Karen Shakhnazarov

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Karen Shakhnazarov is a Russian filmmaker, producer and screenwriter of Armenian descent.

He became executive director of Mosfilm Studio in 1998.

In December 2005 at the 29th Cairo Film Festival Shakhnazarov was awarded the Golden Pyramid Prize for great contribution to the cinematography. Shakhnazarov received as he called it the "heavy but significant and beautiful prize" on the opening day of the Festival on Tuesday.

He took part in the annual film congress in Egypt for the forth time - twice he was invited as an honorable guest and twice as a jury member.


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  • KAREN SHAKHNAZAROV AWARDED CAIRO FILM FESTIVAL AWARD, AZG Armenian Daily, December 2,2005