Russian filmmaker, producer and screenwriter (born 1952)
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Karen Georgievich Shakhnazarov (Russian: Каре́н Гео́ргиевич Шахназа́ров; born 8 July 1952) is a Soviet and Russian filmmaker, producer, and screenwriter.[1] He became the director general of Mosfilm[2] in 1998.
Biography
Shakhnazarov is the son of a Georgy Shakhnazarov, a politician of Armenian descent, and a Russian housewife, Anna Grigorievna Shakhnazarova.[3][4] Shakhnazarov is one of several living descendants of the famous Melik-Shahnazarian princely family from Nagorno-Karabakh. The Melik-Shahnazarians ruled Nagorno-Karabakh's province of Varanda in medieval and modern times.[5]
From 2006 to 2011, Shakhnazarov was a member of the Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation.[13] He was Deputy Chairman of the Commission for Cultural Development and, since 2008, Chairman of the Commission for Culture.
In March 2014, Shakhnazarov supported the annexation of Crimea and signed a letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin in support of the annexation.[15][16][17] For this he was banned from entering Ukraine.[18][19]
On 28 April 2022, on the Russia-1 TV channel, Shakhnazarov threatened critics of the war with mass reprisals:
These opponents of the letter "Z" must understand that if they expect that they will be spared, no, they will not be spared. Everything is getting serious now. If anything happens, this means concentration camps, re-education, so to speak, sterilization.[23][24][25]
He later stated that his words were "taken out of context."[23]
On 10 March 2022, during a broadcast on Russia-1, Shakhnazarov[26] called for an end to the invasion of Ukraine, saying that the situation was at risk of becoming "an absolute humanitarian disaster", and that there is no realistic possibility for the Russian forces to seize Kyiv and other major Ukrainian cities.[27]
^ abcdProkofiev, Vyacheslav. "Шахназаров Карен Георгиевич" [Shakhnazarov Karen Georgievich]. tass.ru (in Russian). TASS. Archived from the original on 13 November 2021. Retrieved 13 November 2021.
