Cheburashka is a 1971 Soviet

Soviet Union

The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....

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Russians

The Russian people are an East Slavic ethnic group native to Russia, speaking the Russian language and primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries....

 film directed by Roman Kachanov

Roman Abelevich Kachanov

Roman Abelevich Kachanov was a Russian animator, one of the founders and leaders of Russian stop-motion animation.Kachanov was the director and screenwriter of the trilogy about Cheburashka, Gena the Crocodile and Shapoklyak.- Early years :...

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Plot summary

Crocodile Gena's birthday. Cheburashka wishes him a happy birthday and gives him a gift. Friends have been busy trying to build a playground and help the scouts to collect scrap metal.

Cast

• Tamara Dmitrieva as Pioneers
• Vasily Livanov
  Vasily Livanov
  Vasily Borisovich Livanov MBE is a Soviet and Russian film actor, and screenwriter.-Biography:His father Boris Livanov was a prominent actor of the Moscow Art Theatre...
  
   as Gena the Crocodile
• Klara Rumyanova
  Klara Rumyanova
  Klara Mikhailovna Rumyanova was a Soviet and Russian actress and singer. She was active from 1951 to 1999.Her small, adorable voice is easily recognized by several generations of Soviet people from their early childhood, because she voiced numerous Russian animated films and sang countless...
  
   as Cheburashka
  Cheburashka
  Cheburashka , also known as Topple in earlier English translations, is a character in children's literature, from a 1966 story by the Russian writer Eduard Uspensky. In Estonian the character is called Potsataja...
  
  
• Vladimir Ferapontov as Gena (singing voice)

Soundtrack

This film opens with a song called "Let Them Run Clumsily" (Rus:Пусть бегут неуклюже), which is a popular birthday song in Russia.

External links

• At Worldcinemadirectory
• Cheburashka at Animator.ru