Karen Shakhnazarov

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1952-07-08 (73 years old)

Place of Birth

Krasnodar, Krasnodarskiy kray, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]

Karen Shakhnazarov

Biography

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 ...

Production

2008

Vanished Empire

as Director

2004

1998

1986

Courier

as Director

2009

Ward No. 6

as Director

1983

We're from Jazz

as Director

1983

1988

Zerograd

as Director

1988

Zerograd

as Writer

2012

White Tiger

as Director

2012

White Tiger

as Writer

1991

1993

Dreams

as Director

1993

Dreams

as Writer

2021

Vladivostok

as Screenplay

2021

Vladivostok

as Producer

2009

Ward No. 6

as Writer

1986

Courier

as Writer

1975

2013

1995

1995

1993

2015

2004

2009

Ward No. 6

as Producer

2018

2002

The Star

as Producer

2014

Goodbye Mom

as Co-Producer

2012

White Tiger

as Producer

1993

Dreams

as Producer

2015

Road to Berlin

as Producer

2008

Vanished Empire

as Producer

1980

Kind Men

as Director

2023

2014

Love in the USSR

as Director

2014

Love in the USSR

as Producer

2023

In the Moscow Slums

as Screenplay

2023

In the Moscow Slums

as General Manager

2017

Mot Ne

as Producer

1998

Who, If Not Us

as Producer

2013

She

as Producer

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