Karen Shakhnazarov
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6.8 Zerograd (1988) 6.8 Den Polnoluniya/ Day of the Full Moon (1998) 7.0 Ischeznuvshaya Imperiya/ The Vanished Empire (2008) | Links: |
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Karen Shakhnazarov (Russia, 1952)
emerged with
the musical comedies
My iz Dzhaza/ We are From Jazz (1983) and
Zimniy Vecher v Gagrakh/ Winter Evening in Gagry (1985).
Kuryer/ The Messenger Boy (1986) began his collaboration with
cinematographer Nikolay Nemolyaev, continued in
the political satire Zerograd (1988) and
the historical thriller Tsareubiytsa/ The Assassin of the Tsar (1991).
The surrealistic romp Den Polnoluniya/ Day of the Full Moon (1998), his most visually striking film, was instead photographed by Gennady Karyuk.
Shakhnazarov became the director of Mosfilm in 1998 and a staunch supporter of Vladimir Putin. Then came the surrealistic comedy Yady ili Vsemirnaya Istoriya Otravleniy/ Poisons or the World History of Poisoning (2001), the thriller The Rider Named Death (2004), Ischeznuvshaya Imperiya/ The Vanished Empire (2008), about restless young people growing up in the stifling Brezhnev era, the Chekhovian adaptation Ward Number 6 (2009), etc.
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