Slavic Movie Night

At 6:30 p.m., Thursday, October 5, 2023, in Fahy Hall Room 236, the Slavic Club will be showcasing two short, animated movies: Crocodile Gena and Cheburashka, and The Old Man and the Sea based on Ernest Hemingway's book of the same name.

Crocodile Gena and Cheburashka with English Russian subtitles is a 1969 Soviet/Russian stop-motion animated film directed by Roman Kachanov. His film introduces the characters Gena the Crocodile, Cheburashka, and the old woman Shapoklyak. This film became popular in the Soviet Union and spawned three sequels.

Gena the Crocodile works as a zoo animal at an urban zoo. Every evening, he returns home to his lonely apartment. Gena gets very tired of playing chess against himself and decides to find some friends to play with. Animals and people respond to advertisements that he posts all around the city. First, a girl named Galya comes with a homeless puppy, who is then followed by Cheburashka. They decide to build a house for all the lonely citizens of the city, but a mischievous old lady, Shapoklyak, tries to stop them in different ways.

This film opens with a song called "Let Them Run Clumsily" (Rus:Пусть бегут неуклюже) which is a popular birthday song in Russia.

Alexander Petrov's animated film The Old Man and the Sea is the film which brought Russia the First Oscar for the Best Animated Short Film. Alexander Petrov invented a new animation technique called "living painting."

The Old Man and the Sea (1999) is a short, animated film based on Ernest Hemingway's book of the same name. The story follows the journey of an old fishman named Santiago, who has been on a long streak of bad luck with catching fish. Set in Cuba, Santiago goes out to the sea alone in his small boat, determined to catch a big fish. After hours of waiting, he finally hooks a gigantic marlin, but the fish is powerful and resists his attempts to reel it in. Santiago is determined to catch the marlin, even though it pulls him further out to sea and tests his strength and endurance.

The Old Man and the Sea is widely regarded as one of Hemingway's greatest works. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1953 and contributed to Hemingway receiving the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954.
Petrov's animated film continues to celebrate the human spirit and courage in the face of challenges.

Everyone is welcome! Slavic food will be served!

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