Yefim Gamburg
animator (1925-2000)
Yefim Abramovich Gamburg (Russian: Ефим Абрамович Гамбург; 10 June 1925 — 13 June 2000) was a Soviet and Russian animation director known for parody and musical cartoons. He was named Meritorious Artist of RSFSR in 1986. Member of ASIFA.
Biography
Yefim Gamburg was born in Moscow into a Jewish family. From 1942 he took part in the Great Patriotic War as a private and a motorcyclist of the trophy brigade of the 39th Army. He was wounded in action and awarded the Order of the Red Star in 1945.
He studied at the Art faculty of the Lenin Moscow State Pedagogical University and joined Soyuzmultfilm in 1955 where he worked as an animator. He made his directorial debut in 1964, creating several Fitil episodes. Gamburg became one of the first Soviet directors to work in the genre of parody film with cartoons such as Passion of Spies (1967), Robbery, ... Style (1978) and Dog in Boots (1981).
In 1976 he directed a Blue Puppy animated musical film with the main character also being a parody of Charlie Chaplin.
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