Name Andrei Khrzhanovsky Role Animator | Children Ilya Khrzhanovsky | |
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 Awards People's Artist of Russia, Nika Award for Best Screenplay Nominations Golden Eagle Award for Best Screenplay Similar People Ilya Khrzhanovsky, Yuri Arabov, Sergei Yursky, Joseph Brodsky, Alisa Freindlich |
There Lived Kozyavin - Andrei Khrzhanovsky 1966 - ENG subs
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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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.