Andrei Konchalovsky

Andrei Konchalovsky was born in 1937 in Moscow, into the Mikhalkov family: his father wrote the words of the Soviet anthem, his younger brother is a filmmaker, and his forebears were painters. A trained pianist, he entered the Moscow film institute in the workshop of Mikhail Romm and met Andrei Tarkovsky there, with whom he wrote the screenplay of Andrei Rublev. He first made films in the Soviet Union, then worked in the United States before returning to Russia. He regards his debut in retrospect as an Eastern western, made under the influence of Akira Kurosawa.

In the catalogue 1

• CinemaThe First TeacherПервый учительAndrei Konchalovsky · 1965Cinema