Mikhail Kalik died

On March 31, film director Mikhail Kalik died in Jerusalem at the age of 90.

It is reported by the 9th Israeli television channel .

Mikhail Naumovich Kalik was born in 1927 in Arkhangelsk, studied at the Faculty of Theater Studies in GITIS and at VGIK (workshop of Grigory Alexandrov). In 1951 he was arrested on charges of Jewish bourgeois nationalism and “terrorist intentions” and sentenced to 10 years of camps.

After the release and rehabilitation in 1954, he continued his studies and in 1958 graduated from the director's faculty of VGIK (workshop of Sergei Yutkevich).

The director and author of the script of the films “Lullaby” (1959), “A man goes beyond the sun” (1961), “Goodbye, boys” (1964), “Love ...” (1968) and others.

In 1971 he moved to Israel, in 1991 his autobiographical picture “And the wind is returning ...” was released.