Mikhail Kalik
{{short description|Soviet-Israeli film director (1927–2017)}}
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Михаи́л Ка́лик
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| death_place = Jerusalem, Israel
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Mikhail Naumovich Kalik ({{lang-rus|Михаи́л Нау́мович Ка́лик|}}; 27 January 1927 – 31 March 2017) was a Soviet and Israeli film director and screenwriter.{{cite book|author=Peter Rollberg, George Washington University |title=Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gM6QDAAAQBAJ&q=Kalik+Ataman+Codr+Youth+Fathers+Lullabye+Man+Follows+Sun+Love&pg=PA344|page=344|year=2016|publisher=Rowman / Littlefield|isbn=9781442268425}}
Life and career
A descendant of a prominent Kyiv Jewish family, Mikhail Kalik grew up in the heart of Moscow. As a teenager, he spent the war in the evacuation in Central Asia. In 1949, he was accepted into the Moscow Film School (VGIK) where he studied under Grigori Alexandrov. In 1951, during the anti-cosmopolitan campaign under Stalin, he was arrested with several other students and accused of Jewish bourgeois nationalism{{cite book|author=Caroline Moine, Andreas Kötzing |title=Cultural Transfer and Political Conflicts: Film Festivals in the Cold War |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZOMsDwAAQBAJ&q=Mikhail+Kalik+Soviet+Jewish+film+director&pg=PA134|page=134|year=2017 |publisher=Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht|isbn=9783847005889}} and planning anti-Soviet terrorist acts.{{cite book|author=Roman Brackman |title=The Secret File of Joseph Stalin: A Hidden Lif|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PY2RAgAAQBAJ&q=Mikhail+Kalik+Israel&pg=PA329|page=329|year=2004|publisher=Routledge|isbn=9781135758400}} A sentence of ten years detention was pronounced against him. He was sent to Lefortovo Prison, then to Ozerlag labor camp near Taishet and later to other GULAG sites. He was released and rehabilitated in the era of de-Stalinization. He came back to VGIK in 1954 under the direction of Sergei Yutkevich and graduated in 1958.{{cite book|author=Olga Gershenson|title=The Phantom Holocaust: Soviet Cinema and Jewish Catastrophe|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_1gi9i5PTh8C&q=Sergei+Yutkevich+Soviet+film+director&pg=PA91|page=91|year=2013 |publisher=Rutgers University Press|isbn=9780813561820}} His first film was Ataman Codr codirected with Boris Rytsarev in 1958. His best known film is Man Follows Sun (1961), about a young boy who in one day experiences numerous facets of live, in his pursuit to see the sun.{{cite book|author= Lida Oukaderova|title=The Cinema of the Soviet Thaw: Space, Materiality, Movement|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YJoqDwAAQBAJ&q=Mikhail+Kalik+Man+Follows+Sun&pg=PA102|page=102|year=2017 |publisher=Indiana University Press|isbn=9780253027085}}
He emigrated to Israel in 1971. Because of the disastrous critical response he did not make a single feature film there after his first Israeli film Three and One in 1974. Encouraged by Soviet film authorities he directed the autobiographical film And the Wind Returneth in 1991.{{cite book|author=Larissa Remennick |title=Russian Israelis: Social Mobility, Politics and Culture|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DYjJAwAAQBAJ&q=Mikhail+Kalik+film+director&pg=PA173|page=173|year=2014 |publisher=Routledge|isbn=9781317977698}}[http://history.sffs.org/films/film_details.php?id=208&searchfield= And the Wind Returneth on San Francisco Film Festival] history.sffs.orgMaslin, Janet (14 January 1994). [https://www.nytimes.com/1994/01/14/movies/jews-in-the-new-europe-10-films-at-lincoln-center.html "Jews in the New Europe: 10 Films at Lincoln Center"]. The New York Times.
He died on 31 March 2017, after a serious illness. He is buried in Jerusalem.
Filmography
- 1958 – Ataman Codr (Атаман Кодр)
- 1958 – The Youth of Our Fathers (Юность наших отцов)
- 1959 – Lullabye (Колыбельная)[https://www.nytimes.com/1961/05/15/archives/screen-the-lullabysoviet-film-opens-at-the-cameo-theatre.html Howard Thompson, "Screen: 'The Lullaby':Soviet Film Opens at the Cameo Theatre" (The New York Times, May 15,, 1961)]
- 1961 – Man Follows the Sun (Человек идёт за солнцем)
- 1964 – Goodbye, Boys! (До свидания, мальчики)[https://www.rusfilm.pitt.edu/2001/boys.html Goodbye, Boys! (1966) USSR] rusfilm.pitt.edu
- 1968 – To Love (Любить…)
- 1969 – The Price (Цена), TV{{cite book|author=David Shneer |title=Through Soviet Jewish Eyes: Photography, War, and the Holocaust|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OcSDi3ZAn7cC&q=Mikhail+Kalik+The+Price&pg=PA235|page=235|year=2011|publisher=Rutgers University Press|isbn=9780813548845}}
- 1974 – Three and One (Трое и одна)
- 1991 – ''And the Wind Returneth (И возвращается ветер...)
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|0435768|Mikhail Kalik}}
- [https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/kalik-mikhail Mikhail Kalik at the Jewish Virtual Library]
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Category:Israeli film directors