

Soviet and Russian film director, screenwriter and film producer
Andrei Andreyevich Eshpai
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Soviet and Russian film director, screenwriter and film producer
A.K.A.
Andrey Andreyevich Eshpay
Gender:
Male
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Birth:
18 April 1956(Moscow)
Family:
Father:
Andrei Eshpai
Spouse(s):
Yevgeniya Simonova
Larisa Udovichenko
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Biography
Introduction
Andrei Andreyevich Eshpai (Russian: Андрей Андреевич Эшпай, born 18 April 1956, Moscow, Russia) is a (Russian and Soviet) film director, screenwriter and producer of Mari descent.
He is the son of the composer Andrei Yakovlevich Eshpai, and the grandson of the composer Yakov Andreyevich Eshpai. He has a wife — actress Yevgeniya Simonova, a daughter — Mariya Eshpai and stepdaughter — actress Zoya Kaidanovskaya (daughter of Yevgeniya Simonova and her first husband — actor Aleksandr Kaidanovsky).
He studied at the Moscow State Institute of Culture in 1975-76 graduated from the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography in 1980.
Films
- 1983 — When Was Played Music of Bakh
- 1988 — The Buffoon
- 1991 — Humiliated and Insulted
- 2001 — Flowering Hill Among Bossom Field
- 2004 — Children of the Arbat
- 2006 — Ellipsis
- 2009 — Ivan the Terrible