Fyodor Khitruk

Fyodor Savelyevich Khitruk[a] (1 May 1917 [O.S. 18 April] 3 December 2012) was a Soviet and Russian animator, animation director, screenwriter and pedagogue.[1][2][3]

Biography

Khitruk was born in Tver into a Jewish family.[4][5] 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 onward, he worked as a director. His first film The Story of a 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.[6]

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, The Man in the Frame (1966), the philosophic parable, Island (1973) about the loneliness of a man in modern society, the biographical film The Young Friedrich Engels (1970), based on drawings and letters of young Engels, the parody Film, Film, Film (1968), and the anti-war film, The Lion and the Bull (1983).

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 The Profession of Animation (Russian: Профессия – аниматор). He is the grandfather of violin virtuoso Anastasia Khitruk.

Khitruk lived in Moscow, where he died in 2012, aged 95.

Filmography

Animator

Director

Honours and awards

Russian postal card with Fyodor Khitruk stamp
Awards

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ملحوظات

  1. الروسية : Фёдор Савельевич Хитнук ، بالحروف اللاتينية :  فيودور سافيليفيتش خيتروك

مراجع

  1. بيتر رولبرغ (2009). قاموس تاريخي للسينما الروسية والسوفيتية . الولايات المتحدة: روومان / ليتلفيلد. الصفحات 342-344 . ISBN  978-0-8108-6072-8.
  2. ^ "نعي فيودور خيتروك" . TheGuardian.com . 10 ديسمبر 2012.
  3. فابر، ليز؛ والترز، هيلين (2003). الرسوم المتحركة بلا حدود: أفلام قصيرة مبتكرة منذ عام 1940. دار لورانس كينغ للنشر. رقم ISBN 978-1-85669-346-2.
  4. مقابلة مع فيودور خيتروك (2008)
  5. ويليام موريتز، روح العبقرية: فيودور خيتروك
  6. "فلاديمير بلتينسكي. "فيودور هيتروك وكل شيء، كل شيء…"( ملف PDF) . مؤرشف من النسخة الأصلية (ملف PDF) بتاريخ 4 نوفمبر 2014. تم الاطلاع عليه بتاريخ 4 نوفمبر 2014 .