Efim Gamburg

Efim Abramovich Gamburg is Soviet and Russian film director. Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1986). Member of World War II. Gamburg was awarded the Order of the Red Star, medals. He graduated from the Moscow Pedagogical Institute (Faculty of Graphic Arts). In 1955, he began working as an animator at the Soyuzmultfilm movie studio, as the director made his debut in 1964 in the movie magazine Fuse (cinema journal) (1962). The director of the musical cartoon Blue Puppy (1976), based on the tale of Gyula Urbán, and the cartoon Pup in Boots (1981), created using the traditional "classic" hand-drawn animation based on "Three Musketeers" by Alexandre Dumas. In 1982, he shot the first animated film in the USSR using computer graphics (Paradoksy v stile rok (1982)). In 1990, he founded and headed the studio "Hamburg Account" (since 1991 - "Renaissance").