Aleksandr Arturovich Rou

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Aleksandr Arturovich Rou was a Soviet film director and screenwriter, a classic of the magical film-fairy tale. He was born in 1906 in Moscow, according to other sources — in Yuryevets, Kostroma Governorate (now Ivanovo Oblast). From 1921 he worked at the agitprop theater "Blue Blouse". He graduated from the film school named after B. V. Chaikovsky (1930) and the M. N. Yermolova Drama College (1934) in Moscow.   

One of the first domestic directors working in the film-fairy tale genre. Among the films he directed are 'By the Pike's Command' (1938), 'Vasilisa the Beautiful' (1940), 'The Humpbacked Horse' (1941) and others. In addition to fairy tales, the director also made other films — he is responsible for screen adaptations of N. V. Gogol's works 'May Night, or the Drowned Maiden' (1952) and 'Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka' (1961), as well as the film 'The Mystery of the Mountain Lake' (1954), and the stereofilms 'A Day of Wonderful Impressions' (1949) and 'A Precious Gift' (1956).   

Honors and titles: Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1961), People's Artist of the RSFSR (1968), the Order of the October Revolution and the Order of the Badge of Honour, as well as various medals. Several of his films were awarded prizes at various international and all-Union film festivals. Aleksandr Arturovich Rou passed away on December 28, 1973, in Moscow.