Andrei Khrzhanovsky Explained

Andrei Yurievich Khrzhanovsky (Russian: Андрей Юрьевич Хржано́вский; born 30 November 1939 in Moscow^[1]) is a Soviet and Russian animator, documentary filmmaker, writer and producer known for making art films.^{[2] [3]} He is the father of director Ilya Khrzhanovsky. Married to philologist, editor and script doctor Maria Neyman. People's Artist of Russia (2011).^[4]

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.^{[5] [6]} 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.^[7]

Filmography (selection)

• There Lived Kozyavin (1966, short film, Russian: Жил-был Козявин)
• The Glass Harmonica (1968, short film, Russian: Стеклянная гармоника)^[8]
• Armoire (1970, short film)
• The Butterfly (1972, short film,

Russian: Бабочка)

• A Fantastic Tale (1978, Russian: Чудеса в решете)
• A Pushkin Trilogy (1986)
• The Lion with the White Beard (1995, Russian: Лев с седой бородой)
• A Cat and a Half (2002, Russian: Полтора кота)
• Room and a Half (2009, Russian: Полторы комнаты)
• The Nose or the Conspiracy of Mavericks (2020, Russian: Нос, или Заговор не таких)

External links

• • The Glass Harmonica on Open Culture
• Dangerous Minds article on The Glass Harmonica

Notes and References

1. Web site: Интервью "Новой Газете" (2001) . 2016-02-12 . https://web.archive.org/web/20070929130842/http://2001.novayagazeta.ru/nomer/2001/91n/n91n-s36.shtml . 2007-09-29 . dead .
2. Book: Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema. Peter Rollberg. Rowman & Littlefield. 2009. US. 978-0-8108-6072-8. 350–351.
3. https://books.google.com/books?id=UdN2DAAAQBAJ Drawing the Iron Curtain - Google Books (pg.20)
4. http://graph.document.kremlin.ru/page.aspx?1;1550017 Указ Президента РФ от 21.03.2011 № 336 «О присвоении почётного звания „Народный артист Российской Федерации“»
5. https://web.archive.org/web/20120803090903/http://old.bfi.org.uk/sightandsound/exclusive/andrey-khrzhanovsky.php Interview
6. Web site: A Room and a Half Film review . 2010-05-08 . . https://web.archive.org/web/20220216205401/https://www.theguardian.com/film/2010/may/09/room-and-a-half-film-review . 2022-02-16 . live .
7. Book: Cavalier, Stephen. The World History of Animation. 2011. University of California Press. Berkeley California. 978-0-520-26112-9. 196.
8. https://animation-stories.com/2020/06/28/soyuzmultfilm-most-famous-characters/ Soyuzmultfilm Most Famous Characters|HISTORY OF RUSSIAN AND EASTERN EUOPEAN ANIMATION