Cheburashka Goes to School

Cheburashka Goes to School (Russian: Чебурашка идёт в школу, Cheburashka Idet v Shkolu) is a 1983 Soviet animated film directed by Roman Kachanov.

Plot summary

Gena the Crocodile finds out that Cheburashka is unable to read. Luckily, the next day is September 1, the first day of school, and Gena decides to take Cheburashka to school so he can learn. After failing to buy a school uniform, they go to the school anyway, only to find it is closed on repair. Shapoklyak uses Lariska to stimulate the workers to repair the school quickly. As the school also doesn't have enough teachers, Gena and Shapoklyak volunteer to be teachers.

Creators

• Director: Roman Kachanov
• Screenwriters: Roman Kachanov, Eduard Uspensky
• Art directors: Leonid Shvartsman, Olga Bogolyubova
• Animators: Irina Sobinova-Kassil, Mikhail Pisman, Natalya Timofeeva, Natalia Dabizha
• Operator: Theodor Bunimovich, Vladimir Sidorov
• Director: Grigori Chmara
• Composer: Vladimir Shainsky
• Sound producer: Boris Filchikov
• Editor: Natalya Abramova
• Dolls and scenery: Pavel Gusev, Sergey Galkin, Natalia Barkovskaya, Marina Chesnokova, Alexander Belyaev, Semyon Etlis, Mikhail Koltunov, Valentin Ladygin, Vladimir Maslov, Oleg Masainov, Lyudmila Ruban, Natalia Greenberg, Svetlana Znamenskaya, Victor Grishin, Vladimir Abbakumov, Nina Moleva, Valery Petrov, Alexander Maximov
• Film editor: G. Filatova

Cast

• Vasily Livanov as Gena the Crocodile
• Klara Rumyanova as Cheburashka
• Yuri Andreyev as Shapoklyak
• Georgi Burkov as Salesman

Trivia

• Unlike in the first two films where Cheburashka could read, in this film, he is unable to read.
• This is the only film out of the original four to be ten minutes long as opposed to twenty.

External links

• Cheburashka Goes to School at Animator.ru
• Cheburashka Goes to School at the Big Cartoon DataBase
• Cheburashka Goes to School at the Internet Movie Database