Sergey Mikaelyan

Sergey Mikaelyan studied at Russian Institute of Theatre Arts. The recorded working language is Russian. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are socialist realism. Distinctions recorded are USSR State Prize, Zhukov Medal, Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" and Order of the Patriotic War, 1st class.

Sergey Mikaelyan was born on 1 November 1923 in Moscow. When he was seventeen he voluntarily served in the Great Patriotic War and was wounded at Rzhev. 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 Mosfilm. 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 Lenfilm. From 1959 to 1961 was director at the Gorky Film Studio. 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.

• Going Inside a Storm (1965) • Bare et liv – Historien om Fridtjof Nansen (1968) • Grandmaster (1972) • Bonus (1974) • Widows (1975) • Love by Request (1983) • Flight 222 (1986)

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