Shapoklyak is a 1974 Soviet Russian film 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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Synopsis

Crocodile Gena and Cheburashka decide to go to the sea on vacation. Shapoklyak steals their train tickets, and so they are kicked off the train. They stop hikers from poaching, and a factory from polluting the environment.

Cast

• 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
• Irina Mazing as Shapoklyak
  Shapoklyak
  Shapoklyak was a popular villain from a story about Cheburashka written by Russian writer Eduard Uspensky. The first appearance of Shapoklyak was in the animated film Gena the Crocodile by Roman Kachanov ....
  
  
• 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 contains a second famous Russian song called "Blue (Train)car" (RUS: Голубой Вагон). It is sung at the end of the film by Gena.

External links

• Shapoklyak at Animator.ru