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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). Ptushko is frequently (and somewhat misleadingly) referred to as "the Soviet Walt Disney," because of his prominent early role in animation in the Soviet Union, though a more accurate comparison would be to Willis H. O'Brien or Ray Harryhausen. Some critics, such as Tim Lucas and Alan Upchurch, have also compared Ptushko to Italian filmmaker Mario Bava, who made fantasy and horror films with similar…
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- Fuse (1962) Writer
- My Friend, Kolka! (1961) Producer
- The fairy-tale world of Aleksandr Ptushko (1988) as self (archivefootage)
- Viy (1967) Screenplay
- A Good Lad (1942) Visual Effects Director
- A Winter Tale (1945) Creative Director
- A Tale of Lost Times (1964) Director
- Moscow Skies (1944) Visual Effects Director
- Ruslan and Ludmila (1972) Director
- Scarlet Sails (1961) Director
- Sampo (1959) Director
- The Golden Key (1939) Director
- The Magic Voyage of Sinbad (1962) Director
- The Fox and the Wolf (1936) Writer
- The Stone Flower (1946) Director
- The New Gulliver (1935) Director
- Lord of Life (1932) Director
- Ilya Muromets (1956) Director
- The Lost Letter (1945) Creative Director
- Telephone (1944) Creative Director
- Sadko (1953) Director
- Capt. Grant's Family (1936) Visual Effects Director
- The Giant Turnip (1936) Writer
- Batyr of the Steppes (1942) Director of Photography
- The Tale of the Fisherman and the Goldfish (1937) Director
- The Dog and the Cat (1938) Writer
- The Fox and the Grapes (1937) Creative Director
- The Tale of Tsar Saltan (1967) Director
- The Wolf and the Crane (1936) Art Direction
- The Day the Earth Froze (1964) Director
- Sinbad the Sailor (1944) Creative Director
- The Incident At The Stadium (1928) Director
- The Sword and the Dragon (1963) Director
- Small But Fierce (1938) Writer
- Zoya (1944) Visual Effects Director
- The District Secretary (1942) Visual Effects Director
- In the Name of the Motherland (1943) Visual Effects Director
- Three Encounters (1950) Director
- Lad from Our Town (1942) Visual Effects Director
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Most-watched Aleksandr Ptushko films currently: My Friend, Kolka! (1961), The fairy-tale world of Aleksandr Ptushko (1988), Viy (1967), A Good Lad (1942), A Winter Tale (1945).
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