Cheburashka Movie Details:
| Also known as | Chebi: My Fluffy Friend |
| Russian | Чебурашка |
| Genre | Animation, Comedy, Family |
| Country | Russia |
| Language | Russian |
| Release Date | January 1, 2023 |
| Running Time | 1hr 53min |
| Based on | Cheburashka by Eduard Uspensky |
| Starring | Olga Kuzmina Sergei Garmash Fyodor Dobronravov Elena Yakovleva Dmitry Lysenkov Polina Maksimova Sergei Lavygin |
| Directed by | Dmitry Dyachenko |
| Written by | Vitaly Shlyappo Vasily Kutsenko Vyacheslav Zub Anatoly Molchanov |
| Produced by | Eduard Iloyan Denis Zhalinsky Vitaly Shlyappo Aleksey Trotsyuk Anton Zlatopolsky Yuliana Slashcheva Lika Blank Vadim Vereshchagin Vyacheslav Murugov Mikhail Tkachenko Anna Ryzhikova |
| Cinematography by | Ivan Lebedev |
| Edited by | Anton Anisimov Kirill Abramov Tim Pavelko Dmitrii Smorchkov |
| Music by | Ivan Kanaev |
| Production Companies | Yellow, Black and White START Studio Soyuzmultfilm Russia-1 CTC Media Cinema Fund |
| Distributed by | Central Partnership |
| Budget | ₽850 million ($12 million) |
| Box Office Collection | $88,224,363 |
Cheburashka Movie Cast & Characters:
Storyline:
The story follows Cheburashka, a big-eared animal that 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 lady who wants to buy it and give it to her granddaughter, as well as a huge number of other characters.
About Cheburashka Movie:
Cheburashka, also known as Chebi: My Fluffy Friend (Russian: Чебурашка) is a Russian live-action animated comedy film directed by Dmitry Dyachenko. The film stars Olga Kuzmina as the titular character along with Sergei Garmash, Fyodor Dobronravov, Elena Yakovleva, and Polina Maksimova. It is an adaptation of the 1960s Eduard Uspensky’s children’s book Gena the Crocodile and His Friends, and its Soviet cartoon adaptation about the adventures of Gena the Crocodile and Cheburashka.
Principal photography of the film started in September 2021 in Sochi, Krasnodar Krai, using the Sochi Arboretum park, on the sea embankment and the Sanatorium named after G.K. Ordzhonikidze were used as locations. Cheburashka premiered on December 23, 2022, at the Karo October 11 cinema center in Moscow on New Arbat Avenue. It was theatrically released in Russia on January 1, 2023, by Central Partnership.
Cheburashka received generally mixed to positive reviews from critics and audiences. Critics highly praised its visual effects, though the story was considered to be predictable. Following the film’s success, Soyuzmultfilm signed a deal to produce a sequel and the whole franchise.
