Karen Shakhnazarov

Karen Shakhnazarov

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Born
July 8, 1952
Awards
18 wins, 48 nominations

Karen Shakhnazarov is a Soviet and Russian director, screenwriter, producer. CEO, Chairman of the Board of the Mosfilm film concern. People's Artist of the Russian Federation. Karen studied at Moscow School. From an early age he was fond of painting, at one time he wanted to become an artist. But…

Biography

Karen Shakhnazarov is a Soviet and Russian director, screenwriter, producer. CEO, Chairman of the Board of the Mosfilm film concern. People's Artist of the Russian Federation.

Karen studied at Moscow School. From an early age he was fond of painting, at one time he wanted to become an artist. But in the end he chose directing. In 1975 he graduated from the directing department of VGIK, Igor Talankin's workshop. Diploma work: the 1975 short film Shire shag, maestro! (1975). Shakhnazarov worked as an assistant for his teacher on the set of the film Vybor tseli (1975).

In 1979, he debuted as a full-length director with the film The Kind-Hearted Ones (1980) based on the play of the same name by Leonid Zorin. Karen Shakhnazarov became widely known as a director and screenwriter after the musical film Jazzman (1983). This film was awarded several international prizes. The comedy melodrama Courier (1986), filmed by Shakhnazarov based on his own story, enjoyed wide success with viewers.

Since April 1998, he has been the Chairman of the Board and CEO of the Mosfilm film concern.

Self

VremyaVremya(1968)as Self - Mosfilm Concern CEO
Moya melodiyaMoya melodiya(2023)as Self - receives a surprise
Careful, Sobchak!Careful, Sobchak!(2019)as Self - Interviewee
Znenshchina, kotoraya stroila gorodaZnenshchina, kotoraya stroila goroda(2021)as Self
Vecher s Vladimirom SolovyovymVecher s Vladimirom Solovyovym(2005)as Self - Filmmaker

Archive Footage

VremyaVremya(1968)as Self - Mosfilm Concern CEO, Self - Film director, Self - Film director (segment: Bolshaya igra)
Upryamets KhutsievUpryamets Khutsiev(2015)as Self

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Nikita Mikhalkov and Karen ShakhnazarovKaren Shakhnazarov in Dancing with the Stars (2006)Oleg Basilashvili, Inna Churikova, Fyodor Dunayevsky, Svetlana Kryuchkova, Vladimir Menshov, Anastasiya Nemolyaeva, Aleksandr Pankratov-Chyornyy, and Karen Shakhnazarov in Courier (1986)