Garri Bardin
Garri Yakovlevich Bardin (Russian: Гарри Яковлевич Бардин; born September 11, 1941) is a Soviet and Russian animation director, screenwriter, producer and actor best known for his experimental musical and stop motion films. He was awarded the 1988 Short Film Palme d'Or for the Fioritures cartoon and the Order of Honour in 2011.
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Garri Bardin

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- Full name
- Гарри Яковлевич Барденштейн.
- Born
- 1941. · Orenburg.
- Nationality
- Soviet Union and Russia.
- Occupation
- screenwriter, animator, painter, director and actor.
- Fields
- animation, acting, animated film and film screenwriting.
- Education
- Moscow Art Theatre School.
- Honours
- Order of Honour, State Prize of the Russian Federation, Short Film Palme d'Or, Triumph and Nika Award.
- Languages
- Russian.
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Garri Yakovlevich Bardin (Russian: Гарри Яковлевич Бардин; born September 11, 1941) is a Soviet and Russian animation director, screenwriter, producer and actor best known for his experimental musical and stop motion films. He was awarded the 1988 Short Film Palme d'Or for the Fioritures cartoon and the Order of Honour in 2011.
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Garri Bardin (born 1941) is an actor, animator and director, among other activities, of Russian and Soviet nationality. The actor was born Гарри Яковлевич Барденштейн in Orenburg.
Garri Bardin was educated at Moscow Art Theatre School. The actor worked for Gogol Theatre and Soyuzmultfilm. Activity centred on acting, animated film and animation.
Languages used include Russian. Honours include Nika Award, Order of Honour and Short Film Palme d'Or, among others.
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Early life and education
Early life and education
Garri Bardin studied at Moscow Art Theatre School. The recorded working language is Russian. The field of work recorded is animation, acting and animated film. Employment is recorded with Gogol Theatre and Soyuzmultfilm. Distinctions recorded are Order of Honour, State Prize of the Russian Federation, Short Film Palme d'Or and Triumph.
Garri Bardin was born in 1941 as Garri Yakovlevich Bardenstein in Chkalov (modern-day Orenburg, Orenburg Oblast of Russia) where his pregnant mother Rozalia Abramovna Bardenshtein had been evacuated from Kyiv with the start of the Great Patriotic War. The family was Jewish. His father Yakov Lvovich Bardenshtein was a naval officer who joined marines in 1941 and took part in the Battle of Stalingrad. After World War II, the family moved to Liepāja, Latvian SSR where his father served at the Baltic Fleet. Bardin spent three years in the Soviet Army, and in 1968, he finished the Actor's Faculty at the Moscow Art Theatre School.
Career
Career
Bardenstein joined the N. V. Gogol Moscow Drama Theatre (modern-day Gogol Center) where he served till 1973. The director asked him to shorten his surname which was too long for theatre posters, and he adapted the Bardin stage name. Upon leaving the theatre he spent some time writing stories, plays and TV screenplays. He had been also voicing cartoons since 1967. Around the same time, he sent a screenplay to Soyuzmultfilm and was suggested to direct the cartoon himself despite his lack of formal training. From then on, he worked as an animation director. Among his first shorts was A Tincan segment from the Happy Merry-Go-Round No. 8 anthology series (1976). In 1979, he directed The Flying Ship, a traditionally animated musical film loosely based on the old Russian fairy tale The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship. The film and the songs by Yuri Entin in particular gained popularity. Bardin then worked on several other hand-drawn films along with Entin. In 1983, he directed his first experimental stop motion cartoon for adults — Conflict, a Cold War allegory where two groups of matches enter a conflict which leads to a war. It was followed by several claymation comedy films, including Break!, a parody on a boxing match for which Bardin received a Golden Dove award at the 1986 Dok Leipzig. In 1987, he released two films: Marriage made of ropes and Fioritures made of aluminium wire for which he was awarded the 1988 Short Film Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. In 1990, he directed his last Soyuzmultiflm cartoon — Grey Wolf and Little Red Riding Hood, a claymation musical film that satirized last days of the USSR. It was awarded a number of awards, including Grand Prix for the best short film at the 1991 Annecy International Animation Film Festival and the 1992 Nika Award for the best animated film. After that, Bardin founded and headed the Stayer animation studio where he continued directing claymation and stop motion films, as well as TV commercials. After six years in production, he finally released his first feature animated musical The Ugly Duckling (2010) loosely based on the Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale of the same name, with a heavy influence of George Orwell's Animal Farm. It received mixed reviews from critics and failed at the box office, while central Russian TV channels refused to show it according to Bardin. At the same time, it gained a number of awards, including the 2011 Nika Award. After The Ugly Duckling, Bardin used Planeta.ru to help crowdfund six more animated shorts, with a seventh on the way.
Personal life
Personal life
Bardin was married three times. The son from his third marriage Pavel Bardin (born 1975) is a Russian film director.
Director
Director
Touch the Sky (1975); also screenwriter Happy Merry-Go-Round (1976); episode 8, segment "A Tincan", also screenwriter Brave Inspector Mamochkin (1977); also co-screenwriter The Adventures of a Hamster (1978) The Flying Ship (1979) Bang! Bang! Oh-oh-oh! (1980) Road Tale (1981); also screenwriter We Used To Be Birds (1982); also co-screenwriter Conflict (1983); also screenwriter Wham and Bam, House Painters! (1984); also screenwriter Banquet (1986); also screenwriter Frills (1987); also screenwriter Marriage (1987); also screenwriter Grey Wolf and Little Red Riding Hood (1990); also screenwriter Puss in Boots (1995) Chucha (1997); also screenwriter and producer Adagio (2000); also screenwriter and producer Chucha-2 (2001); also screenwriter and producer Chucha-3 (2004); also screenwriter and producer The Ugly Duckling (2010); also screenwriter Three Melodies (2013); also screenwriter and producer Listening to Beethoven (2015); also screenwriter and producer Bolero 2017 (2017); also screenwriter and producer Sandbox (2020); also screenwriter and producer Ave Maria (2023); also screenwriter and producer Everlasting Lament (2024); also screenwriter and producer
Voice acting
Voice acting
The Flying Ship (1979) as Tsar Baba Yaga is against! (1979–1980) as Koshchei the Deathless (uncredited) In the Blue Sea, in the White Foam (1984) as Sea Tsar Vykrutasy (1988) as Wire Man The Ugly Duckling (2010) as Narrator
Live action
Live action
The Adventures of Buratino (1975) as Spiders in Malvina's pantry (voice) Practical Joke (1977) as French teacher Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears (1980) as chemical plant chief engineer
Life and career
Dated record
Life and career
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1941
Garri Bardin born.
1983
KONFLIKT ( USRR 1983) Garri Bardin (1983) is digitised and catalogued by Internet Archive.
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Awards and honors
Short Film Palme d'Or (1988) – for film Vykrutasy Nika Award for Best Animation Film (1992) – for film Seryi Volk & Krasnaya Shapochka Nika Award for Best Animation Film (1999) – for film Chucha State Prize of the Russian Federation (4 June 1999) Nika Award for Best Animation Film (2001) – for film Adagio Nika Award for Best Animation Film (2005) – for film Chucha-3 Nika Award for Best Animation Film (2011) – for film The Ugly Duckling Order of Honour (13 October 2011)
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Cited by Wikipedia
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These works are cited by the source article, in its own numbering. They are recorded as its citations, not as sources VALÉORINE has verified.
- 1.Peter Rollberg. Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema. Rowman & Littlefield. 82–83. 2016. 978-1442268425.
- 2.Giannalberto Bendazzi (2016). Animation: A World History. Volume II. — Boca Raton: CRC Press, p. 297
- 3.Giannalberto Bendazzi (2016). Animation: A World History. Volume III. — Boca Raton: CRC Press, p. 206
- 4.Sergei Kapkov (2006). Encyclopedia of Domestic Animation, pp. 92-94
- 5.Fioritures (Archived) at the official Cannes Film Festival website
- 6.President's Decree № 1347 at Kremlin.ru
- 7.Lilya Muzika. Garri Bardin: "I feel ashamed of my President's deeds" interview at Fakty i Kommentarii, 26 September 2014 (in Russian)
- 8.Leonid Shkolnik. From Garri Bardin's letter at the We Are Here! online paper, 6–12 September 2012 (in Russian)
- 9.Break! awards at IMDb
- 10.Grey Wolf and Little Red Riding Hood awards at IMDb
- 11.Daria Goryacheva. Non-standard Duckling review at Gazeta.ru, 17 October 2010 (in Russian)
- 12.The Ugly Duckling reviews at KinoPoisk (in Russian)
- 13.The Ugly Duckling reviews at Rotten Tomatoes
- 14."Distribution didn't bring me any money". The Ugly Duckling almost bankrupted his father by NTV (Russia), 11 September 2011 (in Russian)
- 15.Garri Bardin on "The Ugly duckling", challenges, musical inspiration, distribution interview from Waterloo Festival for Animated Cinema, 14 January 2011
- 16.The Ugly Duckling awards at IMDb
- 17.Garri Bardin's profile on Planeta.ru
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