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Filmmaker · Moldova

Mikhail Kalik

Died in 2017

Mikhail Kalik was born on 27 January 1927, in Arkhangelsk, into a Jewish family. Admitted in 1949 to the Moscow Film Institute, he was arrested in 1951, during the campaign against the “cosmopolitans”, sentenced to ten years and sent to the Gulag camps. Released and rehabilitated in the time of de-Stalinisation, he finished his studies in 1958 and shot his first films at the Moldova-Film studios. He emigrated to Israel in 1971 and died in Jerusalem on 31 March 2017.

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