From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Stanislav Mihaylovich Sokolov born May 18 1947 is a Russian stopmotion animation director He graduated from VGIK in 1971 and has since then worked with Studios Soyuzmultfilm DEFA Christmasfilms and S4C He was awarded a number of prizes for his films most notably an Emmy in 1992 for his contribution to The Animated Shakespeare series Sokolov is teaching at VGIK where he is Professor for Animation and Computer Graphics Description above from the Wikipedia article Stanislav Sokolov licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia