Andrei Khrzhanovsky

Andrei Khrzhanovsky studied at Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography. The recorded working language is Russian. Employment is recorded with Top Courses for Scriptwriters and Film Directors. Distinctions recorded are People's Artist of the Russian Federation, Honored art worker of the Russian Federation, State Prize of the Russian Federation and Nika Award.

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.

• There Lived Kozyavin (1966, short film) • The Glass Harmonica (1968, short film) • Armoire (1970, short film) • The Butterfly (1972, short film) • A Fantastic Tale (1978) • A Pushkin Trilogy (1986) • The Lion with the White Beard (1995) • A Cat and a Half (2002) • Room and a Half (2009) • The Nose or the Conspiracy of Mavericks (2020)