Soyuzmultfilm Stop-motion division
Alyosha's Tales
written by G. Ball, Gennadiy Tsyferov
Directed by Roman Kachanov
cameramen Mihail Kamenetskiy, Iosif Golomb
art directors Alina Speshneva, Ye. Medvedev
music Andrey Babayev sound Georgiy Martynyuk
animators M. Zubova, Pavel Petrov, M. Mamonov, Vyacheslav Shilobreyev, Yuriy Klepatskiy
voice artist (Alyosha) Pavlik Babayevskiy
puppets and decor Valeriy Petrov, F. Oleynikov, V. Cherkinskaya, Boris Karavayev, Vladimir Abakumov, Roman Gurov, Pavel Gusev, Galina Gettinger, S. Etlis
How I miss my grandma...
After all, tomorrow would be her birthday.
I really want to visit her...
But father and mother never have the time.
They won't let me go on my own - they say, "you're too little."
I used to be little,
But now I am big!
Even very big.
And I still want to visit my grandma! I'll visit her!
I'll just say the magic words to the locomotive
And in a wink it will bring me to my grandma in Yegoryevsk town!
"Sarina, Pina... Pok!"
"Du, du!"
We ride and ride, and suddenly we meet someone familiar!
My cow.
"Moo," the cow will say.
"Hello, locomotive!"
"Du! - Hi, cow!"
"Hmm, just wait a bit."
"Moo," the cow will say,
"Take along this bouquet for grandma."
"Thank you! Be well, cow! Goodbye!"
"Hey, let's get grandma some mushrooms too!"
the locomotive will say.
"Mushrooms? Sure! Sarina, Pina, Pok!"
Hop, hop, hop, hop!
You're a bad mushroom, fly agaric, we won't take you! You're poisonous!
And when I arrive at Yegoryevsk,
I'll draw a picture for grandma...
But where is the pencil?
My favourite pencil -
on one side red,
on the other - blue.
Here it is!
No one could find the pencil, neither me nor my grandma...
...only the mouse. My mouse will find the pencil!
What a good mouse, well done!
Oh, how happy we'll be, grandma and I!
We'll sit the mouse at the table,
she'll get her spoon, and I'll get my cup with the blue flowers.
"What a mouse," my grandma will say,
"She leaves nothing behind on the plate!"
And then my grandma will say: "We have to get a gift for the mouse!"
Oh! No, no, no!
Oh, a mousetrap! I'm afraid!
I'll say: "Grandma, why does she need gifts?
Let's get rid of the mousetrap."
Sarina, Pina, Pok! The mousetrap is no more!
"Thank you, Alyosha, for removing the mousetrap!"
And I'll say: "No, thank you, mouse,
for finding my favourite pencil!"
And when it's grandma's birthday,
I'll give her my drawing.
And she will say: "Thank you, Alyosha!"
And I will say, "You're welcome, grandma! Happy birthday!"
And I'll also give my grandma a goldfish.
The fish will be caught by... my friends, the soldiers!
I'll command my soldiers: "Sarina, Pina, Pok! Forward-march!"
"To the Blue Sea"
But how will the soldiers catch the fish?
After all, they only have rifles.
No, no, I'd better ask the construction cranes.
They have hooks.
Sarina, Pina, Pok! And to the distant Blue Sea now go two construction cranes.
Tram, tram... No, it had better be three! Tram, tram, tram.
Papa Crane, Mama Crane and Little Crane.
And suddenly, coming right at them - a lion!
"Where are going?"
"Don't you know?" Little Crane will answer, "We're going fishing."
"F-f-fishing?" "Well, yes, for Alyosha's grandma."
"No way!" the lion will say in surprise,
"For Alyosha's grandma? Mmm."
"Well, then... go on!"
And the cranes will go on.
Then they'll go on a little more and arrive at the Blue Sea.
Papa Crane will throw in his crane hook...
...and pull up a whale,
and the sea level will drop.
Mama Crane will pull up another big fish.
And there will be nothing left of the sea but a puddle.
So they'll throw the fish back.
And the sea level will rise back to what it was before.
Then Little Crane will throw in his little hook,
and pull up just a small fish.
Because if you take from a big sea only a small fish,
the sea will still remain as deep and blue as it was.
Well, locomotive, we visited grandma together.
And tomorrow morning I will say loudly: "Sarina, Pina, Pok!
Grandma come to see me!"
And grandma will hear my words and will come by magic.
She'll come for sure.
THE END Subs by Chapaev, Eus & Niffiwan.