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Karen Shakhnazarov

Highest Rated: 83% Zero City (1988)

Lowest Rated: 17% Anna Karenina: Vronsky's Story (2017)

Birthday: Jul 8, 1952

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Birthplace: Krasnodar, USSR

One of the new wave of Soviet filmmakers who made his name directing light-hearted comedies and musicals, but with Glasnost turned his attention to challenging the orthodoxies of Soviet life. After writing short stories and film scripts (with his constant collaborator) Alexander Boradyansky, won recognition at international film festivals with his "My Iz Dzhaza/Jazzmen" (1983), "a Winter's Night in Gagra" and "Messenger Boy." "Zero City" (1989) shown in the Directors Fortnight in Cannes, is a comedy of the absurd which tells of a Moscow engineer trapped in a remote town where the local museum of Soviet history credits the Soviet people with the invention of everything from the wheel to rock and roll. Utilizing heretofore classified archival material including assassin Yurovsky's own hand-written report of the execution of the imperial family, the Tsar and Tsarina's diaries and Alexandra's journal, Shakhnazarov's 1990 psychological drama, "Assassin of the Tsar" concerns a doctor at an insane asylum who becomes fascinated by a patient who apparently cured of his belief that he is the assassin of Tsar Nicholas II, appears to know more than he possibly should about the events.

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Highest rated movies

83% 85% Zero City
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75% 67% The Vanished Empire
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73% 75% The Rider Named Death
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67% 68% Ward No. 6
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17% Anna Karenina: Vronsky's Story
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63% Assassin of the Tsar
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Love in the USSR
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83% Winter Evening in Gagry
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White King, Red Queen
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The Kind-Hearted Ones
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Filmography

Movies

Credit
17% No Score Yet Anna Karenina: Vronsky's Story Director,
Writer
- 2017
No Score Yet No Score Yet Road to Berlin Screenwriter,
Producer
- 2015
No Score Yet No Score Yet Love in the USSR Director,
Producer
- 2013
No Score Yet 58% White Tiger Director,
Screenwriter,
Producer
- 2012
67% 68% Ward No. 6 Director,
Writer
- 2009
75% 67% The Vanished Empire Director $9.3K 2008
73% 75% The Rider Named Death Director,
Producer
$2.4K 2004
No Score Yet No Score Yet Poisons, or the World's History of Poisoning Director,
Writer
- 2001
No Score Yet No Score Yet Den Polnoluniya Director,
Screenwriter
- 1998
No Score Yet No Score Yet White King, Red Queen Producer - 1993
No Score Yet No Score Yet Dreams Director,
Writer
- 1993
No Score Yet 63% Assassin of the Tsar Director - 1991
83% 85% Zero City Director,
Writer
- 1988
No Score Yet 83% Winter Evening in Gagry Director,
Writer
- 1985
No Score Yet No Score Yet Jazzman Director - 1984
No Score Yet No Score Yet Damy priglashayut kavalerov Screenwriter - 1980
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Kind-Hearted Ones Director - 1979