This publication is dedicated to the well-known Russian director, screenwriter, production designer of animated films, considered one of the most tender lyrics of modern Russian animation. In the projects of Alexey Demin, original man-made is especially felt.
Becoming a master
Demin Alexey Mikhailovich was born in Moscow in 1956. At the age of 22, he graduated from the Moscow Automobile and Road Institute, and in 1987 - the All-Union Institute for Advanced Training of Press Workers. As an artist, he finally formed after graduation from the department of directing animated films. It was at this time that the first works of the master were timed. For some time he worked at the Russian Language Institute. In the early 00s, he worked in France in an animation film studio.
Without falsehood and deceit
Director Alexei Demin is a leading Russian animator. However, he is not only a director, he is also a screenwriter and artist. Watercolor lyrics, in the manner of which all his creative works were created, is completely unusual for the modern high-tech, frantic rhythm of life.
Today, when computer graphics almost completely replaced hand-drawn handicrafts, his films look especially interesting. They are alive, they cause a genuine feeling of nostalgia for something that has passed away, but at the same time close and dear, for something real, sincere and kind. Looking through his animated works, I want to forget about the bustle of vanities and stay in a world where there is no falsity, dirt and deception.
Achievements
In the arsenal of Alexei Demin, such famous films as “Attraction” - the winner of the festival “Golden Knight”, “Ochumelov” - the “Nika” award for the best animated project, “Shatalo” - the award of the Guild of film critics and film critics of the Russian Federation, “Father” - the award of the jury "For inventiveness and lyricism."
In general, the master created more than 15 films, and all of them are nominees and winners of the most prestigious international film festivals. The most famous and most titled film of Alexei Demin is his work "Cats in the Rain." This animated short collected six film awards, including “Nika” and “Golden Eagle”.
The plot of the film was suggested to the director by Sofia Abramovna Milkina, the wife of film director Mikhail Schweitzer. Once, while resting with her husband in the Voronezh region, she saw an old woman with a fishing rod surrounded by a company of cats and cats. This event prompted her to certainly make a film about this episode. Unfortunately, during her life she was not able to do this.
However, her husband Mikhail Schweitzer decided nevertheless to implement his plan. Realizing the idea was entrusted to Alexei Demin, who, among other awards for this tape, received the prize "For the most humane film."