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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
- Viy (1967) Screenplay
- Ruslan and Ludmila (1972) Director
- Sampo (1959) Director
- A Tale of Lost Times (1964) Director
- Scarlet Sails (1961) Director
- Sadko (1953) Director
- My Friend, Kolka! (1961) Producer
- The Tale of Tsar Saltan (1967) Director
- The Stone Flower (1946) Director
- Ilya Muromets (1956) Director
- A Winter Tale (1945) Creative Director
- A Good Lad (1942) Visual Effects Director
- Moscow Skies (1944) Visual Effects Director
- The fairy-tale world of Aleksandr Ptushko (1988) as self (archivefootage)
- The Magic Voyage of Sinbad (1962) Director
- The New Gulliver (1935) Writer
- The Fox and the Grapes (1937) Creative Director
- The Golden Key (1939) Director
- Sinbad the Sailor (1944) Creative Director
- Telephone (1944) Creative Director
- Batyr of the Steppes (1942) Director of Photography
- The District Secretary (1942) Visual Effects Director
- Lord of Life (1932) Writer
- The Lost Letter (1945) Creative Director
- The Day the Earth Froze (1964) Director
- Zoya (1944) Visual Effects Director
- The Tale of the Fisherman and the Goldfish (1937) Director
- The Sword and the Dragon (1963) Director
- The Giant Turnip (1936) Writer
- The Fox and the Wolf (1936) Writer
- In the Name of the Motherland (1943) Visual Effects Director
- The Wolf and the Crane (1936) Art Direction
- Capt. Grant's Family (1936) Visual Effects Director
- Three Encounters (1950) Director
- Small But Fierce (1938) Writer
- The Merry Musicians (1938) Director
- The Dog and the Cat (1938) Writer
- Lad from Our Town (1942) Visual Effects Director
- The Incident At The Stadium (1928) Director
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