Andrei Khrzhanovsky, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Andrei Khrzhanovsky

Russian film director

Date of Birth: 30-Nov-1939

Place of Birth: Moscow, Russia

Profession: animation, screenwriter, animator, painter, film director, film producer, director, image film

Nationality: Russia

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius


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About Andrei Khrzhanovsky

  • Andrei Yurievich Khrzhanovsky (Russian: ?????? ??????? ??????´?????; born 30 November 1939 in Moscow) 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).He rose to prominence in the west with his 2009 picture A 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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