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Subtitles for Mister Pronka (1991)

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August 29 2024 20:41:22
Created by Anna Evteeva, Eus, Niffiwan
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Subtitles originally made by Eus in 2018, partly based on a translation by Anna Evteeva. Revised by Niffiwan in 2024. Due to the abundance of folk expressions and rhymes, the translation isn't perfect. Many of the poems and songs don't rhyme, and in many places they're not translated perfectly (sometimes because a "perfect" translation would sound very awkward or baffling).

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1 00:00:00,680 --> 00:00:04,060 Soyuzmultfilm 2 00:00:04,160 --> 00:00:09,860 Soyuzmultfilm Sovinterfest 3 00:00:10,000 --> 00:00:15,360 Mister Pronka 4 00:00:16,760 --> 00:00:21,600 Based on "Pronka the Dirty" ("Pronka Greznoy") by Boris Shergin 5 00:00:21,700 --> 00:00:24,540 screenwriters Leonid Nosyrev, Yuriy Koval 6 00:00:24,640 --> 00:00:27,040 director Leonid Nosyrev 7 00:00:27,140 --> 00:00:29,560 art director Vera Kudryavtseva 8 00:00:29,660 --> 00:00:32,040 music Yevgeniy Botyarov 9 00:00:32,140 --> 00:00:34,180 camera Nataliya Mihaylova 10 00:00:34,280 --> 00:00:36,180 sound Boris Filchikov 11 00:00:36,280 --> 00:00:39,180 montage Olga Vasilenko assistant dir. T. Galkina 12 00:00:39,280 --> 00:00:41,420 animators Marina Voskanyants, Anatoliy Abarenov, Galina Zebrova, 13 00:00:41,521 --> 00:00:43,721 Yelena Malashenkova, Marina Rogova, Iosif Kuroyan, Aleksandr Markelov 14 00:00:43,820 --> 00:00:45,340 voiced by Yevgeniy Leonov, Anatoliy Barantsev, Aleksandr Pyatkov, 15 00:00:45,441 --> 00:00:46,941 N. Kurnakov, G. & K. Vats, Klara Rumyanova, T. Ananchenko, 16 00:00:47,042 --> 00:00:48,542 Olga Golovanova, German Kachin, V. Strelnikov 17 00:00:48,640 --> 00:00:51,280 Gypsy music & choir: A. Kvik, Al. & An. Buzyleva, R. Verbitskiy, Ye. Syrkin 18 00:00:51,380 --> 00:00:52,520 artists Svetlana Davydova, Irina Svetlitsa, Lyubov Gorelova, 19 00:00:52,621 --> 00:00:53,771 Nikolay Mitrohin, Marina Ignatenko, I. Yeremeyev, N. Alferova, S. Barmina, 20 00:00:53,872 --> 00:00:55,122 S. Loginova, M. Sikanova, I. Dymich, Olga Belogolovaya, V. Belova, N. Ozerskaya 21 00:00:55,220 --> 00:00:57,440 script editor Natalya Abramova 22 00:00:57,540 --> 00:01:00,260 production director Yelena Vasina 23 00:01:02,260 --> 00:01:07,020 The Unbelievable Story of Pronka the Dirty, 24 00:01:07,120 --> 00:01:09,020 Of an American bet, 25 00:01:09,120 --> 00:01:11,020 Of the tsar's familial debt, 26 00:01:11,120 --> 00:01:15,980 Of a cowboy's younger brothers looking alike, 27 00:01:16,220 --> 00:01:20,000 Of their older brother, rich as Klondike. 28 00:01:21,000 --> 00:01:26,320 Hello, folks of all sorts, practical or not. 29 00:01:26,780 --> 00:01:30,480 Sober of tipsy, Modest or risk-takers, 30 00:01:30,580 --> 00:01:34,940 Junior or senior, Potbellied or skinny; 31 00:01:35,240 --> 00:01:40,900 Come up to the box-show to hear the story and behold 32 00:01:41,000 --> 00:01:44,580 Open up your eyes wide, Clear your ears inside, 33 00:01:44,680 --> 00:01:47,480 Bow your head to watch the panorama set. 34 00:01:47,580 --> 00:01:49,420 And pay some money - 35 00:01:49,421 --> 00:01:53,321 Pay a copper dime to get a showtime 36 00:01:53,420 --> 00:01:55,600 For a silver coin or more... 37 00:01:55,700 --> 00:01:59,200 you'll be served with respect and honor, 38 00:02:07,780 --> 00:02:10,520 In a faraway kingdom, 39 00:02:10,620 --> 00:02:14,340 In the United States country 40 00:02:14,840 --> 00:02:17,680 across the sea, across the ocean... 41 00:02:17,780 --> 00:02:21,080 behind the islands in motion 42 00:02:21,180 --> 00:02:23,080 behind the banana trees 43 00:02:23,180 --> 00:02:26,080 lived the brothers-Americans 44 00:02:26,420 --> 00:02:28,400 And now you can see... 45 00:02:28,500 --> 00:02:30,400 America - 46 00:02:30,500 --> 00:02:33,640 called the Western miracle. 47 00:02:34,160 --> 00:02:37,360 This is the Statue of Freedom 48 00:02:37,460 --> 00:02:40,380 which stands at the entrance to America's homeland 49 00:02:40,480 --> 00:02:44,240 It welcomes and bids farewell and wishes everybody well. 50 00:02:45,040 --> 00:02:48,140 And here is a house that scrapes the sky 51 00:02:48,240 --> 00:02:51,200 In which lives the brother, rich as Klondike 52 00:02:52,140 --> 00:02:56,120 He's chilling out on the veranda waiting for his younger brothers. 53 00:02:56,220 --> 00:03:00,720 And the younger brothers, dashing cowboys, 54 00:03:00,820 --> 00:03:04,600 driving cows right, hitting saloons at night 55 00:03:05,200 --> 00:03:10,280 He will now speak so let me translate quick 56 00:03:16,380 --> 00:03:20,760 John, Pete, come over. I have a business proposal I want to talk about. 57 00:03:24,940 --> 00:03:31,980 While health and energy allow, I'd like to see the world and be seen... 58 00:03:32,220 --> 00:03:37,060 I will not come back home until my name is well-known. 59 00:03:37,360 --> 00:03:41,480 How can you leave us? How can you forsake us? 60 00:03:41,580 --> 00:03:44,820 We are tall in height but small in mind. 61 00:03:44,920 --> 00:03:49,420 We are useless and dumb can't distinguish day from night. 62 00:03:50,270 --> 00:03:55,340 Sounds like you two would fall to pieces, listening to you! 63 00:03:55,440 --> 00:03:59,360 Pack your bits and pieces you'll assist me on the road 64 00:04:01,640 --> 00:04:08,160 Dear brother-benefactor, if it's not a secret, on which country are you set? 65 00:04:09,480 --> 00:04:14,440 <i>- We're gonna go to Russia. - That's great!</i> 66 00:04:14,680 --> 00:04:18,280 I'm thinking to visit some Russian towns 67 00:04:18,580 --> 00:04:24,220 I'm changing the slides in the machine so we can see some new pictures 68 00:04:24,560 --> 00:04:28,420 So this thing is called an aeroplane 69 00:04:28,520 --> 00:04:31,440 It is steered by the older American 70 00:04:31,540 --> 00:04:34,620 He's flying fast to Russia at last 71 00:04:35,500 --> 00:04:41,520 The aeroplane leaves Europe behind Its course for Russia is assigned 72 00:04:42,680 --> 00:04:54,700 And here, take heed, St. Petersburg lies, Full of fashionable dames and... flies. 73 00:04:54,801 --> 00:04:57,601 HOTEL 74 00:05:00,002 --> 00:05:01,302 HELLO 75 00:05:04,280 --> 00:05:09,200 Hello peasants! Welcome to our humble abode! [HAVU DUYU VDU] 76 00:05:09,580 --> 00:05:13,820 So now the gentlemen are in an intourist hotel. 77 00:05:14,120 --> 00:05:18,060 Sometimes they're clean and comfortable to stay in. 78 00:05:21,920 --> 00:05:25,560 This picture is a calendar. 79 00:05:26,140 --> 00:05:29,870 On it are the tsar's daughters, and also the tsar. 80 00:05:31,360 --> 00:05:34,180 Let's ask the tsar for their hands. 81 00:05:34,280 --> 00:05:37,260 Maybe we're lucky in these lands. 82 00:05:37,360 --> 00:05:42,120 Why would we need those Americans? Shepherds and kettlemen, ha! 83 00:05:42,220 --> 00:05:47,380 They should propose to our cooks. The likes of those would be agreeable! 84 00:05:49,320 --> 00:05:52,720 - Ciao! - Adios! - Good-bye! 85 00:05:59,740 --> 00:06:05,120 Our choir sings to you, our darling. 86 00:06:05,220 --> 00:06:08,500 And wine pours like rain. 87 00:06:08,600 --> 00:06:12,820 Our beloved paid us a visit! 88 00:06:12,920 --> 00:06:20,540 Our dear American. 89 00:06:25,800 --> 00:06:29,080 My years are old and my hair is grey. 90 00:06:30,540 --> 00:06:34,580 No children, no wife. Drinks and food can't exhaust my fortune. 91 00:06:35,200 --> 00:06:39,780 I need to make a wonder happen to surprise the whole world. 92 00:06:40,640 --> 00:06:46,220 Straight from America I came on a green spade. 93 00:06:46,380 --> 00:06:51,960 The spade got broken, But I'm still here walking, 94 00:06:56,400 --> 00:06:59,620 American shoes made of straw and screws. 95 00:06:59,720 --> 00:07:02,160 Easy to walk on. Easy to run on. 96 00:07:02,260 --> 00:07:05,620 Buy some right now! Great prices, wow! 97 00:07:06,340 --> 00:07:10,200 And this gentleman is from a trading clan. 98 00:07:11,400 --> 00:07:14,840 Souvenirs he sells, being loud as church-bells 99 00:07:25,660 --> 00:07:29,520 So for this is due some American value 100 00:07:30,680 --> 00:07:33,080 Here, drink to the health of America! 101 00:07:33,180 --> 00:07:34,660 Will do! 102 00:07:34,760 --> 00:07:39,960 - How are you named, mister? - Me? Pronka is the name I'm cursed with. 103 00:07:40,100 --> 00:07:44,980 Pronka, Pronka. OK, Pronka. You come to the intourist hotel, alright? 104 00:07:45,080 --> 00:07:47,080 Yes, sir. 105 00:07:50,840 --> 00:07:53,880 Auf Wiedersehen, sirs! 106 00:07:54,720 --> 00:08:01,120 I've noticed, Mr. Pronka, that you are a man of business. 107 00:08:01,420 --> 00:08:04,760 So I offer you to make an American bet. 108 00:08:04,860 --> 00:08:06,180 Deal! 109 00:08:06,280 --> 00:08:11,320 I, an American citizen, take... How do you call it? 110 00:08:11,420 --> 00:08:15,240 ...take on a lease of the shopping arcade on main street, 111 00:08:15,340 --> 00:08:21,860 supply it with essential goods, and assign it to you for use. 112 00:08:21,960 --> 00:08:27,200 you trade, turn out capital... and drink it away, and eat it away. 113 00:08:27,300 --> 00:08:32,280 For this, you, precious Mr. Pronka... 114 00:08:32,380 --> 00:08:38,340 for 15 years, must not wash, trim, shave... 115 00:08:38,440 --> 00:08:43,080 blow your nose, nor even change your clothes. OK? 116 00:08:43,220 --> 00:08:47,480 There's a bet to stun your ears - To live in filth for 15 years! 117 00:08:47,580 --> 00:08:49,580 Okie-dokie! 118 00:08:49,980 --> 00:08:54,080 My trustees will be watching you. 119 00:08:54,180 --> 00:08:58,120 Should you endure, all assets will become yours. 120 00:08:58,280 --> 00:09:02,600 But if you even once wipe your face with a sleeve, 121 00:09:02,700 --> 00:09:06,260 you'll be thrown out barefooted right onto main street. 122 00:09:06,840 --> 00:09:10,400 Filth is not grease - Just rub once, and you're clean! 123 00:09:10,501 --> 00:09:12,101 I agree! 124 00:09:17,620 --> 00:09:22,920 Well, Pronya, just hold out. A new life begins now. 125 00:09:33,820 --> 00:09:38,240 Keep on watching, dear lot: what a shop Pronka got! 126 00:09:38,640 --> 00:09:44,360 This is a flying ship called by people "Dirigibe" 127 00:09:44,460 --> 00:09:48,580 Goods from America it brought - Here it's unloading the whole lot. 128 00:09:49,730 --> 00:09:54,460 Our compatriots are rushing in to get imported goods within. 129 00:09:54,561 --> 00:09:57,511 PRONKA COOP SHOPPING CENTER 130 00:09:58,040 --> 00:10:01,120 That's how our lucky man started trading 131 00:10:01,220 --> 00:10:03,900 The days came and went. 132 00:10:04,000 --> 00:10:07,280 During those early years, Pronka slept 2-3 hours a day. 133 00:10:07,380 --> 00:10:11,780 Receiving goods, selling goods, bending over backwards to trade. 134 00:10:11,880 --> 00:10:15,680 In 5 years he built a stone house with an iron roof. 135 00:10:15,780 --> 00:10:19,260 In 10 years every town had a Pronka store. 136 00:10:19,360 --> 00:10:21,360 And every village had a trading booth. 137 00:10:22,480 --> 00:10:27,400 Day after day. Year after year Pronka became hairy as a beast 138 00:10:27,500 --> 00:10:29,400 an astonishing monster 139 00:10:30,000 --> 00:10:32,380 His face and hands were blacker than his boots. 140 00:10:32,500 --> 00:10:36,620 Hair like a mane, and his beard a complete mat. 141 00:10:36,720 --> 00:10:40,040 Rain falling on his head in summer was the only washing he had. 142 00:10:57,880 --> 00:11:00,820 But the trustees are right on the spot. 143 00:11:00,920 --> 00:11:03,580 They take pictures of Pronka at every step. 144 00:11:04,240 --> 00:11:06,600 And those tricky twins 145 00:11:06,700 --> 00:11:09,450 hang sanitary posters on the walls [CLEANLINESS BEGETS HEALTH] 146 00:11:09,551 --> 00:11:11,951 to tempt him to get clean. 147 00:11:12,460 --> 00:11:18,720 My, oh my, I can't stand lice anymore. 148 00:11:20,540 --> 00:11:23,240 Ah, I don't give a damn about this American bet! 149 00:11:23,340 --> 00:11:27,320 All I want to do is bathe! 150 00:11:31,520 --> 00:11:34,140 Ah, leave it! Filth is not grease. 151 00:11:34,240 --> 00:11:37,420 Cock-a-doodle-doo! Cock-a-doodle-doo! 152 00:11:37,520 --> 00:11:41,640 You see? Sings like a cockerel. Lice bites itch like hell... 153 00:11:42,200 --> 00:11:45,600 Pronka became a renowned merchant 154 00:11:46,120 --> 00:11:51,440 Everybody was in debt to him. Even the tsar himself borrowed thousands. 155 00:11:51,540 --> 00:11:57,400 In 12 years Pronka had a full box of debt-papers from the tsar. 156 00:11:57,500 --> 00:12:00,900 That's the power the simple man had by now. 157 00:12:02,120 --> 00:12:07,500 - Be so kind, Your Majesty! - Ah, what a fiend! 158 00:12:12,700 --> 00:12:17,520 Only of the big American is our businessman afraid. 159 00:12:17,620 --> 00:12:21,620 Monthly the Americans take a picture of him with their camera. 160 00:12:21,720 --> 00:12:26,090 Measure the layers of filth and count the lice 161 00:12:26,220 --> 00:12:30,720 Yearly he publishes the results on Pronka. 162 00:12:30,820 --> 00:12:34,740 In American cinemas he shows Pronka's life. 163 00:12:34,840 --> 00:12:38,240 and never once did Pronka go off course. 164 00:12:38,640 --> 00:12:42,880 Suddenly a neighboring state threatened war against the tsar 165 00:12:44,280 --> 00:12:47,900 Bejabbers! Mustached invaders! 166 00:12:48,000 --> 00:12:50,220 Hankering after our sovereignty! 167 00:12:50,420 --> 00:12:58,160 This mustachioed Swede is preparing for the tsar an unpleasant gift. 168 00:13:08,940 --> 00:13:12,120 What a perky one He hit me right on the crown. 169 00:13:12,220 --> 00:13:14,720 Just you wait, mustachioed hooligan! 170 00:13:14,820 --> 00:13:17,180 And now friends, look! [PEAS] 171 00:13:17,280 --> 00:13:22,700 Our tsar, much offended, Sends his foe a gift splendid. 172 00:13:31,680 --> 00:13:34,420 Hurray! 173 00:13:36,520 --> 00:13:42,800 Trishka, pull me down! Softly! 174 00:13:46,320 --> 00:13:48,880 No visitors! I'll be busy! 175 00:13:48,980 --> 00:13:52,060 Yes, father tsar! 176 00:13:55,400 --> 00:13:58,700 Hold it down, you idiot! 177 00:13:59,200 --> 00:14:02,120 Yes, father tsar! 178 00:14:09,820 --> 00:14:17,460 Hello, hello! Pronka, my dear fellow, how are you? 179 00:14:17,560 --> 00:14:22,560 This is your majesty calling. Pronka, my angel, I've got here... 180 00:14:22,660 --> 00:14:25,860 a neighboring state threatening war. 181 00:14:25,960 --> 00:14:30,960 Please lend me half a dozen millions for military expenses. 182 00:14:31,180 --> 00:14:34,560 We must renovate fortresses, build aeroplanes 183 00:14:34,561 --> 00:14:37,861 to make attack gasses and lots of other things 184 00:14:37,880 --> 00:14:41,420 but the treasury is empty! 185 00:14:41,520 --> 00:14:44,840 - Cannot be done, your majesty! - What? 186 00:14:45,260 --> 00:14:49,880 You're already in debt deeper than the deepest sea 187 00:14:50,700 --> 00:14:54,640 How dare you, you hopeless snot! 188 00:14:54,740 --> 00:14:57,160 Willing or not, give me the money! 189 00:14:58,420 --> 00:15:02,860 I'll grant the rank of a general to you if you desire! 190 00:15:02,960 --> 00:15:07,100 We wouldn't even be attracted to the title of an earl. 191 00:15:08,100 --> 00:15:10,680 But, to talk business... 192 00:15:11,100 --> 00:15:15,180 I wouldn't mind to become a part of your family... 193 00:15:15,280 --> 00:15:18,920 and call your daughter my wedded wife. 194 00:15:19,020 --> 00:15:25,380 Your idea is as lousy as you are! Have a look in the mirror! 195 00:15:25,980 --> 00:15:28,660 We looked in the mirror back at Christmas day.... 196 00:15:28,760 --> 00:15:31,660 and there was nothing wrong then! 197 00:15:32,260 --> 00:15:37,760 You won't drive me into the abbyss instigator-traitor 198 00:15:39,760 --> 00:15:41,640 Merciful God! 199 00:15:43,000 --> 00:15:47,200 I've got three maidens, which one do you want?... 200 00:15:47,460 --> 00:15:49,200 Whichever you like. 201 00:15:52,000 --> 00:15:54,810 Well, at least get your portrait drawn, 202 00:15:54,911 --> 00:15:56,661 big, with your face on it. 203 00:15:56,761 --> 00:16:01,661 I will show it to them, maybe one would like to marry you. 204 00:16:03,520 --> 00:16:10,220 Here, dear daughters, I have a future husband for you! 205 00:16:10,320 --> 00:16:14,760 Of course, a rather distinctive old man by his looks, 206 00:16:16,190 --> 00:16:20,720 But he's nevertheless a very rich businessman. 207 00:16:20,820 --> 00:16:26,340 Now watch with both your eyes how they take this surprise. 208 00:16:30,791 --> 00:16:32,241 Mommy... 209 00:16:32,850 --> 00:16:37,020 Now, dear daughter, this man asking for your hand in marriage... 210 00:16:37,170 --> 00:16:42,400 is a man of a peculiar fortune. Don't let it bother you that he's hairy. 211 00:16:42,600 --> 00:16:46,880 He'll respect and adore you! Believe my words! 212 00:16:46,980 --> 00:16:51,940 I spit -pough- from the highest tower 213 00:16:52,040 --> 00:16:56,140 -pough- on "respect" and "adore". 214 00:16:56,240 --> 00:17:00,180 You just provide me with a reference for how big his funds are, 215 00:17:00,280 --> 00:17:04,220 how big his properties are and what's his interest in securities. 216 00:17:10,360 --> 00:17:16,900 This reference is given to the Merchant of the First Guild... 217 00:17:17,080 --> 00:17:19,680 Pronya the Dirty that... 218 00:17:19,780 --> 00:17:24,460 Sister, dearest, father has gone mad! 219 00:17:24,600 --> 00:17:28,870 He's forcing us to marry a shaggy monkey. 220 00:17:28,980 --> 00:17:34,640 Let's run away to the farthest moors and hide in the deepest woods. 221 00:17:34,741 --> 00:17:37,091 A pox upon you and your moors! 222 00:17:37,220 --> 00:17:43,180 We will emigrate to America! Those Americans are still waiting for us! 223 00:17:43,280 --> 00:17:49,180 He has estate property and 5% of its annual income... 224 00:17:49,280 --> 00:17:55,740 Oh, that faraway land is full of sorrow and grief. 225 00:17:55,840 --> 00:18:00,750 Go on, weep. Daddy's shaggy man can't wait to hug you. 226 00:18:00,900 --> 00:18:03,580 Oh, I don't want to, I don't want to. 227 00:18:03,680 --> 00:18:06,480 If you don't want to, then crawl out! 228 00:18:06,580 --> 00:18:12,200 We'll give to the Americans our hearts and hands and tootle off overseas. 229 00:18:12,400 --> 00:18:18,480 Let our silly sister hug with that shaggy dog. 230 00:18:31,660 --> 00:18:34,400 Goodbye, little fools! 231 00:18:41,820 --> 00:18:46,060 The case is clear to me. I agree. 232 00:18:47,370 --> 00:18:50,960 So, daddy, 233 00:18:52,761 --> 00:18:56,461 In a fortnight we'll make a wedding. 234 00:18:56,960 --> 00:19:04,020 And on the wedding day, the public will see an unexpected surprise. 235 00:19:10,340 --> 00:19:13,750 Now hear and watch the rest of the story... 236 00:19:14,400 --> 00:19:17,120 At night they brought up a lorry, 237 00:19:17,221 --> 00:19:21,021 put in the bags and girls in a hurry, 238 00:19:21,120 --> 00:19:23,560 and off they went. 239 00:19:23,660 --> 00:19:26,900 They got wedded at the Notre Dame de Paris, 240 00:19:27,000 --> 00:19:29,120 Then set off for America speedily. 241 00:19:29,480 --> 00:19:32,820 The Americans were happy to become kin to the tsar. 242 00:19:33,020 --> 00:19:36,120 The daughters were happy to end up in America. 243 00:19:36,220 --> 00:19:39,860 Heigh-ho, a certain someone was there no more. 244 00:19:45,880 --> 00:19:48,420 Hey, dolt, stop! 245 00:19:51,200 --> 00:19:54,540 Ah, hoity-toities, what are they up to? 246 00:19:55,540 --> 00:19:59,320 Don't you ever dare to come back to Russia! 247 00:19:59,420 --> 00:20:04,300 Flirting dissidents, I spit on you! 248 00:20:06,300 --> 00:20:10,280 When the tsar found out that his daughters had run away... 249 00:20:10,380 --> 00:20:12,880 ...he scolded them only for the sake of decency. 250 00:20:12,980 --> 00:20:17,220 Inside he was happy to have saved the wedding money. 251 00:20:17,320 --> 00:20:18,320 What luck! 252 00:20:19,760 --> 00:20:24,670 Our choir sings to you, our darling. 253 00:20:24,800 --> 00:20:27,820 And the wine pours like rain 254 00:20:27,920 --> 00:20:31,600 Our beloved paid us a visit! 255 00:20:31,700 --> 00:20:41,010 Mister Pronka, dear friend! 256 00:21:01,960 --> 00:21:04,240 Hello! Your boys are gone? 257 00:21:04,340 --> 00:21:07,100 OK, mister Pronka, you win! 258 00:21:07,200 --> 00:21:09,180 Give me five! 259 00:21:09,280 --> 00:21:12,220 15 years have passed. 260 00:21:12,320 --> 00:21:16,420 Thanks to God being kind And our stubbornness of mind. 261 00:21:16,760 --> 00:21:21,500 I've stayed here too long. Better not wear out my welcome. 262 00:21:21,600 --> 00:21:26,660 You'll get it in the neck at home, I guess, For staying 15 years in Russian lands. 263 00:21:26,760 --> 00:21:32,820 In Russia, I lived carefree. In America, I'll be quite busy. 264 00:21:32,920 --> 00:21:36,640 You're outstanding, Sam. You speak just like a Russian man! 265 00:21:36,740 --> 00:21:39,980 Mr. Pronka, goodbye! Farewell! 266 00:21:40,080 --> 00:21:44,540 Farewell, Sam! Goodbye, for the last time! 267 00:21:47,660 --> 00:21:51,180 Here's a pleasant picture for Russian eyes [STORAGE SHED] 268 00:21:51,460 --> 00:21:55,230 For Pronka, bathing time has arrived! 269 00:21:55,480 --> 00:21:58,560 He's got pounds of flagrant soaps lying in stock. 270 00:21:58,660 --> 00:22:01,800 Carts of scrubbers and besoms waiting for their time. 271 00:22:01,900 --> 00:22:06,480 Copper wash-stands and marble basins standing all around the room 272 00:22:06,580 --> 00:22:10,280 and stacked up to the ceiling were chests full of suits for winter, 273 00:22:10,380 --> 00:22:14,920 summer, autumn, spring and other seasons 274 00:22:16,000 --> 00:22:20,960 Next morning he rented the city bathhouses for two weeks 275 00:22:21,060 --> 00:22:25,650 and invited 12 rubbers, 12 barbers 276 00:22:25,900 --> 00:22:35,600 ROMAN BATH / SPECIAL BATH / TURKISH BATH 277 00:22:37,560 --> 00:22:40,880 For a week Pronka was scraped with a scraper, 278 00:22:41,200 --> 00:22:45,000 abraded with wood chips, leached with lye, 279 00:22:45,100 --> 00:22:49,560 milled with 7 sorts of soap, rinsed. 280 00:22:49,660 --> 00:22:52,160 LYE 281 00:23:00,240 --> 00:23:04,180 For a week they cut him with garden shears, shaved and combed him, 282 00:23:04,280 --> 00:23:07,880 ironed, curled, perfumed and pomaded. 283 00:23:21,980 --> 00:23:29,160 On the wedding-day, 12 tailors made the tsars's groom's stiffened shirt fronts, 284 00:23:29,320 --> 00:23:32,560 put him in a suit of the latest Parisian fashion, 285 00:23:32,660 --> 00:23:35,980 lacquered gaiters, et cetera, et cetera. 286 00:23:36,260 --> 00:23:40,260 When this gentleman showed up in public, 287 00:23:40,360 --> 00:23:42,640 practically nobody recognized him. 288 00:23:42,740 --> 00:23:45,340 And those who did, couldn't believe it. 289 00:23:45,441 --> 00:23:48,041 He was handsome like in a picture. 290 00:23:48,140 --> 00:23:54,400 Gallant, fat, red-faced and very attractive. 291 00:23:54,500 --> 00:24:01,780 In your perfect youth I have found true love. 292 00:24:01,880 --> 00:24:09,680 And my heart is burning only for you. 293 00:24:09,780 --> 00:24:17,920 And my heart is burning only for you. 294 00:24:23,200 --> 00:24:26,680 As for the wedding, 7 days they danced like a herd in spring 295 00:24:26,780 --> 00:24:30,780 clapped their hands until they fell down on the floor 296 00:24:30,880 --> 00:24:33,820 and still went on. 297 00:24:33,920 --> 00:24:37,900 Kiss until it tastes bitter, Mr. Pronka! 298 00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:41,940 Until it's bitter, Pronka, son-in-law! 299 00:24:42,040 --> 00:24:47,240 Until it's bitter! Until it's bitter! 300 00:24:48,960 --> 00:24:51,560 Until it's bitter! 301 00:25:04,600 --> 00:25:09,400 I'll crank some more my machine - Here's the last picture to be seen. 302 00:25:09,500 --> 00:25:12,520 The American flies away in the aeroplane. 303 00:25:12,620 --> 00:25:15,180 The tsar and Pronka are seeing him off... 304 00:25:15,280 --> 00:25:18,410 and wishing him a smooth landing. 305 00:25:18,860 --> 00:25:23,460 His landing was smooth, but he was not really welcome. 306 00:25:24,200 --> 00:25:27,860 The American authority were mad at him... 307 00:25:28,010 --> 00:25:31,720 for spending 15 years in Russia, 308 00:25:32,800 --> 00:25:38,360 wasting so much money on a lousy peasant and losing his bet. 309 00:25:39,020 --> 00:25:45,120 The president will now speak accusingly, and I will translate. 310 00:25:48,720 --> 00:25:51,900 How can it be, he says, that for all these years... 311 00:25:52,040 --> 00:25:56,380 ...you couldn't tempt him to wipe off some snot even once?! 312 00:25:58,080 --> 00:26:04,520 Don't you know that two persons of the imperial family... 313 00:26:04,620 --> 00:26:10,000 ...married Americans and accepted the American faith? 314 00:26:10,660 --> 00:26:18,000 We're aware of that, and it's a great honor to us! 315 00:26:18,100 --> 00:26:22,110 America is proud of those two fine fellows. 316 00:26:22,320 --> 00:26:26,740 But these fine fellows are my brothers. 317 00:26:26,840 --> 00:26:28,940 If it were not for me and my Pronka, 318 00:26:29,041 --> 00:26:33,641 They'd never have taken a whiff of the tsar's daughters. 319 00:26:35,042 --> 00:26:38,542 <i>Mister Pronka - he's a Russian.</i> 320 00:26:38,843 --> 00:26:42,543 <i>Mister Pronka - he's a Russian.</i> 321 00:26:42,844 --> 00:26:49,944 <i>Mister Pronka - he's a Russian, For he's our good old friend.</i> 322 00:26:50,845 --> 00:26:54,845 <i>You and we are friends forever!</i> 323 00:26:55,046 --> 00:26:58,946 <i>You and we are friends forever!</i> 324 00:26:59,147 --> 00:27:06,547 <i>You and we are friends forever, Mister Pronka, our dear friend!</i> 325 00:27:08,220 --> 00:27:11,480 To those who still are awake, I say: Adios! 326 00:27:11,580 --> 00:27:14,260 I wouldn't want you folks to doze! 327 00:27:15,420 --> 00:27:18,940 So here my friends, our story ends. 328 00:27:19,040 --> 00:27:21,060 The End 329 00:27:21,161 --> 00:27:23,199 Translated by Anna Evteeva, revised by Eus (Jul 2018) & Niffiwan (Aug 2024)