# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yuri-norstein
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:19:45.326Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/yuri-norstein"
name: "Yuri Norstein"
slug: "yuri-norstein"
description: "Yuri Borisovich Norstein is a Russian animator best known for his animated shorts Hedgehog in the Fog and Tale of Tales made in collaboration with his wife, Francheska Yarbusova. 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. According to The Washington Post, \"he is considered by many to be not just the best animator of his era, but the best of all time\"."
tagline: "Soviet film director (born 1941)"
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1941-09-15"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump