Personal Info
Known For
Directing
Known Credits
59
Gender
Male
Birthday
1920-02-22
Day of Death
2007-03-22 (87 years old)
Place of Birth
Baku, Azerbaijan SSR, USSR [now Azerbaijan]
Also Known As
Э. Туганов
Elbert Tuganow
E. Tuganov
Elbert Tuganov
Biography
Elbert Tuganov (February 22, 1922 – March 22, 2007) was an Azerbaijani-Estonian animator and film director. He is known as "the father of Estonian animation". Tuganov was born in Baku, Azerbaijan to an Estonian mother and an Ossetian father. In 1946 he joined with Tallinnfilm. In 1958 he created the first Estonian animated film Peetrikese unenägu.
