Junior and Karlson

Synopsis

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.

Main Cast

Vasiliy Livanov

Karlson (voice)

Age : N/A | Popularity : 34%

Klara Rumyanova

Junior [Malysh] (voice)

Age : N/A | Popularity : 100%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Directing	Director	Boris Stepantsev
Writing	Writer	Boris Larin
	Story	Astrid Lindgren
Camera	Director of Photography	Mikhail Druyan
Sound	Music	Gennadiy Gladkov
Art	Production Design	Yuriy Butyrin Anatoly Savchenko
Department	Role	Name

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