Andrei Khrzhanovsky
Soviet and Russian director-animator (born 1939)
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Andrei Yurievich Khrzhanovsky (Russian: Андрей Юрьевич Хржановский; born 30 November 1939, Moscow)[1] is a Soviet and Russian animator, documentary filmmaker, writer and producer known for making art films.[2][3] Married to philologist, editor and script doctor Maria Neyman, he is the father of director Ilya Khrzhanovsky. He was named People's Artist of Russia in 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]
Selected filmography
- There Lived Kozyavin (1966, short film; Russian: Жил-был Козявин)
- The Glass Harmonica (1968, short film; Russian: Стеклянная гармоника)[8]
- Armoire (1970, short film; Russian: Шкаф)
- The Butterfly (1972, short film; Russian: Бабочка)
- A Fantastic Tale (1978; Russian: Чудеса в решете)
- A Pushkin Trilogy (1986; Russian: Любимое моё время)
- 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)