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