YURI NORSTEIN

DIRECTING

PAR Yuri Norstein (Russian: Ю́рий Бори́сович Норште́йн, Yuriy Borisovich Norshteyn; born 15 September 1941), is a Soviet and Russian animator best known for his animated shorts, Hedgehog in the Fog and Tale of Tales.

Since 1981 he has been working on a feature film called The Overcoat, based on the short story by Nikolai Gogol of the same name.