Mikhail Botov
1910 - 1975Обучался в изостудии.
С 1937 — сотрудник киностудии «Союзмультфильм».
Участвовал в Великой Отечественной войне.
В 1953—1955 годах — художник-постановщик. В 1956—1959 годах — сорежиссёр в группе И. П. Иванова-Вано.
С 1960 года — режиссёр, первые работы сделал совместно с Г. М. Козловым.
Двенадцать месяцев
Ivan Ivanov-Vano, Mikhail Botov
Tatyana Barysheva, Yuliya Yulskaya
A poor girl was given an impossible task by her stepmother: to gather snowdrops in a winter forest. Suddenly she stumbled across twelve brothers who happened to be the twelve months.
The Twelve Months
Обезьяна с острова Саругасима
Mikhail Botov
Anatoli Papanov, Tamara Dmitrieva
The Dragon, the lord of the sea, fell seriously ill. The court doctor Jellyfish, prescribed him a liver of Monkey. So they had to look for someone who could leave the sea and go to the land. They chose a Turtle. The Turtle brings the Monkey to the Dragon on the pretext that there are growing peeled bananas there. However, the Monkey, having learned from the Dolphin the plans of the Turtle, deceives her and forces to return to the island.
Monkey from the island of Sarugashima
Приключения Буратино
Dmitriy Babichenko, Ivan Ivanov-Vano
Nina Gulyayeva, Yevgeni Vesnik
A wooden boy Buratino tries to find his place in life. He befriends toys from a toy theater owned by evil Karabas-Barabas, gets tricked by Alice the Fox and Basilio the Cat and finally discovers the mystery of a golden key given to him by kind Tortila the Tortoise.
The Adventures of Buratino