Mikhail is a graduate from the Postgraduate Film School for Scriptwriters and Film Directors (led by an Oscar-Prize winner Vladimir Menshov, Natalya Ryasantseva, Vladimir Tumaev). He started his career in cinema with the short film "Stopover"/"Eine Stunde Aufenthalt" after Heinrich Böll that won the 1st Jury Prize at the Film Festival "Kitaso" in Erlangen, Germany and was nominated at the festival "Literature and Cinema" in Gatchina, Russia. His last work is the short film "The Way Out"/"Der Auftritt" that tells a story about a Jewish soprano hidden in the opera theater from the Nazis during World War II. The film has been accepted at the Short Film Corner of the Cannes Festival 2015.

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Mikhail Uchitelev

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