Lev Atamanov

Lev Atamanov Лев Атаманов
Born	Levon Konstantinovich Atamanyan February 21, 1905 Moscow, Russian Empire
Died	February 12, 1981 (aged 75) Moscow, Soviet Union
Occupation	Film Director
Years active	1933 - 1980

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 (Zhyoltyy 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

• The story about the white bull-calf (1933)
• The Blot in the Arctic (1934)
• Blot-barber (1935)
• The dog and the cat (1938)
• The priest and the goat (1941)
• The magic carpet (1948)
• The yellow stork (1950) - the first work at Soyuzmultfilm studio
• The Scarlet Flower (1952)
• The gold antelope (1954)
• The dog and the 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 another's paints (1962)
• Jokes (1963)
• The shepherdess and the 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)
• Petrushka (1971)
• Above head! (1972)
• The short stories about the space (1973)
• The pony runs in 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