Ivan Aksenchuk

Directing

Ivan Aksenchuk

Born — Died

1918-09-20 — 1999-07-12

Place of birth

Prosyanye Polyany, Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic [now Russia]

Known for

Directing

Credits

32 titles

Known for

Valuable Kopeck poster
5.1

Animated short film dedicated to the redenomination of the Soviet ruble that happened on January 1, 1961.

Valuable Kopeck

1961

The Little Mermaid poster
7.1

Rusalochka opens in modern day Copenhagen, Denmark. Several tourists gather around the capital's famous mermaid statue, as a tour guide explains its significance. A fish in the water below the tourists scoffs at their foolishness, and then, proceeds to tell about the doomed love of the mermaid. Upon reaching her 15th birthday, the Little Mermaid is allowed to swim up to the surface above. As soon as she does, however, the Mermaid spots a young prince caught up in a dreadful storm. She admires the man's bravery and decides to save him, declaring that, "The beautiful and the brave should not perish." After the mermaid returns to the ocean, she decides that she wants to become human.

The Little Mermaid

1968

The Adventures of the Magic Globe or Witch's Tricks poster
NR

Animation film consists of four small stories. No Trouble, Boy from Naples, Cinderella and Hazelnut Twig.

The Adventures of the Magic Globe or Witch's Tricks

1991

Love in a Cottage poster
NR

Young pair which doesn’t want to study and prefers to be a burden to its parents.

Love in a Cottage

1966

Cinderella poster
7.3

The Cinderella story.

Cinderella

1979

Plus Electrification poster
NR

Plus Electrification, 1972, directed by Ivan Aksenchuk. Soyuzmultfilm. Executed with Disney-like animation by one of Soyuzmultfilm's leading directors of films for children. "Plus Electrification" triumphs the USSR's drive to bring electricity to every town and village. It was a tenet of Vladimir Lenin that electrification plus Soviet power [vlast] would lead to Communism. Electricity is shown dramatically uniting the economies of USSR and the Eastern bloc countries through production of consumer goods like Czech crystal and Hungarian buses.

Plus Electrification

1972

Behind the camera

Valuable Kopeck poster
5.1

Animated short film dedicated to the redenomination of the Soviet ruble that happened on January 1, 1961.

Valuable Kopeck

1961

The Little Mermaid poster
7.1

Rusalochka opens in modern day Copenhagen, Denmark. Several tourists gather around the capital's famous mermaid statue, as a tour guide explains its significance. A fish in the water below the tourists scoffs at their foolishness, and then, proceeds to tell about the doomed love of the mermaid. Upon reaching her 15th birthday, the Little Mermaid is allowed to swim up to the surface above. As soon as she does, however, the Mermaid spots a young prince caught up in a dreadful storm. She admires the man's bravery and decides to save him, declaring that, "The beautiful and the brave should not perish." After the mermaid returns to the ocean, she decides that she wants to become human.

The Little Mermaid

1968

The Adventures of the Magic Globe or Witch's Tricks poster
NR

Animation film consists of four small stories. No Trouble, Boy from Naples, Cinderella and Hazelnut Twig.

The Adventures of the Magic Globe or Witch's Tricks

1991

Love in a Cottage poster
NR

Young pair which doesn’t want to study and prefers to be a burden to its parents.

Love in a Cottage

1966

Cinderella poster
7.3

The Cinderella story.

Cinderella

1979

Plus Electrification poster
NR

Plus Electrification, 1972, directed by Ivan Aksenchuk. Soyuzmultfilm. Executed with Disney-like animation by one of Soyuzmultfilm's leading directors of films for children. "Plus Electrification" triumphs the USSR's drive to bring electricity to every town and village. It was a tenet of Vladimir Lenin that electrification plus Soviet power [vlast] would lead to Communism. Electricity is shown dramatically uniting the economies of USSR and the Eastern bloc countries through production of consumer goods like Czech crystal and Hungarian buses.

Plus Electrification

1972

Rejuvenating Apples poster
7.5

The peasant sends his sons in search of rejuvenating apples. The eldest sons go to a tavern, and the youngest, with the help of a Gray Wolf, gets apples for his father and marries a beautiful Blue-eyed woman.

Rejuvenating Apples

1974

Big Relay Race poster
6.0

In ancient times, many centuries before our era, the Greeks fought so often and shed blood that even the formidable Zeus could not stand it and suggested taking a break every four years. For this, sports competitions were invented, during which it was strictly forbidden to fight with each other. The competition was named the Olympic Games, and since then the tradition has been passed down from generation to generation.

Big Relay Race

1979

Big Relay Race poster
6.0

In ancient times, many centuries before our era, the Greeks fought so often and shed blood that even the formidable Zeus could not stand it and suggested taking a break every four years. For this, sports competitions were invented, during which it was strictly forbidden to fight with each other. The competition was named the Olympic Games, and since then the tradition has been passed down from generation to generation.

Big Relay Race

1979

Ilya Muromets and Highwayman Nightingale poster
7.2

This is the second story from a series of adventures of the brave warrior Ilya of Murom. This time he is moving towards the city of Kiev and on the way accomplishes his great and small feats. Arriving at the gates of Chernigov city, Illya discovers that black vorogs are circling around the city. Having settled with them, Ilya Muromets meets the locals, who offer him the honorary position of governor. But the hero refuses the offer, because he needs to move towards Kiev and fight with evil spirits.

Ilya Muromets and Highwayman Nightingale

1978

Verify Your Clock poster
7.2

A creative political short animation calling for saving time and increasing efficiency in national economic construction.

Verify Your Clock

1963

Sweet Spring poster
NR

The donkey descends from the mountains to the spring, picks up two large jugs of water drop by drop and carries them to the aul to distribute sweet water to everyone who needs it. But his greedy neighbor, the boar, does not allow him to pass, claiming that the path is his, because he passes near his gate. A boar drinks one jug and pours a second one, and the inhabitants of the aul - a rooster, a sheep and a bull-calf - get only drops.

Sweet Spring

1982

Uncle Stepa is a Policeman poster
7.0

Cartoon about Uncle Stepa-a policeman — a valiant, friendly and very high defender of law and order. The film adaptation of the poem of the same name by Sergei Mikhalkov.

Uncle Stepa is a Policeman

1964

Your Health! poster
NR

On the day of coming of age, the parents took the Guy out into the big world and blessed him to find his own way in life (in the film, it is shown as a long road with milestones-years). And to make it easier to go, they gave him a good helper - strong Health: it will always protect its carrier if he takes care of him. And the Guy went along the road of life, performing labor feats, and Health always rescued him: both when he saved a girl from a hole, and while receiving a higher education on the job. Having received an engineering degree and becoming a master, the Guy continued to protect his friend, playing sports and winning various competitions.—Bazza the Beast

Your Health!

1965

The Tale Is Told poster
9.5

Ivan Czarevich is led by his servant to the castle of Kashchey to rescue the beautiful czarevna. But a lazy and silly knight could hardly be the real hero of this fairy tale.

The Tale Is Told

1970

A Blue-Eyed Girl poster
NR

Russian fairy tale about the love of a young couple.

A Blue-Eyed Girl

1984

Music of Revolution poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Music of Revolution

1987

Music of Revolution poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Music of Revolution

1987

A Hazel Tree Twig poster
6.3

The girl Mariuka goes in search of her brother Grigorash - he was carried away by the evil sorceress Kloantsa. On the way, the girl helps the Walnut Bush and the Giant. The bush gives her a magic tree twig...

A Hazel Tree Twig

1955

Слово о хлебе poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Слово о хлебе

1971

There Lived a Grandpa and Grandma poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

There Lived a Grandpa and Grandma

1988

The Stork poster
9.0

The poor man owes money, but a wounded bird comes to his aid. The story of greed according to the Uzbek fairy tale.

The Stork

1956

Ilya Muromets: Prologue poster
7.0

Paralyzed Ilya Muromets receives heroic strength.

Ilya Muromets: Prologue

1975

The Smile of Leonardo Da Vinci poster
NR

Three tales inspired by the writings and scribblings of Leonardo da Vinci "The Flame", "Cranes" and "The Ant and a Wheat Grain" which are united by a fourth fairy tale, "Paper and Ink".

The Smile of Leonardo Da Vinci

1986

The Thirteenth Flight poster
8.7

No synopsis available yet.

The Thirteenth Flight

1960

The Thirteenth Flight poster
8.7

No synopsis available yet.

The Thirteenth Flight

1960

Frost Ivanovich poster
5.0

Two sisters lives together with their grandma in a cottage in the woods. One of the sister is diligent, the other one is lazy. Frost Ivanovich notices this and decides to teach the lazy sister a lesson.

Frost Ivanovich

1981

On the Forest Stage poster
NR

The animated film was created based on the fables of Sergey Mikhalkov "Cautious birds" and "Hare in the hops." Drake with his assistants arranges a performance on the forest stage for animals. He tells fables about forest dwellers from the stage.

On the Forest Stage

1954

The Boy from Napoli poster
6.6

The tale of the poor boy Ciccio, the magic globe and the Blue Fairy, who defeated the wicked witch and returned the globe to people that fulfills good wishes.

The Boy from Napoli

1958

The Crow and the Fox, the Cuckoo and the Rooster poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Crow and the Fox, the Cuckoo and the Rooster

1953

Nevermind The Grief poster
5.5

A soldier served a long time service. He took as a reward an old drum and went where his eyes were looking. He walked for a long time, and went to the hut, and in it the small girl was crying, because the fierce witch has destroyed her parents.

Nevermind The Grief

1983

How Mushrooms Fought Against Peas poster
6.3

A satire on human nature projected on mushrooms and peas, based on a Russian fairy tale.

How Mushrooms Fought Against Peas

1977