Sergey Gerasimovich Mikaelyan (; 1 November 1923 – 10 December 2016) was a

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and winner of the

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(1976). He directed ten films between 1965 and 1986. His 1983 film '' Love by Request'' was entered into the

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Biography

Sergey Mikaelyan was born on 1 November 1923 in Moscow. When he was seventeen he voluntarily served in the

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and was wounded at

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. In 2015 he published a novella titled "Not Killed at Rzhev" () about his experiences in the war. In 1951 he graduated from the directing department of GITIS (workshop of Boris Zakhava, Maria Knebel, A. Popov), and then, in 1959, the director's course at the

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. Sergey Mikaelyan staged performances in the Saratov, Gorky, Moscow, and Leningrad theaters. He also worked as the chief director of the Tashkent Russian Theatre named after M. Gorky (1954-1956). Since 1956 served as director of the film studio

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. From 1959 to 1961 was director at the

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. Since 1989, Mikaelyan was the artistic director of the "Petropolis" studio. He died on 10 December 2016 in St. Petersburg and was buried in the Serafimovskoe Cemetery.

Awards

(1976) for the film "Bonus" (1974) *Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1976) *

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prize (1983) for the film "Love by Request" (1982) *

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(1983)

Selected filmography

* '' Going Inside a Storm'' (1965) * '' Bare et liv – Historien om Fridtjof Nansen'' (1968) * '' Grandmaster'' (1972) * ''

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'' (1974) * ''

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'' (1975) * '' Love by Request'' (1983) * '' Flight 222'' (1986)

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Mikaelyan, Sergey Gerasimovich 1923 births 2016 deaths Film people from Moscow Soviet film directors Recipients of the USSR State Prize Burials at Serafimovskoe Cemetery Russian Academy of Theatre Arts alumni High Courses for Scriptwriters and Film Directors alumni Recipients of the Order of Lenin