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Aleksandr Lukich Ptushko (Russian: Александр Лукич Птушко, 19 April [O.S. 6 April] 1900 – 6 March 1973) was a Soviet animation and fantasy film director, and a People's Artist of the USSR (1969).
Aleksandr Ptushko was born on 19 April 1900 in Lugansk, Lugansk uyezd, Yekaterinoslav Governorate, Russian Empire [now Luhansk, Luhansk Oblast, Ukraine]. He was a director and writer, known for The Stone Flower (1946), Sadko (1953) and Ruslan and Ludmila (1972).
Sadko (Russian: Садко) is a 1953 Soviet adventure fantasy film directed by Aleksandr Ptushko and adapted by Konstantin Isayev, from Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's eponymous opera, which was based on a Russian bylina (epic tale) with the same name.
May 11, 2017 · Aleksandr Ptushko was a filmmaker of wonderful vision and flair, an artist with an almost uncanny knack for breathtaking visuals and an earnest, classical fairy-tale sensibility. Rather than going out to the latest drab, grey mythological epic-gracing theater screens, perhaps now is the time for you to see what this lesser-known ...
Director Aleksandr Ptushko (1900-1973) was a pioneer in this tradition who began his career in the 1930s. With singular artistic inventiveness, Ptushko became a Soviet foil to Walt Disney, Ray Harryhausen and Mario Bava as he created dazzling, bejeweled fantasies including such groundbreaking films as The Stone Flower , Sadko , Sampo , and ...
Aleksandr Lukich Ptushko (Russian: Александр Лукич Птушко, 19 April [O.S. 6 April] 1900 – 6 March 1973) was a Soviet animation and fantasy film director, and a People's Artist of the USSR (1969).
Sep 14, 2022 · Aleksandr Ptushko was a significant figure in Soviet cinema, working from the late 1920s to the early 1970s, through the Stalinist era and into the thaw of the late ’50s and ’60s.
