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Director Karen Shakhnazarov’s 1988 Zerograd, out today in a new 2K transfer on Blu-ray, brings us back to a time when both decay and change were in the air. This was the era of the late Mikhail Gorbachev’s vaunted Glasnost and Perestroika reforms, designed to loosen up the state’s stranglehold on the economy and reenergize the population.
Karen Shakhnazarov’s latest version Anna Karenina: Vronsky’s Story adds to this list, but with an intriguing twist that is never fully realized. The tale of an illicit love affair is now (re)told in flashback by Count Aleksei Vronskii almost thirty years after Anna’s suicide.
Karen Shakhnazarov’s surreal satire of Communism follows an Everyman engineer named Varakin who arrives in a remote city where nothing quite makes sense, but everyone acts as if it does. He’s quickly drawn into the investigation of the suicide (or possibly murder?) of a local restaurant chef, Nikolaev – who may (or may not) be Varakin’s missing father.
Jan 29, 2024 · Karen Shakhnazarov, at the helm of Mosfilm for more than 25 years, says the standoff between Moscow and the West over the conflict in Ukraine should benefit Russian film makers.
Anna Karenina: Vronsky's Story. Anna Karenina: Vronsky's Story ( Russian: Анна Каренина. История Вронского, romanized : Anna Karenina. Istoriya Vronskogo) is a 2017 Russian drama film directed by Karen Shakhnazarov. [1] [2] An expanded eight-part version titled Anna Karenina aired on the Russia-1 television channel.
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.
Karen Georgievich Shakhnazarov (Russian: Каре́н Гео́ргиевич Шахназа́ров; born 8 July 1952) is a Soviet and Russian filmmaker, producer, screenwriter and Kremlin propagandist. Read more on Wikipedia. Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Karen Shakhnazarov has received more than 167,162 page views. His biography ...
