Mikhail Naumovich Kalik (Russian: Михаи́л Нау́мович Ка́лик; 27 January 1927 – 31 March 2017) was a Soviet and Israeli film director and screenwriter.

[1] A descendant of a prominent Kyiv Jewish family, Mikhail Kalik grew up in the heart of Moscow.

In 1949, he was accepted into the Moscow Film School (VGIK) where he studied under Grigori Alexandrov.

[1] In 1951, during the anti-cosmopolitan campaign under Stalin, he was arrested with several other students and accused of Jewish bourgeois nationalism[2] and planning anti-Soviet terrorist acts.

He was sent to Lefortovo Prison, then to Ozerlag labor camp near Taishet and later to other GULAG sites.