Karen Shakhnazarov

Karen Shakhnazarov (1952) studied at the VGIK film school in Moscow. He realised several short satirical films and attracted attention with musicals. In 1989 he made his highly regarded Zero Town, a fantastic vision on a totalitarian world.

Filmography

The Kind-hearted Ones (1979), We Are A Jazzband (1983), A Winter Evening in Gagry (1985), The Courier (1986), Zero Town (1989), Assassin of the Tzar (1991), Dreams (1994), American Daughter (1995), Den polnolunya/Day of the Full Moon (1998), Yady ili vsemirnaya istoriya otravleny / Poisons or the World History of Poisoning (2001)