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Vladislav Starevich (August 8, – February 26, ), was a Russian and Frenchstop-motionanimator notable as the author of the first puppet-animated film (i.e.

The Beautiful Lukanida ()). He also used insects and other animals as protagonists of his films. (His name can also be spelled Starevitch, Starewich and Starewitch.)

Early career

Władysław Starewicz was born in Moscow, Russia to Polish parents (father Aleksander Starewicz from Surviliškis near Kėdainiai and mother Antonina Legęcka from Kaunas, both from "neighbourhood nobility", in hiding after the failed Insurrection of against the Tsarist Russian domination), and had lived in Lithuania which at that time was a part of the Russian Empire.

Born in , the Polish-Russian Starevich was raised by his grandparents in Kaunas, the second largest city in Lithuania (back then a part of.

Born to Polish parents in Moscow in , and raised primarily in what are today Lithuania and Estonia, Starewitch made his first films in Kaunas, Lithuania.

Ladislas Starevich was a Polish-Russian stop-motion animator notable as the author of the first puppet-animated film The Beautiful Leukanida ().

Wladyslaw Starewicz or Ladislas Starewitch as he spelled it in France created some of the earliest and most magical puppet animation films in.

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The boy was raised by his grandmother in Kaunas, then a capital of Kovno Governorate. He attended Gymnasium in Dorpat (today Tartu, Estonia).

Starewicz had interests in a