Template:Family name hatnote David Yanovich Cherkassky (Template:Langx; 23 August 1932 – 30 October 2018)[1][2] was a Soviet and Ukrainian animated film director and screenwriter. He made several tv show animations for Kievnauchfilm such as The Adventures of Captain Vrungel, Doctor Aybolite, and Ostrov sokrovishch.
Biography
David Cherkassky was born in 1932 into a Jewish household in Shpola, Ukrainian SSR.[2] Cherkassky graduated from the Kiev Construction Engineering Institute.[3] He noted that Soviet parents anticipated that the Soviet Union will participate in war and so registered their children later to delay them to be drafted to army.[3] Cherkassky in interview acknowledged that he was born on 23 August 1932.[4] During World War II, he and his mother were evacuated to a village[4] near the Russian city of Chkalov (today Orenburg).[3]
David Cherkassky was a member of the Ukrainian gymnast team.[3] Since he was 50, and until he was 80, Cherkassky enjoyed alpine skiing.[3]
After the death of Stalin, Cherkassky found out that his family origin is a small city of Shpola in Central Ukraine and he has some extensive family in the United States.[4] His father was a director of typography after the revolution and later he served as an assistant to People's Commissar of Justice.[4]
He was married to animator and animation director Natalya Marchenkova.[5]
Filmography
Director
- 1964 Mystery of the Black King (Template:Langx) along with Sergei Lyalin
- 1967 Columbus is landing on the coast (Template:Langx)
- 1969 Mystery-Bouffe (Template:Langx)
- 1970 Short stories (Template:Langx)
- 1971 Wizard Okh (Template:Langx)
- 1972 Around the World against the Will (Template:Langx)
- 1974 Pharaohs, good-bye! (Template:Langx) along with Vyacheslav Vinnik
- 1975 What the hell do you want? (Template:Langx)
- 1979 Adventures of Captain Wrongel (Template:Langx)
- 1983 Wings (Template:Langx)
- 1984 Doctor Aybolit (Template:Langx)
- 1988 Treasure Island (Template:Langx)
- 1992 Crazy macaroni or the error of professor Bugensberg (Template:Langx), the motion picture was not finished
References
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- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Template:Cite web
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Roman Huba. Experienced Wrongel. David Cherkassky about his works, friends and hobbies (Опытный Врунгель. Давид Черкасский о своих работах, друзьях и увлечениях). Focus (Ukraine). 28 June 2017
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Hordiychuk, I, Intellectual Rabelaisian (Интеллектуальный раблезианец). The Day. 23 August 2017
- ↑ Template:Cite web