Alexandra Snezhko-Blotskaya
Alexandra Gavrilovna Snezhko-Blotskaya was a Soviet animated film director. She was a longtime collaborator with Ivan Ivanov-Vano.
Biography
Snezhko-Blotskaya was born in Volchansk near Kharkov, before her family moved to Shatura, near Moscow. There she graduated from art studios of Ivan Rerberg and Ilya Mashkov.Snezhko-Blotskaya started her film career as designer for Soyuzkinokhronika in 1932. Since 1936, she became a constant collaborator and aide to Ivan Ivanov-Vano, 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. Her first solo feature-length film was The Enchanted Boy, based on The Wonderful Adventures of Nils by Selma Lagerlöf.
Most of Snezhko-Blotskaya's films were fantasy based on folk tales and books by authors like Alexander Pushkin and Rudyard Kipling. 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 Zheleznodorozhny, Moscow Oblast.
Filmography
Second unit director for Ivanov-Vano
- 1949 — Geese-Swans - based on Russian folklore.
- 1951 — The Tale of the Dead Tsarevna and Seven Bogatyrs - based on a poem by Alexander Pushkin.
- 1952 — Snegurochka based on a play by Alexander Ostrovsky.
Solo director
- 1954 — - based on a story by Vitaly Bianki.
- 1955 — The Enchanted Boy - based on a novel by Selma Lagerlöf.
- 1957 — - based on east Slavic folklore.
- 1958 — - based on a story by Arkady Gaidar.
- 1959 — - based on Lithuanian folklore.
- 1961 — - based on Vietnamese folklore.
- 1962 — - based on Kazakh folklore.
- 1963 — - based on a story by Valery Medvedev.
- 1963 —
- 1965 — Rikki-Tikki-Tavi - based on a story by Rudyard Kipling
- 1967 — The Tale of the Golden Cockerel - based on a poem by Alexander Pushkin.
- 1968 — The Cat Who Walked By Himself - based on a story by Rudyard Kipling
- Films based on Greek mythology:
- *1969 —
- *1971 —
- *1971 —
- *1973 —
- *1974 —