Artists: Animator 2010
-
Norstein Yuri
YURI NORSTEIN, Russia – Born in a Jewish family in 1941 in Ukraine. He grew up in the suburb of Moscow. After finishing a two-year animation course he found employment at studio Soyuzmultfilm in 1961. After working as an animation artist in some fifty films, Norstein debuted with 25TH OCTOBER, THE FIRST DAY (1968), sharing directorial credit with Arcady Turin.
Throughout the late 1970s and early 1980s, Norstein's animations were showered with both state and international awards. TALE OF TALES (1979) was voted the greatest animated film of all times i.e. at the Los Angeles Olympic Arts Festival in 1984. Known for his perfectionism Norstein was fired from Soyuzmultfilm in 1985 for working too slowly on a feature-length adaptation of Gogol's “Overcoat”. In 1993, Norstein and three other leading Russian animators founded the Animation School and Studio (SHAR Studio). To this day, Norstein is still working on THE OVERCOAT— some excerpts have been made available to the public.