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Yuri Norstein
Director, Writer, Actor, Producer, Additional CreditsBorn September 15, 1941 (84 years)
PAR Yuri Norstein (Russian: Ю́рий Бори́сович Норште́йн, Yuriy Borisovich Norshteyn; born 15 September 1941), is a Soviet and Russian animator best known for his animated shorts, Hedgehog in the Fog and Tale of Tales. Since 1981 he has been working on a feature film called The Overcoat, based on the short story by Nikolai Gogol of the same name. According to the Washington Post, "He is considered by many to be not just the best animator of his era, but the best of all time".
Yuri Norstein was born to a Jewish family in the village of Andreyevka, Penza Oblast, during his parents' World War II evacuation. He grew up in the Maryina Roshcha suburb of Moscow. After studying at an art school, Norstein initially found work at a furniture factory. Then he finished a two-year animation course and found employment at studio Soyuzmultfilm in 1961. The first film that he participated in as an animator was Who Said "Meow"? (1962).
After working as an animation artist in some fifty films, Norstein got the chance to direct his own. In 1968 he debuted with 25th October, the First Day, sharing directorial credit with Arkadiy Tyurin. The film used the artwork of 1920s-era Soviet artists Nathan Altman and Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin.
The next film in which he had a major role was The Battle of Kerzhenets (1971), a co-production with Russian animation director Ivan Ivanov-Vano under whose direction Norstein had earlier worked on 1969's Times of the Year.
Throughout the 1970s Norstein continued to work as an animator in many films, and also directed several. As the decade progressed his animation style became ever more sophisticated, looking less like flat cut-outs and more like smoothly-moving paintings or sophisticated pencil sketches. His most famous film is Tale of Tales, a non-linear, autobiographical film about growing up in the postwar Soviet world.
Norstein uses a special technique in his animation, involving multiple glass planes to give his animation a three-dimensional look. The camera is placed at the top looking down on a series of glass planes about a meter deep (one every 25–30 cm). The individual glass planes can move horizontally as well as toward and away from the camera (to give the effect of a character moving closer or further away).
For many years he has collaborated with his wife, the artist Francheska Yarbusova, and the cinematographer Aleksandr Zhukovskiy.
Source: Wikipedia
Yuri Norstein was born to a Jewish family in the village of Andreyevka, Penza Oblast, during his parents' World War II evacuation. He grew up in the Maryina Roshcha suburb of Moscow. After studying at an art school, Norstein initially found work at a furniture factory. Then he finished a two-year animation course and found employment at studio Soyuzmultfilm in 1961. The first film that he participated in as an animator was Who Said "Meow"? (1962).
After working as an animation artist in some fifty films, Norstein got the chance to direct his own. In 1968 he debuted with 25th October, the First Day, sharing directorial credit with Arkadiy Tyurin. The film used the artwork of 1920s-era Soviet artists Nathan Altman and Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin.
The next film in which he had a major role was The Battle of Kerzhenets (1971), a co-production with Russian animation director Ivan Ivanov-Vano under whose direction Norstein had earlier worked on 1969's Times of the Year.
Throughout the 1970s Norstein continued to work as an animator in many films, and also directed several. As the decade progressed his animation style became ever more sophisticated, looking less like flat cut-outs and more like smoothly-moving paintings or sophisticated pencil sketches. His most famous film is Tale of Tales, a non-linear, autobiographical film about growing up in the postwar Soviet world.
Norstein uses a special technique in his animation, involving multiple glass planes to give his animation a three-dimensional look. The camera is placed at the top looking down on a series of glass planes about a meter deep (one every 25–30 cm). The individual glass planes can move horizontally as well as toward and away from the camera (to give the effect of a character moving closer or further away).
For many years he has collaborated with his wife, the artist Francheska Yarbusova, and the cinematographer Aleksandr Zhukovskiy.
Source: Wikipedia
Yuri Norstein Filmography
| 1979 | The Tale of Tales · as Screenplay |
| 1975 | Hedgehog in the Fog · as Screenplay |
| 1974 | The Heron and the Crane · as Screenplay |
| 1973 | The Fox and the Hare · as Screenplay |
| 1971 | Battle at Kerzhenets · as Screenplay |
| 2021 | Oleg: The Oleg Vidov Story · as Self |
| 2019 | Yuriy Norshteyn: Making the Overcoat · as Himself |
| 2017 | Gennady Shpalikov. Life Of A Charming Man · as Himself |
| 1968 | Vremya (TV Series) · as Self - People's Artist Of The Russian Federation |
| 1980 | With You I Am Again · as Narrator (voice) |
| 1989 | The Cow · as Art Director |
| 1982 | Olympians · as Animation |
| 1982 | Autumn · as Animation |
| 1981 | O Sport, You Are Peace! · as Animation |
| 1980 | With You I Am Again · as Animation |
| 1979 | The Tale of Tales · as Animation |
| 1977 | I Am Tlying to You as a Memory... · as Animation |
| 1975 | Hedgehog in the Fog · as Animation |
| 1975 | Visiting the Gnomes · as Animation |
| 1974 | Shapoklyak - The Gibus · as Animation |
| 1974 | The Heron and the Crane · as Animation |
| 1973 | A Cuckoo-Clock · as Animation |
| 1973 | The Fox and the Hare · as Animation |
| 1972 | Cherished Dream · as Animation |
| 1972 | Dostoyanie respubliki · as Animation |
| 1972 | New Year Tale · as Animation |
| 1972 | Mama · as Animation |
| 1971 | Cheburashka · as Animation |
| 1971 | The Youngest Rain · as Animation |
| 1971 | Battle at Kerzhenets · as Animation |
| 1971 | Ball Horse · as Animation |
| 1970 | The Beavers Follow the Tracks · as Animation |
| 1970 | The Letter · as Animation |
| 1969 | The Tale About Kolobok - The Small Round Loaf · as Animation |
| 1968 | Look Out, a Pike! · as Animation |
| 1967 | The Mitten · as Animation |
| 1967 | The Legend About the Terrible Giant · as Animation |
| 1966 | Go There, Don't Know Where · as Animation |
| 1966 | My Green Crocodile · as Animation |
| 1965 | Boniface's Vacation · as Animation |
| 1965 | How One Peasant Fed Two Generals · as Animation |
| 1964 | The Lefthander · as Animation |
| 1963 | The Tale of the Old Siberian Pine · as Animation |
| 1963 | Mister Twister · as Animation |
| 1962 | Dve skazki · as Animation |
The Overcoat · as Animation |