Andrei Andreyevich Eshpai

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Andrei Andreyevich Eshpai (Russian: Андре́й Андре́евич Эшпа́й, born 18 April 1956, Moscow, Russia) is a (Russian and Soviet) film director, screenwriter and producer of Mari descent.

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He is the son of the composer Andrei Yakovlevich Eshpai, and the grandson of the composer Yakov Andreyevich Eshpai. He has a wife – actress Yevgeniya Simonova, a daughter – Mariya Eshpai and stepdaughter – actress Zoya Kaidanovskaya (daughter of Yevgeniya Simonova and her first husband – actor Aleksandr Kaidanovsky).

He studied at the Moscow State Institute of Culture in 1975-76 graduated from the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography in 1980.

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