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
all 119
Movies 116
Director 27
self 3
TV Shows 3
Writer 3
Screenplay 1
Producer 1
Creator 1
Searching for the Lost Pochta (2014)
Riding on a Broomstick (2011)
About Me (2005)
Neighbours (2002)
Animated Soviet Propaganda (1997)
Dunno on the Moon (1997)
Attraction (1995)
The Cow (1989)
Three Novels (1986)
Lafertovskaya Makovnitsa (1986)
Kuth and Mice (1985)
Wolfy (1985)
Lion and Bull (1984)
The Cat in the Cap (1984)
Olympians (1982)
One Day Before Our Era (1977)
Ikar and Sages (1976)
Escape of Mr. McKinley (1975)
Little Hippo (1975)
I Give you a Star (1974)
Island (1973)
The Love of Mankind (1972)
Winnie-the-Pooh (1969)
Winnie-the-Pooh (1969)
Zigzag of Success (1968)
Film, Film, Film (1968)
Othello-67 (1967)
Man in the Frame (1966)
Boniface's Holiday (1965)
Little Stomper (1964)
Story of One Crime (1963)
Granny's Goat (1963)
Family Chronicle (1961)
Big Troubles (1961)
The Key (1961)
A Sober Sparrow (1960)
Different Wheels (1960)
Soon There Will Be Rain (1959)
The Boy from Napoli (1958)
The Tale of Chapayev (1958)
The Cat's House (1958)
The Snow Queen (1957)
Once Upon a Time (1957)
Familiar Pictures (1957)
Again, Deuce (1957)
Old Friends (1956)
Adventures of Murzilka (1956)
Girl in the Jungle (1956)
The Twelve Months (1956)
An Unusual Match (1955)
A Pipe and a Bear (1955)
Stepan the Sailor (1955)
Dog and Cat (1955)
A Hazel Tree Twig (1955)
A Brave Hare (1955)
The Snow Postman (1955)
The Enchanted Boy (1955)
The Frog Princess (1954)
On the Forest Stage (1954)
The Orange Neck (1954)
A Dangerous Prank (1954)
A Goat-Musician (1954)
A Naughty Kitten (1953)
Magic Store (1953)
Flight to the Moon (1953)
Brave Pak (1953)
The Scarlet Flower (1952)
Sarmiko (1952)
Validoob - Fell Oak (1952)
Kashtanka (1952)
Friends-Comrades (1951)
The High Hill (1951)
Forest Travellers (1951)
Fox the Builder (1950)
The Robust (1950)
The Magic Treasure (1950)
Geese-Swans (1949)
The Miraculous Bell (1949)
Ambulance (1949)
A Cuckoo and a Blackbird (1949)
The Lion and the Hare (1949)
Little Gray Neck (1948)
The Magic Carpet (1948)
Favourite Characters (1940)
Bear Cub (1940)
The Friends from Taiga (1939)
Uncle Stepa (1939)
Tale of the Good Umar (1938)
Fyodor the Hunter (1938)
Ivashko and Baba-Yaga (1938)
Information
Known ForDirecting
GenderMale
Birthday1917-05-01
Deathday2012-12-03 (95 years old)
Birth PlaceTver, Russia
ChildrenAndrei Khitruk
CitizenshipsSoviet Union, Russia
Also Known AsФёдор Савельевич Хитрук, Федор Хитрук, Fedor Khitruk, Fyodor Savelyevich Khitruk, Ф. Хитрук
AwardsOrder "For Merit to the Fatherland", 3rd class, Honored art worker of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Order of the Badge of Honour, USSR State Prize, Order of the Patriotic War 2nd class, Order of the Red Banner of Labour, National Prize of East Germany, People's Artist of the USSR, People's Artist of the RSFSR
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