Name Alexander Tatarsky | Role Animator | |
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Died July 22, 2007, Moscow, Russia Awards Nika Award for Best Animated Feature Film Movies Last Year's Snow Was Falling, Plasticine Crow, Investigation Held by Kolobki, Wings - legs and tails, The Putch Similar People Igor Kovalyov, Mikhail Aldashin, Konstantin Bronzit, Leonid Bronevoy, Stepan Koval | ||
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Aleksander Mihailovich Tatarskiy (Russian: Алекса́ндр Миха́йлович Тата́рский; December 11, 1950 – July 22, 2007) was a Soviet-born Russian animation film director, script writer, producer, animator, and artist of Ukrainian Jewish origin. An honoured arts worker of Russia, he was name a laureate of the State Premio of Russian Federation in the field of "literature and arts" and laureate of the Nika Award.
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Tatarskiy was born in Kiev in 1950. He studied animation under David Cherkassky. He began working in animation at a Kiev studio at the age of 18 and recovered a camera from the studio's junkyard, which he used to make his first animated film, For the Birds, in 1974. In 1980, Tatarskiy was invited to moved to Moscow to continue his work, which immediately resulted in his 1981 film, Plasticine Crow (Russian: Пластилиновая ворона), which was Russia's first claymation film.
In 1988 he founded the Moscow animation studio Pilot, the first private, independent film studio in the Soviet Union. Most of the films by Aleksandr Tatarsky and Pilot studio have festival awards. The bumper for the children’s telecast Spokoinoi nochi, malyshi! (in English, roughly: "Good Night, Kids") was included into the Guinness Book of Records by the number of broadcasts. Pilot's collection of short-length animations after folktales of Russia’s peoples, The Mount of Gems, is the largest project in the history of Russian animation.
Tatarskiy died of a heart attack in Moscow, Russia, aged 56.