Role Film director | Children Syuzanna Bogdanova | |
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Name Alexandra Snezhko-Blotskaya Died December 28, 1980, Zheleznodorozhny, Russia Movies The Enchanted Boy, The Snow Maiden Nominations Nika Award for Best Animated Feature Film Similar People Ivan Ivanov‑Vano, Aleksei Konsovsky, Valentina Sperantova, Erast Garin, Mikhail Volpin | ||
Alexandra Gavrilovna Snezhko-Blotskaya (Russian: Александра Гавриловна Снежко-Блоцкая, February 21, 1909 in Volchansk, Russian Empire – December 29, 1980 in Moscow Oblast, Soviet Union) was a Soviet Russian animated films director. She was a longtime collaborator with Ivan Ivanov-Vano.
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Biography
Snezhko-Blotskaya was born in Volchansk near Kharkov (modern Ukraine), before her family moved to Shatura, near Moscow. There she graduated from art studios of Ivan Rerberg and Ilya Mashkov.
Snezhko-Blotskaya started her film career as designer for Soyuzkinokhronika in 1932. Since 1936 she became a constant collaborator and aidee to Ivan Ivanov-Vano, a patriarch of Russian animation. She participated as a co-director in many of his films including famous The Humpbacked Horse and The Snow Maiden. Her first solo feature-length film was The Enchanted Boy (1955), based on The Wonderful Adventures of Nils by Selma Lagerlöf.
Most of Snezhko-Blotskaya's films were fantasy based on folk tales and books by authors like Alexander Pushkin and Rudyard Kipling. In the 1970s she directed a series of five animated shorts based on Greek mythology.
She died in 1980 at the age of 71 at her home in Zheleznodorozhny, Moscow Oblast.