Aleksandr Ptushko

Aleksandr Ptushko

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Birthday

1900/04/19

Day of death

1973/03/06 (72 years old)

Gender

Male

Place of Birth

Lugansk, Lugansk uyezd, Yekaterinoslav Governorate, Russian Empire [now Luhansk, Luhansk Oblast, Ukraine]

Also know as

Aleksandr Lukich Ptushko, Alfred Posco, A. Ptushko, Александр Птушко

Biography

Aleksandr Lukich Ptushko (Russian: Александр Лукич Птушко, 19 April [O.S. 6 April] 1900 – 6 March 1973) was a Soviet animation and fantasy film director, and a People's Artist of the USSR (1969). Ptushko is frequently (and somewhat misleadingly) 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 a...Read more

Acting
Сказочный мир Александра Птушко
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(1988) The fairy-tale world of Aleksandr Ptushko

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The Incident At The Stadium

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