Eduard Uspensky (Writer)

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Works

This Is Edik

He gave us an unforgettable and unique childhood. What was the great Russian storyteller really like? A documentary film about Eduard Uspensky.

Release Date2020-11-25

Charactersd self (found footage)

Vote Count1

Stolbun's Sect

This sect was talked about in the media, and famous Soviet artists sent their children there. Later, she is recognized as a sadist. A documentary about the most popular sect of the Soviet Union - the “collective” of Viktor Stolbun.

Release Date2020-12-01

Charactersd (archive)

Portrait «Under the Fly»

Little novels from the life of the Leningrad poet Oleg Grigoriev. His fate, like his poems, is a flip-flop, where good and evil exist under the masks of each other.

Release Date2008-06-19

Charactersd himself

Fuse

Fitil is a popular Soviet/Russian television satirical/comedy short film series which ran for about 500 episodes. Some of the episodes were aimed at children, and were called Фитилёк, Fitilyok, Little Fuse. Each issue contained from the few short segments: documentary, fictional and animated ones. Directed by various artists, including Leonid Gaidai who presented his famous trio of Nikulin, Vitsin and Morgunov into the cast. It was called in USSR as "the anecdotes from the Soviet government".

Release Date1962-06-04

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count1

Vote Count8

Investigation Held by Kolobki. Part 1

Detectives B. Kolobok and M. Kolobok are investigating the missing striped elephant.

Release Date1986-12-28

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count2

Investigation Held by Kolobki. Part 2

Detectives B. Kolobok and M. Kolobok are pursuing the smuggler Karbofos, who has stolen a striped elephant from the zoo.

Release Date1987-01-04

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count2

Chebi: My Fluffy Friend

It takes one little big eared hero to bring back the sun and smiles to the adult world! Amazing adventures await a fluffy restless animal from a distant orange country when he gets to a small sea town. There he will find friends, home and finally a name. Helped – and hindered! – he will be by a unsociable old gardener, a strange fashionista aunt and her capricious granddaughter, a boy who can’t start talking in any way and his mother, who has a hard time, although she cooks the most delicious chocolate in the world. And many, many others, whose lives, along with the aroma of oranges, are about to burst into magic and adventure.

Release Date2023-01-01

DepartmentWriting

JobCharacters

Vote Count87

Cheburashka

The film based on the book by Eduard Uspensky "Crocodile Gena and his friends". Crocodile Gena works in a zoo - a crocodile. Every evening he returns home to his lonely apartment. Finally he tired of playing with himself in chess, and Gene decides to make friends. On the ads pasted around the city, responding animals and people. First comes a girl with a homeless puppy Gal, followed by the Cheburashka...

Release Date2010-12-18

DepartmentWriting

JobCharacters

Vote Count17

Cheburashka

Second animation about Gena and Cheburashka. Cheburashka wishes Gena the Crocodile a happy birthday and gives him a toy helicopter as a gift. After meeting some pioneers, they decide to be pioneers themselves. They build a playground for the local children and collect scrap metal, after which they become pioneers.

Release Date1971-06-06

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count85

Prostokvashino

A boy nicknamed Uncle Fyodor loved animals very much, but his parents didn't want to hear anything about having a pet in their apartment. So Uncle Fyodor had to move to the village of Prostokvashino with his new friends — the cat Matroskin and the faithful dog Sharik.

Release Date2026-01-01

DepartmentWriting

JobBook

Весёлая карусель

Release Date1969-01-01

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

Vote Count6

Love and Pigeons

One of the most favorite Soviet comedies, a screen version of the play of the same name by Vladimir Gurkin. Each of us knows the story of Vasily, who went to the resort, succumbed to the charms of a femme fatale Raisa Zakharovna, but could not withstand two weeks of urban life, and returned to his family, where he waited for love and pigeons.

Release Date1984-12-31

DepartmentWriting

JobLyricist

Vote Count131

Shapoklyak

Gena the Crocodile and Cheburashka decide to go to the sea on vacation. Shapoklyak steals their train tickets, so they are kicked off the train. On their way home, the duo, with Shapoklyak's help, stops hikers from poaching and a factory from polluting a river.

Release Date1974-11-10

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count52

Today in Our City...

Release Date1989-01-01

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Three from Prostokvashino

Little Fedor brings a cat to home despite his mother's distaste for cats. He runs away with his talking cat, to make more friends on the way.

Release Date1978-06-06

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count112

Octopuses

Octopus dads mix up their kids.

Release Date1976-05-27

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count7

Investigation Held by Kolobki. The First Investigation

Detectives Kolobok and Bulochkin work at an emergency good deeds center and help a grandmother find her grandson.

Release Date1983-12-11

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count4

Investigation Held by Kolobki. Theft of the Century

How detectives Kolobok and Bulochkin found the missing ice cream cart.

Release Date1983-12-18

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count4

New Year's Song of Father Frost

"New Year's Song of Ded Moroz" - Soviet animated film produced by the creative association "Ekran", shot in 1982 by the director Aleksandr Tatarskiy under the script of Eduard Uspensky. It was made using the technique of Plasticine animation. Ded Moroz and the Snowman congratulate the audience on the New Year. Scenes with festive toasts follow one after another.

Release Date1982-03-13

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count3

Vacations in Prostokvashino

The continuation of the adventures of Fyodor and his friends from the Prostokvashino village.

Release Date1980-06-06

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count97

Cheburashka Goes to School

Fourth animation about Gena and Cheburashka. Gena 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 for repair. Shapoklyak uses Lariska the Rat 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.

Release Date1983-06-06

DepartmentWriting

JobScenario Writer

Vote Count46

Olympic Character

How Misha the bear became the Olympic mascot.

Release Date1979-01-01

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Gena the Crocodile

First animation about Gena and Cheburashka. 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.

Release Date1969-12-30

DepartmentWriting

JobScenario Writer

Vote Count111

Winter in Prostokvashino

A third movie about Fyodor and his friends from the Prostokvashino village and their adventures - this time during the winter.

Release Date1984-06-06

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count93

The Year of the Good Child

Roma Rogov was a talented and gifted boy — something that becomes clear by blowing up his teacher. A girl from Germany named Rosy casually fixes her dad’s scooter. Such exceptional children are sent to the International Festival of Gifted Kids, held in honor of the Year of the Good Child. Criminals plan to kidnap the crown prince of a wealthy kingdom, but by mistake, they end up with little Roma Rogov — already known to us as the young demolitions expert…

Release Date1991-11-01

DepartmentWriting

JobAuthor

Well, Just You Wait!

Release Date1969-05-11

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count3

Three from Prostokvashino

Release Date1978-06-06

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count3

Vote Count5

Ferocious Bambr

The cartoon tells the story of a fabulous creature named Bambre. He lived completely alone and frightened everyone who was approaching him, and his tail was kind and prevented him from doing dirty tricks. Once Bambre found friends and became kind.

Release Date1988-01-01

DepartmentWriting

JobOriginal Story

A Plasticine Crow

Short animation of a Russian folk tale, made in 1981. A parody of the fable by Ivan Krylov "The Crow and the Fox".

Release Date1981-12-31

DepartmentCrew

JobPoem

Vote Count59

Uncle Au

Soviet puppet cartoon trilogy basis on a fairytale story by Finnish writer Hannu Mäkelä.

Release Date1979-11-17

DepartmentWriting

JobScenario Writer

Vote Count10

Uncle Au's Mistake

Uncle Au is a usual wood goblin loving to frighten and misbehave. Once he woke up and surprised, how the world changed around. And even children now are not afraid of him.

Release Date1979-12-01

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count5

Trap for Bambr

The insidious and angry Hunter Stump kidnaps the Cat in order to exchange it for Bambra. Bambre agrees to the exchange and surrenders to the hunter. But loyal friends - Hermit, Mouse and Bird - do not abandon a friend in trouble and save the Cat.

Release Date1991-01-01

DepartmentWriting

JobOriginal Story

Baba-Yaga Against!

When Misha the Bear was chosen as the mascot for the Olympic Games 1980, Baba-yaga (the witch) sets out to fight and become the mascot herself.

Release Date1979-07-27

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count3

Академик Иванов

Release Date1986-04-22

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count3

Uncle Au in the City

Uncle Au is an usual wood goblin loving to frighten and misbehave. Once he woke up and surprised, how the world changed around. And even children now are not afraid of him.

Release Date1979-12-11

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count6

In the Arms of Russian Intelligence

Dolphin Tristan, after training in a dolphin special intelligence school, was sent on an important mission to a disguised military base of the USSR to obtain information about a new strategic weapon of the Russians - a submarine transforming into an airplane... After receiving a message that it had been discovered in our territorial waters unidentified object moving straight towards a secret base, Soviet command

Release Date1991-06-01

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

In the Footsteps of the Bambr

Bambr, Hermit, Bird, Cat and Mouse - already familiar from the film Ferocious Bambre, are faced with the insidious Hunter, who planned to turn Bambre into a hunting dog. But friendship and mutual assistance win this time as well.

Release Date1990-01-01

DepartmentWriting

JobOriginal Story

About Sidorov Vova

A screen adaptation of the satirical poem by Eduard Uspensky. Vova Sidorov is the only child in a big family, growing up without a father. Everything he cherished, but a summons from the recruitment office turns everything on its head!

Release Date1985-09-07

DepartmentCrew

JobPoem

Vote Count15

Investigation Held by Kolobki

Two crazy brothers-detectives from a weird provincial town are searching for a rare striped elephant stolen by a suspicious foreigner.

Release Date1986-04-05

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count38

About Vera and Anfisa

The first movie of "Vera and Anfisa" trilogy. Sailor gives a monkey to Vera's dad and he brings the monkey to his household.

Release Date1986-01-01

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count2

Magician Bakhram's Heritage

The ordinary schoolgirl Masha, who forgot to change into a school uniform and dressed as a boy, mistakenly kidnaps Zilzilya, the servant of the wizard and the custodian of Bakhram's underground treasures.

Release Date1975-09-01

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count2

Вера и Анфиса тушат пожар

Release Date1987-01-16

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Slono-dilo-syonok

Once a little funny Elephant, or maybe a Piglet, or maybe a Crocodile, who lived with his relatives in an old park (or maybe in a zoo), decided to take a walk without his mother and immediately got lost. The kid sat down on a bench and wept bitterly, because he was lonely and scared - there were crowds of strangers walking around.

Release Date1975-03-11

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Antoshka

The musical tale about the red-haired freckled boy who didn't want to dig potatoes.

Release Date1969-01-01

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count27

Along Unknown Paths

Going to vacation at his grandmother’s in a village, the boy Mitya could never imagine that he would become a participant of the extraordinary adventures in a fairy-tale land.

Release Date1982-05-15

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count15

Mikko, Pavlova's Son

Dolphines Tristan and Pavlova adopt a boy, Mikko, left behind after a shipwreck.

Release Date1989-07-01

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vera and Anfisa at school

The third and last movie of "Vera and Anfisa" trilogy. Zoology teacher asks Vera's dad to bring his daughter with her pet monkey Anfisa at lesson, where Vera and Anfisa could be an example for comparing humans and apes as a part of evolution lecture.

Release Date1988-01-01

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Klyaksa

How a dog learned to play the piano.

Release Date1980-02-02

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count1

The Wings of Uncle Marabou

Release Date1969-04-22

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Red, Red, Freckled

About the red-haired boy everyone laughed at until the sun gilded everyone and everyone turned red.

Release Date1971-09-07

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count7

Олимпиада-80. Гребля на каноэ

Release Date1980-08-01

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count1

Ivashka from the Palace of Pioneers

Animation film about boy Ivashka's adventures in the country of fairy tales.

Release Date1981-02-02

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count13

Underwater Berets

After training at the dolphin reconnaissance school, the dolphin Tristan was sent on an important mission to a secret military base of the USSR to obtain information about the Russians' new strategic weapon - a submarine that transforms into an airplane. After receiving a message that an unidentified object was discovered in Soviet territorial waters, moving towards a secret base, the Soviet command ordered to urgently send an experienced special agent, the dolphin Isolde, to intercept it.

Release Date1991-04-24

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

It's a Wonderful Day

The cartoon based on the works of Alexander Pushkin was created on the basis of drawings from the exhibition "Pushkin through the eyes of children".

Release Date1975-04-21

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Птичий рынок

Release Date1974-03-10

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Rode Vanya

Release Date1975-02-13

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Devastation (The Debacle)

A mother comes home to a trashed apartment and tries to figure out what happened...

Release Date1971-01-01

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Cheburashka Goes to the Zoo

Poor Gena works as a crocodile at the zoo. When he catches a bad cold, he asks Cheburashka to go to the zoo for him and tell them that he's taking time off. This causes a problem because Gena is very popular. Cheburashka has the answer: "I'll take his place until he's better!"

Release Date2016-07-30

DepartmentWriting

JobCharacters

Vote Count1

The School for Scandal

A talk show

Release Date2002-10-02

Episode Count1

Vote Count4