Elbert Tuganov

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1920-02-22 (87 years old)

Deathday

2007-03-22

Place of Birth

Baku, Azerbaijan SSR, USSR [now Azerbaijan]

Elbert Tuganov

Biography

Elbert Tuganov (February 22, 1922 – March 22, 2007) was an Azerbaijani-Estonian animator and film director. He is known as "the father of Estonian animation". Tuganov was born in Baku, Azerbaijan to an Estonian mother and an Ossetian father. In 1946 he joined with Tallinnfilm. In 1958 he created the first Estonian animated film Peetrikese unenägu.

Acting

Production

1968

Fips the Monkey

as Director

1970

Athomic

as Director

1960

1961

Me and Murri

as Director

1962

Two Stories

as Director

1962

Two Stories

as Screenplay

1963

Just Like That!

as Director

1959

North Dragon

as Director

1962

Ott in Space

as Director

1967

Stork Chick

as Director

1976

1976

Clown and Kroops

as Director

1970

Guguta

as Writer

1965

1972

Nippet

as Director

1965

Mouse Hunt

as Director

1955

Kui saabub õhtu

as Visual Effects Camera

1955

Yachts at Sea

as Assistant Camera

1972

Drivers

as Director

1980

Victim

as Director

1966

Jonn

as Director

1974

Sisters

as Director

1971

Pedestrians

as Director

1967

1964

1966

Park

as Director

1980

Victim

as Writer

1974

Sisters

as Writer

1971

Pedestrians

as Writer

1982

Apple Pie

as Director

1978

1972

Drivers

as Writer

1979

1970

1975

Inspiration

as Writer

1975

Inspiration

as Director

1974

Bloody John

as Director

1974

Bloody John

as Writer

1958

1979

Giufa

as Writer

1977

Souvenir

as Director

1979

Giufa

as Director

1973

New Friends

as Director

1968

Gear Wheel

as Director

1964

1963

Talent

as Director

1963

Talent

as Writer

1968

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