FILM DIRECTOR

Ladislas Starevich

1882 - 1965

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Ladislas Starevich (Russian: Владисла́в Алекса́ндрович Старе́вич, Polish: Władysław Starewicz; August 8, 1882 – February 26, 1965) was a Polish-Russian stop-motion animator notable as the author of the first puppet-animated film The Beautiful Leukanida (1912). He also used dead insects and other animals as protagonists of his films. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ladislas Starevich has received more than 199,142 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Ladislas Starevich is the 364th most popular film director (down from 362nd in 2019), the 675th most popular biography from Russia (down from 671st in 2019) and the 12th most popular Russian Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Ladislas Starevich ranks 364 out of 2,041. Before him are Juan Antonio Bardem, Jacques Feyder, Jacques Audiard, Irvin Kershner, Kinji Fukasaku, and Walerian Borowczyk. After him are Jacques Doillon, Emilio Fernández, Jerzy Hoffman, Veljko Bulajić, Alexander Sokurov, and Héctor Babenco.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1882, Ladislas Starevich ranks 95. Before him are Princess Alexandra of Hanover, Kimon Georgiev, Florian Znaniecki, Gian Francesco Malipiero, Max Decugis, and Song Jiaoren. After him are Raymonde de Laroche, Karl Rapp, Infanta María Teresa of Spain, Vilém Mathesius, Kâzım Karabekir, and Maximiliano Hernández Martínez. Among people deceased in 1965, Ladislas Starevich ranks 61. Before him are William M. Branham, Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay, Oskar R. Lange, José Mendes Cabeçadas, Humberto Delgado, and Sālote Tupou III. After him are Shirley Jackson, Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah, Edgard Varèse, Leopold Figl, Kurt Goldstein, and William Heard Kilpatrick.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Ladislas Starevich ranks 675 out of 3,761. Before him are Inna Churikova (1943), Vasily Petrov (1917), Mikhail Zoshchenko (1894), Agrippina Vaganova (1879), Sergei Dovlatov (1941), and Elena Stasova (1873). After him are Andrei Mironov (1941), Ruslan Khasbulatov (1942), Viktor Medvedchuk (1954), Gennady Rozhdestvensky (1931), Viktor Hartmann (1834), and Duke Alexander of Württemberg (1804).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Russia

Among film directors born in Russia, Ladislas Starevich ranks 12. Before him are Genndy Tartakovsky (1970), Lev Kuleshov (1899), Vsevolod Pudovkin (1893), Leonid Gaidai (1923), Elem Klimov (1933), and Eldar Ryazanov (1927). After him are Alexander Sokurov (1951), Yuri Norstein (1941), Grigori Aleksandrov (1903), Gleb Panfilov (1934), Boris Barnet (1902), and Mikhail Romm (1901).

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Filmography

The Cameraman's Revenge
Director
A jilted husband takes his revenge by filming his wife and her lover and showing the result at the local cinema. This was one of Starewicz' first animated films, and stars a cast of animated beetles.
Oct 27th 19127 / 10
The Tale of the Fox
Director
In the kingdom of animals, Master Fox is used to trick and fool everyone. So the King, the Lion, receives more and more complaints about him. He orders that Master Fox is arrested and brought to him.
Apr 10th 19416.982 / 10
The Mascot
Director
A toy stuffed dog has just been sewn together when it hears a young child ask for an orange. The child's mother explains that they have no money, and so she cannot buy any oranges. The dog is then packed up along with a box full of other toys to be sold, but it soon winds up in the street. The dog picks up an orange from a curb side stand, and hopes to take it home to the child. But that night, before the dog can get back to the child's home, it must face a series of strange and frightening adventures.
Jan 1st 19337.057 / 10