Igor Kovalyov

Director

January 17, 1954 (72 years)

Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Ukraine]

Biography

Igor Adolfovich Kovalyov is a Soviet, Russian-Ukrainian and American animator, director and educator, co-founder of “Pilot” — the first private animation studio in the Soviet Union. From 1991 to 2005 he worked at Klasky Csupo where he co-created “Aaahh!!! Real Monsters” and co-directed “The Rugrats Movie”. He currently serves as a creative producer at “Soyuzmultfilm”. Kovalyov is also known for his auteur films for which received multiple international awards, including three Grand Prizes at the…

Filmography

7.6

Rugrats

Focuses on a group of toddlers, most prominently Tommy, Chuckie, Phil, Lil, and Angelica, and their day-to-day lives, usually involving common life experiences that become adventures in the babies' imaginations. Adults in the series are almost always unaware of what the children are up to; however, this only provides more room for the babies to explore and discover their surroundings.

7.8

Aaahh!!! Real Monsters

Three young monsters — Ickis, Oblina and Krumm — attends an institute for monsters under a city dump and learn to frighten humans.

7.2

Duckman

Together with Cornfed, his portly, porcine partner in crime solving, this defective detective amazingly manages to solve crimes and be a single parent to his hilariously dysfunctional sons at the same time.

6.3

The Rugrats Movie

The Pickles family welcome a new arrival, Dil, whose constant crying and need for attention quickly exhaust the other toddlers. Seeking to return the "broken" baby to the hospital, the gang embarks on a journey in a Reptar Wagon that inadvertently veers off course, leaving them stranded in a vast, dangerous forest. While facing off against escaped circus monkeys and a predatory wolf, Tommy must overcome his own resentment to protect his brother and make it back home.

10.0

Lift

An elevator stops at five floors, each floor revealing a different animation sequence by a different director.

6.5

Alisa Knows What to Do!

Alisa Selezneva is a 12-years-old schoolgirl living on the Earth in 2093. Together with her friends, she explores the world of the future, traveling in space and having incredible adventures.

6.0

Andrey Svislotskiy

This animated short focuses on the lives of three eccentric people living on a farm in the Ukrainian countryside. Told in a non-linear, stream of consciousness style, the film depicts the deceitful relationship between a master and his two servants. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2007.

8.0

Investigation Held by Kolobki. Part 2

Detectives B. Kolobok and M. Kolobok are pursuing the smuggler Karbofos, who has stolen a striped elephant from the zoo.

7.0

Wings, Legs and Tails

An ostrich is trying to learn how to fly in a dessert.

6.3

Before Love

Melancholy and tender reflections on solitude and misunderstandings, with a profusion of graphic detail. Human shortcomings tie the dramatic knot of the story. Everybody finds his way to be unhappy. Everybody is looking for love.

5.7

Hen, His Wife

Extraordinarily detailed and beautifully drawn animation of a bizarre and surreal world; the domestic life of a fat man, his wife, a sort of oversized obese chicken, and their child/pet, a slug-like creature with a human head. This expressionistic and interior vision of Soviet animator Kovalyov is like an animated Eraserhead.

5.0

Here Comes the Cat!

Impending trouble in the form of a cat descends upon a mouse settlement

6.9

Investigation Held by Kolobki

Two crazy brothers-detectives from a weird provincial town are searching for a rare striped elephant stolen by a suspicious foreigner.

8.0

Investigation Held by Kolobki. Part 1

Detectives B. Kolobok and M. Kolobok are investigating the missing striped elephant.

5.2

Rubik's Cube

Animated TV magazine for schoolchildren, including the cartoons "A Box with Pencils", "Have You Seen a Hare?" and "Rubik's Cube - clowning".

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You Animal

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7.1

Bird in a Window

Wonderfully strange and interesting animation from the very talented animator Igor Kovalyov while he was working at Klascy Csupo Studio in 1996.

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