Nikita Mikhalkov, the most successful Russian director of his country, is in intensive care after being diagnosed coronavirus.
“The patient is hospitalized in intensive care”, hospital sources merely informed the Russian agency on Monday RIA Novosti.
Mijalkov, director of the Union of Russian Cinematographers and the Moscow International Film Festival, was hospitalized after celebrating the New Year, according to local press reports.
to their 77 years oldthe director is admitted to hospital number 52 in the Russian capital, a health center specializing in the treatment of patients with covid-19.
a long trip
In 1977, the Russian director was awarded the Golden shell of the San Sebastian Festival for An unfinished piece for mechanical pianowork based on several pieces of Anton Chekhov.
The Year of the Fall of the Soviet Union (1991) premiered Urga, territory of lovefilm that won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival.
His masterpiece, however, is burning sun (1994), dealing with the life of a Red Army officer and his family during the Stalinist purges.
The Cannes Film Festival awarded him the Grand Jury Prize and a year later received the long-awaited Oscar for best foreign film.
His support for the Russian military campaign
Mikhalkov, known for his unwavering support for the Kremlinwas included in the sanctions lists of the European Union and Ukraine for support the Russian military campaign there.
Months ago he had also made headlines for non-professional reasons, assuring him Russia’s presence at the Oscars would be ‘unnatural’ under the current geopolitical conditions by the Russian “military campaign” in Ukraine.
“Today, coming under US missile fire and traveling to Los Angeles to appear would be unnatural“said the director at the opening press conference of the Moscow International Film Festival.
Mijalkov, nominated three times for an Oscar and awarded in 1995 for burning sunhe said if a film is submitted for that award, he will appreciate it “people who a priori believe that we are their enemies”.
In contemporary Russian history only seven films from that country were listed as Oscar nominees, three of them directed by Mijalkov.
His passage through Argentina
In 2001 he was visiting Argentina. Loved by the public since the days of Unfinished piece for mechanical piano, Five afternoons, Slave of love Y black eyes, the Russian director attended the Mar del Plata International Festival To introduce The Siberian Barber.
unique character, in his short stay he played football (he was injured) and was on the bench as duke than a local rookie (at that time), Paula Hernandezhe’s going to steal your press conference schedule.
“It has always been difficult to produce films in Russia and everywhere. It is true that in Russia, when there was the Soviet Union, it wasn’t. One thing for another. Now we have no expressive constraintsBut other difficulties abound. Today the film industry is destroyed.”
Source EFE Agency
Source: Clarin
