Lev Atamanov

Lev Atamanov (Russian: Лев Атаманов), born Levon Konstantinovich Atamanyan (Russian: Левон Константинович Атаманян, Armenian: Լևոն Կոնստանտինի Ատամանյան) (February 21, 1905 – February 12, 1981) was a classic Soviet animated films director of Armenian descent.

Atamanov was one of the foremost Soviet animation film directors and one of the founders of Soviet animation art. He is the director of the famous classics of Soviet animation, such as the prize-winning fairy tales The Yellow Stork (Zheltyy aist) (1950), Scarlet Flower (Alenkiy tsvetochek) (1952), The Golden Antelope (1954), the full-length animation The Snow Queen (Snezhnaya koroleva) (1957), and the modern satirical tale The Key (Klyuch) (1961). In his works Lev Atamanov subtly conveyed the national colouring of fairy tales and combined romantic elation in images of positive characters with warm and kind humor.

Filmography

• Cock and bull story (1933)
• The blot in the Arctic (1934)
• The blot hairdresser (1935)
• Dog and cat (1938)
• Priest and goat (1941)
• The magic carpet (1948)
• The yellow stork (1950) - the first work at Soyuzmultfilm studio
• The Scarlet Flower (1952)
• The gold antelope (1954)
• Dog and cat (1955) - a remake of the version of 1938
• The Snow Queen (1957)
• "Roads of spring" (1959)
• The thieves of paints (1959)
• The Key (1961)
• The fairy tales about others paints (1962)
• Jokes (1963)
• Shepherdess and chimney sweep (1965)
• The bouquet (1966)
• The bench (1967)
• The fence (1967) Kaleidoscope-68
• The cyclist (1968) Kaleidoscope-68
• The ballerina by the ship (1969)
• It in our forces (1970)
• Confusion (collection) (1971)
• The Parsley (1971)
• Above head! (1972)
• The short stories about space (1973)
• The pony runs round (1974)
• I remember … (1975)
• The kitten by the name of Bark (1976) (release 1)
• The kitten by the name of Bark (1977) (release 2)
• The kitten by the name of Bark (1979) (release 3)
• The kitten by the name of Bark (1980) (release 4)

See also

• Alexander Ptushko
• Ivan Ivanov-Vano
• Alexander Rou

External links

• Lev Atamanov at the Internet Movie Database
• Biography of Lev Atamanov