Junior and Karlson

Junior and Karlson (1968)


  • Genre: Adventure, Animation, Family
  • Release Date: 1968-06-06
  • User Rating: 7/10 from 99 ratings
  • Runtime: 0h 19min
  • Language: Pусский
  • Production Company: Soyuzmultfilm
  • Production Country: Soviet Union
  • Director: Boris Stepantsev
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Summary

A Soviet cult cartoon, so untypical for a Western viewer, especially, a little one. A boy named Malysh ("A Little One") suffers from solitude being the youngest of the three children in a Swedish family. The acute sense of solitude makes him desperately want a dog, but before he gets one, he "invents" a friend - the very Karlson who lives upon the roof. So typical for the Russian culture spirit of mischief, which is, actually, never punished, and the notion that relative welfare not necessarily means happiness made the book by Astrid Lindgren and its TV adaptations tremendously popular in the Soviet Union and nowadays Russia and vice versa - somewhat alienated to the Western reader and viewer (see User's comments below). However, both the book and the cartoon are truly universal - entertaining and funny for the children and thought-provoking and somewhat sad for grownups.

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  • Vasiliy Livanov

    as Karlson (voice)
  • Klara Rumyanova

    as Junior [Malysh] (voice)
Directing Boris Stepantsev Director
Writing Boris Larin Writer
Writing Astrid Lindgren Story
Camera Mikhail Druyan Director of Photography
Sound Gennadiy Gladkov Music
Art Yuriy Butyrin Production Design
Art Anatoly Savchenko Production Design

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