animation in italy and russia

AD 502 - Seminar in Contemporary Theory | Fall 2006 | Daria Tsoupikova | School of Art and Design | UIC

Animation in Italy and Russia.

Giulio Gianini and Emmanuale LuzzatiOsvaldo CavandoliBruno Bozzetto

Yuri NorsteinIvan Inanov-VanoFeodor Khitrouk


• Giulio Gianini was born in rome, Italy in 1927director of photography and documentary maker

• Emanuele Luzzati was born in Genoa, Italy in 1921 studied in Lausanne at the Ecole des Beaux Arts

Giulio Gianini b. 1927 and Emmanuale Luzzati b. 1921


Luzzatti worked as a painter, theatre set designer, ceramist, draughtsman, building stage sets and designing costumes for some of the most important national and international theatre companies.

illustrated books by Gianni Rodari, Italo Calvino and Grimm Brothers.

• Together with Giulio Gianini he has made several cartoon films awarded with Oscars

Luzzati makes the sets and charactersGianini directs the animation

subjects chosen together, drawn from the "commedia dell’arte", fables and musical comedy



Luzzatti designed over 400 sets for plays, operas and dance shows, working for the most important directors and the leading theatres both in Italy and abroad. He has also illustrated numerous children's books. He designed decorative panels, embossments and wall hangings for the ships Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Ausonia and Marco Polo.

• 1975 with Tonino Conte and Aldo Trionfo, he founded a theatre called Teatro della Tosse in Genoa which is still running today.



end of 1950s and first animation The Paladins of France

1964 The Flying Magpie based on the overture from Rossini’s work

• 1968 Italian in Algeria inspired by Rossini's work

• 1973 Pulcinella based on the overture Il Turco in Italia.



1975 The Magic Flute based on Mozats’s music



• 1920 born in at Maderno on Garda lake

• 1922 family moved to Milan

Osvaldo Cavandoli (Cava) b.1920


• 1936 – 1940 worked as a technical designer for Alfa Romeo.

• 1943 began to draw for animationstarted working with Nino Pagot, who later created Calimero

• 1950 -1958 worked as producer and director of movies with puppets.



1969 created the character who made him worldwide well known as a master of animation: LA LINEA.

a masterpiece of graphic and rhythmic essentiality, has been awarded in international festivals and is broadcasted in some 40 countries.

• 1969 developed two new characters: sexlinea and eroslinea.• 1978• 1988



• 1938 born in Milan, Italy

during early childhood that he developed a predilection for drawing and movies.

Bruno Bozzetto b.1938


started to make animation at the Cine Club Milano

• 1958 created his first animated short “Tapum! The History of Weapons”-history of weapons from the caveman's club to the 20th century's nuclear bomb.

worldwide popular middle-aged man character Mr. Rossi animated shortsseveral full-length feature films

• 1960 An Award for Mr. Rossi • 1963 Mr. Rossi Goes Skiing • 1964 Mr. Rossi at the Seaside • 1966 Mr. Rossi Buys a Car • 1970 Mr. Rossi at Camping • 1971 Mr. Rossi at the Safari • 1974 Mr. Rossi in Venice



1975 television series called The Sports of Signor Rossi• 1976 Mr. Rossi's Dreams• 1976 second full-length Rossi film Mr. Rossi Searches for Happiness• 1978 final full-length Rossi film Mr. Rossi's Vacation



1968 VIP, My Brother Superman

• 1976 Allegro non troppo

Animated music shorts similarto Disney's Fantasisset to classical pieces by DebussySibelius and Vivaldi.



• 1988 Golden Bear award

• 1991 Oscar nomination for Grasshoppers

• 1999 Europe & Italy

• 2000 Yes & No

• 2002 Adam

• 2003 Olympics



• 1987 took a break from animation and directed, wrote and produced the live-action film Under the Chinese Restaurantworked on a number of live action shorts and films:

• 1963 The Seventh Day He Rested• 1972 The Household Drug • 1973 The Cabin • 1979 Happy Birthday • 1980 Automatic Yellow • 1980 Detective Sam Black

• 2006 the “Calamaio” prize from Guglielmo Marconi Foundation Furthermore



• 1941 born in Andreyevka, Penza, USSRwidely regarded as one of the most innovative animators of all time

• 1943 during WWII family were evacuated to Moscowstudied at art school, worked in a furniture factory before embarking on a two-year course attached to the state animation studio Soyuzmultfilm

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Yuri Norstein b.1941


1961 started work as an animator in Soyuzmultfilmmet his future wife and creative partner, Francesca Yarbusova, with whom he collaborated on many of his films.

worked as an animation artist on some 50 films

• 1967 his first film 25th, the First Day

Through this project I discovered that animation is plastic time. This influenced all my subsequent work and I learned another lesson from this film: never make a concession if it goes against your conscience'.

1971 The Battle of Kerzhenets in collaboration with Ivan Ivanov-Vano.

1973 The Fox and the Hare

1974 Heron and Crane based on a Russian fairytale



• 1975 Hedgehog in the Fog



• 1979 Tale of Tales

widely regarded as Norstein's masterpiece and is the result of his third collaboration with Yarbusova and Zhokovsky, who photographed houses and old cars in the Moscow neighbourhood where Norstein had grown up.

1984 an international panel of animation experts proclaimed Tale of Tales the best animated film of all time.



with Yarbusova and cameraman Alexander Zhokovsky invented a machine which allowed them to animate on layers of glass.

• 1995 awarded the Russian Independent Triumph Award, which acknowledges 'the highest achievements in art and literature'.

• The Overcoat



Soviet animator and director, sometimes called the "Patriarch of Soviet animation" laureate of numerous festivals

• 1900 born in Moscow

• 1923 graduated from Vkhutemas

• 1929 began working at the State Film Technicum

• 1939 was teaching at VGIK(he was granted the title of professor in 1952)

• 1962 member of the board of directors of ASIFA

Ivan Ivanov-Vano (1900-1987)


• 1927 Ice Rink • 1927 Sen'ka the African • 1928 The Adventures of Munchhausen • 1932 Black and White - with L.A.Amalriko• 1934 The Tale of the Czar Durondai with V.C. and Z.C.Brumberg• 1935 The Dragonfly and the Ant with V.C. and Z.C.Brumberg• 1937 Kotofey Kotofeyich • 1938 Journal of Political Satire 1 • 1938 The Three Musketeers• 1939-1954 Moidodyr • 1944 Stolen Sun • 1945 Winter Tale• 1949 Geese-Swans with A.G.Snezhko-Blotska• 1970 The Battle of Kerzhenets a collaboration with Yuriy Norshteyn• 1976 The Humpbacked Horse - remake of 1947 film• 1984 The Tale of Tsar Sultan - based on a tale by Pushkin



one of the most influential animators and animation directors in Russian animation.

Fyodor Khitruk b. 1917


• 1917 born in Tver, Russia

• 1936 graduated from graphic design program at the OGIS College for Applied Arts in Moscow

• 1938 started to work with Soyuzmultfilm as an animator

• From 1962 worked as a director



• 1962 Story of A Crime - was an immense success.

• 1964 Toptyzhka

• 1965 Boniface's Holiday



• 1966 Man in the Frame

• 1967 Othello 67



• 1968 Film, Film, Film Winnie-the-Pooh (Винни-Пух, 1969)

• 1970 The Young Friedrich Engels • 1971 Winnie-the-Pooh Goes on a Visit • 1972 Winnie-the-Pooh and the Day of Concern



1973 Island• 1974 I Grant You A Star • 1976 Icarus and the Wise Men• 1982 Olympiad• 1983 Lion and Ox



• 1993 founded the Animation School and Studio (SHAR Studio) in Russia with Yuriy Norshtein, Andrey Khryanovsky, and Edward Nazarov. The Russian Cinema Committee is among the share-holders of the studio.

awarded innumerable awards by all major film festivals

lives in Moscow


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