Alexandra Snezhko-Blotskaya
Alexandra Gavrilovna Snezhko-Blotskaya (21 February 1909 – 29 December 1980) was a Soviet animated film director. She was a longtime collaborator with Ivan Ivanov-Vano.
Also recorded as Aleksandra Snezhko-Blotskaya · Aleksandra Gavrilovna Snezhko-Blotskaya · Alexandra Gavrilovna Snezhko-Blotskaya · Alexandra Snejko-Blotskaïa
Alexandra Snezhko-Blotskaya
- Born
- 1909 · Vovchansk.
- Died
- 1980 · Zheleznodorozhny.
- Nationality
- Soviet Union · Russian Empire
- Occupation
- film director · animator · screenwriter
- Honours
- Honorary Diploma of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR
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Alexandra Gavrilovna Snezhko-Blotskaya (21 February 1909 – 29 December 1980) was a Soviet animated film director. She was a longtime collaborator with Ivan Ivanov-Vano.
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Alexandra Snezhko-Blotskaya (1909–1980) was an animator, film director and screenwriter, of Russian and Soviet nationality. The animator was born in Vovchansk and died in Zheleznodorozhny.
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Snezhko-Blotskaya was born in Volchansk near Kharkov (modern Ukraine), before her family moved to Shatura, near Moscow. There she graduated from art studios of Ivan Rerberg and Ilya Mashkov. Snezhko-Blotskaya started her film career as designer for Soyuzkinokhronika in 1932. Since 1936, she became a constant collaborator and aide to Ivan Ivanov-Vano, a patriarch of Russian animation. Snezhko-Blotskaya participated as a co-director in many of his films including famous The Humpbacked Horse and The Snow Maiden. Her first solo feature-length film was The Enchanted Boy (1955), based on The Wonderful Adventures of Nils by Selma Lagerlöf. Most of Snezhko-Blotskaya's films were fantasy based on folk tales and books by authors like Alexander Pushkin and Rudyard Kipling. In the 1970s she directed a series of five animated shorts based on Greek mythology. Snezhko-Blotskaya died in 1980 at the age of 71 at her home in Zheleznodorozhny, Moscow Oblast.
Second unit director for Ivanov-Vano
Second unit director for Ivanov-Vano
• 1949 — Geese-Swans (Гуси-лебеди) - based on Russian folklore. • 1951 — The Tale of the Dead Tsarevna and Seven Bogatyrs (Сказка о мёртвой царевне и о семи богатырях) - based on a poem by Alexander Pushkin. • 1952 — Snegurochka (Снегурочка) based on a play by Alexander Ostrovsky.
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Solo director
• 1954 — Orange Throat (Оранжевое горлышко) - based on a story by Vitaly Bianki. • 1955 — The Enchanted Boy (Заколдованный мальчик) - based on a novel by Selma Lagerlöf. • 1957 — Verlioka (Верлиока) - based on east Slavic folklore. • 1958 — The Tale of Malchish-Kibalchish (Сказка о Мальчише-Кибальчише) - based on a story by Arkady Gaidar. • 1959 — The Amber Castle (Янтарный замок) - based on Lithuanian folklore. • 1961 — The Dragon (Дракон) - based on Vietnamese folklore. • 1962 — The Wonderful Garden (Чудесный сад) - based on Kazakh folklore. • 1963 — Barankin, Be a Human! (Баранкин, будь человеком!) - based on a story by Valery Medvedev. • 1963 — Sun's Daughter (Дочь солнца) • 1965 — Rikki-Tikki-Tavi (Рикки-тикки-тави) - based on a story by Rudyard Kipling • 1967 — The Tale of the Golden Cockerel (Сказка о золотом петушке) - based on a poem by Alexander Pushkin. • 1968 — The Cat Who Walked By Himself (Кот, который гулял сам по себе) - based on a story by Rudyard Kipling • Films based on Greek mythology: • 1969 — The Return from Olympus (Возвращение с Олимпа) • 1971 — The Labyrinth (Лабиринт) • 1971 — Argonauths (Аргонавты) • 1973 — Perseus (Персей) • 1974 — Prometheus (Прометей)
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