Biography of Shakhnazarov Director

St. Petersburg 2nd Krasnoarmeyskaya St. Holding on to the beliefs of the “left” sense, he repeatedly publicly spoke out in defense of Stalin and Lenin. At the same time, he also did not hide that he was never completely frank, believing that each person "must maneuver somewhere and, if you want, to keep himself." Childhood the future film director was born on July 8 in the south of the Russian Federation in Krasnodar.

His relatives lived in Moscow, where Papa-Armenian papa came to study in graduate school and moved from the Nizhny Novgorod region, native mothers who were in Barack. To the capital of the Kuban, to his half-sister, his father sent his wife before giving birth because of a difficult relationship with relatives associated with the absence of his own housing and the mother of the Russian wife-in-laws of his own Zyanodtsa’s nationality.

The children's photo of Karen Shakhnazarov, upon returning about 5 years, they lived with her in the hut, while the father was not able to get a room in a communal apartment. In those years, according to Karen Georgievich, he was absolutely poor, despite the belonging to the noble family of the princes Melik-Shakhnazaryanov. Karen Shakhnazarov with his father, George Khosroevich subsequently, Karen's father worked a lot, became a senior official, lawyer, doctor of science, political scientist who worked with Andropov and Gorbachev, writer.

The mother of the future director was a graduate of GITIS, but never worked in her specialty, and devoted her whole life to the family and upbringing of her son. At the age of 12, he watched the film “Working”, which made an indelible impression on him, after which the guy firmly decided that he would work in the cinema. In addition, an artistic atmosphere has always reigned in their family - parents often visited theaters, exhibitions, and galleries with their son.

The director at the institute, the young man was engaged in the directing and acting workshop of Igor Talankin. In his last year, he participated in the filming of the dramatic two -part picture of the authorship of his teacher - “The choice of the goal”. The plot was based on the study of moral aspects when creating the first atomic bomb. The cast of this project - Sergey Bondarchuk, Georgy Zhzhenov, Innokenty Smoktunovsky, Irina Skobtseva, Alla Demidova, Oleg Basilashvili - was impressive by the presence of a large number of outstanding representatives of domestic cinema.

Young Karen Shakhnazarov, a novice director, had the opportunity to also meet with a global star - Stanley Kramer in those years. The American director, the guest of the Moscow Film Festival, at the request of his mother Karen wrote to him with the autograph as a creative parting words “Patience”. Later, Shakhnazarov repeatedly recognized the accuracy of the master’s remark and the importance of this quality in his work.

In the year, he received a diploma and, not without his father’s help, got to the state of Mosfilm as a director of the assistant. In subsequent interviews, he did not hide that at the beginning of his creative biography, his father’s position helped to overcome some barriers more than once, although he did not protect from censorship. He served in the army for a year, where, according to him, he realized that a person having weapons, a priori, feels his superiority over other people.

The first independent full -length project of the young director was the comedy “Dobryaki”, shot in the year on the work of the same name by Leonid Zorin. The picture talked about a fraudster who managed to take advantage of the good -hearted colleagues and make a dizzying take -off along the service ladder. The key hero in it was played by George Burkov. The film received a prize of the festival of young filmmakers "Mosfilm", but did not gain much success.

Karen Georgievich even admitted that he experienced this failure very painfully and even cried with resentment. Karen Shakhnazarov on the right and Alexander Safronov, on the set of “Dobryaks”, came to the widest recognition and fame came to the filmmaker after the release of the musical comedy “We from Jazz”, where, in addition to directing, he, along with Alexander Borodyansky, was writing a script filled with nostalgia from the time of the emergence of the Soviet stage.

The frame from Jazz, Shakhnazarov, was the next work of the director, the tape “Winter Evening in Gagrakh” - a drama about a virtuoso lentil. The prototype of the key character was the well -known Stepist Aleksey Bystrov in the years, played by Evgeny Evstigneev, who specifically took the lessons of Step for a long time for this role. For the creation of the two above -mentioned paintings, Karen Georgievich was awarded the Lenin Komsomol Prize and several international awards.

Critics also consider the film “Courier” to be a noticeable phenomenon in domestic cinema art - a film adaptation by the director of his own novel of the same name. For its creation, he received the Gosprem named after the Vasilyev brothers and the second prize of the Moscow festival, the first was awarded to Federico Fellini, whom Shakhnazarov, in his own words, idolized.

Director Shakhnazarov, for work among his significant work, cannot be mentioned by the films “American daughter”, “The Day of the Full Moon”, “A Horseman named Death”, “The disappeared empire”, “White Tiger”.The edges of the creativity of the high effectiveness of Shakhnazarov’s creative activity are also evidenced by the fact that, in addition to the direct creation of films, he became the artisticlies of the Start association, which received the status of the Courier studio in the year, at the age of 46 - headed Mosfilm and managed to turn it into an advanced European corporation.

Now Karen Shakhnazarov, the head of the Mosfilm film Concontseum, was at the same time a scriptwriter of a large number of his own paintings often in the Commonwealth with Borodyansky, producer, writer “Courier”, “Young airships”, conducted the transfer “The twentieth century in the frame and behind the scenes” in the RTV, taught in the workshop of the directorship of the playing cinema in Vgika.

A great interview with Karen Shakhnakharov among public merits of the master of cinema is membership in the board of the Union of Cinematographers, the European and Russian Film Academy, in the College of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, in the Public Chamber under the head of state. The personal life of Karen Shakhnazarov, the famous film director is repeatedly divorced.

The first time he tied himself to the ties of Himen, barely ending the shooting of his first picture. His chosen one was the young and beautiful graduate of the Istfak, whose name, alas, was not preserved in history. Their joint life lasted only six months. After the divorce, she became the wife of a successful businessman. He met the next wife, Elena Satunskaya, at 31 years old.

She graduated from the Faculty of Journalism and worked as a TV presenter. They got married very quickly, 2 months after meeting.

After 2 years, the couple had a daughter Anyuta, who received a name in honor of the mother of Karen Georgievich. In the photo: The second wife of Karen Shakhnazarova Elena Setunskaya in the year, upon returning from the Cannes festival, at home an unpleasant surprise awaited him - a note about his wife and daughter in the United States. Alena’s act outraged him, but later he admitted that his constant betrayal could be the reason for this behavior of this behavior.

Later, she married the Hollywood producer and changed her name to Zander. In the year, Karen Georgievich worked for 3 months and lived in San Francisco, had the opportunity to find his daughter, but decided not to collapse the past. Based on the flight of the ex-spray, the director subsequently removed the American daughter tape with the third chosen one, actress and TV presenter Daria Mayorova, who is 20 years younger than him, the director got acquainted on the set of the “Tin-Testament” picture.

An amazingly attractive girl played one of the emperor's daughters and conquered the director’s heart at first sight. Karen Shakhnazarova and Daria Mayorova spouses lived together for 10 years of them 8 - in a legitimate marriage and presented the world with two children: Vanya G. in them submitted documents for divorce. Karen Shakhnazarov with his sons of his only and all -consuming passion, the director calls the movie.

At leisure, he likes to play computer games, try new dishes in restaurants, read books. It has long been dreaming of making a fairy tale film. At that time, more than thirty paintings have already been shot by Leo Tolstoy’s novel, the latest domestic version from Sergei Solovyov was released in a year. In the version of Shakhnazarov, the audience was waiting for non -standard interpretations of events, impressive scenery, entertainment and passion of the main characters performed by Elizabeth Boyarskaya and Maxim Matveev.

The frame from the film “Anna Karenina” was the film director who was a trustee of United Russia in the year of year of the year of the year in the State Duma of the VII convocation. In December, at a joint meeting of the Soviets of the President of the Russian Federation in the Russian language and culture and art, he made a proposal to limit himself to the study of all six Russian writers and poets - Pushkin, Tolstoy, Lermontov, Chekhov, Gogol and Dostoevsky.

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