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Andrei Khrzhanovsky

Soviet and Russian director-animator (born 1939)

Andrei Yurievich Khrzhanovsky (Russian: Андрей Юрьевич Хржановский; born 30 November 1939, Moscow) is a Soviet and Russian animator, documentary filmmaker, writer and producer known for making art films. Married to philologist, editor and script doctor Maria Neyman, he is the father of director Ilya Khrzhanovsky.²

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Born Nov 30, 1939.¹

About

He was named People's Artist of Russia in 2011.

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Companies

SJARFounder¹⁰

Early life and education

Date not recordedGerasimov Institute of Cinematography³

Career

Occupation: film producer, painter, director, film director, screenwriter, animator.⁵

Date not recordedWorked at Top Courses for Scriptwriters and Film Directors⁴

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. 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.

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Personal life

BornNov 30, 1939, Moscow⁶
CitizenshipSoviet Union, Russia⁷

Awards

1998State Prize of the Russian Federation⁸
Date not recordedHonored art worker of the Russian Federation⁸
Date not recordedIcarus⁸
Date not recordedNika Award⁸
Date not recordedPeople's Artist of the Russian Federation⁸
Date not recordedRussian Federation's Government Award⁸

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WikidataSJAR, Founder
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Wikimedia CommonsAndrei Khrzhanovsky photo by Moscow Conservatory, CC BY 3.0