Dmitriy Babichenko

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Male

Birthday 1901-05-17

Deathday 1991-07-30 (90 years old)

Place of Birth Zhitomir, Russian Empire [now Zhytomyr, Ukraine]

Also Known As Dmitry Babichenko, Дмитрий Наумович Бабиченко, Dmitry Naumovich Babichenko, Д. Бабиченко

Dmitriy Babichenko

Biography

Dmitry Naumovich Babichenko (May 17, 1901 - July 30, 1991) (Place of birth: Zhitomir) - Soviet filmmaker-animator, master of drawing animation, script writer, artist Born May 7, 1901 in the city of Zhitomir. He received his higher education at the Academy of Plastic Arts in Kiev. He worked as a cartoonist in magazines and newspapers first in Kiev, then in Moscow, as an artist in the workshop of artistic animation at the Soyuzkino film studios, Mezhrabpomfilm. Further creative activity of Babichenko is connected with the Soyuzmultfilm studio. There he became one of the leading directors of the studio. Working in different genres, Dmitry Babichenko became famous first and foremost as a director and director of fairy-tales. In the 1950s he created bright, unforgettable works that were included in the history of domestic animation. In 1956-1957 he was awarded with prizes at the All-Union Film Festival his films "A Million in a Sack" and "Greetings to Friends!". The cartoon "Little Shego" received a diploma at the International Film Festival in Venice. There, in 1958, the prize received a cartoon "The First Violin." Particularly fruitful was Babichenko's collaboration with Ivanov-Vano. In 1959 they shot the cartoon "The Adventures of Pinocchio" by Tolstoy's fairy tale "The Golden Key", which was included in the classic of Russian animation. The film was awarded the First Prize at the 2nd WCF in Minsk (1960). In 1969-1975 Dmitry Babichenko was the director and artistic director of the animation studio under the Creative Association "Ekran". He died on July 30, 1991.

Known For

Director

1972
Симулянт

as Director

1971
Тримпу

as Director

1958
Pervaya skripka

as Director

1957
1956
1953
Brothers Liu

as Director

1952
1950
1950
The Magic Treasure

as Director

1948
Кем быть?

as Director

1946
1946
Spring Melodies

as Director

1944
Musical Joke

as Director

1940
1939
1939
Warlike Beavers

as Director

1939
War Chronicles

as Director

1937
Sweet Cake

as Director

1936
It's Hot in Africa

as Director

Art

1957
Greetings to Our Friends

as Art Direction

1937
Sweet Cake

as Art Direction

1936
It's Hot in Africa

as Art Direction