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Cheburashka, the animated film character
Cheburashka, the animated film character

Cheburashka (Russian: Чебурашка listen (help·info)), also known as Topple in earlier English translations, is a character in children's literature, from a 1965 story by the Russian writer Eduard Uspensky. WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft. Please see WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft/page content for recommended layout Russian ( transliteration:,) is the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia, the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages Russia (Россия Rossiya) or the Russian Federation ( Rossiyskaya Federatsiya) is a transcontinental Country extending Eduard Uspenskiy (in Russian Эдуард Успенский born December 22, 1937) is a Russian Writer and author of several He is also the protagonist (voiced by Klara Rumyanova) of the animated film series by Soyuzmultfilm studio, the first episode of which was made in 1969. Klara Rumyanova (Кла́ра Миха́йловна Румя́нова December 8, 1929, Leningrad &ndash September 18, 2004, The bouncing ball animation (below consists of these 6 frames Soyuzmultfilm ( Coюзмультфильм, translated as Union Animation) is a Russian animation studio based in Moscow.

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Story

According to the story, Cheburashka is a funny little animal, unknown to science, who lives in the tropical forest. He accidentally gets into a crate of oranges, eats his fill, and falls asleep. Cheburashka is not a personal name; it is a species name invented by the puzzled director of the shop where he is found. The salesman takes the animal out and sits him on the table, but his paws are numb after the long time spent in the crate, and he tumbles down ("cheburakhnulsya" (чебурахнулся), a Russian colloquialism, "tumbled" or "toppled" in English) from the table onto the chair and then from the chair, where he could not sit, for the same reason, onto the floor. A colloquialism is an expression not used in formal speech, writing or Paralinguistics. The director of the shop, who witnesses the scene, called him Cheburashka. Words with this root were archaic in Russian; Uspensky gave them a new lease on life. (The 19th-century Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian language of Vladimir Dal gives the meaning of "cheburashka" as another name for the vanka-vstanka tumbling toy. Great Russian language (Russian Великорусский язык Velikorusskiy yazyk) is a name given in the 19th century to the Russian language as opposed Vladimir Ivanovich Dal (also Dahl, Владимир Иванович Даль ( November 10, 1801 &ndash September 22 1872 )

Cheburashka Russian animated film series

  1. Gena the Crocodile and His Friends (Крокодил Гена и его друзья) - 1969 (the same title as the 1965 story)
  2. Cheburashka (Чебурашка) - 1971
  3. Old Lady Shapoklyak (Шапокляк) - 1974
  4. Cheburashka Goes to School (Чебурашка идёт в школу) - 1983

Friends

Cheburashka has a bear-like body and large round ears and is about the size of a 5-year-old child; the gender of the creature is most likely male. Crocodile Gena ( Russian: Крокодил Гена Krokodil Gena) is a fictional friendly Crocodile in the series of Cheburashka Shapoklyak (старуха Шапокляк Staruha Shapoklyak - Old Lady Shapoklyak was a popular villain from a story about Cheburashka written by Russian In the tale, he hangs around with a friendly crocodile Gena, who wears a hat and a coat, walks on his hind legs and plays an accordion. Crocodile Gena ( Russian: Крокодил Гена Krokodil Gena) is a fictional friendly Crocodile in the series of Cheburashka The accordion is a portable box-shaped Musical instrument of the hand-held Bellows -driven free-reed aerophone family sometimes referred to as a Squeezebox He works in a zoo as a crocodile. Gena's favorite songs are "Birthdays Happen Only Once a Year" and "Blue Wagon".

Antagonist

In the cartoon, Cheburashka and Gena have their adventures made more difficult by a character named "Старуха Шапокляк" (Old Lady Shapoklyak, from French Chapeau-Claque, a kind of top hat). Shapoklyak (старуха Шапокляк Staruha Shapoklyak - Old Lady Shapoklyak was a popular villain from a story about Cheburashka written by Russian Shapoklyak is a mischievous but charming old lady. She is tall and thin, wears a hat and a dark-colored dress, and carries around her as sidekick a rat-like creature — "Lariska" — in her purse to help her play pranks on people. The chorus of her theme song contains her motto, "One won't ever get famous for good deeds".

Copyright controversy

Cheburashka in 1965, in the first edition of the book.
Cheburashka in 1965, in the first edition of the book.

The rights to the Cheburashka character and image have been heavily debated in court. [1] In 1994, Eduard Uspenskiy (the writer) copyrighted the character's name and image and proceeded to sell the rights to various countries. Leonid Shvartsman, the art director of the animated films, has tried to prove in court that he was the creator of Cheburashka's visual appearance and that this copyright should be separate from the rights for the literary character. Leonid Shvartsman (Леонид Аронович Шварцман (b On March 13, 2007, Shvartsman and his attorney lost a 4. 7 million ruble lawsuit against BRK Cosmetics and Eduard Uspenskiy. The ruble or rouble (рубль rublʹ, plural ru рубли́ rubli; see note on English spelling and Russian plurals with numbers Shvartsman alleged that Uspenskiy sold the rights to the Cheburashka image (which was allegedly not his to sell) to BRK Cosmetics, which used it on packets of toothpaste. Toothpaste is a Paste or Gel Dentifrice used to clean and maintain the aesthetics and health of Teeth. The defence argued that the artist who drew the character for the packets had never seen the animated films and, despite the fact that the character on the packets was an exact copy of the one in the animated films, had created the character himself after the impressions left from reading Uspenskiy's books. Vladimir Entin, the prosecuting attorney, suspects that the jury had to have been bribed in order to hand such an unlikely verdict, but admits that there is no proof. [2]

Cheburashka spottings

A Russian talking Cheburashka
A Russian talking Cheburashka

Cheburashka was chosen as an official mascot for the Russian Olympic Team for the 2004 Summer Olympics in Greece. The 2004 Summer Olympic Games, officially known as the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad, was an International Multi-sport event which was celebrated Greece (Ελλάδα transliterated: Elláda, historically, Ellás,) officially the Hellenic Republic (Ελληνική Δημοκρατία Cheburashka dolls were also seen with members of the Russian team in 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy. The 2006 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XX Olympic Winter Games, were a Winter Multi-sport event which was celebrated in He is also one of the few Russian animation characters to be a subject of numerous Russian jokes and riddles. See also Russian humour Russian Jokes (анекдо́ты ( transcribed anekdoty literally Anecdotes the most popular form of

The word "Cheburashka" is also used in a figurative sense to name objects that somehow resemble the creature (such as an An-72 aircraft which, when seen from the front, resembles the character's head) or are just as nice as it is (e. WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft. Please see WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft/page content for recommended layout g. a colloquial name for a small bottle of lemonade - from brand name "Cheburashka"). Lemonade is a Lemon -flavored Soft drink. The term can refer to two different types of beverage In the U

Cheburashka is now a staple of Russian cartoons, and there are several licensed products on the market, such as children's anecdotal books and stuffed toys.

Cheburashka also became known in some countries outside the former Soviet Union (and of the Soviet Bloc). During the Cold War, the term Communist Bloc (or Soviet Bloc) was used to refer to the Soviet Union and countries it either controlled or that were He became very popular in Japan after an animated film series about him was shown in 15 cinemas all over Japan and was watched by approx. For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Japan topics. 700,000 Japanese between summer 2001 and spring 2002.

"Drutten och krokodilen Gena", Sweden

"Drutten och Gena"
"Drutten och Gena"

In the 1970s a series of children's television shows, radio shows, records and magazines were produced in Sweden featuring the characters Drutten and crocodile Gena. "Sverige" redirects here For other uses see Sweden (disambiguation and Sverige (disambiguation. These two characters were based on a couple of Cheburashka and Gena dolls purchased on a trip to the Soviet Union, so they were visually identical to Cheburashka and Gena. "Drutten" is a fairly good approximation of a translation of "one who tumbles down", as one meaning of the Swedish colloquial verb "drutta" is "to fall or tumble down".

But that is where the similarity ends. The two characters sang and told different stories from those in the USSR and lived on a bookshelf rather than in a city. Only occasionally Swedish state TV would broadcast a segment of the Russian original, dubbed in Swedish. So, while many Swedes may visually recognize Cheburashka, they will generally not associate these characters with the ones Russian children know.

Collectibles

Cheburashka dolls and other collectibles are produced in Russia and Japan and sought after by collectors around the world. United States National Champion figure skater Johnny Weir is known to be an avid collector of Russian Cheburashka items. Personal life Weir was born in Coatesville Chester County Pennsylvania (sometimes referred

The Cheburashka Song, Israel

The song is also available for young children in Israel. For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Israel topics. It is played on the (children's) Hop Channel in Hebrew.

Cheburashka movie

Ivan Maximov had said in a 2004 interview ([3]) that Pilot Studio had been planning to make a Cheburashka feature film and that the scenario had been written out and possibly some footage shot, but that it had been frozen for lack of funds. Ivan Maximov is an artist professional Animator and director Biography Ivan Maximov was born on 19 November 1958 in Moscow. Cheburashka's popularity in Japan is such that on April 4, 2006, TV Tokyo broadband issued a press announcement ([4][5]) that it (in partnership with Frontier Works, Inc. Events 1581 - Francis Drake completes a circumnavigation of the world and is knighted by Elizabeth I. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ) has acquired the rights to remake the Cheburashka shorts as a feature film. It is unclear if this was the very project that Pilot Studio had been forced to abandon. It was announced that the film, like the original shorts, will be based on puppet animation enhanced with modern stop-motion technology and computer graphics effects (similar to the plans for the Pilot Studio film), and would be shot simultaneously in two languages - English and Russian. Stop motion (or frame-by-frame) animation is an Animation technique to make a physically manipulated object appear to move on its own No news have been released since that announcement.

See also

External links

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Animator.ru

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