
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 selected as the Russian entry for the Best Foreign Language Oscar at the 85th Academy Awards, but it did not make the final shortlist.
Acting (2 movies)
Directing (19 movies)

Winter Evening in Gagry
1985

Vanished Empire
2008

The Rider Named Death
2004

Day of the Full Moon
1998

Courier
1986

Ward No. 6
2009

We're from Jazz
1983

Poisons or the World History of Poisoning
2001

Zerograd
1988

White Tiger
2012

Assassin of the Tsar
1991

Dreams
1993

Wider Step Maestro!
1975

In the Encirclement
2013

American Daughter
1995

Kind Men
1980

Anna Karenina. Vronsky's Story
2017

In the Moscow Slums
2023

Love in the USSR
2014

