Hedgehog in the Fog is a 1975 Soviet animated film directed by Yuri Norstein and produced by the Soyuzmultfilm studio in Moscow. The Russian script was written by Sergei Grigoryevich Kozlov, who also published a book under the same name.
Hedgehog in the Fog on the 1988 USSR stamp
Hedgehog in Kyiv
Director Yuri Norstein in 2009
Yuri Borisovich Norstein 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. 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".
Norstein in 2012
Hedgehog in the Fog (1975), one of Norstein's most widely known works