Yuriy norshteyn biography for kids
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Yuri Borisovich Norshtein
Director, People’s Artist of Russia
USSR State Prize laureate
“As a child, when inom was very ill, inom used to have this recurring dream. As if in the blackness, there is a thick parallelepipedal stack of the thinnest paper, about a meter high. And I must quickly and carefully, sheet by sheet, move the entire stack to another spot. inom try to do it as quickly as possible, but the old stack does not get any smaller and the new one next to it hardly grows.
Later, while working in animation and dealing with tracing paper, on which the layouts of movements were drawn, I recalled again and again my childhood nightmare.
I was born on 15 September 1941 in the by of Andreevka, in Penza Region – one of the places where the evacuees were sent at the very beginning of the war.
In 1943, my mother, my older brother, and I returned to Moscow. My mum, Basya Girshevna Krichevskaya, worked all her life in preschool institutions: a nursery, a kindergarten, the Mother and
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I was happened to know Yuri Norstein with the help of this little Hedgehog and its fascinating fog with horse. After that I start to learn about Russia animation and many other Russian animators and couldn’t help fall in love with other film from Yuri’s. Here’s the Piece I’m talking about “” his animated shorts, Hedgehog in the Fog
On the screenwriting class today, I present one of his work in Japanese project [English translation on Yuri Norstein interview]
Discussing on the reason behind choices director choose to present the work as it is, I research more to learn about the project itself with Japanese director and how Yuri worked on it. Conclusion is that Yuri use less elements but get more just the way Haiku works, less words but can interpret as many pictures.
Here’s one from the whole interview I like,
Basho, too, couldn’t be lured by money or good conditions or with the words: “Why are you walking in your rags upon r
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Yury Norstein: challenging the boundaries of the conceivable
Yury Norstein
As the author of some of the best known and popular children's animation, how would you describe the present state of children's animation in your country, and more broadly, the state of the cinema and art for children and youth?
One of my Italian friends, a film critic, liked to repeat the following quote, which he attributed to the Roman Pope John Paul II: "If you want good upbringing for your children, let them watch Soviet animation films." Soviet animation films were filled with deep meaning, they taught young people how to be compassionate, how to ask and answer deep and important life questions, and how to use their imagination. Yet they were simple and accessible, as any genuine work of art should be. Today, this kind of simplicity has given way to primitivism, and sometimes to plain bad taste. At times, it seems to me that people cannot always see the boundary that separates true art from