- Leonid Amalrik
Leonid Alekseyevich Amalrik (Russian: "Леонид Алексеевич Амальри́к") (
8 July 1905 , Moscow -22 October 1997 , Moscow) was aRussia nanimator andanimation director .He was born on
July 8 1905 inMoscow . He graduated from the State college of cinema (nowVGIK ) in 1928. From 1926, he worked inMezhrabpom-Rus studio (first as a scene painter assistant, and then as an animator). In 1936 he moved to the newly createdSoyuzmultfilm studio. Initially he worked in a genre of politic satire, and then became keen on modern fairy tales (together withVladimir Polovnikov ). The first cartoon that he directed himself was "Arrow Flies into a Fairy Tale" ( _ru. Стрела улетает в сказку, "Strela uletayet v skazku"). His last was "Terem-Teremok" ( _ru. Терем-теремок, 1971).His wife Nadezhda Mikhailovna Privalova, an artist, worked with him on many of his cartoons.
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