Fyodor Savelyevich Khitruk (Russian: ФÑ'дор Савельевич
Хитрук; 1 May 1917 â€" 3 December 2012) was a Soviet and Russian
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 The Story of a Crime
was an immense success. Today, this film is seen[by whom?] 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, Chelovek v ramke (The Man in the Frame)
(1966), the philosophic parable, Ostrov (Island) (1973) about the
loneliness of a man in modern society, the biographical film Ein
Junger Mann namens Engels - Ein Portrait in Briefen (1970), based on
drawings and letters of young Engels, the parody Film, film, film!
(1968), and the anti-war film, Lev i byk (The Lion and the Bull)
(1984).
Хитрук; 1 May 1917 â€" 3 December 2012) was a Soviet and Russian
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 The Story of a Crime
was an immense success. Today, this film is seen[by whom?] 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, Chelovek v ramke (The Man in the Frame)
(1966), the philosophic parable, Ostrov (Island) (1973) about the
loneliness of a man in modern society, the biographical film Ein
Junger Mann namens Engels - Ein Portrait in Briefen (1970), based on
drawings and letters of young Engels, the parody Film, film, film!
(1968), and the anti-war film, Lev i byk (The Lion and the Bull)
(1984).
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