Lev Atamanov (Russian: Лев Атаманов), born Levon Konstantinovich Atamanyan (Russian: Левон Константинович Атаманян, Armenian: Լեւոն Կոնստանտինի Ատամանյան; 21 February [O.S. 8 February] 1905 – 12 February 1981), was a Soviet Armenian animation director.

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Atamanov was one of the foremost Soviet animation film directors and one of the founders of Soviet animation art. He is the director of 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 (1957), and the modern satirical tale The Key (1961). In his works Lev Atamanov subtly conveyed the national coloring of fairy tales and combined romantic elation in images of positive characters with warm and kind humor.

Atamanov was one of the most respected Soviet animators and is regarded as one of the greatest artists in the history of animation.

In a 2021 interview Hayao Miyazaki cited Atamanov's 1957 film The Snow Queen as a seminal influence on his work and his favorite film.[1]

Biography

Levon Konstantinovich Atamanyan was born in Moscow, Russia on February 21, 1905 into an Armenian family.

Filmography

• The story about the white bull-calf[2] (1933)
• The Blot in the Arctic[3] (1934)
• Blot-barber[4] (1935)
• The dog and the cat[5] (1938)
• The priest and the goat[6] (1941)
• The magic carpet[7] (1948)
• The yellow stork[8] (1950) - the first work at Soyuzmultfilm studio
• The Scarlet Flower (1952)[9]
• The gold antelope[10] (1954)
• The dog and the cat[11] (1955) - a remake of the version of 1938
• The Snow Queen (1957)
• Roads of spring[12] (1959)
• The thieves of paints[13] (1959)
• The Key (1961)
• The fairy tales about another's paints[14] (1962)
• Jokes[15] (1963)
• The shepherdess and the chimney sweep[16] (1965)
• The bouquet[17] (1966)
• The bench[18] (1967)
• The fence[19] (1967) Kaleidoscope-68
• The cyclist[20] (1968) Kaleidoscope-68
• The ballerina by the ship[21] (1969)
• It in our forces[22] (1970)
• Confusion (collection)[23] (1971)
• Petrushka[24] (1971)
• Above head![25] (1972)
• The short stories about the space[26] (1973)
• The pony runs in round[27] (1974)
• I remember …[28] (1975)
• The kitten by the name of Bark[29] (1976) (release 1)
• The kitten by the name of Bark[30] (1977) (release 2)
• The kitten by the name of Bark[31] (1979) (release 3)
• The kitten by the name of Bark[32] (1980) (release 4)

See also

• Aleksandr Ptushko
• Ivan Ivanov-Vano
• Alexander Rou

References

External links

• Lev Atamanov at IMDb
• Biography of Lev Atamanov