Born in Tver in 1917, 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 works as a director. Already his first film, History of A Crime, is a success. Today, this film is seen as the beginng of a renaissance of Soviet animation after a two-decade-long live in the shadows of Socialist realism. During his long career, he was awarded innumerable awards by all major film festivals. Today, Fjodor Khitruk lives in Moscow.
Filmography
ИСТОРИЯ ОДНОГО ПРЕСТУПЛЕНИЯ, 1962
ТОПТЫЖКА, 1964
КАНИКУЛЫ БОНИФАЦИЯ, 1965
ЧЕЛОВЕК В РАМКЕ, 1966
ОТЕЛЛО-67, 1967
ФИЛЬМ, ФИЛЬМ, ФИЛЬМ, 1968
ВИННИ-ПУХ, 1969
ЮНОША ФРИДРИХ ЭНГЕЛЬС, 1970
ВИННИ-ПУХ ИДЕТ В ГОСТИ, 1971
ВИННИ-ПУХ И ДЕНЬ ЗАБОТ, 1972
ОСТРОВ, 1973
ДАРЮ ТЕБЕ ЗВЕЗДУ, 1974
ИКАР И МУДРЕЦЫ, 1976
ОЛИМПИОНИКИ, 1982
ЛЕВ И БЫК, 1983
External Links
Information on Fjodor Khitruk, in Russian (http://www.animator.ru/db/index.phtml?p=show_person&pid=100)
Biography, in Russian (http://www.animator.ru/db/index.phtml?p=show_person&pid=100&sp=1)
Information about OGIS, in Russian (http://www.oval.ru/enc/49351.html)
In this field, he is known for the invention of an adding machine that was in use in the Soviet union until the 1970s (an example of it can be seen in FjodorKhitruks first film as a director, History of A Crime of 1962).
When he joined the puppet animation unit of Mosfil'm, he found an ideal environment to live out his mechanical ambitions as well as his artistic ones, and became internationally renowned with the Soviet union's first full-length animation film, The New Gulliver of 1935.
FjodorKhitruk, then only an animator, recalls his impressions of that screening in an interview in Otto Alder 's film The Spirit of Genius.
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