Person
Fyodor Khitruk
Tver, Russian Empire
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…
IMDbKnown for
Popular titles
Biography
A closer look
Read full 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.
Filmography
Movies and shows, newest first
-
2014
Searching for the Lost Pochta
Movie Archive footage
-
2011
Riding on a Broomstick
Movie Screenplay
- 2005
-
2005
About Me
Movie Animation Director
-
2004
Magia Russica
Movie
-
2002
About the Girl Who Found Her Bear
Movie Animation Director
-
2002
Neighbours
Movie Animation Director
-
2000
Masters of Russian Animation - Volume 3
Movie Director
-
2000
Masters of Russian Animation - Volume 2
Movie Director
-
2000
Masters of Russian Animation - Volume 1
Movie Director
-
1998
Mikhail Baryshnikov's Stories from My Childhood
TV show Animation
-
1998
The Big Leap
Movie Producer
-
1997
Dunno on the Moon
TV show Consulting Producer
-
1997
Animated Soviet Propaganda
Movie Self - Contributor
- 1997
-
1995
Attraction
Movie Art Direction
More credits
-
1989
The Cow
Movie Art Direction
-
1986
Three Novels
Movie Writer
-
1986
Lafertovskaya Makovnitsa
Movie Creative Director
-
1985
Kuth and Mice
Movie Art Direction
-
1985
Wolfy
Movie Art Direction
-
1984
Lion and Bull
Movie Director
-
1984
The Cat in the Cap
Movie Art Direction
-
1982
Olympians
Movie Director
-
1981
O Sport, You Are Peace!
Movie Animation Director
-
1977
One Day Before Our Era
Movie Director
-
1976
Ikar and Sages
Movie Screenplay
-
1975
The Flight of Mr. McKinley
Movie Animation Director
-
1974
I Give You a Star
Movie Director
-
1973
Island
Movie Screenplay
-
1973
The Love of Mankind
Movie Animation
-
1973
Balance of Fear
Movie Director
-
1972
Winnie-the-Pooh and a Busy Day
Movie Director
-
1971
Winnie-the-Pooh Goes Visiting
Movie Director
-
1970
A Young Man Named Engels – A Portrait in Letters
Movie Director
-
1969
Winnie-the-Pooh
TV show Creator
-
1969
Winnie-the-Pooh
Movie Director
-
1968
Zigzag of Success
Movie Animation Director
-
1968
Film, Film, Film
Movie Director
-
1967
Othello-67
Movie Director
