Biography

Ivan Aksenchuk is Soviet animator, art director. Winner of international festivals. People's Artist of the Russian Federation (1991). Member of the Great Patriotic War. He was wounded and was treated at the hospital for some time. After the war, Aksenchuk demobilized as an officer. From 1946 to 1948 he studied at the courses of animators at the film studio "Soyuzmultfilm". After graduation, he began working as an animator, then as an assistant director at Aleksandr Vasilyevich Ivanov and Evgeniy Migunov, and since 1953 as a director. He worked in classical drawing technology. Filmed fairy tales of different nations, in particular: the Romanian A Hazel Tree Twig (1955), the Uzbek The Stork (1956), and the Italian The Boy from Napoli (1958). In addition to wonderful children's animated films, he created social "movie-posters". He made animations for the satirical film magazine Fuse (cinema journal) (1962).
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Honored Artist of the Russian Federation (12/29/1979).

1955 - "Nut Twig" - prize and honorary diploma of the VII IFF Film for Children and Youth in Venice, 1956.

1984 - "Sineglazka" - the prize "Bronze Vulture" at the XV IFF children's and youth films in Italy, 1985.

Ivan Aksenchuk died in poverty July 17, 1999 in Moscow.