Vladimir Degtyarev

Directing

Vladimir Degtyarev

Born — Died

1916-01-18 — 1974-10-06

Place of birth

Moscow, USSR

Known for

Directing

Credits

30 titles

Vladimir Dmitrievich Degtyarev (January 18, 1916 - October 6, 1974) - Soviet filmmaker-animator, art director. Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1969). He was born on January 18, 1916 in Moscow. In 1937 he graduated from the Leningrad Art College. With the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, he was drafted to the front. In 1942 he became disabled: because of the injured, his right arm was amputated. He without exams was admitted to the VGIK at the Faculty of Art, which he graduated in 1948. In the process of learning, he learned how to draw and write with his left hand. In the same year he was enlisted in the staff of Soyuzmultfilm. He worked as an artist-director in the films of directors V…

Known for

Behind the camera

Train From Romashkovo poster
6.8

A little train is always late.

Train From Romashkovo

1967

How to Become a Grown-Up poster
3.0

A little slacker doesn't appreciate his childhood and wants to face with adult problems as quickly as possible.

How to Become a Grown-Up

1967

The Ugly Duckling poster
6.9

Soviet cartoon adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale.

The Ugly Duckling

1956

Who Is Going to the Exhibition? poster
NR

Puppet film for primary schoolchildren. It ridicules arrogance and a frivolous attitude towards work and praises the resourcefulness, hard work and ingenuity of children. The film uses drawings, toys and embroidery by children of the Central Palace of Pioneers.

Who Is Going to the Exhibition?

1964

Sweet Fairy Tale poster
9.5

The main character of the cartoon is a small and very greedy dragon with a sweet tooth. He ate all the food in his house and went to his teddy bear's birthday party. Arriving at his home as the very first of the guests, Drakosha immediately began to eat all of Mishutka’s sweets, without even giving him a gift. When the dragon ate everything he could, together with the rest of Mishutka’s guests (the doll Alyonka and the Puppy), they went through the TV to the confectionery factory.

Sweet Fairy Tale

1970

The End of the Black Swamp poster
NR

A modern fairy tale about how the draining of swamps forces forest evil spirits - Baba Yaga, Vodyany, Leshego - to retreat or "re-educate".

The End of the Black Swamp

1960

Stubborn Dough poster
NR

The grandmother is torn at home and does not have time to do several things at once. She urgently needs to go to the store, and she put the dough. So that the dough does not run away, the grandmother asks to take care her granddaughter Zhenya. It would seem that nothing complicated, but Zhenya has more important things, such as to take a walk, play with her friends, and therefore she puts the grandmother's request on a dog. The dog also does not want to guard the dough, and therefore he delegates this important task to the cat. The cat is even more lazy to engage in such nonsense, and she has to ask the mouse to look after the household. As a result, the stubborn dough ran away, and now you need to know where to look for it.

Stubborn Dough

1955

The Snow Maiden poster
10.0

Lonely old people make themselves a snowy granddaughter. Cartoon based on a Russian fairy tale in the style of illustrations by Ivan Bilibin.

The Snow Maiden

1969

The Tale of the Snow Maiden poster
8.5

Once an old man and an old woman fashioned their daughter out of the snow, and Santa Claus revived her. The Snow Maiden was beautiful, kind, hardworking, and everyone loved her very much. Spring came. The Snow Maiden stopped playing and hid from the hot sun all the time. Somehow, the village children started jumping over a blazing fire. They persuaded the Snow Maiden to take part in the game...

The Tale of the Snow Maiden

1957

Miraculous Well poster
8.0

Once upon a time there were two stepsisters. One girl dropped a bucket into a deep wonderful well, and she had to go down into the well for the bucket, to the kingdom of Santa Claus.

Miraculous Well

1956

Beloved Beauty poster
6.0

Once upon a time there were the tsar with the tsaritsa also there was at them a son Ivan-Tsarevich. And everything would be good if Ivan parents didn't come one morning and didn't tell them about the Beloved Beauty about which to it nurses sang, and now every day dreams. Also he wants to go in this world to look for to Beloved Beauty. Ivan-Tsarevich went, and to him the robber Bulat who became a sworn brother on the way. They began to look for Beauty.

Beloved Beauty

1959

Beloved Beauty poster
6.0

Once upon a time there were the tsar with the tsaritsa also there was at them a son Ivan-Tsarevich. And everything would be good if Ivan parents didn't come one morning and didn't tell them about the Beloved Beauty about which to it nurses sang, and now every day dreams. Also he wants to go in this world to look for to Beloved Beauty. Ivan-Tsarevich went, and to him the robber Bulat who became a sworn brother on the way. They began to look for Beauty.

Beloved Beauty

1959

Little Timo's Christmas Tree poster
8.0

The young boy sends away his little dog out of his house on the New Year's Eve. The dog gets lost in the woods during the snowstorm, but New Year's miracle happens when Santa, The Snowman, The Scarecrow and a bunch of toys help out.

Little Timo's Christmas Tree

1966

Who is the Strongest? poster
NR

The brothers Papolya and Nyakochi argued over who should chop the wood and who was stronger. In the struggle, Nyakochi knocked down his brother, but slipped on an ice floe. So the ice floe is stronger than Nyakochi? But the sun melted the ice floe, the cloud covered the sun, the wind dispersed the clouds, the rock stopped the wind, the tree destroyed the rock, and Nyakochi and Papolya cut down the tree. Based on a Nenets folk tale.

Who is the Strongest?

1961

Two Greedy Bear Cubs poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Two Greedy Bear Cubs

1955

How the Donkey Sought Happiness poster
8.5

After an apple falls on a donkey's head, he loses his memory and goes off to search for his fortune

How the Donkey Sought Happiness

1971

The Baby-Goat, Who Counted up to Ten poster
4.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Baby-Goat, Who Counted up to Ten

1968

Too Salty poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Too Salty

1959

Вернулся служивый домой poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Вернулся служивый домой

1959

Sun Seed poster
NR

The sea is raging near the shore. Fishes are merrily circling in the water. Meanwhile, numerous shells were sleeping peacefully at the bottom. Suddenly a ray of sunlight comes through the sea. One shell woke up and, seeing a glowing (as it seemed to her) fish, was very surprised by this. The fish explains that this is the reflection of the sun on its scales. Intrigued, the shell asks the fish to bring her some sun, but fish says that this is impossible.

Sun Seed

1969

Visiting the Gnomes poster
10.0

A geologist boy enters the underworld of the gnomes. Puppet cartoon about the magical properties of precious stones.

Visiting the Gnomes

1975

Magic Lanterns poster
NR

Based on the fairy tale by E. Serova about the Little Mouse, who saved the forest dwellers from fear.

Magic Lanterns

1973

We Are Following the Sun poster
NR

The Sun did not appear for three days. It rained non-stop. The animals and birds became sad. But there were three brave animals - Duckling, Kitten and Bunny, who decided to reach the Sun and persuade him to go up into the sky and dry up the earth. Based on a Slovak folk tale.

We Are Following the Sun

1958

Lapland Fairy Tales poster
NR

A collection of cartoons based on fairy tales of the northern peoples of the past years: "The Ugly Duckling", "Royal Hares", "The Enchanted Boy".

Lapland Fairy Tales

1990

Who Said Meow? poster
5.6

After hearing someone's "meow" for the first time in his life, baby puppy goes in search of the unknown beast and meets various inhabitants of the house and yard. On children's curiosity and the first acquaintance with the world.

Who Said Meow?

1962

New Year Tale poster
8.0

Tale about schoolchildren who are preparing for the New Year and lisping goblin who can't pronounce words of children's holiday song.

New Year Tale

1972

New Year Tale poster
8.0

Tale about schoolchildren who are preparing for the New Year and lisping goblin who can't pronounce words of children's holiday song.

New Year Tale

1972

The Tale of the Old Cedar poster
NR

The grandchildren of the Old Cedar - cones and young shoots - fight the forest fire, protecting their grandfather, and defeat the fire.

The Tale of the Old Cedar

1963

Dobrynya Nikitich poster
7.0

The tale of the brave warrior Dobrynya Nikitich and his fight against the three-headed dragon, Zmey Gorynych.

Dobrynya Nikitich

1965

Brave Pak poster
7.0

Based on Korean folk tales. Every year a terrible Dragon flies over the distant mountains and burns fields of the industrious farmer Pak. The peasant is convinced that it is possible to overcome the Dragon only with courage and strength. Overcoming numerous obstacles, Pak pulls out a magic sword and, after reaching the lair of the Dragon, summons him to battle.

Brave Pak

1953