Andrei Khrzhanovsky
Andrei Yurievich Khrzhanovsky (Russian: Андрей Юрьевич Хржано́вский; born November 30, 1939 in Moscow[1]) is a Russian animator, documaker, writer and producer. He is the father of director Ilya Khrzhanovsky. People's Artist of Russia (2011).[2]
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.[3][4] 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 1969 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 Russia.[5]
Filmography (selection)
- Glass Harmonica (1968, short film, Russian: Стеклянная гармоника)
- A Fantastic Tale (1978, Russian: Чудеса в решете)
- A Pushkin Trilogy (1986)
- The Lion with the White Beard (1995, Russian: Лев с седой бородой)
- Half Cat (2002, Russian: Полтора кота)
- Room and a Half (2009, Russian: Полторы комнаты)
References
- ^ Интервью «Новой Газете» (2001)
- ^ Указ Президента РФ от 21.03.2011 № 336 «О присвоении почётного звания „Народный артист Российской Федерации“»
- ^ Interview
- ^ Guardian article
- ^ Cavalier, Stephen (2011). The World History of Animation. Berkeley California: University of California Press. p. 196. ISBN 978-0-520-26112-9.
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