Aleksey Mikhaylovich Mikhalyov

Who is Aleksey Mikhaylovich Mikhalyov?

Aleksey Mikhaylovich Mikhalyov was a Russian translator and lately a well-known home video voice-over translator from English. Among numerous films and cartoons, translated by him into Russian, are The Jungle Book, The Witches of Eastwick, Apocalypse Now, Pretty Woman and The Silence of the Lambs. Subsequently the Alexey Mikhalyov Prize for best Russian film translation was established.

Mikhalyov had also translated William Faulkner, John Steinbeck's East of Eden, Muriel Spark's The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, J. M. Coetzee and other authors.