“Boris Savin died - the legendary puppeteer animator who revived most of the three-dimensional characters of“ Screen ”from the animated films“ The Wizard of the Emerald City ”,“ KOAPP ”,“ Big Secret for a Small Company ”,“ Uncle Au ”,“ Little Devil # 13 ”,“ How the old man was selling a cow ”,“ The boy was walking, the owl was flying ”,“ Who are the birds ”,“ Last year's snow fell ”and many others,” wrote Sergey Kapkov, editor-in-chief of the Soyuzmultfilm movie studio, on Facebook.
According to him, Savin died on May 9 after a serious illness.
Savin was born on July 18, 1936. He worked as an animator at the Soyuzmultfilm movie studio (1968-1974), the Multitefilm studio TO TO Ekran (1974-1992), and the Hilos studio (Dresden, 1995-1997).