Yefim Gamburg

Who is Yefim Gamburg?

Yefim Abramovich Gamburg was a Soviet and Russian animator, who is best known for directing Passion of Spies, Blue Puppy and Dog in Boots. He graduated from the Moscow Pedagogical Institute, since 1955 he worked for Soyuzmultfilm studio. Gamburg was one of the first Soviet directors to work in the genre of parody film.

Gamburg came to the Soyuzmultfilm studio in 1955 and initially worked as an animator for such films as Funtik i ogurtscy and Neznaika uchitsya. He made his debut as a film director in 1964 in Fitil series.