Lev Atamanov(1905-1981)

Lev Atamanov is Soviet Russian animated film director. People's Artist of the Russian Federation (1978). Atamanov was born in Moscow, in Armenian family. In 1926 he graduated from the First State Film School (workshop of Lev Kuleshov) with a film director diploma. From 1928 he worked as an assistant director at the Gosvoenkino film factory. Since 1931, became the director of animated films. Member of the Great Patriotic War. One of the founders of the Soviet animated cinematography. He created films based on Russian, Armenian, Chinese, Indian, Danish tales. He worked in Armenia, directed there films: Pyos i kot (1955), Kakhardakan gorg (1948). Since 1949, the director of the film studio 'Soyuzmultfilm'. His films Zhyoltyy aist (1950), La petite fleur vermeille (1952), L'antilope d'or (1954), La reine des neiges (1957) and others were awarded with prizes and diplomas from the ICF. Lev Atamanov was chairman of the Bureau of the creative section and a member of the artistic council of Soyuzmultfilm, deputy chairman of the animation section of the USSR IC. In the early 1960s - chairman of the directors board of the Soyuzmultfilm puppet association.