The famous Russian animated film director turned 75 years old on Thursday.

      In honor of his anniversary the Altmans Gallery in Moscow is holding the exhibition The Artist is Drawing a Film. Jarbusova and Norstein. The exposition includes ske tches to the film director's animated films made by his wife, the artist Francesca Jarbusova.

      "There are some people who have changed the world, and Yuri Norstein is among them", - the gallery owner Yegor Altman declared to journalists.

      A little over 30 works are presented at the exhibition - these are mostly sketches to Yury Norstein's animated films A Fox and a Hare, A Heron and a Crane, A Hedgehog in the Fog and A Fairy Tale of Fairy Tales. The latter one was acknowledged the best animation of all times and peoples in 1984.

      Yuri Norstein was born  in evacuation in the Penza Region on September 15, 1941. His childhood fell on the wartime, which he later told about in his masterpiece A Fairy Tale of Fairy Tales.