Nikolai Petrovich Burlyayev (born August 3, 1946 in Moscow

Moscow

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) is a renowned Soviet and Russia

Russia

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Actor

An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...

. Born into a family of actors, Nikolai started his acting career in film and theatre when he was still a child. He is best known for his title role in Andrei Tarkovsky

Andrei Tarkovsky

Andrei Arsenyevich Tarkovsky was a Soviet and Russian filmmaker, writer, film editor, film theorist, theatre and opera director, widely regarded as one of the finest filmmakers of the 20th century....

's Ivan's Childhood. He worked with Tarkovsky again four years later, as Boriska in Andrei Rublev

Andrei Rublev (film)

Andrei Rublev , also known as The Passion According to Andrei, is a 1966 Russian film directed by Andrei Tarkovsky from a screenplay written by Andrei Konchalovsky and Andrei Tarkovsky. The film is loosely based on the life of Andrei Rublev, the great 15th century Russian icon painter...

. 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

Mikhail Romm

Mikhail Ilych Romm was a Soviet film director.He was born in Irkutsk. His father was a social democrat of Jewish descent who had been exiled there. He graduated from gymnasium in 1917 and entered the Moscow College for Painting, Sculpture and Architecture...

 and Lev Kulidzhanov

Lev Kulidzhanov

Lev Aleksandrovich Kulidzhanov was a Soviet film director and screenwriter...

. One of his remarkable films is Lermontov, where he also plays the lead.

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

Natalya Bondarchuk

Natalya Sergeyevna Bondarchuk is a Soviet and Russian actress and film director, best known for her appearance in Andrei Tarkovsky's Solaris as "Hari". She is the daughter of the Ukrainian actor Sergei Bondarchuk and the Russian actress Inna Makarova...

, and the son-in-law of Sergei Bondarchuk

Sergei Bondarchuk

Sergei Fedorovich Bondarchuk was a Soviet film director, screenwriter, and actor.- Biography :Born in Belozerka, in the Kherson Governorate, Sergei Bondarchuk spent his childhood in the cities of Yeysk and Taganrog, graduating from the Taganrog School Number 4 in 1938. His first performance as an...

 and Inna Makarova

Inna Makarova

Inna Vladimirovna Makarova is a Soviet Russian actress. She grew up in Novosibirsk. In 1948 she graduated from the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography in Moscow and began to work as an actress at the State Film Actor Theater . In 1949, she was awarded the Stalin Prize for her role as Lyubov...

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Selected filmography

• 1962 : Ivan's Childhood as Ivan
• 1966 : Andrei Rublev
  Andrei Rublev (film)
  Andrei Rublev , also known as The Passion According to Andrei, is a 1966 Russian film directed by Andrei Tarkovsky from a screenplay written by Andrei Konchalovsky and Andrei Tarkovsky. The film is loosely based on the life of Andrei Rublev, the great 15th century Russian icon painter...
  
  as Boriska
• 1969 : Mama Married as Borka Golubev
• 1970 : Gambler as Aleksei Ivanovich
• 1971 : Checkpoint
• 1979 : Little Tragedies
  Little Tragedies (film)
  Little Tragedies is a 1987 Soviet television miniseries directed by Mikhail Shveytser, based on works by Alexander Pushkin.-Cast:* Aleksandr Trofimov * Vladimir Vysotsky - Don Juan* Georgi Taratorkin - Charsky* Sergei Yursky - Improvisator...
  
  as Young Baron
• 1983 : Wartime Romance
  Wartime Romance
  Wartime Romance is a 1983 Soviet film directed by Pyotr Todorovsky.-Cast:* Nikolay Burlyaev as Netuzhilin* Natalya Andreychenko as Lyuba* Inna Churikova as Vera* Yekaterina Yudina as Kat'ka...
  
  as Netuzhilin
• 1986 : Lermontov as Mikhail Lermontov
• 1994 : Master and Margareth as Jesus Christ

External links

• Biography of Nikolai Burlyayev