Nudnik was a Czechoslovak

Czechoslovakia

Czechoslovakia or Czecho-Slovakia was a sovereign state in Central Europe which existed from October 1918, when it declared its independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, until 1992...

/Czech

Czech Republic

The Czech Republic is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country is bordered by Poland to the northeast, Slovakia to the east, Austria to the south, and Germany to the west and northwest....

 animated film series directed by Gene Deitch

Gene Deitch

Eugene Merril "Gene" Deitch is an American illustrator, animator and film director. He has been based in Prague, capital of Czechoslovakia and the present-day Czech Republic, since 1959. Since 1968, Deitch has been the leading animation director for the Connecticut organization Weston...

, produced by William Lawrence Snyder, and distributed by Paramount Studios

Paramount Pictures

Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American film production and distribution company, located at 5555 Melrose Avenue in Hollywood. Founded in 1912 and currently owned by media conglomerate Viacom, it is America's oldest existing film studio; it is also the last major film studio still...

. 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

Jules Feiffer

Jules Ralph Feiffer is an American syndicated cartoonist, most notable for his long-run comic strip titled Feiffer. He has created more than 35 books, plays and screenplays...

 was a writer for the series, and the production companies were Paramount Pictures

Paramount Pictures

Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American film production and distribution company, located at 5555 Melrose Avenue in Hollywood. Founded in 1912 and currently owned by media conglomerate Viacom, it is America's oldest existing film studio; it is also the last major film studio still...

 and Rembrandt Films.http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0299359/

In the media

Jazz saxophonist Chris Potter

Chris Potter (jazz saxophonist)

Chris Potter is an American jazz saxophonist, composer, and multi-instrumentalist.-Biography:Born in Chicago, Illinois, Potter spent most of his childhood in Columbia, South Carolina where his mother taught psychology at the University of South Carolina...

 recorded the song "Nudnik", on his 2006 album Underground.

External links

• Translation of the name/word "Yaramaz"