Director
Fyodor Khitruk
May 1, 1917 · Tver, Russian Empire
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.
Often works with
Evgeni Leonov
3 titles together
Winnie-the-Pooh, Winnie-the-Pooh Goes Visiting, Winnie-the-Pooh and a Busy Day
Iya Savvina
3 titles together
Winnie-the-Pooh, Winnie-the-Pooh Goes Visiting, Winnie-the-Pooh and a Busy Day
Vladimir Osenev
3 titles together
Winnie-the-Pooh, Winnie-the-Pooh Goes Visiting, Winnie-the-Pooh and a Busy Day
Aleksey Polevoy
2 titles together
Film, Film, Film, Boniface's Holiday
Eduard Nazarov
2 titles together
Island, Magia Russica
Zinoviy Gerdt
2 titles together
Story of One Crime, Olympians
Full filmography · 24
Searching for the Lost Pochta
as Archive footage
2014
Miracle Factory. Animation Director
cast
2005
Magia Russica
cast
2004
Masters of Russian Animation - Volume 3
Director
2000
Masters of Russian Animation - Volume 2
Director
2000
Masters of Russian Animation - Volume 1
Director
2000
Three Novels
Writer
1986
Lion and Bull
Writer and Director
1984
Olympians
Director
1982
One Day Before Our Era
Director and Writer
1977
Ikar and Sages
Director
1976
I Give You a Star
Director and Writer
1974