title: Andrei Andreyevich Eshpai
text: # 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
  