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.
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Ilya Muromets
Sampo
Sadko
A Tale of Lost Times
Scarlet Sails
The Tale of Tsar Saltan
The New Gulliver
The Stone Flower
Ruslan and Ludmila
The Golden Key
The Tale of the Fisherman and the Goldfish
My Friend, Kolka!
The Merry Musicians
Three Encounters
The Dog and the Cat
Lord of Life
The fairy-tale world of Aleksandr Ptushko
The Incident At The Stadium
The Day the Earth Froze
The Fox and the Wolf
The Magic Voyage of Sinbad
The Sword and the Dragon
Small But Fierce
The Giant Turnip54 credits on file
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FuseAwards 9
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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 compared Ptushko to Italian filmmaker Mario Bava, who made fantasy and horror films with similarities to Ptushko's work and made similarly innovative use of color cinematography and special effects. He began his film career as a director and animator of stop motion short films, and became a director of feature-length films combining live action, stop motion, creative special effects, and Russian mythology. Along the way he would be responsible for a number of firsts in Russian film history, and would make several extremely popular and internationally praised films full of visual flair and spectacle.
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