Andrei Eshpai

Andrei Andreyevich Eshpai (; born 18 April 1956) is a Russian 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