Alexandra Gavrilovna Snezhko-Blotskaya (

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: Александра Гавриловна Снежко-Блоцкая, 21 February 1909 in Volchansk,

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– 29 December 1980 in

Moscow Oblast Moscow Oblast ( rus, Моско́вская о́бласть, r=Moskovskaya oblast', p=mɐˈskofskəjə ˈobləsʲtʲ), or Podmoskovye ( rus, Подмоско́вье, p=pədmɐˈskovʲjə, literally "under Moscow"), is a federal subject of Rus ...

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) was a Soviet animated film director. She was a longtime collaborator with

Ivan Ivanov-Vano Ivan Petrovich Ivanov-Vano (russian: Иван Петрович Иванов-Вано; – 25 March 1987), born Ivanov, was a Soviet and Russian animation director, animator, screenwriter, educator, professor at Gerasimov Institute of Cinematog ...

Biography

Snezhko-Blotskaya was born in Volchansk near Kharkov (modern

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), before her family moved to

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, near Moscow. There she graduated from art studios of

Ivan Rerberg Ivan Ivanovich Rerberg (October 4, 1869 – 1932, Moscow) was a Russian civil engineer, architect and educator active in Moscow in 1897–1932. Rerberg's input to present-day Moscow include Kiyevsky Rail Terminal, Central Telegraph building and ...

and

Ilya Mashkov Ilya Ivanovich Mashkov (russian: Илья Иванович Машков; – 20 March 1944) was a Russian artist, one of the most significant and at the same time most characteristic painters of the circle of " Jack of Diamonds" (russian: Бу� ...

. Snezhko-Blotskaya started her film career as designer for Soyuzkinokhronika in 1932. Since 1936, she became a constant collaborator and aide to

, a patriarch of Russian animation. Snezhko-Blotskaya participated as a co-director in many of his films including famous The Humpbacked Horse and

The Snow Maiden ''The Snow Maiden'' (subtitle: A Spring Fairy Tale) ( rus, Снегурочка–весенняя сказка, Snegúrochka–vesénnyaya skázka, italic=yes ) is an opera in four acts with a prologue by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, composed ...

. Her first solo feature-length film was

The Enchanted Boy ''The Enchanted Boy'' (russian: Заколдованный мальчик, ''Zakoldovanyy malchik'') is a 1955 Soviet/Russia traditionally animated feature film directed by Vladimir Polkovnikov and Aleksandra Snezhko-Blotskaya. The film is an ada ...

(1955), based on

The Wonderful Adventures of Nils ''The Wonderful Adventures of Nils'' ( sv, Nils Holgerssons underbara resa genom Sverige, literally ''Nils Holgersson's wonderful journey across Sweden'') is a work of fiction by the Swedish writer Selma Lagerlöf, the first woman to receive th ...

by Selma Lagerlöf. Most of Snezhko-Blotskaya's films were

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based on folk tales and books by authors like

Alexander Pushkin Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (; rus, links=no, Александр Сергеевич ПушкинIn pre-Revolutionary script, his name was written ., r=Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin, p=ɐlʲɪkˈsandr sʲɪrˈɡʲe(j)ɪvʲɪtɕ ˈpuʂkʲɪn, ...

and

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. In the 1970s she directed a series of five animated shorts based on Greek mythology. Snezhko-Blotskaya died in 1980 at the age of 71 at her home in

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Filmography

Second unit director for Ivanov-Vano

* 1949 — Geese-Swans (Гуси-лебеди) - based on Russian folklore. * 1951 — The Tale of the Dead Tsarevna and Seven Bogatyrs (Сказка о мёртвой царевне и о семи богатырях) - based on a poem by

. * 1952 —

Snegurochka Snegurochka (diminutive) or Snegurka ( rus, Снегу́рочка (diminutive), Снегу́рка, p=sʲnʲɪˈgurətɕkə, snʲɪˈgurkə), or The Snow Maiden, is a character in Russian fairy tales. This character has no apparent roots in ...

(Снегурочка) based on a play by

Alexander Ostrovsky Alexander Nikolayevich Ostrovsky (russian: Алекса́ндр Никола́евич Остро́вский; ) was a Russian playwright, generally considered the greatest representative of the Russian realistic period. The author of 47 origina ...

Solo director

* 1954 �
Orange Throat
(Оранжевое горлышко) - based on a story by

Vitaly Bianki Vitaly Valentinovich Bianki (russian: Вита́лий Валенти́нович Биа́нки; 11 February 1894, St. Petersburg — 10 June 1959, Leningrad) was a popular Russian children’s writer and a prolific author of books on nature. E ...

. * 1955 —

(Заколдованный мальчик) - based on a novel by

Selma Lagerlöf Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf (, , ; 20 November 1858 – 16 March 1940) was a Swedish author. She published her first novel, ''Gösta Berling's Saga'', at the age of 33. She was the first woman to win the 1909 Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Pr ...

. * 1957 �
Verlioka
(Верлиока) - based on east Slavic folklore. * 1958 �
The Tale of Malchish-Kibalchish
(Сказка о Мальчише-Кибальчише) - based on a story by

Arkady Gaidar Arkady Petrovich Gaidar (russian: link=no, Арка́дий Петро́вич Гайда́р, born Golikov, russian: link=no, Го́ликов; – 26 October 1941) was a Russian Soviet writer, whose stories were very popular among Soviet chil ...

. * 1959 �
The Amber Castle
(Янтарный замок) - based on Lithuanian folklore. *1961 �
The Dragon
(Дракон) - based on Vietnamese folklore. *1962 �
The Wonderful Garden
(Чудесный сад) - based on Kazakh folklore. *1963 �
Barankin, Be a Human!
(Баранкин, будь человеком!) - based on a story by Valery Medvedev. *1963 �
Sun's Daughter
(Дочь солнца) *1965 —

Rikki-Tikki-Tavi "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi" is a short story in the 1894 anthology ''The Jungle Book'' by Rudyard Kipling about adventures of a valiant young Indian grey mongoose. It has often been anthologized and has been published several times as a short book. Book 5 ...

(Рикки-тикки-тави) - based on a story by

*1967 —

The Tale of the Golden Cockerel ''The Tale of the Golden Cockerel'' (russian: «Сказка о золотом петушке», Skazka o zolotom petushke) is the last fairy tale in verse by Alexander Pushkin. Pushkin wrote the tale in 1834 and it was first published in literary ...

(Сказка о золотом петушке) - based on a poem by

. *1968 — The Cat Who Walked By Himself (Кот, который гулял сам по себе) - based on a story by

* Films based on Greek mythology: **1969 �
The Return from Olympus
(Возвращение с Олимпа) **1971 �
The Labyrinth
(Лабиринт) **1971 �
Argonauths
(Аргонавты) **1973 �
Perseus
(Персей) **1974 �
Prometheus
(Прометей)

External links

Biography (in Russian) by director's daughter
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Snezhko Soviet film directors 1909 births 1980 deaths Soviet animators Soviet animation directors Film people from Kharkiv

Biography

Filmography

Second unit director for Ivanov-Vano

Solo director

See also

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