Fyodor Khitruk
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.
One Day Before Our Era
(Director)
Winnie-the-Pooh
(Director)
Winnie-the-Pooh and a Busy Day
(Director)
Winnie-the-Pooh Goes Visiting
(Director)
Masters of Russian Animation - Volume 3
(Director)
Othello-67
(Director)
Othello-67
(Screenplay)
Olympians
(Director)
Olympians
(Screenplay)
About the Girl Who Found Her Bear
(Animation Director)
About Me
(Animation Director)
Island
(Screenplay)
Ikar and Sages
(Screenplay)
The Tale of the Tsarevich and the Three Healers
(Screenplay)
The Cow
(Art Direction)
Fyodor the Hunter
(Animation)
Bear Cub
(Animation)
The Flower with Seven Colours
(Animation)
The Magic Carpet
(Animation)
Little Gray Neck
(Animation)
The Miraculous Bell
(Animation)
Ambulance
(Animation)
The Lion and the Hare
(Animation)
Geese-Swans
(Animation)
Fox the Builder
(Animation)
The Robust
(Animation)
When Christmas Trees Light Up
(Animation)
The Magic Treasure
(Animation)
The Tale of the Dead Princess and the Seven Knights
(Animation)
The Night Before Christmas
(Animation)
Forest Travellers
(Animation)
The High Hill
(Animation)
Sarmiko
(Animation)
Kashtanka
(Animation)
Validoob - Fell Oak
(Animation)
The Scarlet Flower
(Animation)
Flight to the Moon
(Animation)
The Crow and the Fox, the Cuckoo and the Rooster
(Animation)
Magic Store
(Animation)
The Frog Princess
(Animation)
An Arrow Flies Into a Fairy Tale
(Animation)
The Orange Neck
(Animation)
A Dangerous Prank
(Animation)
Dog and Cat
(Animation)
What Kind of Bird Is This?
(Animation)
A Brave Hare
(Animation)
The Snow Postman
(Animation)
An Unusual Match
(Animation)
The Enchanted Boy
(Animation)
Old Friends
(Animation)
The Snow Queen
(Animation)
Again, Deuce
(Animation)
Familiar Pictures
(Animation)
Once Upon a Time
(Animation)
The Secret of the Far Away Island
(Animation)
Petia and Little Red Riding Hood
(Animation)
At Exactly Three Fifteen ...
(Animation)
The Adventures of Buratino
(Animation)
Different Wheels
(Animation)
A Sober Sparrow
(Animation)
Murzilka on the Satellite
(Animation)
Family Chronicle
(Animation)
The Key
(Animation)
Big Troubles
(Animation)
The Love of Mankind
(Animation)
Riding on a Broomstick
(Screenplay)
It Was I Who Drew the Little Man
(Animation)
Balance of Fear
(Director)
Granny's Goat
(Animation)
The Tale of Chapayev
(Animation)
The Boy from Napoli
(Animation)
Adventures of Murzilka
(Animation)
Girl in the Jungle
(Animation)
A Pipe and a Bear
(Animation)
Stepan the Sailor
(Animation)
On the Forest Stage
(Animation)
A Goat-Musician
(Animation)
A Naughty Kitten
(Animation)
Friends-Comrades
(Animation)
The Tale of the Fisherman and the Goldfish
(Animation)
A Cuckoo and a Blackbird
(Animation)
Favourite Characters
(Animation)
Ivashko and Baba-Yaga
(Animation)
Tale of the Good Umar
(Animation)
Balance of Fear
(Art Direction)
The Cat in the Cap
(Art Direction)
Kuth and Mice
(Art Direction)
Wolfy
(Art Direction)
Attraction
(Art Direction)
Neighbours
(Animation Director)
Zigzag of Success
(Animation Director)
Escape of Mr. McKinley
(Animation Director)
The Love of Mankind
(Animation Director)
Film, Film, Film
(Director)
Man in the Frame
(Director)
Story of One Crime
(Director)
I Give you a Star
(Director)
Ikar and Sages
(Director)
One Day Before Our Era
(Screenplay)
One Day Before Our Era
(Writer)
Boniface's Holiday
(Director)
Little Stomper
(Director)
Lion and Bull
(Director)
Lion and Bull
(Writer)
A Hazel Tree Twig
(Animation)
Boniface's Holiday
(Writer)
Island
(Animation)
Island
(Director)
Film, Film, Film
(Writer)
I Give you a Star
(Writer)
Three Novels
(Writer)
Balance of Fear
(Writer)
Winnie-the-Pooh
(Writer)
Winnie-the-Pooh Goes Visiting
(Screenplay)
The Friends from Taiga
(Animation)
Lafertovskaya Makovnitsa
(Creative Director)
Little Stomper
(Writer)
Winnie-the-Pooh and a Busy Day
(Writer)
The Twelve Months
(Animation)
Man in the Frame
(Writer)
A Young Man Named Engels – A Portrait in Letters
(Director)
A Young Man Named Engels – A Portrait in Letters
(Writer)
Masters of Russian Animation - Volume 1
(Director)
Masters of Russian Animation - Volume 1
(Screenplay)
Masters of Russian Animation - Volume 2
(Director)
Masters of Russian Animation - Volume 2
(Screenplay)
Brave Pak
(Animation)
The Cat's House
(Animation)
Uncle Stepa
(Animation)
O Sport, You Are Peace!
(Animation Director)
The Hunting Rifle
(Animation)
Soon There Will Be Rain
(Animation Director)
Mikhail Baryshnikov's Stories from My Childhood
(Animation)
Dunno on the Moon
(Consulting Producer)
Winnie-the-Pooh
(Creator)