Shapoklyak (film)

Shapoklyak Шапокляк
Directed by	Roman Kachanov
Written by	Eduard Uspensky Roman Kachanov
Starring	See below
Music by	Vladimir Shainsky
Cinematography	Teodor Bunimovich Aleksandr Zhukovskiy
Edited by	Nadezhda Treshchyova
Release dates	1974 (1974)
Running time	19 min 48 sec
Country	Soviet Union
Language	Russian

Shapoklyak (Russian: Шапокляк, from French Chapeau claque) is a 1974 Soviet Russian animated film by Roman Kachanov.

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. On their way home, the duo, with Shapoklyak's help, stops hikers from poaching and a factory from polluting a river.

Creators

Scriptwriters: Eduard Uspensky, Roman Kachanov
Director: Roman Kachanov
Art director: Leonid Shvartsman
Operators: Alexander Zhukovsky, Theodor Bunimovich
Composer: Vladimir Shainsky
Sound technician: Georgy Martynyuk
Animators: Maya Buzinova, Natalya Dabizha, Yuriy Norshteyn, Pavel Petrov, Boris Savin
Editor: Natalya Abramova
Director: Nathan Bitman

Cast

Vasily Livanov as Gena the Crocodile
Irina Mazing as Shapoklyak
Klara Rumyanova as Cheburashka
Vladimir Ferapontov as Gena (singing voice)

Soundtrack

This film contains a second famous Russian song called "Blue (Train)car" (RUS: Голубой Вагон) of the composer Vladimir Shainsky on Eduard Uspensky's verses sound. It is sung at the end of the film by Gena.

Trivia

Though the city Cheburashka and Gena live in is unnamed, it is implied to be Moscow. This is hinted when Cheburashka and Gena take the train from Moscow to Yalta and also when they have to walk home (they find a distance sign pointing to Moscow).

External links

Shapoklyak at Animator.ru
Shapoklyak at the Big Cartoon DataBase
Shapoklyak at the Internet Movie Database

Films of Roman A. Kachanov

Director/screenwriter	A Little Frog Is looking for His Father (1964) The Mitten (1967) Gena the Crocodile (1969) Cheburashka (1971) Shapoklyak (1973) The Heron and the Crane (1974) The Last Petal (1977) The Mystery of the Third Planet (1981) Cheburashka Goes to School (1982) Two Tickets to India (1985) Aboout an Old Man, an Old Woman and Thiere Hen Ryaba (1982) Dereza (1985) The Newcomer in The Cabbage (1989)

Animator/art director	The Night Before Christmas (1951) The Snow Maiden (1952) The Scarlet Flower (1952) The Enchanted Boy (1955)

Works of Yuriy Norshteyn

Director/Co-director	25th October, the First Day (1968) The Battle of Kerzhenets (1971) The Fox and the Hare (1973) The Heron and the Crane (1974) Hedgehog in the Fog (1975) Tale of Tales (1979) Winter Days (2003, segment) The Overcoat (TBA)

Animator (selected films)	Lefty (1964) Go There, Don't Know Where (1966) Times of the Year (1969) Cheburashka (1971) Shapoklyak (1974) 38 Parrots (1976) Autumn (1982) The Book of the Dead (2005)

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