Yefim Gamburg

Yefim Abramovich Gamburg (Russian: Ефим Абрамович Гамбург; 10 June 1925 — 13 June 2000) was a Soviet and Russian animator, who is best known for directing Passion of Spies, Blue Puppy and Dog in Boots. He graduated from the Moscow Pedagogical Institute, since 1955 he worked for Soyuzmultfilm studio. Gamburg was one of the first Soviet directors to work in the genre of parody film.

Gamburg came to the Soyuzmultfilm studio in 1955 and initially worked as an animator for such films as Funtik i ogurtscy ("Funtik and cucumbers") and Neznaika uchitsya ("Neznaika studies"). He made his debut as a film director in 1964 in Fitil series.

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