Aleksandr Ptushko

Soviet animation and fantasy film director (1900-1973)

0.30body-of-work score · ranked #1741 of 2631 directors · 1 film in our library

A director's score is the sum of their films' composite canon scores — methodology.

Born
April 19, 1900 · Luhansk
Died
March 6, 1973 · Moscow
Nationality
Russian Empire, Soviet Union
Work
film director, screenwriter, camera operator, animator
Reference
Wikipedia · Wikidata
Portrait of Aleksandr Ptushko
N. Karpova · Public domain

Films in our library, ranked

Ranked by composite canon score across 20+ authoritative lists, awards and polls — our ordering, with every placement citing its evidence on the film's page.

  1. 1
    The Stone FlowerКаменный цветок

    1946 · Soviet Union · fantasy, adventure, romance

    Kinema Junpo Best Ten (International) 1947 #9

    0.301 citation

Complete filmography

All 15 directorial credits recorded on Wikidata, in chronological order; films in our library link to their canon-score page.

  • 1930Cinema to the Countryside!
  • 1932Master of the Daily Life
  • 1935The New Gulliver
  • 1937Fishmonger and the Fish
  • 1938The Merry Musicians
  • 1939The Golden Key
  • 1946The Stone Flower
  • 1949Three Encounters
  • 1953Sadko
  • 1956Ilya Muromets
  • 1959Sampo
  • 1961Scarlet Sails
  • 1964A Tale of Lost Times
  • 1967The Tale of Tsar Saltan
  • 1972Ruslan and Ludmila