Yuri Norstein, or Yuriy Borisovich Norshteyn, award-winning Russian animator director attending the Cardiff Animation Festival 1994. Yuri Norstein films include: “The Fox and the Hare”; “The Heron and the Crane”; “Hedgehog in the Fog”; “Tale of Tales”. Since 1981 he has been working on a feature film called The Overcoat, based on the short story by Gogol. For many years he has collaborated with his wife, the artist Franchesca Yarbusova, and the cinematographer Aleksandr Zhukovskiy. Yuri Norstein co-founded the Animation School and Studio in Russia, SHAR Studio. In 2005, he released a Russian-language book titled Snow on the Grass, featuring a number of lectures that he gave about the art of animation. Cardiff, Wales, 1994
Location: Cardiff, Wales
Photographer: Richard Keith Wolff
