Yuri Norstein

Yuri Norstein is, simply, one of the gods of animation in my book. Hedgehog in the Fog and Tale of Tales are touchstones the whole field reveres, made through painstaking cut-out work alongside his wife Francheska Yarbusova. He's been honoured everywhere, the USSR State Prize, People's Artist of Russia, the Annie and Winsor McCay awards, even Japan's Order of the Rising Sun. The legend is that he's spent decades on The Overcoat, refusing to compromise. That obsessive, uncommercial devotion to a single vision is almost superhuman. Born in 1941 and still at it, he's a true master, and I bow to that kind of artistic patience.

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Name (English)

Yuri Norstein

Name (Japanese)

ユーリ・ノルシュテイン

Reading

ゆーり・のるしゅていん

Born

September 15, 1941 (age 85)

Origin

Andreyevka, Penza Oblast, Russia

Occupation

film director / actor / screenwriter / animator / painter

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Virgo / Snake

Awards & achievements

• 1979 USSR State Prize
• 1996 People's Artist of the Russian Federation
• Annie Award
• Honored art worker of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
• Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres
• 1991 Winsor McCay Award
• Order of the Rising Sun
• Nika Award

• Official sitehttp://www.norshteyn.ru
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri%20Norstein
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%A6%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BB%E3%83%8E%E3%83%AB%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A5%E3%83%86%E3%82%A4%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q371337

Tags

• Penza Oblast
• film director
• actor
• screenwriter

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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