Gena the Crocodile (film)

Gena the Crocodile
Крокодил Гена
Directed by Roman Kachanov
Written by Eduard Uspensky
Roman Kachanov
Starring see below
Music by Mikhail Ziv
Cinematography Iosif Golomb
Editing by Lidiya Kyaksht
Release date(s) 1969
Running time 20 min 31 sec
Country Soviet Union
Language Russian

Gena the Crocodile (Russian: Крокодил Гена) is a 1969[1][2] Soviet/Russian stop-motion animated film directed by Roman Kachanov for Soyuzmultfilm studio.

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Gena the Crocodile works as a crocodile in an urban zoo. Every evening he returns home to his lonely flat. Gena gets very tired of playing chess against himself and decides to find himself some friends. Animals and people respond to his advertisements that he posts throughout the city. First comes a girl named Galya with a homeless puppy, then followed by her, Cheburashka. They decide to build the common house for them all, but the treacherous old maid Shapoklyak prevents them in different ways.

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