Comments on: AWOL Tigger, or a Soviet Take on the World-Famous Cartoon Characters

By: Name

Name — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 05:34:15 +0000

> The character Tigger, known in Russian as Tigra, did not feature
> in the original series of the Soyuzmultfilm cartoon, where it was
> left out of the three episodes made.

This is irrelevant to the original claim, which was made about the book, not the cartoon.

In fact, there is a perfectly good reason for this character to be left out of the cartoon: Tigger was introduced in the second book written by Milne, The House at Pooh Corner (1928), while soviet cartoon only uses the stories from the first book, Winnie-the-Pooh (1926).

If anything, I would complain about Christopher Robin, since this is the character that was left out of soviet cartoon, but still appeared in Zakhoder's adaptation of the book.

Please, be careful with the facts.

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uberVU - social comments — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:36:19 +0000

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By: Eva Forever

Eva Forever — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:57:08 +0000

The character Tigger, known in Russian as Tigra, did not feature in the original series of the Soyuzmultfilm cartoon, where it was left out of the three episodes made.

Boris Zakhoder himself often liked to point out that his story of Winnie the Pooh was not a translation — rather, it was a paraphrase.

By: cherrypit

cherrypit — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 07:20:21 +0000

Great article

By: Name

Name — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 06:54:52 +0000

> this is how the famous book by A. Milne “Winnie the Pooh”
> in its Russian version features no Tigger

This is not correct. The well known translation made by Boris Zakhoder does feature this character by the name of "Tigra".

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