Francheska Yarbusova

Art director (USSR, Russia)
USSR State Award (1979)

Was Born on Oct. 13.1942 in Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan, USSR (during her mother’s World War II evacuation).

1943 - Moves back to Moscow with her mother
1955-59 - Attends Moscow Children’s Art school
1967 - receives degree in animation art directing from The State University of Cinematography (VGIK)
1964-89 - Worked as an artist and art director for Soyuzmultfilm Animation Studio, Moscow, with film directors V.D.Degtyariov, V.P.Danilevich, and Y.B.Norshteyn.

As a writer she published her short stories in Mirrors almanac, The State Capital magazine, and others.

2005Master prize for the exhibition in the Moscow Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts.
2005 – Grand Gold Medal from Russian Fine Arts Academy for the sketches to The Overcoat (film dir. Y.Norshteyn)

She was filmed in documentaries: The Animation World and the World Animation (2001), Soyuzmultfilm – the Tales and the True Stories (the show And Life, and Tales, and Love..., 2004), series Islands (2002).
2007 - Monologue - documentary film about her (by N.Vinogradova and N.Urvachiova, State TV Channel Culture)

Filmography:
1965 - How One Man Fed Two Generals (puppets and decorations)
1966 - Go There, Don't Know Where (artist)
1967 - A Little Locomotive from Romashkovo (art director)
1968 - A White Skin (art director)
1969 - Plasticine Hedgehog (art director)
1971 - The Boy and the Ball (art director)
1971 - Battle by Kerzhenets (artist)
1973 - Fox and Hare (art director)
1974 - Heron and Crane (art director)
1975 - Hedgehog in the Fog (art director)
1979 - Tale of Tales (art director)
1981 - present - The Overcoat (art director)
1994-95 - Russian Sugar commercials (art director)
2003 - FUYU NO HI (Winter Days) Japan, (art director), Autumn Storm… sequence (dir. Y.Norshteyn)

Bibliography:
Isao Takahata Tale of Tales Tokyo, Japan, 1984
Film Creation or Some Interviews on Business Topics Moscow, 1990
F.Yarbusova But This World is Flying…(short story, The Secret of Pushkin’s Word collected stories) Moscow, 1999
Y.Norshteyn, F.Yarbusova Paris Exhibition Catalogue, Paris 2001
F.Yarbusova Our Childhood Home (When the Moon and the Sun are Together… collected stories) Moscow, 2002
Franya and I Ghibli Museum Exhibition Catalogue, Tokyo, Japan 2003
Norshteyin’s Work (art album) Tokyo, Japan 2003
Y.Norshteyn Snow on Grass Moscow, 2005.
Y.Norshteyn, F.Yarbusova Tale of Tales Moscow, 2005.
Clare Kitson Yuri Norshtein and Tale of Tales England, 2005
Y.Norshteyn Snow on Grass Moscow, 2008

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Hedgehog in the Fog
Tale of Tales
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