The farewell took place in the lobby of the White Room of the Casa del Cine, where the coffin was installed. Half an hour before the funeral ceremony, they started a movie where Hwang himself talked about himself and where his colleagues shared their memories of him. They showed fragments of the filmmaker’s films and his acting works.
His sister Elena Khvan and his second wife Alexandra came to see off the artist on his last trip. His 17-year-old son “for some reason could not come from St. Petersburg.” The director’s eldest son lives in Seoul, “where it is a big problem to leave.” That’s why only the granddaughter came, reports MK.RU
Alexander Khvan was born in 1957 in Cheboksary, his father was Korean. In 1980 he graduated from the directing department of VGIK, the workshop of Kulidzhanov and Lioznova. The director’s diploma film work was the film “Cord”.
The first fame came in 1992, after the film “Dyuba-Dyuba” with Oleg Menshikov. As a director, he directed the films and television series “Blood and Milk”, “Khitrovka”, “Carmen”, “Fleabag-good, Fleabag-bad”, “Dying is easy”. He actively filmed: “The Heart of Parma”, “Beyond Death”, “Sorge”, “Giselle Mania”, the cult “Scientific Section of Pilots”.
He was a member of the board of directors of the Gorky Film Studio and secretary of the board of directors of the Union of Cinematographers of the Russian Federation.
