Crocodile Gena

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Crocodile Gena on a Soviet postage stamp

Crocodile Gena ( Russian Крокодил Гена ) is a Russian children's book and cartoon character from 1966, created by the writer Eduard Uspenski (1937-2018). The stories about the crocodile Gena were filmed from 1969 to 1983 in the Soviet cartoon studio Soyuzmultfilm under Roman Katschanow and achieved great popularity. In the plot, crocodile Gena is friends with the character Cheburashka .

The figure

Crocodile Gena lives in a town that is not described in detail and is employed there as a crocodile in the zoological garden . After work, he gets dressed and goes home. In the film he is shown with a red jacket, black bow tie and a small hat. At the beginning of the plot, crocodile Gena is lonely and seeks friends, whom he finds in Cheburashka and a girl named Galja .

Books

  • Crocodile Gena and his friends ( Крокодил Гена и его друзья ) (1966) - book (E. Uspenski)
  • Cheburashka and his friends ( Чебурашка и его друзья ) (1970) - play (E. Uspensky and R. Katschanow)
  • Crocodile Gena on vacation ( Отпуск крокодила Гены ) (1974) - play (E. Uspenski and R. Katschanow)
  • The Crocodile's Business Gena ( Бизнес крокодила Гены ) (1992) - book (E. Uspensky)

Movies

In Sojusmultfilm four were puppetoon with Crocodile Gena rotated.

Songs

At the beginning of the 1971 film “Cheburashka”, crocodile Gena sings his birthday song (Пусть бегут неуклюже…). In the chorus it is complained that one unfortunately only has a birthday once a year (к сожалению день рождения только раз в году). The lyrics to the song were written by Alexander Timofejewski and became very popular. In the Russian-speaking culture it is often taught as a nursery rhyme and sung on birthdays . The songwriter Gerhard Schöne wrote a German version of this song . Another popular song Gena sings at the end of the third film. It is called "The Blue Wagon" (Голубой вагон) and comes from the pen of Eduard Uspenski. Both songs were composed by Wladimir Schainski and convey a rather sad and melancholy mood.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ German translation: Krokodil Gena and his friends , Leipziger Kinderbuchverlag 2005, ISBN 978-3-89603-214-0
  2. ↑ animator.ru - crocodile Gena
  3. ↑ animator.ru - Cheburashka
  4. ↑ animator.ru - Chapeau Klak
  5. ↑ animator.ru - Cheburashka idet v shkolu
  6. ↑ Пусть бегут неуклюже…