Soyuzmultfilm
Soyuzmultfilm (), also known in English as SMF Animation Studio and formerly known as Soyuzdetmultfilm (), is a Russian animation studio, production, and distribution company based in Moscow. Launched on June 10, 1936, as the animated film production unit of the U.S.S.R.'s motion picture monopoly, GUKF, Soyuzmultfilm has produced more than 1,500 cartoons. Soyuzmultfilm specializes in the creation of animated TV series, feature films and short films. The studio has made animated films in a wide variety of genres and art techniques, including stop motion, hand-drawn, 2D and 3D techniques. It is
Key facts
- Company.name
- JSC Studio Soyuzmultfilm
- Company.logo
- Soyuzmultfilm Logo(2).svg
- Company.logo_caption
- Logo used since 2023
- Company.type
- Joint-stock company
- Company.former_names
- Studio Soyuzmultfilm (1936-2021)
- Company.native_name
- АО Киностудия Союзмультфильм
- Company.location
- 21, bld.1, Akademika Korolyova str., Moscow, Russia,127427
- Company.key_people
- Yuliana Slashcheva (Chairman) Boris Mashkovtsev (Director)
- Company.num_employees_year
- February 2020
- Company.industry
- Animation
- Company.products
- Animated films Television series
- Company.owner
Article
22 sectionsContents
- History
- Early years
- War period
- The golden age
- Aesthetic switch
- Reformation period
- Post-Soviet era
- The studio today
- New headquarters
- Top management
- Art techniques
- TV series
- Feature films
- Animated shorts
- New start of the Golden collection
- Awards
- Films by Jove controversy
- Notable artists
- List of notable films
- See also
- References
- External links
Soyuzmultfilm (), also known in English as SMF Animation Studio and formerly known as Soyuzdetmultfilm (), is a Russian animation studio, production, and distribution company based in Moscow. Launched on June 10, 1936, as the animated film production unit of the U.S.S.R.'s motion picture monopoly, GUKF, Soyuzmultfilm has produced more than 1,500 cartoons. Soyuzmultfilm specializes in the creation of animated TV series, feature films and short films. The studio has made animated films in a wide variety of genres and art techniques, including stop motion, hand-drawn, 2D and 3D techniques. It is one of the oldest and largest animation studios in Russia.
The "Golden Collection" of Soyuzmultfilm, produced from the beginning of the 1950s and to the end of the 1980s, is considered to be the classics of the animation medium and the best works of world-renowned directors, production designers and animators. Among the studio's best-known films are Hedgehog in the Fog (1975), the Cheburashka series (1969–1983), the Well, Just You Wait! series (since 1969), Karlsson-on-the-Roof (1968) and others. Many of the films rank among the classics of world animation, garnered a multitude of international and Russian awards and prizes, and became an integral part of Russian and global culture.
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