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Alexander Mikhailovich Tatarsky (russian: Александр Михайлович Татарский; December 11, 1950 – July 22, 2007) was a
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, screenwriter, animator, producer, artist, co-founder and artistic director of the
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studio.
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(2000). Laureate of the State Prize of the Russian Federation (1998).''Sergey Kapkov (2006)''. Encyclopedia of Domestic Animation, p. 632-633


Biography

Tatarsky was born in Kiev into a family of Jewish origin. His father Mikhail Semyonovich Tatarsky worked in circus and wrote gags for such clowns as
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and
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who was a close family friend."Sasha was a Jew, I'm not"
Igor Kovalyov Igor Adolfovich Kovalyov (russian: Игорь Адольфович Ковалёв; born 17 January 1954) is a Ukrainian-born Russian animator, animation director, director and educator, co-founder of Pilot (studio), Pilot — the first private anim ...
's interview at
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, July 28, 2007 (in Russian) In 1974 Alexander graduated from the Kiev Institute of Theatre and Cinema and in 1975 he finished 3-year animation courses at
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. From 1968 to 1980 he worked at
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under the director
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as an artist and animator. Among his works of that time was '' Adventures of Captain Wrongel''. During the studies he met
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who became his close friend and a co-author on many projects.animation stand An animation stand is a device assembled for the filming of any kind of animation that is placed on a flat surface, including cel animation, graphic animation, clay animation, and silhouette animation. Traditionally, the flat surface that the a ...
and created their first "underground" animated film ''Speaking of Birds'' in 1974. It wasn't released to public; instead they showed it to several prominent animation directors from
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who booked them two places at
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. Nevertheless, Kievnauchfilm refused to let Tatarsky go. In 1980 Kovalyov went to Moscow alone. Shortly after Tatarsky arrived on his own. He managed to get work at Multtelefilm division of
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with the help of
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who wrote the screenplay for Tatarsky's first director's effort — '' Plasticine Crow'' (1981), which also happened to be Soviet first
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film. After the enormous success Tatarsky was offered to create new opening and closing sequences for the popular children's TV show ''
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'' also made of plasticine, which was computerized in 2002 with brighter colors and new details commissioned by the VGTRK (with a brand new version of the lullaby written by Zoya Petrova sung by
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); they were later included into the Guinness Book of Records by the number of broadcasts. It was followed by two other claymation shorts: ''New Year's Eve Song by Ded Moroz'' (1982) and '' Last Year's Snow Was Falling'' (1983). From 1984 on he worked in traditional animation only. In 1988 Tatarsky, Kovalyov, Anatoly Prokhorov and Igor Gelashvili founded the Moscow animation studio
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, the first private, independent film studio in the Soviet Union aimed at adult-themed comedy movies. Tatarsky took the role of artistic director which he kept till his death. Most films created at the studio received festival awards. Shortly after the team was offered to work at the
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studio. And while Tatarsky refused to leave Pilot, Kovalyov and many other animators left for the
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. In his interviews Tatarsky called it a great tragedy for the Russian animation industry which was already in poor state by that time. During the 1990s Pilot produced mostly advertising and music clips. In 1997 Tatarsky launched a side project — Pilot TV that specialized in
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television shows. Its first program, Fruttis Attic, ran from 1997 to 1999 and featured Pilot Brothers, two "virtual hosts" based on the characters from '' Investigation Held by Kolobki'' (1987) who interviewed real-life celebrities. Tatarsky served as an artistic director and in 2000 launched another similar project — '' Turn off the Light!'', a political satire loosely based on ''
Good Night, Little Ones! ''Good Night, Little Ones!'' (russian: Спокойной ночи, малыши!, Spokoynoy nochi, malyshi!) is a long-running Russian-language children's television program. Continuously broadcast since 1964 (premiered during the Soviet era), ...
''. It ran for three years and won two
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awards as the best entertainment program in 2001 and 2002. The ''Red Arrow'' spinoff ran for a year and also won a TEFI in 2004. In 1997 he was also given
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for his animated short ''Pilot Brothers Make Macaronies for Breakfast'' which was part of the ''Pilot Brothers'' mini-series. Tatarsky was also the founder of '' Mountain of Gems'', Pilot's biggest project made with the support of the
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. From 2004 till this day over seventy 13-minute animated shorts were produced based on fairy tales of Russian people and other ethnic groups that populate the Russian Federation and former Soviet states. Every short features its own art direction and animation technique, from
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and traditional animation to computer and
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. They are united by claymation openings that tell the history of every specific region. Among the animation directors who took part in the project were Eduard Nazarov,
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and Tatarsky himself. Tatarsky died of a
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aged 56. He was buried at the Miusskoe cemetery in Moscow.


Filmography

* 1974 — ''Speaking of Birds'' (co-director with
Igor Kovalyov Igor Adolfovich Kovalyov (russian: Игорь Адольфович Ковалёв; born 17 January 1954) is a Ukrainian-born Russian animator, animation director, director and educator, co-founder of Pilot (studio), Pilot — the first private anim ...
, screenwriter, artist, animator), unreleased * 1979 — '' Adventures of Captain Wrongel'' (animator) * 1981 — '' Plasticine Crow'' (director, screenwriter, artist) * 1981 — ''
Good Night, Little Ones! ''Good Night, Little Ones!'' (russian: Спокойной ночи, малыши!, Spokoynoy nochi, malyshi!) is a long-running Russian-language children's television program. Continuously broadcast since 1964 (premiered during the Soviet era), ...
'' (director of opening and closing sequences; computerized in 2002 with new features) * 1982 — ''New Year's Eve Song by Ded Moroz'' (director) * 1982 — ''Take Care of Bread!'' (director) * 1982 — ''Back from the Stars'' (director) * 1982 — ''Incident in a Museum'' (director) * 1982 — ''Tele-eye'' (director of the opening sequence) * 1983 — '' Last Year's Snow Was Falling'' (director, animator) * 1984 — ''Back Side of the Moon'' (director, animator) * 1984 — ''Alarm Clock'' (director of the opening sequence) * 1985 — ''Signs'' (director) * 1985 — ''Rubik's Cube'' — ''Clownery'' episode (director, screenwriter, animator) * 1986 — '' Wings, Legs and Tails'' (co-director with Igor Kovalyov, screenwriter, artist, animator) * 1986 — ''Useful Advises of Professor Chainikov'' — episodes 5 and 6 (director) * 1986 — ''Back and Forth'' (director) * 1986—1987 — '' Investigation Held by Kolobki'' (co-director with Igor Kovalyov, artist)


At Pilot Studio

* 1989—1992 — ''Lift'' (creator, director, screenwriter, producer) * 1989—2007 — ''The Arrival of a Train'' (director, screenwriter), unfinished * 1990 — ''Wonders'' (screenwriter, producer) * 1990 — ''Hen His Wife'' (artistic director) * 1990 — ''Aviators'' (producer) * 1990 — ''Pums'' (artistic director) * 1991 — ''Putsch'' (director, screenwriter, animator) * 1991 — '' Andrei Svislotskiy'' (artistic director) * 1991 — ''Midnight Games'' (producer) * 1991 — ''Auto Racing'' (screenwriter) * 1991 — ''Hunter'' (artistic director) * 1992 — ''Hypnerotomachia'' (producer) * 1992 — ''I Hear You'' (producer) * 1992 — ''Introduction'' (producer) * 1993 — ''Tuk-Tuk'' (producer) * 1993 — ''Soother'' (producer) * 1993 — ''Origin of Species'' (producer) * 1993 — ''Golden Gate'' (producer) * 1993 — ''Fare - Well!'' (producer) * 1993 — ''Other Side'' (producer) * 1993 — ''Chew!'' (producer) * 1994 — ''Gagarin'' (producer) * 1995—1996 — ''Pilot Brothers'' (director of episode 2, screenwriter, producer) * 1995 — ''Exhibitionist'' (artistic director) * 1998 — ''Optimus Mundus'' — ''Underground'' episode (screenwriter) * 1998 — ''Knopik and Co'' — (producer) * 1999 — ''Gone with the Wind'' (director, art director, design, producer) * 2002 — ''Red Gates Rashomon'' (co-director with Valentin Telegin, screenwriter) * 2004—2007 — ''Mountain of Gems'' (creator, artistic director, screenwriter, co-director of episodes 2 and 8 with Valentin Telegin) Films by Pilot Studio
at the official site (in Russian)


References


External links

*
Profile
at animator.ru
A famous 1986 essay by Tatarsky, translated into English

Biography of Alexander Tatarsky

In the memory of A. Tatarsky
at the
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studio website (in Russian)
Mountain of Gems series
at the official
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