Name Andrei Khrzhanovsky Role Animator | Children Ilya Khrzhanovsky | |
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Movies Room and a Half, A Cat and a Half, There Lived Kozyavin, The Grey-Bearded Lion, A Long Voyage Parents Vera Mikhailovna Berlinskaya, Yuriy Khrzhanovskiy Nominations Golden Eagle Award for Best Screenplay Similar People | ||
There Lived Kozyavin - Andrei Khrzhanovsky 1966 - ENG subs
Destruction of Beauty
Andrei Yurievich Khrzhanovsky (Russian: Андрей Юрьевич Хржано́вский; born 30 November 1939 in Moscow) is a Russian animator, documaker, writer and producer. He is the father of director Ilya Khrzhanovsky. People's Artist of Russia (2011).
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- There Lived Kozyavin Andrei Khrzhanovsky 1966 ENG subs
- Destruction of Beauty
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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 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.