Yuriy Norshteyn

Clare Kitson in “Yuri Norstein and Tale of Tales: An Animator’s Journey” wrote:
Norstein’s workbook’ [трудовая книжка] (something like a car’s service book, recording developments throughout one’s working life) shows his promotions (and hence pay-rises) progressing at a snail’s pace. Yet in 1972, while still officially a humble ‘animator category 1’, he was commissioned to make his first fully independant film as director. By this time, the unwilling animator had had something of a change of heart and was now passionately aspiring to direct animation – partly out of frustration with some of the bad projects he had beeRead More »

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The Heron and the Crane tells the story of two would-be lovers, Heron and Crane, whose pride and self-importance continually prevent them from accepting each other’s proposals of marriage, despite their desire for each other.Read More »

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The name Tale of Tales came from a poem of the same name by Turkish poet Nazım Hikmet that Norshteyn loved since 1962.Read More »

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Hedgehog is on his way to visit Bear cub,
to sit and count the stars, their nightly ritual. Read More »