Andrei Khrzhanovsky

Andrei Khrzhanovsky, 2005

Andrei Yurievich Khrzhanovsky (Russian: Андрей Юрьевич Хржано́вский; born 30 November 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 A 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 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 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)
  • A Cat and a Half (2002, Russian: Полтора кота)
  • A Room and a Half (2009, Russian: Полторы комнаты)

References

  1. ↑ Интервью «Новой Газете» (2001)
  2. ↑ Указ Президента РФ от 21.03.2011 № 336 «О присвоении почётного звания „Народный артист Российской Федерации“» Archived 2015-01-10 at the Wayback Machine.
  3. ↑ Interview
  4. ↑ Guardian article
  5. ↑ 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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