Fyodor Khitruk

Directing

Born: 1917-05-01
Died: 2012-12-03
From: Tver, Russian Empire
Gender: Male
Popularity: 0.3

Also Known As

Фёдор Савельевич ХитрукФедор ХитрукFedor KhitrukFyodor Savelyevich KhitrukФ. Хитрук

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.

Awards & Nominations12 won · 0 nominated

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Golden Eagle Awards

2002
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Short Film Palme d'Or

1974
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Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 3rd class

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Prize of the President of the Russian Federation

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USSR State Prize

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People's Artist of the RSFSR

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Honored art worker of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic

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Order of the Badge of Honour

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Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd class

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People's Artist of the USSR

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Order of the Red Banner of Labour

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National Prize of East Germany

Acting5 titles

Directing20 titles

Writing20 titles

Production2 titles

Art5 titles

Visual Effects81 titles

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