Lev Milchin
Lev Isaakovich Milchin (Russian: Лев Исаакович Мильчин, 1920—1987) was a Soviet animated film director, art director and painter. He was also a pedagogue and Honoured Artist of the RSFSR.
He was a prototype for the main character (film director) for Film, Film, Film.
Biography
He was born in a family of the artist Isaak Iosifovich Milchin. He graduated from the Minsk art school and art faculty of the VGIK. In the period of the Great Patriotic War was in a militia, after — on CIFS (Almaty) the artist of several game movies. After the end of war he worked at Soyuzmultfilm studio as the art director of the drawn and stop-motion movies (with such directors, as I. P. Ivanov-Vano, M. M. Tsekhanovskiy, Z. S. Brumberg, V. S. Brumberg, V. I. Polkovnikov, A. G. Snezhko-Blotskaya, A. G. Karanovich). During 1957-62 "Mosfilm", and since 1962 — on "Soyuzmultfilm", as the director and the art director worked at a film studio. I taught in the VGIK. He worked in book graphics. ASIFA's member. He is buried in Moscow, on the Mitinskoe Cemetery (site 126).
The family
The wife - Tamara Poletika (1922 — 2011), the artist of animation cinema.
Filmography
Art director:
- The Humpbacked Horse (1947)
- The Little Flower with Seven Colours (1948)
- Geese-Swans (1949)
- A Strange Voice (1949)
- The Tale of the Dead Tsarevna and the Seven Bogatyrs (1951)
- Tsarevna the Frog (1954)
- The Enchanted Boy (1955)
- The Helping-out Stick (1956)
- Fulfillment of Desires (1957)
- My Younger Brother (1962)
- The Glowworm №3 (1963)
- The Pig-Money-Box (1963)
- Zhu-Zhu-Zhu (1966)
- An Alarm Clock (1967)
- Adventures of the Baron Munchausen (1967)
- The Comedian (1968)
- Brave Robin Hood (1970)
- Stories of the Old Sailor. Antarctica (1972)
- Health Begins at Home (1973)
- The Humpbacked Horse (1975)
- The Steadfast Tin Soldier (1976)
- How Masha Quarreled with a Pillow (1977)
- Masha isn't a Lazy Girl Anymore (1978)
- Metamorphosis (1978)
- New Aladdin (1979)
- Maria, Mirabela (1981)
- The Tale of Tsar Saltan (1984)
- The Cock and Boyarin (1986)
Director:
- The Glowworm №3 (1963)
- The Pig-Money-Box (1963)
- Allowed and Not Allowed (1964)
- Hello, Atom! (1965)
- Zhu-Zhu-Zhu (1966)
- Today is Birthday (1966)
- An Alarm Clock (1967)
- The Glowworm №8 (1968)
- Grandmother's Umbrella (1969)
- Stories of the Old Sailor. Extraordinary Travel (1970)
- Stories of the Old Sailor. Desert Island (1971)
- Stories of the Old Sailor. Antarctica (1972)
- The Steadfast Tin Soldier (1976)
- How Masha Quarreled with a Pillow (1977)
- Masha isn't a Lazy Girl Anymore (1978)
- Masha and the Magic Jam (1979)
- The Tale of Tsar Saltan (1984)
- The Cucumber Horse (1985)
- The Cock and Boyarin (1986)
External links
- Lev Milchin at Animator.ru (complete filmography)
- Lev Milchin at the Internet Movie Database