Aleksandr Ptushko

Alexander Lukich Ptuschko (Russian Александр Лукич Птушко; * 6 Apriljul / April 19 1900greg in Luhansk, Russia, today Ukraine, .. † March 6, 1973 in Moscow) was a Soviet film director and screenwriter. His film adaptations of Russian fairy tales and legends seemed stylistically and technically trick ahead of their time.

Ptuschko studied at the Plekhanov Institute of Economics in Moscow, but then turned to animation to. From 1927 he turned short puppet animation films; In 1935, with the new Gulliver the world's first puppet animation feature film length. In the following years he was primarily involved as a special effects director on the films of other directors, until he turned to the live-action film after the Second World War. His film The Stone Flower was an international success and was in competition at the 1946 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the award for the best color film.

For Sadko he received in 1953 on the Film Festival in Venice Silver Lion. In 1969 he was awarded the People's Artist of the USSR.

Filmography

As a director:

As director of special effects sequences:

As a screenwriter: