Elbert Tuganov
Known for: Director
Born: 22 February 1920, Baku, Azerbaijan SSR, USSR [now Azerbaijan]
Died: 22 March 2007
Elbert Tuganov (February 22, 1922 – March 22, 2007) was an Azerbaijani-Estonian animator and film director. He is known as "the father of Estonian animation".
Tuganov was born in Baku, Azerbaijan to an Estonian mother and an Ossetian father. In 1946 he joined with Tallinnfilm. In 1958 he created the first Estonian animated film Peetrikese unenägu.
Directed / Created
Apple Pie
Victim
Merchant and Monkeys
Giufa
Captain of Koppeniki
Souvenir
Clown and Kroops
The Golden Donkey
Inspiration
Bloody John
Sisters
New Friends
Drivers
Nippet
Attention! Caution! The Cable!
Pedestrians
Athomic and Stouts
Athomic
Donkey, Herring and Broom
Fips the Monkey
Gear Wheel
The Birth of the Genre
Stork Chick
Jonn
Park
Children and Tree
Mouse Hunt
The Last Chimney-Sweep
Animal Acupuncturists
Just Like That!