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Fyodor Khitruk

Film Director / Screenwriter / Animator | * 05/01/1917 († 95, 12/03/2012) | Tver, Russian Empire [now Russia]
Fyodor Savelyevich Khitruk (Russian: Фёдор Савельевич Хитрук; 1 May 1917 – 3 December 2012) was a Soviet and Russian animator and animation 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.

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Most frequent genres for this person: Animation | Kids & Family | Fantasy

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Awards & Nominations for Fyodor Khitruk

USSR State Prize People's Artist of the USSR Order of The Patriotic War 2nd Class Order "for Merit To The Fatherland", 3rd Class Order of the Red Banner of Labour People's Artist of the RSFSR Honored Art Worker of The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic National Prize of the German Democratic Republic Order of the Badge of Honour
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Movies with Fyodor Khitruk as Actor(3)

Movies with Fyodor Khitruk as Crew(120)

Visual Effects/Animation Director2002 About the Girl Who Found Her Bear
Visual Effects/Animation Director2002 Neighbours
Production/Consulting Producer1997 Dunno on the Moon
Art/Art Direction1995 Attraction
Art/Art Direction1989 The Cow
Writing/Writer1986 Three Novels
Art/Art Direction1985 Wolfy
Art/Art Direction1984 The Cat in the Cap
Directing/Director1984 Lion and Bull
Writing/Writer1984 Lion and Bull
Directing/Director1982 Olympians
Writing/Screenplay1982 Olympians
Visual Effects/Animation Director1980 O Sport, You Are Peace!
Directing/Director1976 Ikar and Sages
Writing/Screenplay1976 Ikar and Sages
Visual Effects/Animation Director1975 Escape of Mr. McKinley
Art/Art Direction1975 Little Hippo
Directing/Director1974 I Give you a Star
Writing/Writer1974 I Give you a Star
Art/Art Direction1973 Balance of Fear
Directing/Director1973 Balance of Fear
Writing/Writer1973 Balance of Fear
Directing/Director1973 Island
Visual Effects/Animation1973 Island
Writing/Screenplay1973 Island
Directing/Director1972 Winnie-the-Pooh and a Busy Day
Visual Effects/Animation1972 The Love of Mankind
Visual Effects/Animation Director1972 The Love of Mankind
Directing/Director1971 Winnie-the-Pooh Goes Visiting
Writing/Screenplay1971 Winnie-the-Pooh Goes Visiting
Directing/Director1969 Winnie-the-Pooh
Writing/Writer1969 Winnie-the-Pooh
Visual Effects/Animation Director1968 Zigzag of Success
Directing/Director1968 Film, Film, Film
Writing/Writer1968 Film, Film, Film
Directing/Director1966 Man in the Frame
Writing/Writer1966 Man in the Frame
Directing/Director1965 Boniface's Holiday
Writing/Writer1965 Boniface's Holiday
Directing/Director1964 Little Stomper
Writing/Writer1964 Little Stomper
Directing/Director1962 Story of One Crime
Visual Effects/Animation1961 Family Chronicle
Visual Effects/Animation1961 The Key
Visual Effects/Animation1961 Big Troubles
Visual Effects/Animation1960 It Was I Who Drew the Little Man
Visual Effects/Animation1960 Different Wheels
Visual Effects/Animation1960 Murzilka on the Satellite
Visual Effects/Animation1960 A Sober Sparrow
Visual Effects/Animation1959 The Adventures of Buratino
Visual Effects/Animation1959 Soon There Will Be Rain
Visual Effects/Animation1959 At Exactly Three Fifteen ...
Visual Effects/Animation1958 The Boy from Napoli
Visual Effects/Animation1958 Petia and Little Red Riding Hood
Visual Effects/Animation1958 The Secret of the Far Away Island
Visual Effects/Animation1958 The Cat's House
Visual Effects/Animation1958 The Tale of Chapaev
Visual Effects/Animation1957 Once Upon a Time
Visual Effects/Animation1957 Again, Deuce
Visual Effects/Animation1957 The Snow Queen
Visual Effects/Animation1957 Familiar Pictures
Visual Effects/Animation1956 Girl in the Jungle
Visual Effects/Animation1956 The Twelve Months
Visual Effects/Animation1956 Old Friends
Visual Effects/Animation1956 Adventures of Murzilka
Visual Effects/Animation1955 A Hazel Tree Twig
Visual Effects/Animation1955 A Brave Hare
Visual Effects/Animation1955 A Pipe and a Bear
Visual Effects/Animation1955 The Enchanted Boy
Visual Effects/Animation1955 The Snow Postman
Visual Effects/Animation1955 An Unusual Match
Visual Effects/Animation1955 What Kind of Bird Is This?
Visual Effects/Animation1955 Dog and Cat
Visual Effects/Animation1955 Stepan the Sailor
Visual Effects/Animation1954 The Frog Princess
Visual Effects/Animation1954 An Arrow Flies Into a Fairy Tale
Visual Effects/Animation1954 The Orange Neck
Visual Effects/Animation1954 A Goat-Musician
Visual Effects/Animation1954 On the Forest Stage
Visual Effects/Animation1954 A Dangerous Prank
Visual Effects/Animation1953 Flight to the Moon
Visual Effects/Animation1953 Brave Pak
Visual Effects/Animation1953 Magic Store
Visual Effects/Animation1953 A Naughty Kitten
Visual Effects/Animation1952 Validoob - Fell Oak
Visual Effects/Animation1952 The Scarlet Flower
Visual Effects/Animation1952 Kashtanka
Visual Effects/Animation1952 Sarmiko
Visual Effects/Animation1951 Forest Travellers
Visual Effects/Animation1951 The High Hill
Visual Effects/Animation1951 Friends-Comrades
Visual Effects/Animation1951 The Night Before Christmas
Visual Effects/Animation1950 The Robust
Visual Effects/Animation1950 The Magic Treasure
Visual Effects/Animation1950 The Tale of the Fisherman and the Goldfish
Visual Effects/Animation1950 When Christmas Trees Light Up
Visual Effects/Animation1950 Fox the Builder
Visual Effects/Animation1949 A Cuckoo and a Blackbird
Visual Effects/Animation1949 The Miraculous Bell
Visual Effects/Animation1949 The Lion and the Hare
Visual Effects/Animation1949 Geese-Swans
Visual Effects/Animation1949 Ambulance
Visual Effects/Animation1948 The Magic Carpet
Visual Effects/Animation1948 The Flower with Seven Colours
Visual Effects/Animation1948 The Elephant and the Ant
Visual Effects/Animation1948 The Hunting Rifle
Visual Effects/Animation1948 Little Gray Neck
Visual Effects/Animation1943 The Tale of Tsar Saltan
Visual Effects/Animation1939 Uncle Stepa
Visual Effects/Animation1938 Ivashko and Baba-Yaga
Visual Effects/Animation1938 Fairy Tale About Emelya

TV Shows/Series with Fyodor Khitruk as Crew(1)


Citizenships: Soviet Union (former country), Russia
Born: Tuesday, 05/01 1917 (May) in Tver, Russian Empire [now Russia]
Died: Monday, 12/03 2012 (December) in Moscow (aged: 95)
Zodiac sign: Taurus (Chinese zodiac sign: Snake)
Languages: Russian (RU)
Educated at: Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design
Employer: Soyuzmultfilm, Top Courses for Scriptwriters and Film Directors
Member of: Association of Filmmakers of the USSR
Spouses (current/former): Mariya Motruk
Children: Andrei Khitruk
Other names for Fyodor Khitruk (nicknames, foreign languages etc.):
"Фёдор Савельевич Хитрук"
"Федор Хитрук"
"Фёдор Хитрук"
"Fedor Khitruk"
"Fyodor Savelyevich Khitruk"
"Fjodor Saweljewitsch Chitruk"
Fyodor Khitruk frequently works together with these people:
Georgiy Vitsin (16x, Actor)
Zinaida Brumberg (14x, Crew)
Valentina Brumberg (14x, Crew)
Ivan Ivanov-Vano (13x, Crew)
Leonid Amalrik (12x, Crew)
Mikhail Druyan (12x, Crew)
Eduard Nazarov (11x, Crew)
Nikolay Erdman (11x, Crew)
Mikhail Volpin (11x, Crew)
Boris Dyozhkin (10x, Crew)
Lev Atamanov (10x, Crew)
Sarah Jessica Parker (1x, Actress)
WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:110402, Added: 06/27/2018, Last updated: 03/14/2024