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Valentin Aleksandrovich Karavaev
Валентин Караваев
Life Time
29 August 1929 - 11 December 2001
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Honored Art Worker of Russia Valentin Alexandrovich Karavaev is the man without whom Soviet animation and animation would be quite different. And we should be grateful that such a man lived among us and left behind a great legacy. Valentin Karavaev was born in 1929 in the Kirov region. It was difficult for him not to become a master, because behind his shoulders the Moscow Art School, courses of cartoon artists at the Soyuzmultfilm film studio, courses of cartoonists at the Crocodile magazine and
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Honored Art Worker of Russia Valentin Alexandrovich Karavaev is the man without whom Soviet animation and animation would be quite different. And we should be grateful that such a man lived among us and left behind a great legacy.
Valentin Karavaev was born in 1929 in the Kirov region. It was difficult for him not to become a master, because behind his shoulders the Moscow Art School, courses of cartoon artists at the Soyuzmultfilm film studio, courses of cartoonists at the Crocodile magazine and the department of directing animated films of VGIK.
He graduated from the Institute in 1968 and immediately began shooting cartoons. His directorial debut was the animated film “Father Christmas and Summer”, which immediately received the recognition of the audience. Karavaev was already 40 years old at that time. Thanks to this picture, loved by both adults and children, he was appointed director of Soyuzmultfilm. His favorite genre is satire, but Karavaev did not often manage to realize his abilities in this direction. Among the works of the artist is the film adaptation of Saltykov-Shchedrin books.
"The wise sander" and "History of a City," he's working on issues of the film magazine "Fitile." A special place in the work of Karavaev occupies a whole cycle of cartoons about the parrot Kesha.
The dream of any artist is his own creative studio. Valentin Alexandrovich carried it out in 1995, when his studio Animafilm began working on Leningradsky Prospekt with the help of the Moscow Children's Fund. It was here that one of his last works was filmed – the animated fairy tale “The Traveler Frog”. He also taught the children what he knew best: the art of animation.
Valentin Alexandrovich Karavaev died on December 11, 2001 at the age of 72 years. /