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    KAREN SHAKHNAZAROV'S "WARD N6" WINS 2 AWARDS AT INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL IN TEHRAN

    PanARMENIAN.Net
    06.02.2010 17:10 GMT+04:00

    /PanARMENIAN.Net/ Karen Shakhnazarov's "Ward N6" gained 2 Crystal
    Simorgh awards at 28th international film festival in Tehran, having
    won in Best foreign film and Best actor nominations. The Best Actor
    award went to Vladimir Ilyin.

    A total of 80 films contended for the Crystal Simorgh at Tehran's
    international film festival due on January 23-February 4.

    Karen Shakhnazarov was born on July 8, 1952 in the city of Krasnodar
    (southern Russia). As a boy, Karen liked drawing and staged plays in
    a school theater. In 1975 he graduated from VGIK (Moscow School for
    Cinematography) where he studied film directing under Igor Talankin.

    For two years he worked at Mosfilm Studios as a director's assistant.

    He made three short films before he debuted in 1980 with his first
    full-length feature Kind Men (Dobryaki), a low-key comedy about an
    ambitious and cynical careerist.

    The retro musical comedy We Are from Jazz (My iz dzhaza, 1983)
    marked the beginning of Shakhnazarov's long-term collaboration with
    scriptwriter Aleksandr Borodyansky, who has cowritten almost all of
    his films. Another nostalgic musical comedy followed in 1985, A Winter
    Evening in Gagry (Zimnij vecher v Gagrakh, 1985), making Shakhnazarov
    one of the most commercially successful directors in Russia.
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