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Aleksandr Ptushko
Aleksandr Lukich Ptushko was a Soviet animation and fantasy film director, and a People's Artist of the USSR (1969). Ptushko is frequently referred to as "the Soviet Walt Disney," because of his prominent early role in animation in the Soviet Union, though a more accurate comparison would be to Willis H. O'Brien or Ray Harryhausen. Some critics, such as Tim Lucas and Alan Upchurch, have also compa…
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culture · Soviet animation and fantasy film director · film director · screenwriter · camera operator · animator · designer · director · painter · pedagogue · also Aleksandr Ptushko, A. Ptushko, Aleksandr Lukich Ptushko, Little Big PushCo, Ptushko
Born 19 April 1900 · Died 6 March 1973 · Q465640
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1973· 1 entry
Died 1973-03-06.
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1969· 1 entry
Awarded People's Artist of the USSR (1969).
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1968· 1 entry
Began work on the largest film project of his career Ruslan and Ludmila, which was also to prove his last
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1966· 1 entry
Ptushko returned to the genre of epic fantasy, creating The Tale of Tsar Saltan
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1962· 1 entry
Under the title The Magic Voyage of Sinbad
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1960· 1 entry
Under the title The Sword and the Dragon
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1953· 1 entry
Earned Silver Lion (1953).
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1947· 2 entries
Awarded State Stalin Prize, 1st degree (1947).
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Awarded Stalin Prize (1947).
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1944· 1 entry
Awarded Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1944).
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1938· 1 entry
Ptushko began work on The Golden Key, another feature-length film combining stop motion animation with live action
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1935· 2 entries
Awarded Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1935).
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To widespread acclaim and earned Ptushko a special prize at the International Cinema Festival in Milan
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1933· 1 entry
Ptushko, along with the animation crew he had assembled over the years, began work on his first feature film entitled The New Gulliver
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1927· 1 entry
By gaining employment with Moscow's Mosfilm studio
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1923· 1 entry
Enrolled into the Plekhanov Russian University of Economics which he finished in 1926
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1900· 1 entry
Born 1900-04-19.
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