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Fyodor Khitruk

Fyodor Khitruk

Director

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.

Born: May 1, 1917 in Tver, Russian Empire

Died: December 3, 2012 (Age 95)

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Fyodor Khitruk  Movies & TV Credits

Title Rating Job Role(s) Year
Movie
8.3
Actor2004
Movie
ActorArchive footage2014
Short Film
9.3
Actor2005
Movie
6.3
DirectingAnimation Director1975
Movie
7
Visual EffectsAnimation1959
Movie
7.1
Visual EffectsAnimation1951
Movie
7.3
Visual EffectsAnimation1957
Movie
7.2
Visual EffectsAnimation1956
Movie
7
DirectingAnimation Director1968
Movie
7.3
DirectingAnimation, Animation Director1972
Movie
6.6
DirectingAnimation Director1980
Movie
6.5
Visual EffectsAnimation1961
Movie
6.7
Visual EffectsAnimation1960
Movie
7.8
DirectingScreenplay, Director2000
Movie
7.9
DirectingDirector2000
TV Show
7.4
ProductionConsulting Producer1997
Movie
6.7
DirectingAnimation Director2002
Movie
DirectingCreative Director
Movie
Visual EffectsAnimation
TV Show
7.3
Visual EffectsAnimation
1 Episode
1998-1998
TV Show
CreatorCreator1969-1972
Short Film
7.7
DirectingDirector, Writer1968
Short Film
7.1
Visual EffectsAnimation1949
Short Film
7.3
DirectingDirector, Writer1975
Short Film
7.4
DirectingScreenplay, Director1976
Short Film
7.3
DirectingScreenplay, Director, Animation1973
Short Film
6.9
DirectingDirector, Writer1965
Short Film
7.1
Visual EffectsAnimation1952
Short Film
7.1
Visual EffectsAnimation1950
Short Film
7.1
Visual EffectsAnimation1958
Short Film
6.5
DirectingDirector, Writer1984
Short Film
7
Visual EffectsAnimation1948
Short Film
6.7
DirectingDirector, Writer1966
Short Film
6.9
Visual EffectsAnimation1955
Short Film
7.3
Visual EffectsAnimation1958
Short Film
7.2
Visual EffectsAnimation1951
Short Film
7.3
Visual EffectsAnimation1950
Short Film
7.2
Visual EffectsAnimation1955
Short Film
6.9
DirectingDirector1962
Short Film
7.2
ArtArt Direction1989
Short Film
7.1
Visual EffectsAnimation1954
Short Film
7.3
Visual EffectsAnimation1952
Short Film
6.5
DirectingDirector, Writer1964
Short Film
6.6
Visual EffectsAnimation1948
Short Film
6.9
Visual EffectsAnimation1957
Short Film
8
DirectingDirector, Writer1969
Short Film
8
DirectingScreenplay, Director1971
Short Film
8
DirectingDirector, Writer1972
Short Film
7.6
Visual EffectsAnimation1955
Short Film
7.1
Visual EffectsAnimation1950
Short Film
6.9
Visual EffectsAnimation1955
Short Film
6.2
Visual EffectsAnimation1953
Short Film
7
Visual EffectsAnimation1953
Short Film
6.6
Visual EffectsAnimation1956
Short Film
6.3
ArtArt Direction1975
Short Film
6.3
DirectingDirector, Art Direction, Writer1973
Short Film
6.7
Visual EffectsAnimation1948
Short Film
7.2
Visual EffectsAnimation1953
Short Film
6.3
Visual EffectsAnimation1959
Short Film
6.3
Visual EffectsAnimation1943
Short Film
6.9
Visual EffectsAnimation1953
Short Film
6.9
Visual EffectsAnimation1955
Short Film
6.9
Visual EffectsAnimation1938
Short Film
7.1
Visual EffectsAnimation1957
Short Film
Visual EffectsAnimation1955
Short Film
7.2
Visual EffectsAnimation1958
Short Film
6.7
Visual EffectsAnimation1948
Short Film
7.2
Visual EffectsAnimation1949
Short Film
7.2
Visual EffectsAnimation1962
Short Film
6.9
Visual EffectsAnimation1960
Short Film
6.5
Visual EffectsAnimation1960
Short Film
7.6
Visual EffectsAnimation1950
Short Film
6.5
Visual EffectsAnimation1952
Short Film
7.5
Visual EffectsAnimation1959
Short Film
6.9
ArtArt Direction1984
Short Film
6.3
DirectingDirector, Writer1970
Short Film
7.3
Visual EffectsAnimation1951
Short Film
7
Visual EffectsAnimation1949
Short Film
7.1
Visual EffectsAnimation1953
Short Film
6.9
DirectingScreenplay, Director1982
Short Film
6.3
Visual EffectsAnimation1957
Short Film
6.2
Visual EffectsAnimation1949
Short Film
6.8
Visual EffectsAnimation1952
Short Film
6.7
DirectingScreenplay, Director1967
Short Film
6.5
Visual EffectsAnimation1950
Short Film
6.2
WritingWriter1986
Short Film
7.5
Visual EffectsAnimation1951
Short Film
7
Visual EffectsAnimation1961
Short Film
Visual EffectsAnimation1958
Short Film
6.6
Visual EffectsAnimation1956
Short Film
5.5
ArtArt Direction1996
Short Film
6.7
DirectingAnimation Director2000
Short Film
7.1
Visual EffectsAnimation1954
Short Film
7.1
Visual EffectsAnimation1955
Short Film
6
Visual EffectsAnimation1954
Short Film
5.3
Visual EffectsAnimation1954
Short Film
6.5
Visual EffectsAnimation1954
Short Film
6.7
Visual EffectsAnimation1951
Short Film
5.7
ArtArt Direction1983
Short Film
6.8
Visual EffectsAnimation1955
Short Film
6.2
Visual EffectsAnimation1949
Short Film
7
Visual EffectsAnimation1956
Short Film
6.3
Visual EffectsAnimation1938
Short Film
6.8
Visual EffectsAnimation1958
Short Film
7.1
Visual EffectsAnimation1955
Short Film
7.4
Visual EffectsAnimation1960
Short Film
7.4
Visual EffectsAnimation1954
Short Film
Visual EffectsAnimation1940
Short Film
6.3
WritingScreenplay1965
Short Film
5.8
Visual EffectsAnimation1938
Title Rating Job Role(s) Year
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