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.

The Spirit of Genius - Fedor Khitruk and His Films

Searching for the Lost Pochta

Miracle Factory. Animation Director

Animated Soviet Propaganda

Magia Russica

One Day Before Our Era

Winnie-the-Pooh and a Busy Day

Winnie-the-Pooh Goes Visiting

Winnie-the-Pooh

Masters of Russian Animation - Volume 3

Othello-67

Othello-67

Olympians

Olympians

Island

The Tale of the Tsarevich and the Three Healers

The Robust

Fyodor the Hunter

The Frog Princess

The Enchanted Boy

When Christmas Trees Light Up

The Scarlet Flower

Dog and Cat

About Me

The Cow

The Tale of the Dead Princess and the Seven Knights

Sarmiko

What Kind of Bird Is This?

Ikar and Sages

The Magic Carpet

A Dangerous Prank

An Unusual Match

The Night Before Christmas

The Magic Treasure

The Lion and the Hare

Old Friends

About the Girl Who Found Her Bear

Bear Cub

The Flower with Seven Colours

Little Gray Neck

Fox the Builder

The Miraculous Bell

Geese-Swans

Validoob - Fell Oak

Magic Store

Ambulance

Forest Travellers

An Arrow Flies Into a Fairy Tale

Familiar Pictures

A Brave Hare

The Snow Postman

Again, Deuce

Once Upon a Time

Kashtanka

Flight to the Moon

The Crow and the Fox, the Cuckoo and the Rooster

The Orange Neck

Different Wheels

The Love of Mankind

The Snow Queen

The High Hill

The Key
Family Chronicle

It Was I Who Drew the Little Man

Big Troubles

The Secret of the Far Away Island

The Adventures of Buratino
Riding on a Broomstick

A Sober Sparrow

At Exactly Three Fifteen ...

Petia and Little Red Riding Hood

Murzilka on the Satellite

Stepan the Sailor

The Cat in the Cap

Balance of Fear

The Tale of Chapayev

The Tale of the Fisherman and the Goldfish

Balance of Fear
Attraction

Adventures of Murzilka

Friends-Comrades

Wolfy

Neighbours

The Flight of Mr. McKinley

The Love of Mankind

A Naughty Kitten

Zigzag of Success
Granny's Goat

Favourite Characters

The Boy from Napoli

On the Forest Stage

A Goat-Musician

A Cuckoo and a Blackbird

Ivashko and Baba-Yaga
Kuth and Mice

Tale of the Good Umar

Girl in the Jungle

Film, Film, Film

Man in the Frame

Story of One Crime

I Give you a Star

Ikar and Sages

One Day Before Our Era

One Day Before Our Era

Little Stomper

Boniface's Holiday

Lion and Bull

Lion and Bull

A Hazel Tree Twig

Boniface's Holiday

Island

Island

Film, Film, Film

I Give you a Star

Balance of Fear

Three Novels

Winnie-the-Pooh

Winnie-the-Pooh Goes Visiting

The Friends from Taiga

Lafertovskaya Makovnitsa

Little Stomper

Winnie-the-Pooh and a Busy Day

The Twelve Months

Man in the Frame

A Young Man Named Engels – A Portrait in Letters

A Young Man Named Engels – A Portrait in Letters

Masters of Russian Animation - Volume 1

Masters of Russian Animation - Volume 1

Masters of Russian Animation - Volume 2

Masters of Russian Animation - Volume 2

Brave Pak

The Cat's House

Uncle Stepa

O Sport, You Are Peace!

The Hunting Rifle

Soon There Will Be Rain

The Big Leap

Mikhail Baryshnikov's Stories from My Childhood

Dunno on the Moon
