Moscow, 1944) -- director of combination shots Zoya (1944) -- special effects Nashe Serdtse (Our Heart, 1946) -- special effects Tri vstrechi (Three Encounters, 1948) -- co-director My Friend, Kolka! (1961) -- artistic director Beat Up, Drum! (1962) -- artistic director Fuse#3 (1962) -- script writer Вий (Viy, 1967) -- script writer, artistic director, director of combination shots Short Films Propavshaya Gramota (The Missing Certificate, 1927) -- animator Sluchay na stadione (An Incident at the Stadium, 1928) -- director, designer Shifrovanny dokument (The Coded Document, 1928) -- director, script writer, animator Sto priklyucheni (One Hundred Adventures, 1929) -- director, script writer, animator Kino v derevnyu! (Cinema to the Countryside!, 1930) -- director, designer Krepi oboronu (Strengthen Our Defenses, 1930) -- director, script writer, animator Vlastelin byta (The Lord of Family Life, 1932) -- director, script writer, animator Repka (The Little Turnip, 1936) -- script writer, artistic supervisor Volk i Zhuravl (1936) -- artistic supervisor Lisa i Vinograd (1936) -- artistic supervisor Rodina Zovet (The Motherland Calls, 1936) -- artistic supervisor Vesyolye muzykanty (The Merry Musicians, 1937) -- director, script writer Skazka o rybake i rybke (The Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish, 1937) -- director, script writer, animator Zaveshchaniye (The Testament, 1937) -- script writer Lisa i Volk (The Fox and the Wolf, 1937) -- script writer, artistic supervisor Malenky-Udalenky (The Mighty Mite, 1938) -- script writer Pyos i kot (The Dog and the Cat, 1938) -- script writer See also Alexander Rou Ivan Ivanov-Vano Lev Atamanov References External links Ruscico's Ptushko page – includes small biography and links to purchase DVDs. University of Pittsburgh 2002 Russian Film Symposium website – includes medium length biography and links to essays on The New Gulliver, The Stone Flower, Sadko, and Viy. Islands. Aleksandr Ptushko documentary by Russia-K, 2010 (in Russian) Ptushko's grave Soviet film directors Fantasy film directors 1900 births 1973 deaths Burials at Novodevichy Cemetery People from Luhansk Soviet animators Russian animated film directors People's Artists of the USSR People's Artists of the RSFSR Stalin Prize winners Plekhanov Russian University of Economics alumni Academic staff of the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography