Andrei Khrzhanovsky

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Andrei Yurievich Khrzhanovsky (Russian: Андрей Юрьевич Хржано́вский; born 30 November 1939 in Moscow^[1]) is a Soviet and Russian animator, documentary filmmaker, writer and producer known for making art films.^[2][3] He is the father of director Ilya Khrzhanovsky. Married to philologist, editor and script doctor Maria Neyman. People's Artist of Russia (2011).^[4]

Career

He rose to prominence in the west with his 2009 picture Room and a Half starring Grigory Dityatkovsky, Sergei Yursky, Alisa Freindlich) about Joseph Brodsky.^[5][6] Although Khrzhanovsky's 1966 dark comedy There Lived Kozyavin was clearly a comment on the dangerous absurdity of a regimented communist bureaucracy, it was approved by the state owned Soyuzmultfilm studio. However, The Glass Harmonica in 1968, continuing a theme of heartless bureaucrats confronted by the liberating power of music and art, was the first animated film to be officially banned in the Soviet Union.^[7]

Filmography (selection)

• There Lived Kozyavin (1966, short film, Russian: Жил-был Козявин)
• The Glass Harmonica (1968, short film, Russian: Стеклянная гармоника)^[8]
• A Fantastic Tale (1978, Russian: Чудеса в решете)
• A Pushkin Trilogy (1986)
• The Lion with the White Beard (1995, Russian: Лев с седой бородой)
• A Cat and a Half (2002, Russian: Полтора кота)
• Room and a Half (2009, Russian: Полторы комнаты)
• The Nose or the Conspiracy of Mavericks (2020, Russian: Нос, или Заговор не таких)

References