Vera Tsekhanovskaya (Russian: Вера Цехановская; born Vera Vseslavovna Shengelidze on December 25, 1902)[1] was a Russian and Soviet animation director who died on April 25, 1977.[2]
Career edit
Between 1919 and 1922, Tsekhanovskaya worked as an architectural faculty member at Petrograd Polytechnic. Then from 1923 to 1924, she worked in the graphics department of the Leningrad Art and Industrial Technical School. She was also an illustrator at Raduga Publishing House around the same time. Finally in 1932, she became a cartoon artist in the department of military technical films of the Belgoskino film studio, which opened the doors for her to become an animator at the Leningrad film studio “Rosfilm” (later - “Lenfilm”) in 1933. During the evacuation of Samarkand, she entered the Soyuzmultfilm, where she worked as an animator and then an assistant director of cartoon films. Most of her work was done alongside her husband, Mikhail Tsekhanovsky. The married couple directed many animated films together, including The Wild Swans (1962),[2] which was part of a dossier commemorating the centenary of the Russian Revolution.[3]
Filmography[2] edit
Art director edit
- 1934: Bazar (Short)
- 1944: Telefon (Short)
Second unit director or assistant director edit
- 1948: Tsvetik-semitsvetik (Short)
- 1950: Skazka o rybake i rybke (Short)
- 1952: Kashtanka (Short)
- 1954: The Frog Princess (Short)
- 1956: The Tale of Chapayev
Director edit
- 1959: Legenda o zaveshchanii mavra (Short)
- 1961: Lisa, bobyor i drugie (Short)
- 1962: The Wild Swans[1]
- 1966: Ivan Ivanych zabolel (Short)
- Stories from My Childhood (TV Series) (1 episode) - 1998 - The Wild Swans (1998)
Screenwriter edit
- 1964: Post/Mail (Short)
Production designer edit
- 1944: The Telephone
Animator edit
- 1938: Dzhyabzha (Short)
See also edit
References edit
- ^ "Дыхание воли. Дневники Михаила ЦЕХАНОВСКОГО - Номер 54". www.kinozapiski.ru. Retrieved 2018-11-15.
- ^ a b c "Российская анимация в буквах и фигурах | Персоналии | Цехановская Вера Всеславовна". www.animator.ru. Retrieved 2018-11-14.
- ^ Mihailova, Mihaela (December 2017). "1962: The wild swans (Mikhail Tsekhanovsky and Vera Tsekhanovskaya)". Senses of Cinema (85). ProQuest 2027039295.
External links edit
- Vera Tsekhanovskaya at IMDb
- Vera Tsekhanovskaya on Animator.ru
- Pikkov, Ülo (1 December 2016). "On the Topics and Style of Soviet Animated Films". Baltic Screen Media Review. 4 (1): 16–37. doi:10.1515/bsmr-2017-0002. S2CID 73722018.
