Karen Shakhnazarov
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- July 8, 1952, Krasnodar, Krasnodarskiy kray, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]
- Movies
- 35
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.
Upcoming Karen Shakhnazarov Movies
Выжить во льдах
2027
February 25, 2027
Best-Known Movies
Filmography
| 2024 | Георгий Бурков. "Не будем полагаться на случай" | Self (archive footage) |
| 2021 | The Woman Who Built Cities | Himself |
| 2019 | With the Ball to Britain |
Directing, Writing & Producing
| 2027 | Выжить во льдах | Producer |
| 2023 | In the Moscow Slums | Director, Screenplay |
| 2021 | Vladivostok | Producer, Screenplay |
| 2018 | Decision: Liquidation | Producer |
| 2017 | Mot Ne | Producer |
| 2017 | Anna Karenina. Vronsky's Story | Director, Writer, Producer |
| 2016 | A House for Rent with All the Inconveniences | Producer |
| 2015 | On the Road to Berlin | Writer, Producer |
| 2014 | Love in the USSR | Director, Producer |
| 2013 | In the Encirclement | Director |
| 2013 | She | Producer |
| 2012 | White Tiger | Writer, Director, Producer |
| 2009 | Ward No. 6 | Director, Writer, Producer |
| 2008 | Vanished Empire | Director, Producer |
| 2004 | The Rider Named Death | Director, Producer |
| 2002 | The Star | Producer |
| 2001 | Poisons or the World History of Poisoning | Director, Writer |
| 1998 | Day of the Full Moon | Director, Writer |
| 1998 | Who, If Not Us | Producer |
| 1998 | Hello from Charlie the Trumpeter | Producer |
| 1995 | American Daughter | Writer, Director |
| 1993 | Dreams | Writer, Director, Producer |
| 1993 | White King, Red Queen | Producer |
| 1993 | The Children of Iron Gods | Producer |
| 1991 | Assassin of the Tsar | Director, Writer |
| 1988 | Zerograd | Writer, Director |
| 1986 | Messenger Boy | Director |
| 1985 | Winter Evening in Gagry | Director, Writer |
| 1983 | We're from Jazz | Director, Writer |
| 1981 | Ladies Invite Gentlemen | Writer |
| 1980 | Kind Men | Director |
| 1975 | Wider Step Maestro! | Director, Screenplay |
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