Andrei Khrzhanovsky

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. ==Selected filmography==

• 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; ) ==References==