The director of animated cinema Davydov Roman Vladimirovich

Roman Vladimirovich Davydov was an outstandingpersonality. The Soviet director of animation was an exceptionally integral, original daredevil innovator. With the author's naively primitive formation of the concepts of his creativity, he was known as a self-industrious and hardworking person.

Biographical facts

Davydov Roman was born in the spring of 1913,in the heyday of Russian culture, called the French poet P. Valerie one of the wonders of the world. The future multiplier from early childhood attracted eccentricity and stylistics. However, he began his education with training at the Moscow Industrial Technical School. Very soon the young man displayed an outstanding talent of the painter. Therefore, in 1932, Davydov Roman, led by youthful maximalism, takes part in the contest of caricaturists. To the surprise of most, a brave self-taught person achieves victory and decides to improve his skills. To this end, he continues his studies at the courses of caricaturist artists who organize the magazine "Crocodile".

Striving to become one of the best onin 1937, Davydov passes courses on the specialty of "artist-animator", which are conducted by the studio "Soyuzmultfilm". After their successful completion, Davydov works as an animator, cooperating with leading directors of Russian animation Mstislav Pashchenko, Vladimir Polkovnikov, Ivan Ivanov-Vano, Dmitry Babichenko and many others. This fact is evidenced by Davidov's photo with outstanding figures of Soviet animation, which are decorated with the foyer of the studio.

As a director

The director's debut of Davidov's novel took place in1956 year. In the beginning he took off the puppet ribbon "Kolobok", two years later - "Three Bears". But the most outstanding project of that time period is the animated adaptation of the "Book of the Jungle" by R. Kipling. Between 1967 and 1971, a multiplayer series was created, consisting of five interrelated parts, called "Mowgli". The director himself considered the film the main work of his creative career. This work of the director was, undoubtedly, a milestone achievement of all Soviet animation. The animation picture deserved a high appreciation of artists and love of a million viewers. In the subsequent creative activity of Davydov, Roman films were shot in the genre of historical or fairy-tale narratives. Popularized his animated works "Tale of Evpaty Kolovrat", "Swans Nepryadvy", "Childhood of Ratibor".

Authors' handwriting

Davydov Roman was remarkable for his extraordinary talent, butits strength and weakness at the same time was a combination of the incongruous in a single shell, a single schematized and stylized system. He selflessly read the form of the schedule of his work. Dashed modules and the schematization of their characters, he harmoniously raised to the through unity of thinning and sealing. From this sometimes in his films and individual frames of the action the action acquired lifelessness and unreal. At the same time the master did not care at all about the rigidity, dryness of the created images. His scenes were different from most of the stylistic "combed" made by other animators, the rationality in the construction of the mise en scene and the graphic "stubbornness". The director boldly took up the screen version of cardinally opposite subjects. He liked to fight over the solution of the problem of harmonious combination of material and style. Repeatedly Davidov tried himself in volumetric animation.

Nothing passes without a trace

Being a well-deserved figure in the arts of the RSFSR, RomanDavydov, whose biography is briefly described in this publication, happily passed on his experience, authoring experience to the younger generation of animators, teaching in courses for the improvement of skills of multiplier artists. His studies were very popular, his students literally worshiped their mentor. The son of the master, Alexander Davydov, followed in the footsteps of his father, choosing the profession of the director-animator. Alexander for his creative career took part in the production of about 100 animated films, he is known to the viewer as the author of all his favorite cartoon "New adventures of the parrot Kesha."

Roman Davydov did not have time to rejoice in the triumph of his son. In the last years of his life he suffered a severe form of stroke and for a long time was in the pre-infarcted state. As a result, the weakened organism finally failed. The great animator died in September 1988, but his creative legacy is immortal.