Andrei Khrzhanovsky



Andrei Yurievich Khrzhanovsky (Андрей Юрьевич Хржано́вский; born 30 November 1939 in Moscow ) is a Soviet and Russian animator, documentary filmmaker, writer and producer known for making art films. He is the father of director Ilya Khrzhanovsky. Married to philologist, editor and script doctor Maria Neyman. People's Artist of Russia (2011).

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. 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.

Filmography (selection)

 * There Lived Kozyavin (1966, short film, Жил-был Козявин)
 * The Glass Harmonica (1968, short film, Стеклянная гармоника)
 * Armoire (1970, short film)
 * The Butterfly (1972, short film, Russian : Бабочка)
 * A Fantastic Tale (1978, Чудеса в решете)
 * A Pushkin Trilogy (1986)
 * The Lion with the White Beard (1995, Лев с седой бородой)
 * A Cat and a Half (2002, Полтора кота)
 * Room and a Half (2009, Полторы комнаты)
 * The Nose or the Conspiracy of Mavericks (2020, Нос, или Заговор не таких)