Andrei Khrzhanovsky

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] He is the father of director Ilya Khrzhanovsky. Married to philologist, editor and script doctor Maria Neyman. People's Artist of Russia (2011).[3]

Andrei Khrzhanovsky, 2005

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.[4][5] 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.[6]

Filmography (selection)
  • Glass Harmonica (1968, short film, Russian: Стеклянная гармоника)[7]
  • 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)

References
  1. "Интервью «Новой Газете» (2001)". Archived from the original on 2007-09-29. Retrieved 2016-02-12.
  2. Drawing the Iron Curtain - Google Books (pg.20)
  3. Указ Президента РФ от 21.03.2011 № 336 «О присвоении почётного звания „Народный артист Российской Федерации“» Archived 2015-01-10 at the Wayback Machine
  4. Interview
  5. Guardian article
  6. Cavalier, Stephen (2011). The World History of Animation. Berkeley California: University of California Press. p. 196. ISBN 978-0-520-26112-9.
  7. Soyuzmultfilm Most Famous Characters|HISTORY OF RUSSIAN AND EASTERN EUOPEAN ANIMATION
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