Elbert Tuganov (22 February 1922 – 22 March 2007) was an

Estonia Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, and t ...

n animator and film director. He is known as "the father of Estonian animation".

Life

Tuganov was born in Baku,

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to an Estonian mother and an Ossetian father. In 1946 he joined with

Tallinnfilm Tallinnfilm is the oldest surviving film studio in Estonia. It was founded as Estonian Culture Film in 1931, and was nationalized in 1940 after Estonia was forced into the Soviet Union. During the first year of Soviet Occupation (1940–1941) ' ...

. In 1958 he created the first Estonian animated film '' Peetrikese unenägu''.

Animated films

In total he created 38 animated films. * Peetrikese unenägu (1958) * Põhjakonn (1959) * Metsamuinasjutt (1960) * Ott kosmoses (1961) * Mina ja Murri (1961) * Kaks lugu (1962) * Peaaegu uskumatu lugu (1962) * Just nii (1963) * Hiirejaht (1965) * Park (1966) * Jonn (1966) * Žanri sünd (1967) * Ahvipoeg Fips (1968) * Hammasratas (1968) * Aatomik (1970) * Aatomik ja Jõmmid (1970) * Jalakäijad (1971) * Suveniir (1977) * Köpenicki kapten (1978) * Kaupmees ja ahvid (1979) * Giufa (1979) * Ohver (1980) * Õunkimmel (1981)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Tuganov, Elbert 1922 births 2007 deaths Estonian animators Estonian film directors Estonian animated film directors Estonian screenwriters Estonian people of Ossetian descent Recipients of the Order of the White Star, 4th Class People from Baku 20th-century screenwriters Soviet animators Soviet film directors Burials at Pärnamäe Cemetery