Alexander Lukich Ptushko was born in the city of Luhansk, Ukraine, on April 19, 1900 in a peasant family. He received education in the school with a mathematical bias. From 1923 to 1926 Alexander studied at the Institute of National Economy in Moscow. He worked in the People’s House as an actor and decorator, and then worked as a correspondent in the newspaper “Donetsk Kochegarka”.
In 1927 he began to work in cinema, at first - an animated artist, then - director of animated films, as well as a
more
Alexander Lukich Ptushko was born in the city of Luhansk, Ukraine, on April 19, 1900 in a peasant family. He received education in the school with a mathematical bias.
From 1923 to 1926 Alexander studied at the Institute of National Economy in Moscow. He worked in the People’s House as an actor and decorator, and then worked as a correspondent in the newspaper “Donetsk Kochegarka”.
In 1927 he began to work in cinema, at first - an animated artist, then - director of animated films, as well as a designer of puppets.
As a director, he made his debut in 1928 with the production of a series of cartoons with the puppet character Bratishkin, who later turned into the hero of hand-drawn cartoons.
In 1932, the director shot the first sound voluminous cartoon, called “The Lord of Life”.
The most successful work was the full-length children’s animated-game comedy “New Gulliver”, based on the work of Jonathan Swift. Alexander Ptushko used many innovative methods during the combined shooting, along with dolls in the film were shot live actors.
In 1936 he worked as an operator on an adventure film.
Children of Captain Grant" .
After the director was appointed to the post of head of the Association of voluminous animation in “Mosfilm”, he put the paintings “Merry musicians”,
"Fairy tale of a fisherman and a fish" et al.
In 1939, Alexander worked on the animated feature film "Golden Key" based on the fairy tale of Alexei Tolstoy.
During the Great Patriotic War, Ptushko was engaged in filming the films “Secretary of the District Committee”, “A Guy from Our City”, “Zoya”. After the war he worked on the adaptation of folk tales and epics: “Sadko”, “Stone flower”, “Ilya Muromets”,
"The Tale of King Saltan" and "Ruslan and Lyudmila."
Ptushko often acted as a co-author and author of scripts for many films, wrote several popular science works on the topic of combined and stunt shooting.
Alexander Ptushko died in March 1973 in Moscow.