Biography
At the end of February 2020, the director Ilya Hrzhanovsky interrupted 10-year-old silence, began to communicate often with journalists and actively give interviews. The cause of the artist explained simply - following the rules of the Berlin Film Festival, where his resonant "Dau. Natasha "acquired a deserved award. The film Along with the Silver Bear received many negative comments and prohibitions, including accusations of violence, and appeals to the institution of a criminal case.Childhood and youth
In mid-August 1975, the 11th day, the director-multiplier Andrei Khrzhanovsky and his spouse, philologist and film editor Maria Neuman, became parents. The long-awaited son Ilya appeared. According to him, in childhood he dreamed or go to the footsteps of his grandfather Yuri Borisovich and tie his life with artistic art, or become Marshal.
Since the child was late, then the circle of his communication was mostly families of the family. And on the future creator of films could not not affect the creative atmosphere, in which he grew. That is why in the mid-1990s, the young man fell to the Faculty of Painting Bonn Academy of Arts.
Germany soon bored a student, and a return to the "more interesting" homeland was held, where he continued his studies at the directorial Faculty of Vgika, in the workshop of Marlene Huziyev.
At 22, a talented graduate at the 3rd International Festival CookArt introduced his first play called "What I feel. A year later, in collaboration with Artem Mikhalkov, he took off the debut short "stop".
In the 2020th, the celebrity told in an interview about the mother and about the ancestors who lived and buried in Ukraine:
"My mother was born in Vinnitsa in September 1940, and at the end of June 1941, the grandfather pushed her, her brother and my grandmother's train and sent to Tashkent, and he went to the army himself. My mom was held every summer in Shargorod, even when I lived in Tashkent and Moscow. Therefore, I am on my mother's line ethnic Ukrainian. "Personal life
The director, for 10 years, not communicating with media representatives, has always abstained from the details of his personal life. In 2009, in a conversation with Dmitry Bykov, Ilya confirmed that at that time he was not married, and from the Union with actress Alexander Kulikova he grows his son.Young people met at the time of study at the Institute. Soon, friendship turned into deeper feelings, and the lovers played a wedding. Despite the emergence of a common child, the family subsequently did not stand the test of the distance and time: Hrzhanovsky worked in Moscow, and his spouse - in St. Petersburg.
Andrei went in the footsteps of the mother - at an early age already went on the stage of the BDT and starred in the cinema, and he received education in London, where his father lives now. A woman repeatedly told in an interview that he did not call her mother, but drawn solely by name.
Ilya Andreevich also did not forget about the heir, mentioning him in reflections on changes in the modern world:
"Some forms of relationship with the life of a person are changing. For example, in a young generation, to which my son relates (he is 21 years old), other relationships with sex and with death, they are differently arranged. This determines the ethics. And other relations with nature, other relations with the world - and visible, and invisible. "The second time a man married the Deputy Head of the Phillips Svetlana Maric Auction House, the couple was born daughter Mary. In 2018, it turned out that the spouses were divorced.
Films
Ilya Andreevich is not one of those who stamps focus every year. His directory filmography by 2020, compared to other colleagues, quite small. Moreover, from a large-scale "Dow" was subsequently born and "Dow. Natasha, "and" Dow. Degeneration". But each of the Krzhanovsky bids invariably caused a rapid reaction as spectators and critics.
Released in the 1998th "Stop" with Elena Zakharova, Fyodor Bondarchuk, Gauche Kutsenko, Stepan Mikhalkov "shot" in a year. The short film took with him the jury diplomas with the "Holy Anne" and "youth" and a separate prize of the festival held in Saint-Pierre de Cups.
After a long break, there was a turn and comedy "4" on the scenario of the writer Vladimir Sorokina, who did not leave indifferent more than ten international cinematic reviews. Although at home, with the exception of the "coster", the postmodern encyclopedia of the horrors of Russian life was charged. The wording sounded - "Defining the reality and mat", and a rolling certificate was not issued for a long time.
However, these difficulties were insignificant compared to the fact that the new creation of the director, created initially also in Tandem with the author of the "Norma", "Blue Sala" and "Ochrichnik Day".
At first, it was conceived as a biographical story about the life and work of the outstanding physics of Lion Landau. As a result, in 15 years, the work has become a large-scale art project with the largest shooting location in Europe (seeing "Dictatorial Disneyland").
At the idea of the author, non-professional actors participated in round-the-clock production (I played the conductor Theodore Kurtanzis, and his son is a musician Nikolai Voronov). And they were filmed without any scenario on their hands, fully relying on improvisation. For a complete immersion in the pre-warning Stalin era, artists on the site did not remove the clothes of that time, did not use the gadgets and did not utter modern words.
The brainchild was born in flour - heavy was not so much the plot itself, how many concomitant problems. The Ministry of Culture of Russia has sued the allocated subsidy, then the Goskino of Ukraine has recovered the penalty, the support of EURIMages stopped shortly before the premiere, etc.
In 2019, on three sites of Paris, a long-awaited premiere of the captured 700-hour material was held, accompanied by installations, performances. From him, by March 2020, 16 separate films managed to mount.
Ilya Hrzhanovsky now
At the end of February 2020, the premiere of two "Dow" - "Natasha" and "degeneration" was held on Berlinale, which caused a lot of rapid discussions and a real excitement.Hrzhanovsky, who won a "silver bear" with the wording "for an outstanding artistic contribution", had to fight off from accusations in the propaganda of pornography and perfect during the filming of violence (mental, physical and sexual).
Ilya Andreevich repeatedly acted as a statement that there was no terror on the site, the law with human rights was not broken. It was supported by the operator Jurgen Yurges, and the leadership of the leadership in Natasha, Natalia, and Catherine Ertel.
In April of the same year, the director gave a frank interview with Ksenia Sobchak, in which he shared the details of the work on the project "Dow", as well as his own views on art and modern realities.
Filmography
- 1998 - "Stop"
- 2005 - "4"
- 2018 - "Dow"
- 2020 - "Dow. Natasha
- 2020 - "Dow. Degeneration"