Nikolai Petrovich Burlyayev (; born 3 August 1946) is a

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and

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n actor, film director and apparatchik. Born into a family of actors, Burlyayev started his career in film and theatre when he was still a child. He is best known for his title role in

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's ''

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''. He worked with Tarkovsky again four years later, as Boriska in ''

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/ref> He was elected to the

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in the 2021 parliamentary elections.

Biography

Burlyayev majored in acting at the Shchukin theater school in Moscow, graduating in 1967. Burlyayev is a graduate of the Film Directors’ Faculty of VGIK, where he studied under

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and

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. He graduated in 1975. Burlyayev's film acting debut was the lead in Andrei Konchalovsky's short film '' The Boy and the Dove'' (1960). Burliaev played the teacher with a gambling habit Aleksei Ivanovich in Aleksei Batalov's screen version of Dostoevsky's ''The Gambler'' (1972) and Evgeni in Mikhail Shveitser's '' Little Tragedies'' (1979, TV, from Aleksandr Pushkin). He also played supporting parts in Petr Todorovski's ''Frontline Romance'' (1983) and in Natalia Bondarchuk's dilogy '' Bambi's Childhood'' (1985) and ''Bambi’s Youth'' (1986). His later films include ''

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'' (1983) and ''

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'' (1986), where he played the lead. Since 1991, 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. In March 2014, he signed a letter in support of the position of the President of Russia

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on Russia's military intervention in Ukraine. Burlyayev emphasizes that he is

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, repeatedly sharply expressed his negative attitude towards people with non-traditional sexual orientation, calls himself a homophobe. He was married to Natalya Bondarchuk, and is thus the son-in-law of

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and

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Sanctions

He was sanctioned by the UK government in 2022 in relation to the

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. On 24 March 2022, the United States Treasury sanctioned him in response to the

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Filmography

* 1961: '' The Boy and the Dove'' as Boy *1961: '' Judgment of the Mad'' as Sam Hagger *1962: ''

'' as Ivan *1962: '' No Fear, No Blame'' as Yura Sorokin * 1963: '' Introduction to Life'' as Oleg *1964: ''

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'' as Lancer *1966: '' Hero of Our Time'' as Blind man * 1966: ''

'' as Boriska *1966: ''

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'' as Boy *1968: ''

Two Comrades Were Serving ''Two Comrades Were Serving'' (, translit. ''Sluzhili dva tovarishcha'') is a 1968 Soviet war film directed by Yevgeny Karelov with a script by Yuli Dunsky and Valeri Frid. The film is about the Russian Civil War, in particular, the battle f ...

'' as Sergei Lukashevich * 1969: '' Mama Married'' as Boris Golubev *1969: '' Family Happiness'' as Ivan Shchupaltsev *1969: '' Not Under the Jurisdiction'' as Seryozha's voice (role played by Vladimir Kuznetsov) *1971: ''

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'' as Gleb, Zina's son *1974: '' Under en steinhimmel'' as Lyosha Vasilyev *1974: '' Take Aim'' as Fedya *1974: '' Ivan and Marya'' as Marquis *1979: ''

A Few Days from the Life of I. I. Oblomov ''Oblomov'' (, Transliteration, translit. ''Neskolko dney iz zhizni I. I. Oblomova'') is a Soviet Union, Soviet historical comedy/drama film directed by Nikita Mikhalkov. It was released by Mosfilm in 1980. The film's plot is based on the nov ...

'' as Olga's visitor * 1979: '' Little Tragedies'' as Alber, young baron * 1983: ''

'' as Aleksandr Netuzhilin *1984: '' Another Man's Wife and a Husband Under the Bed'' as Tvorogov *1985: '' Trial on the Road'' as Young policeman (filmed in 1970) *1985: '' Bambi's Childhood'' as Adolescent Bambi * 1986: ''

'' as

Mikhail Lermontov Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov ( , ; rus, Михаи́л Ю́рьевич Ле́рмонтов, , mʲɪxɐˈil ˈjʉrʲjɪvʲɪtɕ ˈlʲerməntəf, links=yes; – ) was a Russian Romanticism, Romantic writer, poet and painter, sometimes called ...

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(also director) * 1994: ''

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'' as Yeshua Ha-Notsri * 1995: ''

What a Wonderful Game ''What a Wonderful Game'' () is a 1995 Russian drama film directed by Pyotr Todorovsky. It was entered into the 19th Moscow International Film Festival. Cast * Andrey Ilin as Felix Raevskiy * Gennady Nazarov as Kolya Rybkin * Denis Konstanti ...

'' as Mikhail Mikhailovich * 2008: ''

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'' as

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Biography of Nikolai Burlyayev
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