- Nudnik (cartoon)
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Nudnik was a Czechoslovak/Czech animated film series directed by Gene Deitch, produced by William Lawrence Snyder, and distributed by Paramount Studios. The shorts were released during 1965 and 1967 with 12 shorts. and a new series was made in 1991.
On Gene Deitch's entry on the IMDb website (see External Links below) there are listings of eight short animated films featuring the Nudnik character.
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Shorts
Title Release Date Alternate Title Here's Nudnik August 1965 Nudnik #2 Drive On, Nudnik December 1965 Example Home Sweek Nudnik March 1966 Example Who Needs Nudnik?? 1966 Example Nudnik on the Beach 1966 Example Welcome, Nudnik 1966 Example Good Neighbor Nudnik 1966 Example Nudnik on the Roof 1966 Example From Nudnik with Love 1966 Example I Remember Nudnik 1966 Example Nudnik on a Shoestring 1966 Example Nudnik's Nudnickel 1967 Example Synopsis
Nudnik contains only one major character, named Yaramaz Nudnik. He was very unlucky, and usually got in trouble.
Though there were other characters, they were unnamed. None of these characters appeared more than once.
Remake
A new animated series, The Nudnik Show was created in 1991. According to the IMDb listing, Jules Feiffer was a writer for the series, and the production companies were Paramount Pictures and Rembrandt Films.[1]
In the media
Jazz saxophonist Chris Potter recorded the song "Nudnik", on his 2006 album Underground.
External links
- Gene Deitch at the Internet Movie Database
- Nudnik at the Big Cartoon DataBase
- Translation of the name/word "Yaramaz"
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