Biography
Alexandra Gavrilovna Snezhko-Blotskaya (Russian: Александра Гавриловна Снежко-Блоцкая, 21 February 1909 in Volchansk, Russian Empire – 29 December 1980 in Moscow Oblast, Soviet Union) was a Soviet animated film director. She was a longtime collaborator with Ivan Ivanov-Vano. Snezhko-Blotskaya was born in Volchansk near Kharkov (modern Ukraine), before her family moved to Shatura, near Moscow. There she graduated from art studios of Ivan Rerberg and Ilya Mashkov.
Snezhko-Blotskaya started her film career as designer for Soyuzkinokhronika in 1932. Since 1936, she became a constant collaborator and aide to Ivan Ivanov-Vano, a patriarch of Russian animation. Snezhko-Blotskaya participated as a co-director in many of his films including famous The Humpbacked Horse and The Snow Maiden. Her first solo feature-length film was The Enchanted Boy (1955), based on The Wonderful Adventures of Nils by Selma Lagerlöf.
Most of Snezhko-Blotskaya's films were fantasy based on folk tales and books by authors like Alexander Pushkin and Rudyard Kipling. In the 1970s she directed a series of five animated shorts based on Greek mythology.
Snezhko-Blotskaya died in 1980 at the age of 71 at her home in Zheleznodorozhny, Moscow Oblast.
Filmography
all 19
Movies 19
Director 19
Lapland Fairy Tales (1990)
Prometheus (1974)
Perses (1973)
Argonauts (1971)
The Labyrinth (1971)
The Return from Olympus (1969)
The Cat Who Walked by Himself (1968)
The Tale of the Golden Rooster (1967)
Rikki-Tikki-Tavi (1965)
Daughter of the Sun (1963)
Barankin, Be a Human! (1962)
The Amber Castle (1959)
Verlioka (1957)
The Enchanted Boy (1955)
The Orange Neck (1954)
The Snow Maiden (1952)
The Tale of the Dead Princess and the Seven Knights (1951)
Geese-Swans (1949)
The Hunchedback Horse (1947)
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Known ForDirecting
GenderFemale
Birthday1909-02-21
Deathday1980-12-29 (71 years old)
Birth PlaceVovchansk, Ukraine
CitizenshipsRussian Empire, Soviet Union
Also Known AsA. Snezhko-Blotskaya, Александра Снежко-Блоцкая, Alexandra Snezhko-Blotskaya, Александра Гавриловна Снежко-Блоцкая
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