Karen Shakhnazarov

Born: 1952-07-08

Karen Georgievich Shakhnazarov (Russian: Каре́н Гео́ргиевич Шахназа́ров; born 8 July 1952; Krasnodar) is a Soviet and Russian filmmaker, producer and screenwriter. He became the director general of Mosfilm in 1998. Shakhnazarov is the son of a Georgy Shakhnazarov, a politician of Armenian descent, and a Russian housewife, Anna Grigorievna Shakhnazarova. His 1987 film Courier was entered into the 15th Moscow International Film Festival, where it won a Special Prize. In 2002 he was a member of the jury at the 24th Moscow International Film Festival. Since 2005 he has been a member of the Public Chamber of Russia. His 2012 film White Tiger was selected as the Russian entry for the Best Foreign Language Oscar at the 85th Academy Awards, but it did not make the final shortlist.


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With the Ball to Britain

as uncredited
Released: 2019-03-01

About the legendary tour of the Soviet football club Dynamo (Moscow) in Great Britain in 1945.

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The Woman Who Built Cities

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Released: 2021-08-28

The picture is dedicated to the fate of Lyudmila Mikhailovna Kusakova - production designer of...

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Моя мелодия

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First aired: 2023-03-17

The heroes of this program have conquered many creative peaks, they are popular and loved by the...

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