Aleksandr Ptushko
About
Biography
Filmography
Director (Feature Film)
Life Events
1933
Worked on "Novy Gulliver/The New Gulliver", reputed to be the first full-length animated feature in the world
1939
Last film until after WWII, "Zolotoj kljuchik/The Golden Key"
1946
Made first full-length Russian film in color, "Kamenny tsvetok/The Stone Flower"
1953
Directed the fantasy feature "Sadko"; film was later bought by Roger Corman who had Francis Ford Coppola re-write the dialogue in English, re-dubbed the film and released it in the USA in 1959 as "The Magic Voyage of Sinbad"
1956
Helmed the epic "Ilya Muromets"
1959
Directed "Sampo", based on the Finnish national folk tale "Kalevala"; edited version released in USA as "The Day the Earth Froze"
1966
Adapted Pushkin's "Skazka O Tsare Saltane/The Tale of the Tsar Sultan"
1967
Co-wrote and directed the horror film "Viy", based on a novel by Nikolai Gogol
1972
Wrote and directed what is considered his masterpiece, the two-part fantasy epic "Ruslan i Lyudmila"
