1941-11-23 ( 83 years old ) in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]
Eduard Vasilievich Nazarov (Russian: Эдуард Васильевич Назаров; 23 November 1941 – 11 September 2016; Moscow) was a Russian (and Soviet) animator, screenwriter, voice actor, book illustrator and educator, artistic director at the Pilot Studio (2007–2016), vice-president of ASIFA (1987–1999) and a co-president of the KROK International Animated Films Festival. Eduard Nazarov was born in a bomb shelter during the Battle of Moscow. His parents were Russian engineers who met at the end of 1930s while studying at Moscow institutes. Nazarov's ancestors came from the Bryansk Oblast and had a peasant background. He became engaged in painting since childhood and while in the 9th grade entered an art school where he got acquainted with Yuri Norstein, his close friend since.
After three years in the Soviet Army Nazarov entered Stroganov Institute. Simultaneously he started working at Soyuzmultfilm in 1959 as an apprentice, self-educating, since he was too late for the animation courses. He worked as an artist-renderer, an art director's assistant under Mikhail Tsekhanovsky and as an art director under Fyodor Khitruk, most famously creating Winnie-the-Pooh for the Soviet adaptation of the fairy tale.
Since 1973 he had been directing his own short films, often combining duties of an art director, screenwriter and voice actor. "Once Upon a Time there Lived a Dog" (1982) is generally considered his most prominent work; it was awarded the First Prize at the 1983 Odense International Film Festival and a Special Jury Award at the 1983 Annecy International Animated Film Festival. Between 1979 and 2000 Nazarov had been working at the High Courses for Scriptwriters and Film Directors as an educator. He also illustrated various books and magazines. His last film "Martynko" (1987) was made during perestroika and banned for four years because Nazarov refused to change the name of the cartoon princess Raisa. During the 1990s he directed commercials and hosted a number of television shows dedicated to Russian and world animation. In 1991 he became a co-president of the KROK International Animated Films Festival, along with David Cherkassky. In 1993 he co-founded the SHAR animation school-studio along with Andrei Khrzhanovsky, Yuri Norstein and Fyodor Khitruk where he worked until his death. In 2004 Nazarov joined the Pilot Studio in their "Mountain of Gems" project, a grand government-backed TV series that combined efforts of many animators; between 2004 and 2015 they produced around seventy 13-minute shorts based on various traditional fairy tales of different Russian and former Soviet regions. In addition to art direction, Nazarov also co-wrote screenplays and did voice-overs to some of them. After the sudden death of Alexander Tatarsky in 2007 he turned into an artistic director of the studio.
Nazarov suffered from diabetes for many years and had to undergone a surgery late in his life, losing one of the legs. He continued teaching students through Skype. Eduard Nazarov died on 11 September 2016 and was buried at the Vagankovo Cemetery in Moscow.
Movies
Masha and the Bear: Twice the Fun
2023-12-14
Masha and the Bear - To the Cinema
2017-01-26
The Cat and the Mouse
2015-01-01
Chukchi Gambit
2012-03-01
Tale of the Khotan Carpet
2012-03-01
After...
2010-03-01
Dog's Master
2010-03-01
Teeth, Tail and Ears
2010-03-01
Goat Hut
2009-05-06
About the Dog Rose
2009-03-01
Soldier's Song
2009-03-01
About Stepan the Blacksmith
2008-05-06
About St. Basil the Blessed
2008-05-05
Proud Mouse
2008-03-01
I Won't Tell You!
2006-04-30
The Fox and the Thrush
2005-01-01
About Ivan-the-Fool
2004-10-06
Magia Russica
2004-10-05
About a Ram and a Goat
2004-05-01
Greedy Millwife
2004-03-01
Bugs
2002-04-10
The Night Has Come
1998-05-01
Ferdinand VIII
1995-05-08
The Wanderer
1995-01-01
School of Fine Arts. Return
1990-01-01
Cat Which Could Sing
1988-04-23
School of Fine Arts. Juniper Landscape
1987-12-01
Martinko
1987-01-01
About Sidorov Vova
1985-09-07
The Return of the Prodigal Parrot (Part 1)
1984-01-31
The Delusion of Rodamus Querk
1983-03-02
Adventure of an Ant
1983-01-01
Once Upon a Time there Lived a Dog
1982-11-10
Adventures of Captain Vrungel
1980-03-24
How the Cossacks Helped Musketeers
1979-10-10
A Robbery In... Style
1978-05-27
Island
1973-04-23
Only for Adults
1971-04-24
Columbus Docks To The Shore
1967-01-01
Passion of Spies
1967-01-01
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