Profile of Fyodor Khitruk
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Fyodor Khitruk

Born
1917-05-01
Birthplace
Tver,
Russian Empire
Born
1917-05-01
Died
2012-12-03
(95 years old)
Birthplace
Tver
Russian Empire
Biography

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)......

Profile of Fyodor Khitruk

Fyodor Khitruk

Born
1917-05-01
Died
2012-12-03
(95 years old)
Birthplace
Tver
Russian Empire
Born
1917-05-01
Died
2012-12-03
(95 years old)
Birthplace
Tver
Russian Empire
Biography

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.

118 titles with 139 credits

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Dunno on the Moon poster

1997

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Winnie-the-Pooh poster

1969

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Winnie-the-Pooh Goes Visiting poster

1971

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The Snow Queen poster

1957

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Winnie-the-Pooh and a Busy Day poster

1972

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Film, Film, Film poster

1968

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The Twelve Months poster

1956

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Boniface's Holiday poster

1965

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The Scarlet Flower poster

1952

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The Adventures of Buratino poster

1959

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The Cow poster

1989

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Zigzag of Success poster

1968

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The Flower with Seven Colours poster

1948

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The Enchanted Boy poster

1955

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Geese-Swans poster

1949

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Little Gray Neck poster

1948

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Island poster

1973

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The Cat's House poster

1958

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The Night Before Christmas poster

1951

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Story of One Crime poster

1963

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The Tale of the Fisherman and the Goldfish poster

1950

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The Tale of the Dead Princess and the Seven Knights poster

1951

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An Unusual Match poster

1955

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Man in the Frame poster

1966

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Kashtanka poster

1952

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The Frog Princess poster

1954

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Lion and Bull poster

1984

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When Christmas Trees Light Up poster

1950

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Little Stomper poster

1964

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Petia and Little Red Riding Hood poster

1958

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The Flight of Mr. McKinley poster

1975

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The Snowman-Postman poster

1955

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Ikar and Sages poster

1976

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I Give You a Star poster

1974

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O Sport, You Are Peace! poster

1981

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A Hazel Tree Twig poster

1955

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Once Upon a Time poster

1957

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A Brave Hare poster

1955

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The Love of Mankind poster

1973

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Balance of Fear poster

1973

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Winnie-the-Pooh poster

1969

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The Miraculous Bell poster

1949

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The Robust poster

1950

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The Key poster

1961

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Flight to the Moon poster

1953

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Mikhail Baryshnikov's Stories from My Childhood poster

1998

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Magic Store poster

1953

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The Orange Neck poster

1954

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A Naughty Kitten poster

1953

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It Was I Who Drew the Little Man poster

1960

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Animated Soviet Propaganda poster

1997

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The Boy from Napoli poster

1958

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The High Hill poster

1951

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Again, Deuce poster

1957

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An Arrow Flies Into a Fairy Tale poster

1954

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Brave Pak poster

1953

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Soon There Will Be Rain poster

1959

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Olympians poster

1982

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Dog and Cat poster

1955

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Old Friends poster

1956

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Different Wheels poster

1960

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Forest Travellers poster

1951

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Fox the Builder poster

1950

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What Kind of Bird Is This? poster

1955

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A Cuckoo and a Blackbird poster

1949

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Murzilka on the Satellite poster

1960

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Othello-67 poster

1967

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The Magic Treasure poster

1950

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Stepan the Sailor poster

1955

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A Sober Sparrow poster

1960

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The Crow and the Fox, the Cuckoo and the Rooster poster

1953

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Ivashko and Baba-Yaga poster

1938

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Adventures of Murzilka poster

1956

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The Tale of Chapayev poster

1958

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Ambulance poster

1949

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At Exactly Three Fifteen ... poster

1959

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Uncle Stepa poster

1939

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Sarmiko poster

1952

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Girl in the Jungle poster

1956

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A Dangerous Prank poster

1954

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Big Troubles poster

1961

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Lafertovskaya Makovnitsa poster

1986

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One Day Before Our Era poster

1977

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Magia Russica poster

2004

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Validoob - Fell Oak poster

1952

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The Secret of the Far Away Island poster

1958

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A Goat-Musician poster

1954

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The Friends from Taiga poster

1939

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Favourite Characters poster

1940

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Friends-Comrades poster

1951

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Granny's Goat poster

1963

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On the Forest Stage poster

1954

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Miracle Factory. Animation Director poster

2005

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Tale of the Good Umar poster

1938

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The Magic Carpet poster

1948

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Family Chronicle poster

1961

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The Lion and the Hare poster

1949

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The Hunting Rifle poster

1948

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The Big Leap poster

1998

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Searching for the Lost Pochta poster

2014

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The Cat in the Cap poster

1984

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Bear Cub poster

1940

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The Spirit of Genius - Fedor Khitruk and His Films poster

1997

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Riding on a Broomstick poster

2011

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Fyodor the Hunter poster

1938

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Familiar Pictures poster

1957

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Kuth and Mice poster

1985

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The Tale of the Tsarevich and the Three Healers poster

1965

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Attraction poster

1995

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About the Girl Who Found Her Bear poster

2002

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A Young Man Named Engels – A Portrait in Letters poster

1970

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Neighbours poster

2002

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Three Novels poster

1986

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Masters of Russian Animation - Volume 1 poster

2000

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Wolfy poster

1985

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About Me poster

2005

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Masters of Russian Animation - Volume 2 poster

2000

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Masters of Russian Animation - Volume 3 poster

2000

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