Andrei Yurievich Khrzhanovsky (Russian: Рндрей Юрьевич
Ð¥Ñ€Ð¶Ð°Ð½Ð¾Ì Ð²Ñ ÐºÐ¸Ð¹; 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.
Ð¥Ñ€Ð¶Ð°Ð½Ð¾Ì Ð²Ñ ÐºÐ¸Ð¹; 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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