# Nikita Mikhalkov's best films as a director

Only the films he directed himself, from At Home Among Strangers to Sunstroke, according to Kino Mail and Okko, with Burnt by the Sun on top.

- 26 votes · 13 items
- Oct 23, 2025 · boxoffice_piter
- https://even.best/en/l/3340/nikita-mikhalkov-s-best-films-as-a-director

## Top 13

1. **Kinfolk (1981)** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Nonna Mordyukova visits her daughter in the city.
2. **The Barber of Siberia (1998)** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — A cadet and an American woman in 19th-century Russia.
3. **Close to Eden (1991)** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — The Mongolian steppe; Golden Lion in Venice.
4. **Burnt by the Sun (1994)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Oscar and Grand Jury Prize at Cannes.
5. **At Home Among Strangers (1974)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — His feature debut, an 'Eastern' set in the Civil War.
6. **A Slave of Love (1975)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Silent film-making in Crimea during the Civil War, with Yelena Solovey.
7. **Five Evenings (1978)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — From Aleksandr Volodin's play, with Lyudmila Gurchenko.
8. **Sunstroke (2014)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — From Bunin.
9. **Oblomov (1979)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Oleg Tabakov as Oblomov.
10. **Dark Eyes (1987)** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — Marcello Mastroianni, after Chekhov; best actor at Cannes.
11. **Without Witnesses (1983)** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — Mikhail Ulyanov and Irina Kupchenko as a divorced couple talking.
12. **An Unfinished Piece for Mechanical Piano (1977)** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — After Chekhov, with Aleksandr Kalyagin.
13. **12 (2007)** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — A jury decides a Chechen boy's fate; Oscar nomination.

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