| Roman Abelevich Kachanov (Роман Абелевич Качанов) |
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| Born | Ruvim Abelevich Kachanov February 25, 1921 Smolensk, R.S.F.S.R. (now Russia) |
| Died | July 4, 1993 (aged 72) Moscow, Russia |
| Other names | Roman Kachanov (I); Roman Kachanov Sr. |
| Occupation | Film director Screenwriter Art director Animator |
| Years active | 1946-1989 |
| Spouse | Gara Kachanova |
Roman Abelevich Kachanov (Russian: Роман Абелевич Качанов; 25 February 1921 – 4 July 1993) was a Russian animator, one of the founders and leaders of Russian stop-motion animation.
Kachanov was the director and screenwriter of the trilogy about Cheburashka, Gena the Crocodile and Shapoklyak.
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Roman Kachanov was born in 1921 in Smolensk. His mother was Haya Y. Kachanov, and his father Abel Mendelevich Kachanov, was a shoemaker. Roman's mother died in 1932, when he was eleven years old.
In the spring of 1939, Roman Kachanov was called up for military service in the ranks of the Red Army. He arrived at Flying School in Krasnoyarsk. He flew fighter jets as a Tail Gunner (second pilot). In 1940 the plane Kachanov was flying crashed. The first pilot was killed, and Kachanov was hospitalized with serious injuries. Command led farewell to Kachanov father - Abel Mendelevich - and only sister (older) - Maria. After that they did not meet. The father and sister were killed in Smolensk during the Holocaust.
In the spring of 1941, Kachanov entered the Moscow State University of Railway Engineering.
At the beginning of World War II, he was drafted into the Red Army in Airborne troops in part lodged in the town of Chkalovsky, near Moscow. From 1941 by 1945. He served in the Airborne at parachute instructor stations. He took part in special operations behind enemy lines. In 1945 from the war he was promoted to Senior Sergeant.
Even before demobilization in 1946, he decided he to work in cinema and transferred to the service at the studio of the Ministry of Defence in the Bolshevo.
After demobilization, he went to Soyuzmultfilm, and joined animation courses at Soyuzmultfilm studios, and left them in the same 1946. From 1947 to 1957 he worked as an animator, assistant director and production designer in film directors, animators of the older generation: Dmitry Babichenko, Brumberg Valentina and Zinaida Brumberg, Leo Atamanov, Ivan Ivanov-Vano and Vladimir Polkovnikov, whom he regarded as his teacher in the Directing.
In 1958, Kachanov together with Anatoly Karanovic directed his first film, "Old Man and the Crane" in 1959 in the same sorezhisserom - fine poetic picture of the scenario Nazim Hikmet "Love Cloud", which received awards at festivals in the Annecy, Oberhausen e and Bucharest. With assistant work a thing of the past, directing these two films has given him a great professional experience, and later he switched mainly to directing.
His films "The Mitten", "Crocodile Gena", "The Mystery of the Third Planet" have become a recognized classic of domestic, and the world of movies.
In 1967, Roman Kachanov created the animated film The Mitten, has received widespread international and domestic recognition. This was the first puppet animation in the Soviet Union, and became a classic of world animation 20th century.
In these films of Roman Kachanov, were first created the animated images of Cheburashka, Crocodile Gena and old woman Shapoklyak, who entered Russian culture. Characters and images of these heroes still live and are replicated in numerous audiovisual, pop cultural and folkloric works.
Cult-length animated film based on a story Kir Bulychev "Alice's Journey".
His son, Roman Romanovich Kachanov [2] is a film director, screenwriter and actor.
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