Vera Tsekhanovskaya (Russian: Вера Цехановская; born Vera Vseslavovna Shengelidze on December 25, 1902) was a Russian and Soviet animation director who died on April 25, 1977.
Career Between 1919 and 1922, Tsekhanovskaya worked as an architectural faculty member at Petrograd Polytechnic. Then from 1923 to 1924, she worked in the graphics department of the Leningrad Art and Industrial Technical School. She was also an illustrator at Raduga Publishing House around the same time. Finally in 1932, she became a cartoon artist in the department of military technical films of the Belgoskino film studio, which opened the doors for her to become an animator at the Leningrad film studio “Rosfilm” (later - “Lenfilm”) in 1933. During the evacuation of Samarkand, she entered the Soyuzmultfilm, where she worked as an animator and then an assistant director of cartoon films. Most of her work was done alongside her husband, Mikhail Tsekhanovsky. The married couple directed many animated films together, including The Wild Swans (1962), which was part of a dossier commemorating the centenary of the Russian Revolution.
Filmography Source:
Art director
1934: Bazar (Short) 1944: Telefon (Short)
Second unit director or assistant director
1948: Tsvetik-semitsvetik (Short) 1950: Skazka o rybake i rybke (Short) 1952: Kashtanka (Short) 1954: The Frog Princess (Short) 1956: The Tale of Chapayev
Director
1959: Legenda o zaveshchanii mavra (Short) 1961: Lisa, bobyor i drugie (Short) 1962: The Wild Swans1962: The Wild Swans (Mikhail Tsekhanovsky and Vera Tsekhanovskaya), Senses of Cinama. 1966: Ivan Ivanych zabolel (Short) Stories from My Childhood (TV Series) (1 episode) - 1998 - The Wild Swans (1998)
Screenwriter
1964: Post/Mail (Short)
Production designer
1944: The Telephone
Animator
1938: Dzhyabzha (Short)
See also History of Russian animation The Tale of the Priest and of His Workman Balda List of animated feature films of the 1960s
References
External links
Vera Tsekhanovskaya on Animator.ru