Leonid Amalrik

Who was Leonid Amalrik?

Leonid Alekseyevich Amalrik was a Russian animator and animation director.

He was born on July 8, 1905 in Moscow. He graduated from the State college of cinema in 1928. From 1926, he worked in Mezhrabpom-Rus studio. In 1936 he moved to the newly created Soyuzmultfilm studio. Initially he worked in a genre of politic satire, and then became keen on modern fairy tales. The first cartoon that he directed himself was Arrow Flies into a Fairy Tale. His last was Terem-Teremok.

His wife Nadezhda Mikhailovna Privalova, an artist, worked with him on many of his cartoons.