The biography of Shakhnazarov

Each film created by Shakhnazarov is immediately becoming popular. His paintings are permeated with soft humor, a clear drawing of the characters of the heroes: “We are from jazz”, “Courier”, “Winter evening in Gagra” and many others. Karen Shakhnazarov - General Director and Chairman of the Board of the Mosfilm Film Concex from April 20. An interesting fact from the biography of Karen Georgievich: he comes from an old aristocratic Armenian family of princes Melik-Shakhnazaryan, who probably belong to the legendary ancestor Armenians Aiku.

Father - Georgy Khosroevich Shakhnazarov - was a senior official, lawyer, doctor of sciences, political scientist who worked with Andropov and Gorbachev, writer. Karen's childhood passed in Moscow. The boy often saw famous actors who were in their family. There were also politicians in the house. Karen's parents were large theaters, often with his son visited theaters, exhibitions, galleries.

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”. Karen Shakhnazarov’s career at the very beginning of the directorial career, Karen met a global star - Stanley Kramer.

As reported in the biography of Shakhnazarov on the site “Learn everything”, the American director, the guest of the Moscow Film Festival, the word “patience” wrote him along with his autograph as creative parting words. Later, Shakhnazarov repeatedly recognized the accuracy of the master’s remark and the importance of this quality in his work. In the year, Karen Shakhnazarov received a diploma and got to the state of Mosfilm as a director of the assistant.

In subsequent interviews, the novice director did not hide that at the beginning of his creative biography, the paternal position repeatedly helped to overcome some barriers, although it did not protect from censorship. Then he served a year in the army, where, according to him, he realized that a person having weapons, a priori, feels his superiority over other people. In the year, Karen Georgievich made the first full -length film on the work of the same name by Leonid Zorin.

It was the movie comedy "Dobryaki". 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 admitted that he experienced this failure very painfully and even cried with resentment. The film “We from the Jazz” was very popular with Shakhnazarov, this tape was called the best film of the year.

The next work of the director became no less popular. The painting “Winter Evening in Gagrakh” is a drama about the elderly Stepist, played by Evgeny Evstigneev. For these two films, Karen Georgievich was awarded the Lenin Komsomol Prize and several international awards. Then, in the creative biography of Shakhnazarov, there was the film “Courier” he was created according to the same story written by Karen Shakhnazarov himself.

This film brought the director Gospremia 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. After the triumph of these films in the year, the director’s track record appeared in the Fantasmagoria “City of Zero” with Leonid Filatov, in the year-the drama of “Tsareubian”, in the year the comedy “Dreams”.

In addition to the directorial activity, Shakhnazarov worked as the artistic director of the Start association, which received the status of the Courier studio in the year, and at the age of 46 - headed Mosfilm and managed to turn it into an advanced European corporation. He also taught in the workshop the directors of the feature cinema at VGIK. Karen Shakhnazarov led the TV show "The twentieth century in the frame and behind the scenes." Karen Shakhnazarov continued to work actively in the years.

Interesting to the viewer became his work “American daughter”, “Full Moon Day”, “poisons, or a worldwide history of poisoning”. In the M century, there were a “horseman named Death”, “the disappeared empire”, “White Tiger”. In the year, the head of Mosfilm was busy with the adaptation of Anna Karenina - the film and the series of the first in his career. 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 premiere of the 8-episode television feature film "Anna Karenina" took place in April of the year on the TV channel "Russia".

In the summer of the same year, the All -Russian premiere in cinemas in the full -length feature film “Anna Karenina. The story of Vronsky. " The social activities of Karen Shakhnazarov among the public affairs of Shakhnazarov are 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.

Since January, he has been a member of the People’s Staff for the city of Moscow, presidential candidate Vladimir Putin.In December, the film director at a joint meeting of the Soviets of the President of the Russian Federation in the Russian language and culture and art made a proposal to be limited to the study of only six Russian writers and poets - Pushkin, Tolstoy, Lermontov, Chekhov, Gogol and Dostoevsky.

In his opinion, a “watching” step of social development has already replaced the “reading” civilization. In the year, he was included in the working group for the preparation of proposals on amendments to the Russian Constitution. Karen Georgievich is also often invited to television, he is one of the permanent guests of the political talk show Vladimir Solovyov.

The personal life and hobbies of Karen Shakhnazarov Karen Shakhnazarov was married three times. The first marriage lasted six months, according to the biography of Shakhnazarov on Wikipedia. It was a graduate of the Istfak. The next wife of the director was Elena Satunskaya, a TV presenter. After 2 years, the couple had a daughter Anyuta, who received a name in honor of the mother of Karen Georgievich.

But in the year, upon returning from the Cannes festival, an unpleasant surprise awaited him at home - a note about his wife and daughter in the United States. Elena's act outraged him, but later he admitted that his constant betrayal could be the reason for this behavior of this behavior. 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.

The couple lived together for 10 years of them 8 - in a legal marriage and gave birth to two children: Vanya and Vasya in them submitted documents for divorce. The director calls his only and all -consuming passion a 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.