Nudnik (cartoon)

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.

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"