Director,
Writer
Born 1929 
 
Died 1983
Boris STEPANTSEV
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Борис Павлович СТЕПАНЦЕВ
Boris STEPANTSEV
Filmography (extracts)
 
Director
1973 - The Nutcracker (Щелкунчик) [animation, 27 mn]
1971 - The Pioneer's Violin (Скрипка пионера) [animation, 8.18 mn]
1970 - Karlson went back (Карлсон вернулся) [animation, 20 mn]
1968 - Malych and Karlson (Малыш и Карлсон) [animation, 20 mn]
1965 - Vovka in the Far Far Away Kingdom (Вовка в Тридевятом царстве) [animation, 19.48 mn]
 
Writer
1973 - The Nutcracker (Щелкунчик) from Boris STEPANTSEV [animation, 27 mn]
 
Sites : IMDb, animator.ru

Biography
After graduating from the Moscow Art School (1946), he took animator courses at the Soyuzmultfilm studio. He then worked as an animator. In 1954, he made his directorial debut in one of the first puppet films of Soyuzmultfilm's new 3D animation workshop. In 1960 he graduated from the graphic department of the Moscow Polygraphic Institute. He makes hand-drawn, more rarely puppet and combined films. He repeatedly went to technological experiments (the first Soviet wide-screen cartoon - "Murzilka on the satellite", the first use of electrography in Soviet animation in the film "The Kid and Carlson", the shooting operator J. Topper's combination in "The Nutcracker", the actor's video combination with the hand-drawn sets in "Assol"). In 1980-83 - artistic director of the studio "Multtelefilm" In "Ekran".
 

Commentaries and bibliography
- 50 dessins animés ayant marqué l’histoire du cinéma russe et soviétique (vidéos) Maria TOKMACHEVA, 2023, RUSSIA BEYOND
- Dix dessins animés emblématiques du studio soviétique Soyouzmoultfilm Alexandra GOUZEVA, 2023, RUSSIA BEYOND
- RUSSIA BEYOND : Dix films d'animation russes à découvrir absolument Richard WESS, 2020, RUSSIA BEYOND