Stanislav Mihaylovich Sokolov (russian: Станислав Михайлович Соколов; born May 18, 1947) is a Russian stop-motion

animation Animation is a method by which image, still figures are manipulated to appear as Motion picture, moving images. In traditional animation, images are drawn or painted by hand on transparent cel, celluloid sheets to be photographed and exhibited ...

director. He graduated from

VGIK The Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography (russian: Всероссийский государственный институт кинематографии имени С. А. Герасимова, meaning ''All-Russian State Institute of Cinemat ...

in 1971 and has since then worked with Studios

Soyuzmultfilm Soyuzmultfilm ( rus, Союзмультфи́льм, p=səˌjʉsmʊlʲtˈfʲilʲm , ''Union Cartoon'') (also known as SMF Animation Studio in English, Formerly known as Soyuzdetmultfilm) is a Russian animation studio based in Moscow. Launched in ...

DEFA DEFA (''Deutsche Film-Aktiengesellschaft'') was the state-owned film studio of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) throughout the country's existence. Since 2019, DEFA's film heritage has been made accessible and licensable on the PRO ...

, Christmasfilms and S4C. He was awarded a number of prizes for his films, most notably an

Emmy The Emmy Awards, or Emmys, are an extensive range of awards for artistic and technical merit for the American and international television industry. A number of annual Emmy Award ceremonies are held throughout the calendar year, each with the ...

in 1992 for his contribution to The Animated Shakespeare series. Sokolov is teaching at

, where he is Professor for Animation and Computer Graphics.

Filmography

*''The Guess'' (1977) *''About Ruff Ruffovich'' (, 1979) *''Der Soldat und der Garten'' (, 1980) *''The Homeless Hobgoblings'' (, 1981) *''The Fish Carriage'' (, 1982) *''Black and White Cinema'' (, 1984) *''Falling Shadow'' (, 1985) *''The Great Underground Ball'' (, 1987) *'' The Gold Sword'', (, Zolotaya shpaga, 1990) *''And what's under the mask?'' (, 1991) *'' Shakespeare: the Animated Tales'' — The Tempest (, 1992) *'' Shakespeare: the Animated Tales'' — The Winter's Tale (, 1994) *'' The Miracle Maker'' (, 2000) *''Our Father'' (Christian prayer) (, 2000) *''Alfatitah'' (Muslim prayer) (, 2001) *'' Shema Israel'' (Jewish prayer) (, 2003) *''

Hoffmaniada ''Hoffmaniada'' (russian: Гофманиа́да, translit=Gofmaniáda) is a 2018 Russian stop motion-animated feature film from Soyuzmultfilm. The film is one of the first full-length puppet animated film in the recent history of the animation stu ...

'' (

, being backed by

Mikhail Shemyakin Mihail Mikhailovich Chemiakin (or Shemyakin, russian: Михаил Михайлович Шемякин, born 4 May 1943) is a Russian Painting, painter, Scenic design, stage designer, sculptor and publisher, and a controversial representative ...

) (2018)

External links

The Russian Animation Database's entry on Stanislav Sokolov
at the Animator.ru
The New York Times' entry on the Miracle Maker
* *A couple of ''Gofmaniada'' links (all in Russian):

** ttp://news.ntv.ru/98119/ Video news story on the upcoming film
Another news article

1947 births Living people Russian animators Russian animated film directors Russian artists Stop motion animators Soviet animators Animation educators Soviet animation directors {{animator-stub