Known For
Directing
Born
May 01, 1917
Died
Dec 03, 2012
Place of Birth
Tver, Russian Empire
Credits
118 titles
Fyodor Khitruk
Biography
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.
Known For
Filmography
Searching for the Lost Pochta
Archive footage
Riding on a Broomstick
Screenplay
Miracle Factory. Animation Director
About Me
Animation Director
Magia Russica
About the Girl Who Found Her Bear
Animation Director
Neighbours
Animation Director
Masters of Russian Animation - Volume 3
Director
Masters of Russian Animation - Volume 2
Director
Masters of Russian Animation - Volume 1
Screenplay
Mikhail Baryshnikov's Stories from My Childhood
Animation
The Big Leap
Producer
Dunno on the Moon
Consulting Producer
Animated Soviet Propaganda
Self - Contributor
The Spirit of Genius - Fedor Khitruk and His Films
Self
Attraction
Art Direction
The Cow
Art Direction
Three Novels
Writer
The Lafertovo Poppycake Seller
Creative Director
Kuth and Mice
Art Direction
Wolfy
Art Direction
Lion and Bull
Writer
The Cat in the Cap
Art Direction
Olympians
Screenplay
O Sport, You Are Peace!
Animation Director
One Day Before Our Era
Director
Ikar and Sages
Screenplay
The Flight of Mr. McKinley
Animation Director
I Give You a Star
Director
Island
Screenplay
The Love of Mankind
Animation
Balance of Fear
Director
Winnie-the-Pooh and a Busy Day
Director
Winnie-the-Pooh Goes Visiting
Director
A Young Man Named Engels – A Portrait in Letters
Director
Winnie-the-Pooh
Creator
Winnie-the-Pooh
Director
Zigzag of Success
Animation Director
Film, Film, Film
Director
Othello-67
Director
Man in the Frame
Director
The Tale of the Tsarevich and the Three Healers
Screenplay
Boniface's Holiday
Director
Little Stomper
Director
Story of One Crime
Director
Granny's Goat
Animation
Family Chronicle
Animation
Big Troubles
Animation
The Key
Animation
A Sober Sparrow
Animation