Biography
In 1952, he graduated from the Central Music School.
In 1957, he graduated from Music College of the Moscow Conservatory. 1957-1959 studied piano at the Moscow State Conservatory.
In 1965, he graduated in directing from the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography where he studied under Mikhail Romm and made his debut film The First Teacher based on Chingiz Aitmatov's story of the same name. He gave the leading role of Altynai to young ballerina Natalia Arinbasarova, whom he later married.
In 1972, he was awarded the State Prize of the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic after the great success of the film End of the Ataman (30 million viewers in 1972), for which he wrote the screenplay and which revolved around the NKVD's search for the White Army's field commander Dutov.
In 1980, he received the title of National Artist of RSFSR.
Since 2002, he has been a full member of National Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Since 2005, he has been an officer of the French Order of Arts and Letters.
In 2005, he founded the "Andrei Konchalovsky Production Centre", which works on programmes for leading Russian TV channels (NTV, Rossiya 1, Kultura, Zvezda), theatre productions and book publishing projects.
Since 2010, he has been a member of the Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation.
He resides with his family in Russia or abroad, depending on his current projects.
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