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About a Soldier
Original title: Про солдата
From the cycle Mountain of Gems
Valentin Telegin
2014 Pilot 14 min
Russian fairy tale of how General Suvorov sent a soldier with a
victorious report to St. Petersburg to the Empress. The soldier overcame
a long journey, went through a series of magical adventures
and honorably fulfilled the assignment of the general.
Alexander Tatarsky: how to embrace the immense
Original title: Александр Татарский: как объять необъятное
Documentary from the cycle Restless Talents
Natalia Lukinykh
2008 Studio Masterfilm 30 min
This film is a memory of the restless life of the famous director and
animator, overloaded with a lot of creative affairs, plans, hobbies
and fantasies, who, contrary to fate, recklessly and boldly sought
to embrace the vast…
Alexander Tatarsky was a Russian-Soviet animation-director,
screenwriter, animator, producer, co-founder and artistic director
of the PILOT studio. Tatarsky was born in Kyiv Ukraine, he graduated
from the Kyiv Institute of Theatre and Cinema as a film critic and
then finished a three-year animation course at Goskino in Moscow.
From 1968 to 1980 he worked at Kievnauchfilm Studio as an animator
for the famous animation-director David Cherkassky. From 1980 he
worked in Moscow at Multtelefilm division of Studio Ekran, where he
directed his first auteur animation made of plasticine – “Plasticine
Crow” (1981), and also the drawn animation – “The Back Side of the
Moon” (1984). Together with his friend Igor Kovalyov he made some
films and series for television. In 1988, Tatarsky, Kovalyov, Anatoly
Prokhorov and Igor Gelashvili founded the Moscow animation
studio PILOT, the first independent film studio in the Soviet Union,
which has been highly successful at festivals.
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