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"It's come to this — that Russian cartoons are made abroad"
Cheburashka has been re-filmed in Japan
"It's come to this — that Russian cartoons are made abroad" — that is the comment of one Internet user on the trailer of the Japanese version of the cartoon about the Russian character Cheburashka. It has indeed come to this for all the people who got acquainted with Cheburashka, a character from Eduard Uspensky's children's book "Crocodile Gena and His Friends" in 1966, and who saw its first screen adaptation, made by director Roman Kachanov with drawings by Leonid Shvartsman in 1969. All these people, now adults of course, were surprised in November of this year when, as part of the 44th festival of Japanese cinema in Moscow, director Makoto Nakamura presented the full-length cartoon "Cheburashka," made by an international team consisting of Russian, Korean, and Japanese animators.
Cheburashka, a sweet little creature "unknown to science," resembling both a monkey and a bear cub, but with enormous ears, is a unique example of the global expansion of a Russian character. Cheburashka was invented by Uspensky himself, recalling a defective toy from his childhood, and the name came to him at the sight of his friend's little daughter, who, according to her father, was constantly "cheburakhaya-ing." The author of the famous Soviet tale learned from his friend that "to cheburakhnut" means "to fall down": and so he christened with the name Cheburashka his little creature, who, in fact, falls several times from the crate of oranges in which the shop assistant found him.
Cheburashka was also used as an image for advertisements of children's products, and as the Olympic mascot of the Russian team starting from the 2004 Summer Games in Athens. By the way, Cheburashka symbolizes friendship. He has no special abilities, he doesn't even know what kind of animal he is. They don't want him at the zoo, and he lives alone in a telephone booth until he sees an announcement from Gena the crocodile: "Young crocodile wants to make some friends." ...
Cheburashka has been re-filmed in Japan
"It's come to this — that Russian cartoons are made abroad" — that is the comment of one Internet user on the trailer of the Japanese version of the cartoon about the Russian character Cheburashka. It has indeed come to this for all the people who got acquainted with Cheburashka, a character from Eduard Uspensky's children's book "Crocodile Gena and His Friends" in 1966, and who saw its first screen adaptation, made by director Roman Kachanov with drawings by Leonid Shvartsman in 1969. All these people, now adults of course, were surprised in November of this year when, as part of the 44th festival of Japanese cinema in Moscow, director Makoto Nakamura presented the full-length cartoon "Cheburashka," made by an international team consisting of Russian, Korean, and Japanese animators.
Cheburashka, a sweet little creature "unknown to science," resembling both a monkey and a bear cub, but with enormous ears, is a unique example of the global expansion of a Russian character. Cheburashka was invented by Uspensky himself, recalling a defective toy from his childhood, and the name came to him at the sight of his friend's little daughter, who, according to her father, was constantly "cheburakhaya-ing." The author of the famous Soviet tale learned from his friend that "to cheburakhnut" means "to fall down": and so he christened with the name Cheburashka his little creature, who, in fact, falls several times from the crate of oranges in which the shop assistant found him.
Cheburashka was also used as an image for advertisements of children's products, and as the Olympic mascot of the Russian team starting from the 2004 Summer Games in Athens. By the way, Cheburashka symbolizes friendship. He has no special abilities, he doesn't even know what kind of animal he is. They don't want him at the zoo, and he lives alone in a telephone booth until he sees an announcement from Gena the crocodile: "Young crocodile wants to make some friends." ...
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