Fyodor Khitruk

Riding on a Broomstick (2011)

About Me (2005)

History according to the story of K. Dragunsky. It is difficult to be a redhead, especially in childhood, but in childhood we have the most real friends and the most incredible fun adventures and miracles happen. ...

About the Girl Who Found Her Bear (2002)

When her parents are gone for their jobs, a little girl goes everywhere around the house to find her teddy bear, instead of playing the piano she was supposed to. ...

Neighbours (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. ...

Masters of Russian Animation - Volume 3 (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". ...

Masters of Russian Animation - Volume 2 (2000)

Volume 2 (1969-1978): "Ballerina on the Boat", "Seasons", "Armoire", "The Battle of Kerzhenets", "Butterfly", "Island", "Fox and Rabbit", "The Heron and the Crane", "Hedgehog in the Fog", "Crane's Feathers", "Firing Range" Contact ...

Masters of Russian Animation - Volume 1 (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". ...

Dunno on the Moon (1997)

They are neither adults nor kids - somewhere in between, living in their separate boys and girls cozy dorms and doing whatever they love to do - inventors, artists, poets, mechanists, scientists and....just dreamers! These enthusiastic and creative folks e ...

Attraction (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. ...

The Cow (1989)

A boy recalls the story of how his family lost its cow. Based on a short story by Andrei Platonov. ...

Three Novels (1986)

Three stories about how citizens need nature ...

Lafertovskaya Makovnitsa (1986)

The cartoon tells about a girl who was sent by an evil stepmother to get tortillas and the secret of making them to her grandmother, who lives in the Lafertovo part of Moscow. ...

Kuth and Mice (1985)

Hand-drawn cartoon of 1985, which was created by director Oksana Cherkasova based on Chukchi fairy tales at the Sverdlovsk Film Studio by order of the USSR State Television and Radio. ...

Wolfy (1985)

About the adventures of a cute wolfy. He loves to sing, thinking it is a wonderful skill. However, his howl excites other forest residents, causing not the most pleasant emotions. With the advent of winter, life around freezes, all animals hide, and our he ...

Lion and Bull (1984)

Award winning animated short film by Fyodor Khitruk. ...

The Cat in the Cap (1984)

An animated short-form adaptation of Dr. Seuss' "The Cat in the Hat" by Alexei Karaev. ...

Olympians (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. Gerdt. Ancient history is described in great detail and exciting. ...

O Sport, You Are Peace! (1981)

A 1981 documentary film directed by Yuri Ozerov. It showed the opening and closing ceremonies of the 1980 Summer Olympics held in Moscow. The director was awarded the State Prize of the USSR in 1982. The film was selected as the Soviet entry for the Best ...

One Day Before Our Era (1977)

Montage of still photos with lighting effects. ...

Ikar and Sages (1976)

It is a parable about world wisdom and "madness of brave men" who are ready to risk their life for the sake of new opening. ...

The Flight of Mr. McKinley (1975)

A man decides to escape into the future by the way of hibernation. When he wakes up, feeling lucky that the experiment worked out well, the staff of the hibernation company politely walks him to the outside were he finds a post atomic war desert… He wake ...

I Give You a Star (1974)

A comedy that humorously addresses the issue of a woman's role in the family. The film consists of four short stories, united by the same characters: a Man and a Woman, living in different eras. ...

Island (1973)

A castaway is interrogated by Interpol, conquered by an imperialist ship, loses his lone palm tree to greedy loggers, is consoled by a missionary who promptly abandons him, is thoroughly examined by scientists, and harassed by journalists. ...

The Love of Mankind (1973)

A film about young architects who are building a new city in Siberia (Norilsk), their anxieties, concerns, and victories. ...

Balance of Fear (1973)

Two neighbors live side-by-side. One decides to buy a shotgun. The other responds by buying his own shotgun. This quickly escalates into a massive arms race between the two neighbors. ...

Winnie-the-Pooh and a Busy Day (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. Pooh goes in search of one and finds it attached to a bell that hangs from the treehouse of one Owl. ...

Winnie-the-Pooh Goes Visiting (1971)

The second of the Soviet Winnie-the-Pooh series. This one had Pooh and Piglet visiting Rabbit for a meal with honey. ...

A Young Man Named Engels – A Portrait in Letters (1970)

With the young Friedrich Engel's letters and drawings from the years between 1838 and 1842, a unique cinematic portrait is created. The viewer thus gets to know the young Engels personally, learning about the significant moments of his development from a b ...

Winnie-the-Pooh (1969)

According to Winnie-the-Pooh himself, bears love honey very much. That's why it always runs out very quickly. And you can't do without honey, so Winnie, along with Piglet, sets off for a tall tree with a beehive hanging from it. Winnie fearlessly climbs u ...

Zigzag of Success (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 becomin ...

Film, Film, Film (1968)

The trials and tribulations of putting a feature film together. ...

Othello-67 (1967)

In half a minute, a person who braked at a traffic light has time to look at the screen of a special roadside demonstration device-a movie comic-a "lightweight" version of the creation of the great classic Shakespeare based on the tragedy "Othello". A para ...

Man in the Frame (1966)

The way bureaucracy works is told by men in the frames. ...

The Tale of the Tsarevich and the Three Healers (1965)

The royal son fell ill. Visiting doctors could not cure the royal heir. A passing lumberjack pledged to help in trouble. ...

Boniface's Holiday (1965)

A circus lion goes on holiday to Africa, but his circus skills doesn't let him be. ...

Little Stomper (1964)

A bear cub who has trouble sleeping during winter sneaks out of the house and makes a new friend. ...

Story of One Crime (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. ...

Granny's Goat (1963)

The plot of the fairy tale of the same name by Felix Krivin, based on the famous children's song, presents a classic story turned inside out. Now all the familiar "horns and legs" remain not from the goat, but from the grandmother. And the goat itself beco ...

Family Chronicle (1961)

The cat and the pussy-cat met on the roof, near the chimney. They liked each other and decided to get married. Guests and neighbors gathered for the wedding. The photographer made a wedding portrait in a frame. Gifts, congratulations, songs and dances. The ...

Big Troubles (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. The offscreen text is the story of the little girl who repeats idiomatic expressions wh ...

The Key (1961)

The film is a cautionary tale about the need to develop good work habits, personal responsibility and conscience in life. ...

A Sober Sparrow (1960)

Sparrow was invited to a banquet. He came and at first tried to drink only soda. The neighbor noticed this and was indignant. Tamada poured a glass for sparrow and made him drink, then poured more and more. Then the guests began to sing, dance, and all end ...

It Was I Who Drew the Little Man (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. ...

Different Wheels (1960)

A fairy tale about animals, which tells how the desire to be useful to others helps to cope with vanity and anger. Four friends - Fly, Frog, Hedgehog and Cockerel found an old cart. The cart is ordinary, but the wheels are different. Sitting on the tree Ma ...

Murzilka on the Satellite (1960)

One of the many stories that happened to the Russian popular fairy tale character Murzilka. ...

The Adventures of Buratino (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 ...

Soon There Will Be Rain (1959)

A gambling-addicted old man loses all the water on Earth, condemning all living beings to death from drought. ...

At Exactly Three Fifteen ... (1959)

Once in the editorial office of the magazine "Funny Pictures" there was a phone call. Pioneer leaders of the local camp asked members of the "Club of Jolly Men" to give a concert on the occasion of the opening. Participants of the club happily agree and im ...

The Boy from Napoli (1958)

The tale of the poor boy Ciccio, the magic globe and the Blue Fairy, who defeated the wicked witch and returned the globe to people that fulfills good wishes. ...

The Tale of Chapayev (1958)

According to legend, Chapaev does not die, but with the help of magical powers, fairy-tale animals and plants, he becomes a real hero. ...

The Secret of the Far Away Island (1958)

The adventures of the pioneer Petya, the islander Doom and the scientific Soviet submarine in the southern seas. The boy Doom lived on the island, he was looking for pearls in the sea. Grandfather showed him the knife of their ancestor, Chief Batuallo. On ...

Petia and Little Red Riding Hood (1958)

A boy finds his way into the Little Red Riding Hood cartoon in order to save the girl from the Big Bad Wolf. ...

The Cat's House (1958)

A rich and ignorant cat loses her big house in a fire. Only then she realizes that a friend in need is a friend indeed. ...

The Snow Queen (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. ...

Familiar Pictures (1957)

Once Upon a Time (1957)

The tale about a magic fish and resentful lover whose fiancee went to a lazy fool. ...

Again, Deuce (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. Murzilka examines him. Outliving the row of adventures, a student gives one's word to reform. ...

The Twelve Months (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. ...

Old Friends (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). To participate in the match, the wooden players took paint and repainted themselves as a water polo pla ...

Adventures of Murzilka (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. ...

Girl in the Jungle (1956)

One day, while walking through the jungle, the Girl saw in a cage a Tiger caught by hunters. Having pity on him, she released the striped predator. Instead of gratitude, Tiger prepared to eat the Girl. In response to the complaints of the Girl, Tiger decla ...

The Enchanted Boy (1955)

An animated adaptation of the classic story of Nils Holgerson, a naughty boy who is transformed to a very little dwarf and goes through many adventures, flying with a band of wild geese. ...

An Unusual Match (1955)

A Soviet animation about a football match between toys. ...

What Kind of Bird Is This? (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. The Goose began to look like no ...

Dog and Cat (1955)

A dog wants to buy a new hat from his local tailor (who is a cat). A story about why cats and dogs dosen't like each other. ...

Stepan the Sailor (1955)

The story of an unscrupulous young worker who doesn't understand how serious his job is. ...

A Hazel Tree Twig (1955)

The girl Mariuka goes in search of her brother Grigorash - he was carried away by the evil sorceress Kloantsa. On the way, the girl helps the Walnut Bush and the Giant. The bush gives her a magic tree twig... ...

The Snowman-Postman (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. When midnight arrives, under the beat of a cl ...

A Brave Hare (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. ...

The Frog Princess (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. ...

An Arrow Flies Into a Fairy Tale (1954)

On the Forest Stage (1954)

The animated film was created based on the fables of Sergey Mikhalkov "Cautious birds" and "Hare in the hops." Drake with his assistants arranges a performance on the forest stage for animals. He tells fables about forest dwellers from the stage. ...

A Dangerous Prank (1954)

The Orange Neck (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. Podkovkin's wife, the Orange Neck, decides to adopt chicks as their own. In the autumn, ...

A Goat-Musician (1954)

The film makes fun of incompetent hack composers who replace real creativity with an unabashed compilation. The goat-composer completes work on a new work, the theme of which is suggested by the Donkey and the Ram. The author's concert of the composer is ...

A Naughty Kitten (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. ...

Magic Store (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. ...

Flight to the Moon (1953)

A boy is by an accident a member of a crew that is going to travel to the moon. ...

Brave Pak (1953)

Based on Korean folk tales. Every year a terrible Dragon flies over the distant mountains and burns fields of the industrious farmer Pak. The peasant is convinced that it is possible to overcome the Dragon only with courage and strength. Overcoming numerou ...

The Crow and the Fox, the Cuckoo and the Rooster (1953)

The Scarlet Flower (1952)

Before going on an overseas journey, a merchant father asks his three daughters what they would like him to bring back for them. The eldest asks for a shining tiara, the middle asks for a frame through which her face would always appear young, and the youn ...

Kashtanka (1952)

After getting lost in the street, a dog is adopted by a kindly clown. ...

Sarmiko (1952)

The story of a brave Chukchi boy Sarmiko which was carried away on an ice floe into the open sea. ...

Validoob - Fell Oak (1952)

A young man out of parental care is messing around in nearby villages. ...

The Night Before Christmas (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. Even to fly on the devil's back to Saint-Petersburg and ask the Empress for the slippers that he can presen ...

The Tale of the Dead Princess and the Seven Knights (1951)

Animated film based on the story of Alexander Pushkin. The new king's wife wants to get rid of their stepdaughter and expels it to certain death in the forest. Princess finds refuge in the forest in the seven bogatyrs. The queen, finds out about it and poi ...

The High Hill (1951)

Irresponsible father talks a lot and endangers the safety of his family because of it. ...

Friends-Comrades (1951)

"Friends-comrades" is a Soviet cartoon film shot in 1951 by director Victor Gromov. Three comrades, Nakhimov Chizhov, Suvorov Pyzhov and artisan Ryzhov, get acquainted in the Children's Park with a schoolgirl Zina Zhukova, who imagines herself to be a youn ...

Forest Travellers (1951)

Every family has its scout. ...

When Christmas Trees Light Up (1950)

On New Year's Eve, two lost in the woods toys try to prove to wild and hungry predators that they're not good to eat. ...

Fox the Builder (1950)

The story is about consequences of hiring employees outside without the necessary competence documents. ...

The Robust (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. The whole winter was spent by the puppy in the family of rabbits, bravely defending his new friends from fo ...

The Magic Treasure (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. The bird thanked the shepherd by presenting him with a magic chest. All that fell into this chest, it ...

The Tale of the Fisherman and the Goldfish (1950)

The tale about an old, henpecked man whose new friend fulfills all desires of his wife. ...

Geese-Swans (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. ...

The Miraculous Bell (1949)

Soviet animation film based on the Russian folk tale " Daughter and stepmother". ...

Ambulance (1949)

Satire directed at the American humanitarian initiative launched in Europe in 1948 and mostly known as the Marshall Plan. Soviet Union famously rejected the offer despite suffering from 1946-1947 major famine. ...

A Cuckoo and a Blackbird (1949)

The cuckoo does not incubate its chicks and does not have a family. But the starlings were able to prove to the cuckoo that the family is a support in trouble and joy, and therefore everyone needs it. ...

The Lion and the Hare (1949)

The action of the animation film takes place in an oasis. Beasts (a Hare, a Monkey, a cub of a Zebra) look at the well, discover that the water reflects them. The Monkey nearly dies, trying to quarrel with her reflection. Meanwhile, a Lion goes hunting, ca ...

The Hunting Rifle (1948)

The hare fraudulently organize a death penalty for an annoying neighbors ...

Little Gray Neck (1948)

Defending a friend, duckling is attacked by fox and must learn to survive. ...

The Flower with Seven Colours (1948)

A little girl is walking around the city with a bunch of bagels. All the bagels are eaten by a dog that follows her while the little girl was looking around. The girl is upset, but she is comforted by her grandmother, who gives her a magic flower that gran ...

The Magic Carpet (1948)

A cruel dragon deprives people of water, but finally the heroes defeat the monster with the help of a magic carpet. ...

Favourite Characters (1940)

For the 20th anniversary of Soviet cinema, nationally beloved actors come together and characters from best Soviet films take part in the anniversary celebration. ...

Bear Cub (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. ...

The Friends from Taiga (1939)

Animation dedicated to the heroes-aviatresses Valentina Grizodubova, Polina Osipenko and Marina Raskova. Through clouds and snow burans flies their airplane called "Rodina". The inhabitants of taiga - bears, wolves, and hares - listen with curiosity to the ...

Uncle Stepa (1939)

Animated film about the friend of all the Moscow children, the giant Uncle Stepa. ...

Fyodor the Hunter (1938)

Propagandistic animation short about the boy chasing the Japanese soldiers trying to break through the Soviet border. ...

Tale of the Good Umar (1938)

Soviet black-and-white cartoon of 1938. Film adaptation of the Uzbek folk tale. The tape is in the public domain, since it was released more than 70 years ago. ...

Searching for the Lost Pochta (2014)

Travelogue of two film historians Nikolay Izvolov and Sergey Kapterev who visit world film archives around the globe in search of a lost sound version of one famous Soviet cartoon. It's "The Post" made by Mikhail Tsekhanovsky in 1929 and based on a poem by ...

Miracle Factory. Animation Director (2005)

The history of Russian animated films. ...

Magia Russica (2004)

A poetic view of Russian animation and of cultural and social transformations Russian society has been gone through. It is about multi faceted and humorous animation, almost never exposed to western eyes. ...

Animated Soviet Propaganda (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.S. ...

The Spirit of Genius - Fedor Khitruk and His Films (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. ...