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