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Clara (2019 film)

2019 animated film by Oleksandr Klymenko

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 13, 2026
Entity authorityQ69430564
Source-derived summary

Clara (Ukrainian: «Клара та чарівний дракон», romanized: Klara ta charivnyi drakon, lit. 'Clara and the Magic Dragon') also released internationally as The Little Dragon is a 2019 Ukrainian computer-animated fantasy adventure film directed by Oleksandr Klymenko from a screenplay by Klymenko and Serhii Grabar. Produced by Image Pictures, Clara was released in Ukrainian cinemas on 26 October 2019.

Premise

One day, Clara, who lives in a small house with three monkeys, finds a magical dragon in a forest. After some deliberation, Clara, together with two friends, a cheerful raccoon and a grumpy dwarf, decide to help the little dragon by attempting to find his home. However, unbeknownst to them, the Forces of Evil are hunting not only the Dragon, but now Clara and her friends as well.

Voice cast

The Ukrainian voice cast:

Veronika Lukyanenko as Clara

Oleksandr Pogrebnyak as Raccoon

Serhiy Solopai as Alfred

Dmytro Zavadskyi as Sip

Matvii Nikolaev as Alchemist

Kyrylo Nikitenko as Panther

Dmytro Vikulov as Mole

Dmytro Gavrilov as innkeeper

Yuriy Soskov as Boy Dwarf

Kateryna Bashkina-Zlenko as Girl Gnome

Oleg Lepenets as Grandfather Gnome

Vyacheslav Dudko as Blacksmith Gnome

Demyan Shiyan as Boy

Oleg Lepenets as Butler

Music

The soundtrack was composed by Ivan Rozyn, Max Smogol, Zakhar Dzyubenko and Nikita Moiseev. Pur:Pur performed songs in both Ukrainian and English, while one of the songs was performed by the Dovzhenko Sound Studio musical orchestra.

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Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2019—that can be checked directly. The authority record carries competing date values—2019-10-26, 2019-10-31, 2020-10-29, 2022-05-27—which should remain separate until their references and qualifiers are resolved. The account is most persuasive where Clara, film and animated can be independently traced.
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This entry incorporates text from Clara (2019 film)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.