Fyodor Khitruk Trailers
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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.
Most Popular Fyodor Khitruk Trailers
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21 March 1954
The film makes fun of incompetent hack composers who replace real creativity with an unabashed compilation.
15 November 1956
The losers the wooden football players overheard the bear's talk about the upcoming water polo championship and decided to win the main prize (the car).
01 January 1960
One of the many stories that happened to the Russian popular fairy tale character Murzilka.
23 March 1955
The story of an unscrupulous young worker who doesn't understand how serious his job is.
01 January 1997
Alder uncovers not only the life and works of the elusive Cold War soviet master, but also sheds light on the Soviet animation regime.
08 January 1973
A film about young architects who are building a new city in Siberia (Norilsk), their anxieties, concerns, and victories.
31 December 1951
Based on the work of Nikolay Gogol. Handsome blacksmith Vakula who fell in love with village beauty, Oksana, is ready to do anything for her liking.
09 February 1982
This is a somewhat ironic, but very informative story about the origin, development and decline of the Greek Olympiad tradition, set out with the help of an off-screen commentary read by Z.
01 January 1948
Defending a friend, duckling is attacked by fox and must learn to survive.
24 March 1960
On September 1, the first day of school, a happy young boy named Fedya draws a picture of a little man on a white wall using coal.
22 February 1957
The tale about a magic fish and resentful lover whose fiancee went to a lazy fool.
15 June 1997
A landmark four disc Box Set - Unearthed from Moscow's legendary Soyuzmultfilm Studios, the 41 films in ANIMATED SOVIET PROPAGANDA span sixty years of Soviet history (1924 - 1984), and have never been available before in the U.
01 January 1957
Murzilka sets forth for the known picture of Fyodor Pavlovich Reshetnikov "Again two". A boy considers that two on geography was put him unfairly.
14 March 1951
Irresponsible father talks a lot and endangers the safety of his family because of it.
23 March 1953
Based on Korean folk tales. Every year a terrible Dragon flies over the distant mountains and burns fields of the industrious farmer Pak.
15 September 1955
A Soviet animation about a football match between toys.
07 May 1995
Some animals rise, overcoming difficulties, to the heights. And other animals do not conquer any peaks, but, remaining in place, they also enjoy themselves.
05 June 1952
Before going on an overseas journey, a merchant father asks his three daughters what they would like him to bring back for them.
01 January 1958
A boy finds his way into the Little Red Riding Hood cartoon in order to save the girl from the Big Bad Wolf.
19 July 1969
According to Winnie-the-Pooh himself, bears love honey very much. That's why it always runs out very quickly.
01 January 1966
The way bureaucracy works is told by men in the frames.
16 May 2000
Volume 2 (1969-1978): "Ballerina on the Boat", "Seasons", "Armoire", "The Battle of Kerzhenets", "But
01 December 1954
A prince discovers an enchanted beauty turned into a frog by Koschei the Immortal. After Koschei steals her again, the prince goes on a dangerous quest to free the land of the evil.
22 October 1957
When the Snow Queen, a lonely and powerful fairy, kidnaps the human boy Kai, his best friend Gerda must overcome many obstacles on her journey to rescue him.
04 June 1949
With a help of good nature a young brave girl goes to the dark forest for saving her youngest brother abducted by Baba Yaga.
06 November 1970
With the young Friedrich Engel’s letters and drawings from the years between 1838 and 1842, a unique cinematic portrait is created.
05 February 1965
The royal son fell ill. Visiting doctors could not cure the royal heir. A passing lumberjack pledged to help in trouble.
01 August 2000
Volume 3 (1979-1985): "Tale of Tales", "Hunt", "Cabaret", "Last Hunt", "There Was a Dog", "Travels of an Ant", "Lion and Bull", "Wolf and Calf", "Old Stair", "King's Sandwich", "About Sidorov Vova".
03 April 1961
It is a satirical film for adults about family, the father is an embezzler, the daughter is a hunter for favorable gentlemen, and the son is a blockhead and a drunkard.
16 January 1950
The tale about an old, henpecked man whose new friend fulfills all desires of his wife.
09 October 1956
The fabulous journalist Murzilka, while on vacation, receives a telegram from the magazine's editor-in-chief in which Murzilka is instructed to make a photo portrait of a good boy or child inventor for the cover of the new issue.
01 January 1964
A bear cub who has trouble sleeping during winter sneaks out of the house and makes a new friend.
10 July 1971
The second of the Soviet Winnie-the-Pooh series. This one had Pooh and Piglet visiting Rabbit for a meal with honey.
01 April 2000
Volume 1 (1962-1968): "Story of One Crime", "Man in the Frame", "My Green Crocodile", "There Lived Kozyavin", "Mountain of Dinosaurs", "Passion of Spies", "Glass Harmonica", "Ball of Wool", "Singing Teacher", "Film, Film, Film".
01 June 1963
The story about an everyman who one morning suddenly leaps out on the courtyard and bludgeons two conversing housewives to death with a frying pan.
31 December 1956
A poor girl was given an impossible task by her stepmother: to gather snowdrops in a winter forest. Suddenly she stumbled across twelve brothers who happened to be the twelve months.
01 October 1953
A naughty kitten runs away from home to take part in a dangerous forest adventure. A special "fluffy effect" was developed for this cartoon to make animals look more lively.
01 January 1955
On the eve of the New Year, several children write a letter to Father Frost asking him to send them a Christmas tree for the holiday, and then they make a Snowman who should take the letter to the magic forest.
30 December 1968
Photo studio "Contemporary" in a provincial town lives with its everyday problems. The director is concerned over the failure to fulfill the planned targets, receptionist Alevtina wants to get married, and photographer Vladimir Oreshnikov dreams of becoming a professional photographer.
23 March 1960
A fairy tale about animals, which tells how the desire to be useful to others helps to cope with vanity and anger.
21 March 1950
In winter, in an unequal battle with the Wolf, the mother of a puppy named Krepysh dies. Poor, half-frozen orphan Krepysh is sheltered by Zaychikha.
06 August 1972
Another Soviet Winnie-the-Pooh story. This time the donkey, known from the Pooh stories as Eeyore, is sad because he has no tail.
01 January 1955
The tale about the brave hare - long ears, slanting eyes, short tail. He was so authoritative like a boss of all forests that even the wolf scared him.
06 June 1953
A school student finds a magical store where he can buy things which help to get straight A's with no working at all.
14 March 1950
Based on the Buryats - Mongolian fairy tale by Malyarevsky. Once a brave and honest shepherd Bair rescued from the claws of a black vulture a magic bird.
22 March 1954
Two pairs of partridges, Brovkins and Podkovkins, hatch by twelve chicks. Podkovkins get acquainted with the lark, and both the Brovkins family are killed by a falcon.
24 March 1955
The envious Goose traded from other birds what he liked: the neck of the Swan, the nose of the Pelican, the wings of the Raven, the legs of the Crane, the tail of the Peacock; the Rooster's scallop and a "crow" in addition.
31 December 1959
A wooden boy Buratino tries to find his place in life. He befriends toys from a toy theater owned by evil Karabas-Barabas, gets tricked by Alice the Fox and Basilio the Cat and finally discovers the mystery of a golden key given to him by kind Tortila the Tortoise.
01 May 2002
The sound of a soaring violin emanating from a neighbour's apartment turns one man's world upside down as he crashes and glides through a new life, which, it seems, he is condemned to spend living on the ceiling.
01 May 1961
The cat and the pussy-cat met on the roof, near the chimney. They liked each other and decided to get married.
01 January 1948
A cruel dragon deprives people of water, but finally the heroes defeat the monster with the help of a magic carpet.
22 March 1940
A live bear cub from the forest enters the toy store. He is mistaken for a teddy bear. After a series of adventures, he manages to reach the forest with a bunch of balloons.
08 May 1984
An animated short-form adaptation of Dr. Seuss' "The Cat in the Hat" by Alexei Karaev.
23 March 1958
The adventures of the pioneer Petya, the islander Doom and the scientific Soviet submarine in the southern seas.
22 March 1955
The girl Mariuka goes in search of her brother Grigorash - he was carried away by the evil sorceress Kloantsa.
18 September 1981
A 1981 documentary film directed by Yuri Ozerov. It showed the opening and closing ceremonies of the 1980 Summer Olympics held in Moscow.
24 March 1949
Soviet animation film based on the Russian folk tale " Daughter and stepmother".
