Description:

Adaptation of a Gypsy (Roma) parable about how their people were seduced by a golden cage and lost their wings. Uses a fragment of the "Gypsy Airs" by composer Pablo de Sarasate.

There are some Romani words at the beginning of the film (repeated in Russian, as well), as well as the words in the song. Unfortunately, the lyrics of the song are not currently translated.

A quote from director Garri Bardin:
Once, in a conversation with Yuriy Entin, I expressed my desire to make a film on a gypsy theme and gypsy music. He gave me a collection of gypsy stories to read, where in the preface there was a story that once the gypsies were birds, but once, having landed, they ate so much that they could never take off... Then I decided to oppose the romance of flight to the prose of life. I turned to the classic of gypsy music - Nikolai Mikhailovich Zhemchuzhny. And so, two weeks later, he showed me musical numbers, playing along to himself on the guitar... Finally, the day of recording came. Nikolai Mikhailovich offered me two soloists for vocal overdubbing - Kolya Erdenko and his wife Rosa. I trusted him. But first it was necessary to record a violin overdub over the guitar performance of Nikolai Zhemchuzhny... The guitar began to sound. And Kolya Erdenko, without any preparation, without rehearsals and without notes, played his gypsy violin! And how! He improvised brilliantly!
This was the only gypsy film in the history of animation.
- Бардин Гарри. И вот наступило потом…. — М.: Центр книги Рудомино, 2013. с.93-95