Favorite cartoon hero of adults and children Cheburashka, whose life began with fantasy and feather Edward Uspensky, returns with new stories and old friends - Crocodile Geno, a girl of Masha, an old woman Shapoklyak. An international team of animators led by the Japanese director Macoto Nakamura worked on the full-length film.
"Cheburashka" - a cartoon of three stories: "Cheburashka and Circus", "Cheburashka goes to the zoo" and "Councils of Shapoklyak". The prologue is the story of the appearance of Cheburashka in the drawer from under oranges, his acquaintance with the crocodile Geno and gaining friends.
Cheburashka returned Japanese director Macoto Nakamura on the screens. .
As a basis, the plot of the legendary Soviet cartoon "Crocodile Gena" (1969) is taken as the basis. "Cheburashka and Circus" - a story about friendship and a dream. Gena and Cheburashka help Masha's girl learn how to walk on a rope and carry out her cherished desire to act in a circus. In the series "Cheburashka goes to the zoo", the gene fell ill, and Cheburashka went instead of "work a crocodile" in the zoo. In the final history of "Shapoklyak Tips", the heroes come to the rescue of the Focus, who lost his granddaughter, and Shapoklyak opens the Bureau of Paid Useless Soviets.
The new "Cheburashka" - a tribute to the international team of animators to the Soviet cartoon Roman Kachanova and Anatoly Schwartzman. The main task for the creators was the maximum preservation of the authentic manner of the puppet film. In order to preserve the spirit of the legendary Soviet cartoon, all dolls and scenery were recreated again: plastic, facial expressions and heroes votes were reproduced with maximum reliability. Consultants from Russia and Belarus were specifically involved, Mikhail Aldashin and Mikhail Tomel became specially attracted. Pickling work on the "Cheburashka" lasted six years.
Director Macoto Nakamura deliberately made a choice in favor of doll animation, and not more simple in the performance of the method - computer graphics. In his opinion, "in the doll animation there is a special unique charm, and unlike computer graphics, dolls are really existing things in which the animators inhale" life ", moving them, and that is why they are perceived differently on the screen."
"Cheburashka" - a cartoon of three stories: "Cheburashka and Circus", "Cheburashka goes to the zoo" and "Councils of Shapoklyak". .
In Japan - the cult of Cheburashka. Its plush copy, as well as cups, handles, T-shirts with its image you can buy in almost all stores selling toys and souvenirs. Cheburashka dedicated sites and numerous communities in social networks. According to the director Makoto Nakamura, the relationship between Geno and Cheburashka is reminiscent of the relationship between Charlie Chaplin and the baby from the cult film "Circus". At the same time, the crocodile gene is a real Russian intellectual. He reads in the cartoon book of the master of Japanese poetry Matsu Basa. It was a proposal from Russian animators, according to which "Russian intelligentsia adores reading bass."