Elena Petkevich

Directing

Elena Petkevich

Born

1951-07-19 (75)

Known for

Directing

Credits

25 titles

Elena Petkevich is a director, screenwriter, production designer, animator. In 1974 she received a diploma in architecture. In 1986 she graduated from the Higher Courses of Screenwriters and Directors (masters F.S. Khitruk and Y.B. Norstein). She collaborated with the Sverdlovsk Film Studio, Soyuzmultfilm. Since 1990 he has been working at the Belarusfilm Film Studio.

Known for

Behind the camera

The Ruffe and the Sparrow poster
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The ruff and the sparrow were bragging to each other about who had the better life. The sparrow was telling how good he felt in the air, while the ruff, on the contrary, was bragging about how good he felt in the water.

The Ruffe and the Sparrow

2001

Forest Tales poster
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A poetic tale directed by Elena Petkevich for children on a small grasshopper, which is trying to learn the secret of life.

Forest Tales

1997

No artwork available
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Based on Belarusian legends.

The Moon

1993

No artwork available
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Based on Belarusian legends.

The Moon

1993

A Song for a Canary poster
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A very simple story about a canary bird singing its song.

A Song for a Canary

2002

A Song for a Canary poster
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A very simple story about a canary bird singing its song.

A Song for a Canary

2002

Children's Album poster
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Two half-hour almanacs of small cartoons made by famous Directors of Russia and Belarus based on the works of great composers for children. The first part is devoted to the music of Baroque and romanticism, the second-to the music of the twentieth century.

Children's Album

2020

Children's Album poster
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Two half-hour almanacs of small cartoons made by famous Directors of Russia and Belarus based on the works of great composers for children. The first part is devoted to the music of Baroque and romanticism, the second-to the music of the twentieth century.

Children's Album

2020

Magic Shop poster
6.0

Full of fantasy and humor, an extraordinary story that happened on the eve of the New Year. Going to the city for shopping at the New Year's table, the Kid and Daddy find themselves in a mysterious magic shop, where the play of imagination comes true, changing the real world and making you believe in a fairy tale.

Magic Shop

2006

Tales of the Old Piano. Robert Schuman. Letters poster
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The film tells the story of Robert Schuman, his life and creative work. He could have been a talented pianist. But he invented the device to prop up his fingers while practicing. The idea was to strengthen them and develop independence, but instead, two fingers on his right hand were permanently injured. As a result Schuman became a great composer and publisher of a music magazine. He fell in love with a talented pianist Clara Wiek - the daughter of his professor - and married her against his will. The film is a romantic story based on the composer's personal notes and his drawings on the margins of sheet music.

Tales of the Old Piano. Robert Schuman. Letters

2009

A Dream on a Winter Night poster
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From the story of a gnome lost in a spruce tree, the boy Mart learns of the kingdom of the gnomes. Their Prince suffers from terrible dreams. But there is a good side to these dreams for him - in them he meets the love of his life - the princess of the little forest elves, Brambleclaw, who reciprocates his feelings. Everything would be fine and cloudless, but their shared happiness is hindered by the King of Dreamland, who guards the princess in a magical anemone garden and will not let her go easily. Will the lovers be able to be together?

A Dream on a Winter Night

2022

A Dream on a Winter Night poster
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From the story of a gnome lost in a spruce tree, the boy Mart learns of the kingdom of the gnomes. Their Prince suffers from terrible dreams. But there is a good side to these dreams for him - in them he meets the love of his life - the princess of the little forest elves, Brambleclaw, who reciprocates his feelings. Everything would be fine and cloudless, but their shared happiness is hindered by the King of Dreamland, who guards the princess in a magical anemone garden and will not let her go easily. Will the lovers be able to be together?

A Dream on a Winter Night

2022

No artwork available
NR

Animated film from the almanac of classical music for children “Children’s Album”.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Sonata for Keyboard Four-Hands

2020

Snow White and the Scarlet Flower poster
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This is a magical story about a prince whom a gnome turned into a bear, but Snow White's love restored him to human form.

Snow White and the Scarlet Flower

2012

Marc Chagall. Origins poster
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The film is based on Marc Chagall's memories of his childhood, of Vitebsk, where he spent many years, and of his parents, whom he loved very much.

Marc Chagall. Origins

2016

No artwork available
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Animated miniature for the 850th anniversary of Moscow.

Optimus Mundus 15. The Golden Leaf

1998

No artwork available
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Animated miniature for the 850th anniversary of Moscow.

Optimus Mundus 15. The Golden Leaf

1998

Master of Liberal Arts. Francisk Skaryna poster
7.0

The film is dedicated to the Belarusian first printer and educator Francysk Skaryn. In a mysterious and magical atmosphere, whether it is a dream or a reality, Francysk Skaryn meets an inquisitive lion at night who can talk. Skaryn answers the intelligent animal's questions, and in this way tells about his life.

Master of Liberal Arts. Francisk Skaryna

2018

Nanny's Fairy Tales poster
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Late in the evening, a mother puts her little daughter to bed. The girl doesn't want to sleep and asks her dog, Asha, to tell her a scary story. Asha tells a story about a girl named Gretel and her brother, Hansel.

Nanny's Fairy Tales

2017

Nanny's Fairy Tales poster
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Late in the evening, a mother puts her little daughter to bed. The girl doesn't want to sleep and asks her dog, Asha, to tell her a scary story. Asha tells a story about a girl named Gretel and her brother, Hansel.

Nanny's Fairy Tales

2017

No artwork available
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No synopsis available yet.

Paolo Ricci. Hugo's Owl

2023

Once Upon a Time, Before New Year poster
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One New Year's Eve, Pasha and Dasha had a fight over the gifts their parents had brought them. For the all-seeing Baba Yaga, this quarrel became a good excuse to punish the naughty children. She kidnapped Dasha and turned her into a Christmas tree. Pasha sets off into the fairytale forest to search for his sister...

Once Upon a Time, Before New Year

2009

Tales of the Old Piano: Johann Sebastian Bach poster
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Johann Sebastian Bach was a hereditary musician and devoted his whole life to his favorite work – his brilliant music inspired more than one generation of composers and is still alive today...

Tales of the Old Piano: Johann Sebastian Bach

2012

No artwork available
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Animated film from the almanac of classical music for children “Children’s Album”.

Johann Sebastian Bach. Albatross

2020

The Lafertovo Poppycake Seller poster
10.0

The cartoon tells about a girl who was sent by an evil stepmother to get tortillas and the secret of making them to her grandmother, who lives in the Lafertovo part of Moscow.

The Lafertovo Poppycake Seller

1986