Fyodor Khitruk
Directing
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
Directing20
movieLion and Bull
1984
Director
movieOlympians
1982
Director
movieOne Day Before Our Era
1977
Director
movieIkar and Sages
1976
Director
movieI Give You a Star
1974
Director
movieIsland
1973
Director
movieBalance of Fear
1973
Director
movieWinnie-the-Pooh
1969
Director
movieFilm, Film, Film
1968
Director
movieOthello-67
1967
Director
movieMan in the Frame
1966
Director
movieBoniface's Holiday
1965
Director
movieLittle Stomper
1964
Director
movieStory of One Crime
1963
Director
Visual Effects82
movieAbout Me
2005
Animation Director
movieAbout the Girl Who Found Her Bear
2002
Animation Director
movieNeighbours
2002
Animation Director
movieO Sport, You Are Peace!
1981
Animation Director
movieThe Flight of Mr. McKinley
1975
Animation Director
movieIsland
1973
Animation
movieThe Love of Mankind
1973
Animation
movieZigzag of Success
1968
Animation Director
movieGranny's Goat
1963
Animation
movieBig Troubles
1961
Animation
movieThe Key
1961
Animation
movieA Sober Sparrow
1960
Animation
movieDifferent Wheels
1960
Animation
movieMurzilka on the Satellite
1960
Animation
movieThe Adventures of Buratino
1959
Animation
movieSoon There Will Be Rain
1959
Animation Director
movieThe Boy from Napoli
1958
Animation
movieThe Tale of Chapayev
1958
Animation
movieThe Cat's House
1958
Animation
movieThe Snow Queen
1957
Animation
movieFamiliar Pictures
1957
Animation
movieOnce Upon a Time
1957
Animation
movieAgain, Deuce
1957
Animation
movieThe Twelve Months
1956
Animation
movieOld Friends
1956
Animation
movieAdventures of Murzilka
1956
Animation
movieGirl in the Jungle
1956
Animation
movieThe Enchanted Boy
1955
Animation
movieAn Unusual Match
1955
Animation
movieWhat Kind of Bird Is This?
1955
Animation
movieDog and Cat
1955
Animation
movieStepan the Sailor
1955
Animation
movieA Hazel Tree Twig
1955
Animation
movieA Brave Hare
1955
Animation
movieThe Snowman-Postman
1955
Animation
movieThe Frog Princess
1954
Animation
movieThe Orange Neck
1954
Animation
movieA Dangerous Prank
1954
Animation
movieOn the Forest Stage
1954
Animation
movieA Goat-Musician
1954
Animation
movieA Naughty Kitten
1953
Animation
movieMagic Store
1953
Animation
movieFlight to the Moon
1953
Animation
movieBrave Pak
1953
Animation
movieThe Scarlet Flower
1952
Animation
movieKashtanka
1952
Animation
movieSarmiko
1952
Animation
movieValidoob - Fell Oak
1952
Animation
movieThe Night Before Christmas
1951
Animation
movieThe High Hill
1951
Animation
movieFriends-Comrades
1951
Animation
movieForest Travellers
1951
Animation
movieFox the Builder
1950
Animation
movieThe Robust
1950
Animation
movieThe Magic Treasure
1950
Animation
movieGeese-Swans
1949
Animation
movieThe Miraculous Bell
1949
Animation
movieAmbulance
1949
Animation
movieThe Lion and the Hare
1949
Animation
movieA Cuckoo and a Blackbird
1949
Animation
movieThe Hunting Rifle
1948
Animation
movieThe Magic Carpet
1948
Animation
movieLittle Gray Neck
1948
Animation
movieFavourite Characters
1940
Animation
movieBear Cub
1940
Animation
movieThe Friends from Taiga
1939
Animation
movieUncle Stepa
1939
Animation
movieFyodor the Hunter
1938
Animation
movieTale of the Good Umar
1938
Animation
movieIvashko and Baba-Yaga
1938
Animation
Writing21
movieThree Novels
1986
Writer
movieLion and Bull
1984
Writer
movieOlympians
1982
Screenplay
movieOne Day Before Our Era
1977
Screenplay, Writer
movieIkar and Sages
1976
Screenplay
movieIsland
1973
Screenplay
movieBalance of Fear
1973
Writer
movieWinnie-the-Pooh Goes Visiting
1971
Screenplay
movieWinnie-the-Pooh
1969
Writer
movieOthello-67
1967
Screenplay
movieLittle Stomper
1964
Writer
Art7
Attraction
1995
Art Direction
movieThe Cow
1989
Art Direction
movieLafertovskaya Makovnitsa
1986
Creative Director
Kuth and Mice
1985
Art Direction
movieWolfy
1985
Art Direction
movieThe Cat in the Cap
1984
Art Direction
movieBalance of Fear
1973
Art Direction
Acting5
Production2
movieThe Big Leap
1998
Producer
tvDunno on the Moon
1997
Consulting Producer
Creator1
tvWinnie-the-Pooh
1969
Creator