Director
Karen Shakhnazarov
74 years · Krasnodar, Krasnodarskiy kray, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia] · 34 films
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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Filmography 33
In the Moscow Slums
2023 · Director, Screenplay
On Philo
Vladivostok
2021 · Screenplay, Producer
The Woman Who Built Cities
2021 · Himself
With the Ball to Britain
2019 · Actor
Decision: Liquidation
2018 · Producer
On Tubi TV
Mot Ne
2017 · Producer
Anna Karenina. Vronsky's Story
2017 · Director, Writer
A House for Rent with All the Inconveniences
2016 · Producer
On the Road to Berlin
2015 · Writer, Producer
On Tubi TV
Love in the USSR
2014 · Director, Producer
In the Encirclement
2013 · Director
She
2013 · Producer
White Tiger
2012 · Writer, Director
On Plex
Ward No. 6
2009 · Director, Writer
On Kanopy
Vanished Empire
2008 · Director, Producer
On Kanopy
The Rider Named Death
2004 · Director, Producer
The Star
2002 · Producer
On Tubi TV
Poisons or the World History of Poisoning
2001 · Director, Writer
Day of the Full Moon
1998 · Director, Writer
Who, If Not Us
1998 · Producer
Hello from Charlie the Trumpeter
1998 · Producer
American Daughter
1995 · Writer, Director
Dreams
1993 · Writer, Director
White King, Red Queen
1993 · Producer