Andrei Khrzhanovsky
Andrei Yurievich Khrzhanovsky (Russian: Андрей Юрьевич Хржано́вский; born 30 November 1939 in Moscow[1]) is a Russian animator, documaker, writer and producer. He is the father of director Ilya Khrzhanovsky. Married to philologist, editor and script doctor Maria Neyman. People's Artist of Russia (2011).[2]
He rose to prominence in the west with his 2009 picture A Room and a Half starring , Sergei Yursky, Alisa Freindlich) about Joseph Brodsky.[3][4] 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.[5]
Filmography (selection)[]
- Glass Harmonica (1968, short film, Russian: Стеклянная гармоника)
- (1978, Russian: Чудеса в решете)
- A Pushkin Trilogy (1986)
- The Lion with the White Beard (1995, Russian: Лев с седой бородой)
- (2002, Russian: Полтора кота)
- A Room and a Half (2009, Russian: Полторы комнаты)
References[]
- ^ "Интервью «Новой Газете» (2001)". Archived from the original on 2007-09-29. Retrieved 2016-02-12.
- ^ Указ Президента РФ от 21.03.2011 № 336 «О присвоении почётного звания „Народный артист Российской Федерации“» Archived 2015-01-10 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Interview
- ^ Guardian article
- ^ Cavalier, Stephen (2011). The World History of Animation. Berkeley California: University of California Press. p. 196. ISBN 978-0-520-26112-9.
External links[]
- Russian film directors
- Russian animated film directors
- Russian animated film producers
- Living people
- 1939 births
- People's Artists of Russia
- State Prize of the Russian Federation laureates
- Recipients of the Nika Award
- Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography alumni
- Soviet animators
- Russian animators
- Soviet animation directors
- Russian film director stubs