Ivan Aksenchuk
, 1918 - 1999
Soviet and Russian animation director, WW2 participant, awarded the title of People’s Artist of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.
Aksenchuk came to animation after WW2, studying and later working in Moscow at the Soyuzmultfilm Studio. Ivan Aksenchuk made movies of various kinds. He was especially famous for his fairy tales (Ореховый прутик [Nut Twig] 1955, Синеглазка [Blue-Eye] 1984), but also made many satirical and propaganda movies. Among his experiments we may mention a movie based on a poem by Aleksandr Blok Twelve or a movie interpreting drawings of Leonardo da Vinci. Aksenchuk was a very educated and intelligent person according to the description of Grigory Borodin in a fascinating article dedicated to an anniversary of the director.*
* Borodin, Georgy, “Иван Аксенчук (к 95-летию режиссера)” [Ivan Aksenchuk. In honour of 95 anniversary of the director], online resource animalife.ru/2013/09/20/ivan-aksenchuk-k-95-letiyu-rezhissera/ (accessed February 02, 2018).
Bio prepared by Hanna Paulouskaya, University of Warsaw, hannapa@al.uw.edu.pl
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