Andrey Khrzhanovsky

Biography

Andrey Yurievich Khrzhanovsky (Russian: Андрей Юрьевич Хржано́вский; born 30 November 1939, Moscow) is a Russian animator, documaker, filmmaker, screenwriter and producer. He is the father of director Ilya Khrzhanovsky (1975). His parents met in Irkutsk, and after the revolution they moved to Leningrad after mother's brothers. There, his father, who performed in the divertissement genre, became close to the actor Erast Garin and his wife Hesya Lokshina, who, after moving to Moscow, made every effort to make the Khrzhanovsky family follow them. They settled in Mansurovsky lane, and a year later the couple had a son, Andrey. In 1962, he graduated from "VGIK" (workshop of Lev Kuleshov and Alexandra Khokhlova). According to Hrzhanovsky, he was brought to "Soyuzmultfilm" by a case: due to the large number of graduates of the directing faculty, the only way to make a diploma film without spending years waiting for their turn was to shoot non-fiction films at the studio. The cartoon "There Lived Kozyavin" (1966) was not allowed to be defended because of suspicions of surrealism until the head of the Department Sergey Gerasimov defined it as "our, socialist surrealism". Khrzhanovsky desc…

Directed

1. The Glass Harmonica (1968) — Director
2. A Room and a Half (2009) — Director
3. There Lived Kozyavin (1966) — Director
4. Armoire (1970) — Director
5. Butterfly (1972) — Director
6. The King's Sandwich (1985) — Director
7. The House That Jack Built (1976) — Director
8. The Nose or Conspiracy of Mavericks (2021) — Director
9. With You I Am Again... (1980) — Director
10. The Lion with the White Beard (1995) — Director
11. In the World of the Fables (1973) — Director
12. A Cat and a Half (2003) — Director
13. I Am Flying to You as a Memory... (1977) — Director
14. Miracles in the Sieve (1978) — Director
15. Autumn (1982) — Director
16. School of Fine Arts. Juniper Landscape (1987) — Director
17. Tonino Guerra. Meetings with Pushkin (1999) — Director
18. «Pushkin» is Allowed to Take Off (1999) — Director
19. The Long Yourney (1997) — Director
20. It's a Wonderful Day (1975) — Director
21. My Favorite Time (1987) — Director
22. School of Fine Arts. Return (1990) — Director
23. School of Fine Arts (1990) — Director
24. Day-Raphael (2011) — Director
25. Oleg Kagan. Life After Life (1997) — Director
26. Traces are Erased from the Stones (1959) — Director
27. Masters of Russian Animation - Volume 1 (2000) — Director
28. Masters of Russian Animation - Volume 2 (2000) — Director
29. Through the Magic Crystal — Director

Also appeared in

1. A Room and a Half (2009) — Narrator (voice)
2. The Nose or Conspiracy of Mavericks (2021)
3. The Spirit of Genius - Fedor Khitruk and His Films (1997) — Self
4. The Origin of Species (1966)