Cheburashka (2023 film)

Cheburashka (Russian: Чебурашка) is an upcoming Russian live-action/computer-animated fairy tale children's comedy film directed by Dmitry Dyachenko, the film is an adaptation of the 1966s Russian fairy tale Crocodile Gena and His Friends (ru) by Eduard Uspensky, and a reboot of all the cartoons shot mainly in the Soviet Union, a 1969 full-length feature film about Crocodile Gena and Cheburashka, the film stars Sergei Garmash and Olga Kuzmina.[1][2]

Cheburashka
Directed byDmitry Dyachenko
Written by
  • Vitaly Shlyappo (ru)
  • Vasily Kutsenko
  • Vyacheslav Zub
  • Anatoly Molchanov
Based onCrocodile Gena and His Friends (ru)
by Eduard Uspensky
Produced by
  • Eduard Iloyan (ru)
  • Denis Zhalinsky (ru)
  • Vitaly Shlyappo
  • Aleksey Trotsyuk (ru)
  • Anton Zlatopolsky
  • Yuliana Slashcheva
  • Lika Blank
  • Vadim Vereshchagin
  • Vyacheslav Murugov (ru)
Starring
CinematographyIvan Lebedev
Production
companies
Distributed byCentral Partnership
Release date
  • January 1, 2023 (2023-01-01)
CountryRussia
LanguageRussian

Cheburashka is scheduled to be theatrically released in Russia on January 1, 2023, by Central Partnership.[3]

Plot

The film tells about a furry animal named Cheburashka, who lives in an orange grove and ends up in a small town by the sea, where he meets an old man who is closed in himself, a boy who cannot speak, his mother and an unusual aunt who wants to buy it and give it to her granddaughter, as well as a huge number of other characters.[4]

Cast

Production

Yuliana Slashcheva is the chairman of the board of the Soyuzmultfilm film studio, and Eduard Iloyan is the general producer of Yellow, Black & Whit studio were engaged in the creation of the cartoon in tandem with the STS and Russia-1 channels. The start of filming was scheduled for 2021. The film adaptation will be shared by both channels, but the premiere launch is expected on Russia-1. YBW is responsible for financing the project, according to preliminary data, production costs will amount to at least 600 million rubles.[5]

Post-production

The film is planned to contain a large amount of computer graphics. The legendary domestic character is created for the first time using motion capture technology and other modern devices. It will be integrated into the film using the Full CG blending method.

Filming

Principal photography of the film started in September 2021 in Sochi, Krasnodar Krai. The embankment, the Arboretum, the Ordzhonikidze sanatorium were used as locations. A little later, the team will move to the cities of Pyatigorsk and Kislovodsk, Stavropol Territory, and then go to Moscow for field recordings. The creators specifically chose such places to create a sense of timelessness.[6][7]

Release

Broad release in the Russian Federation is scheduled for January 1, 2023 with the help of Central Partnership.

References
  1. Что известно про фильм «Чебурашка» с Сергеем Гармашом?
  2. "Гармаш сыграет крокодила Гену, а Чебурашка оживет в полнометражном фильме" [Garmash will play the Crocodile Gena, and Cheburashka will come to life in a feature film]. RIA Novosti (in Russian). September 20, 2021. Retrieved March 25, 2022.
  3. Премьеру семейной комедии о Чебурашке запланировали на 1 января 2023 года
  4. Чебурашка, 2022
  5. Кто сыграет главную роль в художественном фильме про Чебурашку
  6. Любимый герой возвращается на экраны: начались съемки фильма "Чебурашка"
  7. Съемки полнометражного фильма про Чебурашку начнутся в 2021 году
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