'' * ''Eugenia Grandet'' (1960) — ''Charles Grandet'' * ''Last Salvos'' (1960) — ''Gorbachev'' * '' Baltic Skies'' (1960) — ''Baiseitov, pilot'' * ''Crazy Court'' (1961) — ''Michel'' * ''

Nine Days in One Year ''Nine Days in One Year'' (russian: Девять дней одного года) is a 1962 Soviet black-and-white drama film directed by Mikhail Romm about nuclear particle physics, physicists and their relationships. The film is based on true eve ...

'' (1962) — ''Valery Ivanovich'' * ''

Amphibian Man ''Amphibian Man'' (rus. Человек-амфибия) is a science fiction adventure novel by the Soviet Russian writer Alexander Beliaev. It was published in 1928. Plot Argentinean doctor Salvator, a scientist and a maverick surgeon, giv ...

'' (1962) — ''Pedro Zurita'' *

The Bridge Is Built ''The Bridge Is Built'' (russian: Строится мост) is a 1965 Soviet drama film directed by Gavriil Egiazarov and Oleg Efremov. Plot The film tells about the Moscow correspondent who goes to Saratov, where the construction of a highwa ...

(1965) — ''Mammadov'' * '' A Pistol Shot'' (1966) — ''Silvio'' * '' Day of Sun and Rain ''(1967) — ''actor as Mishka Japonchik (cameo)'' * '' The Red and The White ''(1967) — ''Nestor'' * ''The Tale of the Chekist'' (1969) — Belov * '' Two Days of Miracles'' (1970) — ''professor-examiner of the Institute of Good Wizards'' * ''

Goya or the Hard Way to Enlightenment ''Goya or the Hard Way to Enlightenment'' (german: Goya – oder der arge Weg der Erkenntnis) is a 1971 East German drama film directed by Konrad Wolf. It was entered into the 7th Moscow International Film Festival where it won a Special Prize. ...

'' (1971) — ''Gilmarde'' * ''

All the King's Men ''All the King's Men'' is a 1946 novel by Robert Penn Warren. The novel tells the story of charismatic populist governor Willie Stark and his political machinations in the Depression-era Deep South. It was inspired by the real-life story of U.S. ...

'' (1971) — ''Jack Burden'' * ''Grandmaster'' (1972) — ''Volodya'' * ''Childhood. Adolescence. Youth'' (1973) — ''Pyotr'' ''Alexandrovich'' * ''Acting'' (1973) — ''Alexander'' ''Stern'' * ''The Dombey and the Son'' (1974) — ''Sol'' ''Giles'' * '' Ivan and Marya'' (1974) — ''Cashier'' * ''Lev Gurych Sinichkin'' (1974) — ''Zefirov'' * ''

The Straw Hat ''The Straw Hat'' (russian: Соломенная шляпка, translit. ''Solomennaya shlyapka'') is a 1974 Soviet musical comedy television film directed by Leonid Kvinikhidze based on a play by Eugène Marin Labiche and Marc-Michel. ...

'' (1974) — ''Viscount de Rosalba'' * '' Car, Violin and Blot the Dog'' (1974) — ''musician playing violin and bass guitar'' and ''shashlik vendor'' * '' Hello, I'm Your Aunt!'' (1975) — ''Colonel Sir Francis Chesney'' * ''Yaroslav Dombrovsky'' (1975) — ''Andrey Vasiliev'' * ''The Theater of an Unknown Actor'' (1976) — ''Genrikh Genrikhovich'' * ''

The Road to Calvary ''The Road to Calvary'' (russian: Хождение по мукам, Khozhdeniye po mukam, Walking Through Torments), also translated as ''Ordeal'', is a trilogy of novels by Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy, tracing the fate of the Russian intellige ...

'' (1977) — ''Bessonov'' * '' Nameless Star'' (1978) — ''Grig'' * ''The Life of Beethoven'' (1978) — ''Gioachino Rossini'' * ''Comedy of Errors'' (1978) — ''Anoifall'' * ''A Handsome Man'' (1978) — ''Lupachev'' * ''Deficit on Mazaev'' (1979) — ''Kira's lover'' * ''The State Border. Peaceful Summer of the 21st Year'' (1980) — '' Felix Dzerzhinsky'' * '' Sindicat-2'' (1981) — '' Felix Dzerzhinsky'' * '' December, 20th'' (1981) — '' Felix Dzerzhinsky'' * ''And I'm With you Again'' (1981) — ''Pyotr Yakovlevich Chaadaev'' * ''Comrade Innokenty'' (1981) — ''Sergei Vasilievich Zubatov'' * '' The Sixth'' (1981) — ''Illary'' ''Danilovich'' ''Danilevsky'' * ''Who Is Knocking on the Door?'' (1982) — ''Actor playing Cyrano de Bergerac'' * '' The Pokrovsky Gate'' (1982) — ''Konstantin Romin 25 years later'' * Demidovs (1983) — ''Biron'' * ''Unicum'' (1983) — ''Iosif Timurovich Petrov, hypnotist'' * ''The hero of Her Novel'' (1984) — ''Erast'' ''Tsykada'' * ''An Incredible Bet, or a True Incident That Ended Successfully a Hundred Years Ago'' (1984) — ''Dudnikov, summer resident'' * ''Scenes From the Tragedy “Faust"'' (1984) — '' Faust'' * ''Scenes From the Drama "Masquerade"'' (1985) — ''Arbenin'' * '' Mister Designer'' (1988) — ''Grillio'' * ''And it Happened in Vichy'' (1989) — ''doctor'' * ''Fools Die on Fridays'' (1990) — ''Geliy Ivanovich'' * '' The Shadow, or Maybe It Will All Come Round'' (1991) — '' Caesar Borgia'' * ''

Gisele's Mania ''Gisele's Mania'' (russian: Мания Жизели) is a 1996 Russian biographical drama film directed by Aleksey Uchitel. Plot The film tells the love stories of the famous Russian ballerina Olga Spesivtseva. Cast * Galina Tyunina as Olga ...

'' (1995) — ''Akim Volynsky'' * '' The Fatal Eggs'' (1996) —

Woland Woland (russian: Воланд) is a fictional character in the novel ''The Master and Margarita'' by the Russian (Soviet) author Mikhail Bulgakov, written between 1928 and 1940. Woland is the mysterious foreigner and professor whose visit to Mosc ...

* '' Tribute'' (1999) — ''Scottie Templeton'' * '' Four Hands Dinner'' (1999) — '' Georg Friedrich Handel'' * ''24 Hours'' (2000 film) (2000) — ''Costa'' * ''Avalanche'' (2001) — ''Lev Borisov'' * ''Game in Modern'' (2002) — ''Frieze'' * ''Thieves and Prostitutes. The Prize is Space Flight'' (2004) — ''photographer'' * ''The Death of Tairov'' (2004) — ''Alexander Yakovlevich Tairov'' * ''Wonderful Valley'' (2004) — ''grandfather Said'' * '' We Are Playing Shakespeare'' (2004) — ''Narrator'' * ''Narrow Bridge'' (2005) — ''Yakushev'' * ''Hello, We are Your Roof!'' (2005) — ''Solomon'' * ''The Shift'' (2006) — ''Kharitonov, Academician'' * ''Creation of Love'' (2006) — ''Nahum Trakht'' * ''Carrot-Love'' (2007) — ''Dr. Kogan'' * ''Carrot-Love 2'' (2008) — ''Dr. Kogan'' * '' Orange Juice (film)'' (2009) — ''Leonid, Dasha's father'' * ''Zoya'' (2010) — '' Vladimir Rapoport'' * ''The Guardians of the Network'' (2010) — ''Sergey Ivanovich Kalgarov'' * ''

Boris Godunov Borís Fyodorovich Godunóv (; russian: Борис Фёдорович Годунов; 1552 ) ruled the Tsardom of Russia as ''de facto'' regent from c. 1585 to 1598 and then as the first non-Rurikid tsar from 1598 to 1605. After the end of his ...

'' (2011) — ''Pimen'' * '' Fairytale.Is'' (2011) — ''Stanislav Dalievich Salvadorov, director of the school'' * ''Last Meeting'' (2011) — ''Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov'' * ''Carrot-Love 3'' (2011) — ''Dr. Kogan''

Director

* '' Nameless Star'' (1978) * '' The Pokrovsky Gate'' (1982) * '' If We Believe Lopotukhin...'' (1983) * Petersburg Fantasy (1987) * Visit of a Lady (1989) * '' The Shadow, or Maybe all will end Good'' (1991) * '' Four Hands Dinner'' (1999) * Joker (2002) * Playing Shakespeare (documentary) (2004) * The Charm of Evil (2006)

References

External links

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