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, Soviet Union

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) is a Russian film director

Film director

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. He is the son of Andrei Khrzhanovsky

Andrei Khrzhanovsky

Andrei Khrzhanovsky is a Russian animator, documaker, writer and producer. He is the father of director Ilya Khrzhanovsky.He rose to prominence in the west with his 2009 picture "Room and a half" about Joseph Brodsky.-Filmography :*Glass Harmonica *A Pushkin Trilogy *The Lion With the White...

 (b. 1939), one of the top Russian animation directors, and grandson of actor Yury Khrzhanovsky (1905—1987).

Khrzhanovsky is best known for directing the film 4, which earned him several awards including a Golden Orange for Best Director at the Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival

Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival

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 in Turkey

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 and a Golden Cactus and Tiger Award at the Rotterdam International Film Festival in the Netherlands

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Educated at the Bonn Academy of Arts (1992–1993) and the All-Russian State Institute of Cinematography (1998) (VGIK), Khrzhanovsky's directorial debut was the production of "That Which I Feel" at the Kukart Festival at Peterhof in 1997. After a few years working in commercial advertising, he returned to artistic directing. His 2005 film 4 was his first feature film, but he had made the short film "Stop" with Artyom Mikhalkov in 1998.

He is currently working on a the movie Dau, a biographical film

Biographical film

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 about Lev Landau

Lev Landau

Lev Davidovich Landau was a prominent Soviet physicist who made fundamental contributions to many areas of theoretical physics...

, with a US$10,000,000 budget.

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