Andrei Andreyevich Eshpai
# Andrei Andreyevich Eshpai

Andrei Andreyevich Eshpai (Russian: Андре́й Андре́евич Эшпа́й, born 18 April 1956, Moscow, Russia) is a (Russian and Soviet) film director, screenwriter and producer of Mari descent.

## Biography

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.

## Filmography

* 1983 – When Was Played Music of Bakh
* 1988 – The Buffoon
* 1988 – The Jester
* 1991 – Humiliated and Insulted
* 2001 – Flowering Hill Among Bossom Field
* 2004 – Children of the Arbat
* 2006 – Ellipsis
* 2009 – Ivan the Terrible
