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Subtitles for The Liu Brothers (1953)

English
June 23 2022 22:06:17
Created by Eus, Niffiwan
Bratya Lyu.1953.en.1.25fps.1656021977.srt ⭳
Quality: good

Subs made by Eus in 2012 after an earlier Esperanto translation, significantly edited and corrected by Niffiwan in 2022.

They are timed to the 25fps video that is 27:17 long. They CANNOT be used for the 2001 "restoration" of the film, which includes A. Ponyavin's name in the credits as the "sound director of the new version" at 0:53. Although the soundtrack of the restoration has been widely criticized (it replaced the orchestra with synthesized sounds), there are also versions out there that combine the 2001 restoration of the video with the original 1953 soundtrack - e.g. a 24fps version of the film that is 28:31 long. The subtitles can be made in-sync for the first 10 minutes of that version by setting "multiplier" to "25/24" and "offset" to "11.5", but after that the restored version is missing a few seconds (at 9:58, right after the scene with the tree-felling), so the subtitles will be out of sync.

Video preview(s): Multiplier is 1.
Offset is 0.

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1 00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:05,870 The Liu Brothers A Chinese story 2 00:00:06,720 --> 00:00:12,170 written by Nikolay Erdman directed by Dmitriy Babichenko art director Aleksandr Trusov 3 00:00:12,170 --> 00:00:18,420 music Klimentiy Korchmaryov camera Nikolay Voinov sound Georgiy Martynyuk 4 00:00:18,420 --> 00:00:26,720 consultants: Zhou Song-Yuan, O. Gluhareva animators: Boris Chani, Vyacheslav Kotyonochkin, 5 00:00:26,720 --> 00:00:32,440 Grigoriy Kozlov, Roman Kachanov, Renata Mirenkova, D. Belov, Lidiya Reztsova, M. Kuprach, 6 00:00:32,440 --> 00:00:38,570 Mihail Botov, Viktor Lihachov Background artists: Irina Svetlitsa, I. Troyanova, V. Rodzhero, K. Malyshev 7 00:00:38,570 --> 00:00:45,490 Assistants: Ye. Novoselskaya, L. Azarkh, Yuriy Prytkov montage N. Mayorova 8 00:00:48,320 --> 00:00:54,360 Long ago in China there were three brothers: the Liu brothers 9 00:00:55,170 --> 00:01:05,650 They looked so much alike that even their mother could only tell them apart by using coloured ribbons 10 00:01:08,140 --> 00:01:14,910 The first Liu could command fire 11 00:01:18,680 --> 00:01:25,240 The second Liu could drink up the sea... 12 00:01:31,650 --> 00:01:34,390 and then spit it back out again 13 00:01:36,700 --> 00:01:49,280 The third Liu knew the language of birds, fish and beasts 14 00:01:51,300 --> 00:01:54,770 One day... 15 00:01:59,800 --> 00:02:02,520 Woe is me, woe is me... 16 00:02:04,950 --> 00:02:07,990 Woe is me, woe is me... 17 00:02:11,500 --> 00:02:14,630 What are you crying about, old man? 18 00:02:14,630 --> 00:02:16,630 The only wealth I had... 19 00:02:17,160 --> 00:02:21,060 was a single coin, and now I've dropped it into the sea. 20 00:02:22,240 --> 00:02:24,980 What shall I return home with now? 21 00:02:25,150 --> 00:02:28,670 What shall I use to buy rice for my old wife? 22 00:02:29,970 --> 00:02:34,670 Do not cry, old man! This is something we can help with. 23 00:02:35,800 --> 00:02:42,720 I will drink up the entire sea, and then you'll be able to find your coin! 24 00:03:29,120 --> 00:03:33,380 Don't drink! Don't drink any further! 25 00:03:33,380 --> 00:03:37,170 See that fish? It's yelling something at us! 26 00:03:41,890 --> 00:03:43,880 I can't hear a thing. 27 00:03:43,880 --> 00:03:47,870 The fish language isn't audible for us! But it's yelling with all its might. 28 00:03:47,870 --> 00:03:49,870 What does it say? 29 00:03:53,760 --> 00:03:57,530 It says that if you drink up the entire sea... 30 00:04:02,030 --> 00:04:04,450 ...all the fish will die. 31 00:04:04,540 --> 00:04:09,040 Tell the fish that as soon as we find the lost coin 32 00:04:09,040 --> 00:04:11,870 I will put the water back! 33 00:04:22,670 --> 00:04:25,990 Put the water back now... 34 00:04:25,990 --> 00:04:29,120 and they will try to find the coin themselves. 35 00:04:29,120 --> 00:04:32,440 Themselves? Well, all right! 36 00:04:58,470 --> 00:05:02,460 They want to know what sort of coin it was. 37 00:05:03,210 --> 00:05:05,820 It was this big. 38 00:07:32,550 --> 00:07:35,550 Woe is me, woe is me! 39 00:07:35,890 --> 00:07:38,520 My coin is not amongst them! 40 00:07:39,120 --> 00:07:43,410 Mine was copper and these are all golden! 41 00:07:43,410 --> 00:07:48,380 Why do you need copper ones? Take the gold coins! 42 00:07:48,380 --> 00:07:50,380 Take them! 43 00:07:51,960 --> 00:07:54,720 For this... 44 00:07:56,570 --> 00:07:58,970 ...I thank you! - Quiet! 45 00:08:02,700 --> 00:08:05,140 A terrible thing has happened. 46 00:08:05,140 --> 00:08:08,760 Let's run! Quickly! 47 00:08:12,720 --> 00:08:16,070 A woodcutter is chopping a tree 48 00:08:16,090 --> 00:08:19,020 in which this bird has her nest. 49 00:08:19,650 --> 00:08:24,100 Her children are in that nest: two sons and a daughter. 50 00:08:24,300 --> 00:08:26,100 Let's hurry! 51 00:08:34,650 --> 00:08:36,680 Stop! 52 00:08:38,050 --> 00:08:39,790 Wait! 53 00:08:39,790 --> 00:08:41,790 Don't chop it down... 54 00:08:42,510 --> 00:08:44,520 See that nest? 55 00:08:44,520 --> 00:08:48,850 If you chop down the tree, this bird's children will die! 56 00:08:52,770 --> 00:08:56,700 Two sons and a daughter! 57 00:08:58,800 --> 00:09:03,660 Two sons and a daughter... 58 00:09:03,660 --> 00:09:10,710 Soon night will be upon us and I need to have cut ten more trees by then. 59 00:09:11,070 --> 00:09:15,660 Don't sigh like that, kind lumberjack! We will help you. 60 00:09:35,320 --> 00:09:39,600 Okay, let's see... For today's lesson, 61 00:09:40,600 --> 00:09:45,300 you were supposed to learn words starting with the letter M. 62 00:09:45,720 --> 00:09:48,770 Isn't that right? Very good! 63 00:09:49,920 --> 00:09:58,580 Go on, speak. Well? I'm listening... - Meeh 64 00:09:59,400 --> 00:10:05,480 Well, what can I say... your memory's good, but your diction could be better. 65 00:10:05,480 --> 00:10:08,030 Let's repeat it again. 66 00:10:08,030 --> 00:10:10,030 Mail! 67 00:10:10,920 --> 00:10:12,680 Well done! 68 00:10:13,090 --> 00:10:17,290 - Let's continue! - Mye-e-ed 69 00:10:18,550 --> 00:10:26,670 No, not Mye but Mea. Got it? Ea 70 00:10:26,670 --> 00:10:28,670 Mead (Honey) 71 00:10:30,170 --> 00:10:34,240 - Mead. - That's right! 72 00:10:34,730 --> 00:10:38,810 So now tell me: what's this? 73 00:10:39,920 --> 00:10:42,420 My-i-i-i 74 00:10:52,750 --> 00:10:55,500 Don't interfere. 75 00:10:59,780 --> 00:11:04,580 That was in goat language. But what is it in human language? You forgot? 74 00:11:06,360 --> 00:11:08,040 Oh, dear... 76 00:11:08,290 --> 00:11:11,200 We studied it only yesterday. 77 00:11:12,250 --> 00:11:15,750 Mee. - No. 78 00:11:20,200 --> 00:11:23,820 Bee. 79 00:11:23,820 --> 00:11:30,040 Not "mee" and not "bee", but "tree" 80 00:11:30,980 --> 00:11:36,600 "Tree", "Tr". Do you understand? - T-r-ee 81 00:11:36,980 --> 00:11:39,980 Very good! And in bird language? 82 00:11:40,020 --> 00:11:42,210 Tweet, tweet. 83 00:11:44,550 --> 00:11:48,380 And now say "tree" in fish language! 84 00:11:48,380 --> 00:11:49,730 Blub, blub 85 00:11:51,270 --> 00:11:53,250 Well done! 86 00:11:53,250 --> 00:11:57,380 I guarantee, before the year is done, you'll speak all three languages 87 00:11:58,390 --> 00:12:01,410 Well... now you can go and play! 88 00:13:10,580 --> 00:13:13,170 Run away! 89 00:13:14,610 --> 00:13:16,500 Run! 90 00:13:17,480 --> 00:13:23,290 Couldn't you see that the great mandarin wanted to kill that little goat?! 91 00:13:23,290 --> 00:13:26,270 - I saw. - So why did you cry out? 92 00:13:26,910 --> 00:13:31,540 The reason I cried out was because I saw. 93 00:13:31,540 --> 00:13:33,540 Arrest him! 94 00:13:35,270 --> 00:13:40,070 And feed him to the tiger! 95 00:14:51,770 --> 00:14:53,910 Halt! 96 00:15:07,670 --> 00:15:11,890 This is not a tiger, but a damn purring kitten. 97 00:15:11,890 --> 00:15:14,220 Take him away! 98 00:15:15,080 --> 00:15:21,190 We will burn the boy instead. Tomorrow at noon. 99 00:15:31,170 --> 00:15:36,190 You're asking me how you can help? 100 00:15:38,220 --> 00:15:41,100 How could you help me? 101 00:15:42,000 --> 00:15:44,310 You're such a small bird! 102 00:15:45,900 --> 00:15:49,110 Here! Fly! 103 00:15:51,960 --> 00:15:56,890 And let my mother and my brothers know... 104 00:15:57,100 --> 00:16:00,940 that in my last minutes 105 00:16:01,300 --> 00:16:04,770 I think of them. 106 00:16:27,340 --> 00:16:30,190 I couldn't find him anywhere. 107 00:16:30,190 --> 00:16:33,490 What could have happened to him? 108 00:16:35,850 --> 00:16:38,740 I searched through the whole forest... 109 00:16:39,790 --> 00:16:42,790 but there is no sign of him. 110 00:16:44,140 --> 00:16:46,370 Where is he? 111 00:16:46,470 --> 00:16:49,770 Where is he, my little one? 112 00:16:51,770 --> 00:16:54,720 That's him! That's him! 113 00:17:10,710 --> 00:17:13,730 My little one... where is he? 114 00:17:15,720 --> 00:17:19,260 We do not understand your language 115 00:17:19,260 --> 00:17:23,480 Who could understand it? - Me-e-e!... 116 00:17:25,880 --> 00:17:28,770 You? - Me-e-e! 117 00:17:28,770 --> 00:17:31,110 How can you help us? 118 00:17:31,110 --> 00:17:34,820 I ca-a-n tra-an-sla-ate! 119 00:17:34,820 --> 00:17:38,220 You can translate? - Please translate! 120 00:17:44,120 --> 00:17:46,170 Trou-ble! 121 00:17:46,170 --> 00:17:50,930 Trouble? Where is he? - What happened to him? 122 00:17:58,370 --> 00:18:00,680 In pri-son. 123 00:18:02,670 --> 00:18:05,310 In prison? 124 00:18:45,960 --> 00:18:51,470 Hey, executioner! Take this boy! 125 00:18:53,270 --> 00:18:57,020 Don't let him out of your sight! 126 00:18:57,020 --> 00:19:02,500 That boy is wily like a fox. 127 00:19:02,500 --> 00:19:06,320 He could escape from you! 128 00:19:06,320 --> 00:19:10,450 He could escape you say? 129 00:19:10,820 --> 00:19:16,320 I won't even look at him, and he still won't escape from me. 130 00:19:17,870 --> 00:19:21,810 Oh, executioner, don't brag! 131 00:19:21,810 --> 00:19:24,830 Want to bet?! - On what? 132 00:19:24,830 --> 00:19:27,340 Anything you want! 133 00:19:29,400 --> 00:19:34,280 How much will the mandarin pay you for today's execution? 134 00:19:34,280 --> 00:19:37,280 He will give as much as he wants. 135 00:19:37,280 --> 00:19:41,030 So we'll bet against half of that! 136 00:19:41,030 --> 00:19:45,190 Won't that be a little much? - Aha! Are you scared? 137 00:19:46,350 --> 00:19:50,650 Me?!!... Scared?!! 138 00:19:50,650 --> 00:19:57,900 Hey, guards. Cover up the boy with that barrel! 139 00:20:03,770 --> 00:20:09,530 Well? What do you say now, guard? 140 00:20:10,920 --> 00:20:14,070 Do I have him in my sight? No. 141 00:20:15,190 --> 00:20:19,130 But can he escape from me? Nope!! 142 00:20:37,070 --> 00:20:40,110 Well, where is the boy? 143 00:20:40,110 --> 00:20:42,900 I'm over here! 144 00:20:44,100 --> 00:20:47,400 Why aren't you under guard? 145 00:20:47,400 --> 00:20:52,350 I tricked the executioner and escaped. 146 00:20:53,310 --> 00:21:00,040 But then I had second thoughts and... returned. 147 00:21:00,040 --> 00:21:04,500 So... the executioner let you escape?! 148 00:21:07,690 --> 00:21:10,070 Guards! 149 00:21:13,650 --> 00:21:17,220 Arrest the executioner! 150 00:21:18,190 --> 00:21:22,650 Come, executioner! Come, you braggart! 151 00:21:22,650 --> 00:21:26,460 Go and receive your reward! 152 00:21:29,780 --> 00:21:33,920 Give him a hundred canings! 153 00:21:33,920 --> 00:21:37,280 O, noble mandarin! 154 00:21:38,220 --> 00:21:42,250 I can receive only 50... 155 00:21:42,450 --> 00:21:46,150 because I lost half of my reward... 156 00:21:46,150 --> 00:21:48,600 ...to that guard! 157 00:21:48,600 --> 00:21:56,140 You shall receive all 100 first, and then hand over what you owe... 158 00:21:56,720 --> 00:21:59,970 ...to the guard! 159 00:22:18,360 --> 00:22:23,590 Tongues of fire, let me be, Move yourselves away from me! 160 00:22:25,950 --> 00:22:31,410 Like a sheer, unmoving wall Stand around me, burning tall! 161 00:22:33,980 --> 00:22:41,400 Do not throw hot sparks up high, But diminish by and by. 162 00:22:46,050 --> 00:22:49,650 Burn! Burn! 163 00:22:51,150 --> 00:22:54,450 Burn! Burn! 164 00:22:57,450 --> 00:22:59,800 Help! 165 00:22:59,870 --> 00:23:06,040 Water! Water! Water! Water! 166 00:23:27,400 --> 00:23:34,880 As he did not die by fire, let him be drowned by water! 167 00:23:34,880 --> 00:23:40,430 Bring him aboard my fast ship. 168 00:23:45,810 --> 00:23:52,650 When the sun comes up I will join you there myself! 169 00:26:13,860 --> 00:26:16,800 Look! Look! 170 00:26:51,830 --> 00:26:54,250 Hold on, hold on, I'll ask! 171 00:26:54,250 --> 00:26:58,030 The fish ask if they should bring back the mandarin to the surface. 172 00:26:58,130 --> 00:27:03,040 Tell the fish that they needn't bother! 173 00:27:12,570 --> 00:27:16,110 The End Subs by Eus (2012) after Esperanto translation, ed. by Niffiwan (2022)