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'{{Infobox film |name = Gena the Crocodile<br>Крокодил Гена |image = |image_size = |caption = |director = [[Roman Abelevich Kachanov|Roman Kachanov]] |producer = |writer = [[Eduard Uspensky]]<br/>[[Roman Abelevich Kachanov|Roman Kachanov]] |narrator = |starring = see below |music = Mikhail Ziv |cinematography = Iosif Golomb |editing = Lidiya Kyaksht |distributor = |released = 1969 |runtime = 20 min 31 sec |country = Soviet Union |language = Russian |budget = |gross = }} '''''Gena the Crocodile''''' ({{lang-ru|Крокодил Гена, Krokodil Gena}}) is a [[1969 in film|1969]]<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=dE-uF7HvcrIC&pg=PA236&dq=Krokodil+Gena+1969&hl=en Yellow crocodiles and blue oranges] by David MacFadyen</ref><ref>[http://www.uspens.info/state/AC:-1.1600625533/AA:navID.87/AB:navID.87/ The official website of E. Uspensky] {{ru icon}}</ref> [[Soviet Union|Soviet]]/[[Russians|Russian]] [[stop-motion]] [[animated film]] directed by [[Roman Abelevich Kachanov|Roman Kachanov]] for [[Soyuzmultfilm]] studio. In this movie for the first time there were widely known animation images — [[Gena the Crocodile]], the [[Cheburashka]] and the old woman Shapoklyak. The movie was shot based on [[Eduard Uspensky]]'s book "A crocodile Gena and his friends". From the moment of a release of the movie and till present time dolls, cards, stamps, audio recordings, souvenirs with heroes of this movie are issued; also many remarks of heroes of the animated film entered colloquial use, jokes about heroes of the movie are composed. Heroes of the movie became part of the Russian [[Popular culture|popular culture]]. The movie is the academic example of the [[Cult film|cult Russian movie]] (animated film). ==Plot summary== [[Gena the Crocodile]] works as a zoo animal at an urban zoo. Every evening, he returns home to his lonely apartment. Gena gets very tired of playing chess against himself and decides to find some friends to play with. Animals and people respond to advertisements that he posts all around the city. First, a girl named Galya comes with a homeless puppy, who is then followed by [[Cheburashka]]. They decide to build a house for all the lonely citizens of the city, but a mischievous old lady, Shapoklyak, tries to stop them in different ways. ==Creators== *Scriptwriters: [[Eduard Uspensky]], [[Roman Abelevich Kachanov|Roman Kachanov]] *Film director: [[Roman Abelevich Kachanov|Roman Kachanov]] *Art director: [[Leonid Shvartsman]] *Operator: Iosif Golomb *Composer: Mikhail Ziv *Sound technician: Georgy Martynyuk *Dolls and scenery: Semyon Etlis, Marina Chesnokova, Pavel Lesin, Gennady Lyutinsky, Svetlana Znamenskaya, Oleg Masainov, Valentin Ladygin, Liliana Luetinskaja, V. Kalashnikova, E. Darikovich *Installation: Lidiya Kyaksht ==Cast== *[[Vasily Livanov]] as [[Gena the Crocodile]] (voice) *[[Klara Rumyanova]] as [[Cheburashka]] (voice) *Vladimir Rautbart as [[Shapoklyak]] (voice) *Vladimir Kenigson as Salesman (voice) *Tamara Dmitrieva as Galya (voice) ==Facts== *The buyer from fruit greengrocery (in a white shirt and a black beret), the janitor and two visitors of a zoo (the pensioner with the granddaughter) for the first time appear in earlier animated film of Roman Kachanov — "The granddaughter was lost" [[1966 in film|1966]] *The editorial board of "[[Soyuzmultfilm]]" connected with ideological department of [[KGB]] saw in an episode of construction of a lodge of friends a hint on construction of [[Comecon|CMEA]], and the lowest was appropriated to the movie — the third category therefore the picture wasn't recommended for a wide release, and the film group didn't get an award for the movie *In May, 2010 in [[Japan]] the animated film "Gena the Crocodile" in accuracy repeating the original of [[1969 in film|1969]] was submitted ==References== {{Reflist}} ==External links== *[http://www.animator.ru/db/?ver=eng&p=show_film&fid=2288 ''Gena the Crocodile''] at Animator.ru *{{bcdb|105563-Krokodil_Gena|Gena the Crocodile}} *{{IMDb title|0146970|Gena the Crocodile}} {{USSR-film-stub}} {{Roman Abelevich Kachanov}} [[Category:1969 films]] [[Category:Soviet films]] [[Category:Soviet animated films]] [[Category:Stop-motion animated films]] [[Category:Russian-language films]] [[Category:Soyuzmultfilm]] [[Category:Films based on works by Eduard Uspensky]] [[Category:Films directed by Roman Abelevich Kachanov]]'