Fyodor Khitruk
Directing
Born 1917-05-01
Died 2012-12-03
Tver, Russian Empire
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Fyodor Savelyevich Khitruk (Russian: Фёдор Савельевич Хитрук; 1 May 1917 – 3 December 2012; Tver) was a Russian (and Soviet) animator and animation director.
Khitruk was born in Tver (Russian Empire), into a Jewish family. He came to Moscow to study graphic design at the OGIS College for Applied Arts. He graduated in 1936 and started to work with "Soyuzmultfilm" in 1938 as an animator. From 1962 onwards, he worked as a director. His first film "Story of One Crime" was an immense success. Today, this film is seen as the beginning of a renaissance of Soviet animation after a two-decade-long life in the shadows of Socialist realism. Diverging from the “naturalistic” Disney-like canons that were reigning in the 1950-60s in Soviet animated cartoons, he created his own style, which was laconic yet multi-level, non-trivial and vivid.
He is the director of outstanding animated short films including such classics as his social satire of bureaucrats, "Man in the Frame" (1966); the philosophic parable, "Island" (1973) about the loneliness of a man in modern society; the biographical film "A Young Man Named Engels – A Portrait in Letters" (1970), based on drawings and letters of young Engels; the parody "Film, Film, Film" (1968); and the anti-war film, "Lion and Bull" (1984).
In April 1993, Khitruk and three other leading animators (Yuri Norstein, Andrei Khrzhanovsky, and Eduard Nazarov) founded SHAR Studio, an animation school and studio in Russia. The Russian Cinema Committee is among the share-holders in the studio. In 2008, he released a two-volume book titled "Profession of Animation". He is the grandfather of violin virtuoso Anastasia Khitruk.
Khitruk lived in Moscow, where he died in 2012, aged 95.
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Directing
10 credits
Island
Winnie-the-Pooh
Film, Film, Film
Lion and Bull
Boniface's Holiday
Winnie-the-Pooh Goes Visiting
Story of One Crime
Masters of Russian Animation - Volume 1
Winnie-the-Pooh and a Busy Day
Little Stomper
Acting
46 credits
Little Gray Neck
The Love of Mankind
The Snow Queen
The Twelve Months
A Brave Hare
Dunno on the Moon
The Enchanted Boy
Mikhail Baryshnikov's Stories from My Childhood
The Tale of the Dead Princess and the Seven Knights
The Adventures of Buratino
Ivashko and Baba-Yaga
Zigzag of Success
Island
The Snowman-Postman
Petia and Little Red Riding Hood
The Secret of the Far Away Island
The Orange Neck
Validoob - Fell Oak
The Frog Princess
Animated Soviet Propaganda
Once Upon a Time
The Night Before Christmas
The Flight of Mr. McKinley
The Magic Carpet
Adventures of Murzilka
The Cat's House
A Naughty Kitten
Granny's Goat
The Scarlet Flower
A Hazel Tree Twig
Lafertovskaya Makovnitsa
Dog and Cat
Soon There Will Be Rain
Stepan the Sailor
The Tale of Chapayev
Kashtanka
When Christmas Trees Light Up
An Arrow Flies Into a Fairy Tale
The Tale of the Fisherman and the Goldfish
Searching for the Lost Pochta
The Key
Flight to the Moon
The Robust
It Was I Who Drew the Little Man
Geese-Swans
The High Hill
Writing
11 credits
Winnie-the-Pooh
Island
Winnie-the-Pooh
Film, Film, Film
Lion and Bull
Boniface's Holiday
Winnie-the-Pooh Goes Visiting
Masters of Russian Animation - Volume 1
Winnie-the-Pooh and a Busy Day
Little Stomper
The Tale of the Tsarevich and the Three Healers
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