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Aleksandr Lukich Ptushko (Russian: Александр Лукич Птушко, 19 April [O.S. 6 April] 1900 – 6 March 1973) was a Soviet animation and fantasy film director, and a People's Artist of the USSR (1969). Ptushko is frequently (and somewhat misleadingly) referred to as "the Soviet Walt Disney," because of his prominent early role in animation in the Soviet Union, though a more accurate comparison would be to Willis H. O'Brien or Ray Harryhausen. Some critics, such as Tim Lucas and Alan Upchurch, have also compared Ptushko to Italian filmmaker Mario Bava, who made fantasy and horror films with similar…
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- Fuse (1962) Writer
- The New Gulliver (1935) Director
- Viy (1967) Screenplay
- The Tale of Tsar Saltan (1967) Director
- The Stone Flower (1946) Director
- Ilya Muromets (1956) Director
- Sampo (1959) Director
- Ruslan and Ludmila (1972) Director
- Scarlet Sails (1961) Director
- Sadko (1953) Director
- The Day the Earth Froze (1964) Director
- The District Secretary (1942) Visual Effects Director
- In the Name of the Motherland (1943) Visual Effects Director
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