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Nikolai Burlyaev is a person endowed with a wide range of talents; he is well-known as an actor, film director, scriptwriter, and a public figure. First time appearing on screen as a slim and frail teenager in Tarkovsky’s drama film Ivan's Childhood he at once came to be a mature actor in great demand.

Nikolai Petrovich Burlyaev was born on August 3, 1946 into the family of actors living in Moscow.

When Nikolai was thirteen, he happened to meet Andrei Konchalovsky, who was at that time a student of the Film Directors’ Faculty in VGIK (All-Union State Institute of Cinematography) and invited the boy to star in his graduation work, the short-length feature Malchik i golub (The Boy and the Pigeon) (1961).

 

In 1962 Nikolai Burlyaev starred in Andrei Tarkovsky’s picture Ivanovo detstvo(Ivan's Childhood) after the same-name story by Vladimir Bogomolov.

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