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The Animators Who've Spent 40 Years on a Single Film

In 1980, renowned Russian animators Yuri Norstein and Francheska Yarbusova began production on a beautiful stop-motion film called The Overcoat. After 40 years of work, the film remains unfinished, and The Overcoat has taken the record for longest animation production of all time.

The Animators Who've Spent 40 Years on a Single Film

Yuriy Norshteyn: Making the Overcoat

Yuriy Norshteyn, Russia’s most renowned animator, has crafted many brilliant works, including his award-winning Tale of Tales and Hedgehog in the Fog. He is revered by animation creators across the globe, most notably Japanese masters Osamu Tezuka, Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata. Forty years ago, Norshteyn began work on an ambitious adaptation of Nikolai Gogol’s The Overcoat, but after completing 25 minutes of the film, the project stalled and has been shelved for many years. A crew visits Norshteyn’s studio and finds there mountains of sketches, character studies and a shooting table covered with dust. Norshteyn himself talks about its current status and the anguish and passion that has gone into its creation.

Yuriy Norshteyn: Making the Overcoat

Herself

Production

The Battle of Kerzhenets

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The story is based on the legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh, which disappears under the waters of a lake to escape an attack by the Mongols.

The Battle of Kerzhenets

Key Animation

Tale of Tales

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Distant, well-worn memories of childhood are inhabited by a little gray wolf. Through astonishing imagery, the memory of all of Russia is depicted.

The Fox and the Hare

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Hare enlists four brave friends to help him reclaim his home from the wily Fox.

The Heron and the Crane

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Animated short about a love between a heron and a crane.

The Heron and the Crane

Art Direction

Hedgehog in the Fog

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A little hedgehog, on the way to visit his friend the bear, gets lost in thick fog, where horses, dogs and even falling leaves take on a terrifying new aspect...

The Films of Yuri Norstein

6 Films of legendary russian animation master Yuriy Norshteyn are now fully 2K restored in Steelbook! Blu-ray&DVD

The Films of Yuri Norstein

Art Direction

Go There, Don't Know Where

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Go There, Don't Know Where

Background Designer

The Overcoat

The life and death of titular councillor Akaky Akakievich Bashmachkin, an impoverished government clerk and copyist in the Russian capital of St. Petersburg.

The Overcoat

Animation

Plasticine HedgehogMOVIE

Plasticine Hedgehog

About how a little plasticine hedgehog helped Vita, who was ill, collect a herbarium for school.

White Skin

A story about a white mouse. Since she is white, she was always mistaken for a doctor, a cook, or a hairdresser. And she successfully coped with all professions.