Stanislav Sokolov

Stanislav Sokolov
Born	Stanislav Mihaylovich Sokolov (1947-05-18) May 18, 1947 Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Occupation	Animation director

Stanislav Mihaylovich Sokolov (Russian: Станислав Михайлович Соколов; born May 18, 1947) is a Russian stop-motion animation director. He graduated from VGIK in 1971 and has since then worked with Studios Soyuzmultfilm, DEFA, Christmasfilms and S4C. He was awarded a number of prizes for his films, most notably an Emmy in 1992 for his contribution to The Animated Shakespeare series. Sokolov is teaching at VGIK, where he is Professor for Animation and Computer Graphics.

Filmography

• The Guess (1977)
• About Ruff Ruffovich ([Про Ерша Ершовича] Error: {{Lang}}: text has italic markup (help), 1979)
• Der Soldat und der Garten ([Солдат и сад] Error: {{Lang}}: text has italic markup (help), 1980)
• The Homeless Hobgoblings ([Бездомные домовые] Error: {{Lang}}: text has italic markup (help), 1981)
• The Fish Carriage ([Рыбья упряжка] Error: {{Lang}}: text has italic markup (help), 1982)
• Black and White Cinema ([Чёрно-белое кино] Error: {{Lang}}: text has italic markup (help), 1984)
• Falling Shadow ([Падающая тень] Error: {{Lang}}: text has italic markup (help), 1985)
• The Great Underground Ball ([Большой подземный бал] Error: {{Lang}}: text has italic markup (help), 1987)
• The Gold Sword, ([Золотая шпага] Error: {{Lang}}: text has italic markup (help), Zolotaya shpaga, 1990)
• And what's under the mask? ([Что там под маской?] Error: {{Lang}}: text has italic markup (help), 1991)
• Shakespeare: the Animated Tales — The Tempest ([Буря] Error: {{Lang}}: text has italic markup (help), 1992)
• Shakespeare: the Animated Tales — The Winter's Tale ([Зимняя сказка] Error: {{Lang}}: text has italic markup (help), 1994)
• The Miracle Maker ([Чудотворец] Error: {{Lang}}: text has italic markup (help), 2000)
• Our Father (Christian prayer) ([Молитва «Отче наш»] Error: {{Lang}}: text has italic markup (help), 2000)
• Alfatitah (Muslim prayer) ([Аль-фатиха (Мусульманская молитва)] Error: {{Lang}}: text has italic markup (help), 2001)
• Shema Israel (Jewish prayer) ([Шма исраэль (Иудейская молитва)] Error: {{Lang}}: text has italic markup (help), 2003)
• Gofmaniada (in production at what is left of Soyuzmultfilm, being backed by Mikhail Shemyakin)

External links

• The Russian Animation Database's entry on Stanislav Sokolov at the Animator.ru
• The New York Times' entry on the Miracle Maker
• Stanislav Sokolov at IMDb
• A couple of Gofmaniada links (all in Russian):
  • News article with picture of Shemyakin next to a puppet from the film
  • Video news story on the upcoming film
  • Another news article
  • The film's entry at Kinoros