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Andrei Yurievich Khrzhanovsky (Russian: Андрей Юрьевич Хржано́вский; born 30 November 1939 in Moscow is a Soviet and Russian animator, documentary filmmaker, writer and producer known for making art films.[He is the father of director Ilya Khrzhanovsky. Married to philologist, editor and script doctor Maria Neyman. People's Artist of Russia (2011). 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. 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) Glass Harmonica (1968, short film, Russian: Стеклянная гармоника)[8] 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) References “Интервью «Новой Газете» (2001)“. Archived from the original on 2007-09-29. Retrieved 2016-02-12. Peter Rollberg (2009). Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema. US: Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 350–351. ISBN 978-0-8108-6072-8. Drawing the Iron Curtain - Google Books () Указ Президента РФ от № 336 «О присвоении почётного звания „Народный артист Российской Федерации“» Archived 2015-01-10 at the Wayback Machine Interview Guardian article Cavalier, Stephen (2011). The World History of Animation. Berkeley California: University of California Press. p. 196. ISBN 978-0-520-26112-9. Soyuzmultfilm Most Famous Characters|HISTORY OF RUSSIAN AND EASTERN EUOPEAN ANIMATION
