Andrei Khrzhanovsky, 2005

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)

References

  1. ↑ "Интервью «Новой Газете» (2001)". Archived from the original on 2007-09-29. Retrieved 2016-02-12.
  2. ↑ Peter Rollberg (2009). Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema. US: Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 350–351. ISBN 978-0-8108-6072-8.
  3. ↑ Drawing the Iron Curtain - Google Books (pg.20)
  4. ↑ Указ Президента РФ от 21.03.2011 № 336 «О присвоении почётного звания „Народный артист Российской Федерации“» Archived 2015-01-10 at the Wayback Machine
  5. ↑ Interview
  6. ↑ "A Room and a Half | Film review". The Guardian. 2010-05-08. Archived from the original on 2022-02-16.
  7. ↑ Cavalier, Stephen (2011). The World History of Animation. Berkeley California: University of California Press. p. 196. ISBN 978-0-520-26112-9.
  8. ↑ Soyuzmultfilm Most Famous Characters|HISTORY OF RUSSIAN AND EASTERN EUOPEAN ANIMATION
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