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Federal Agency for Culture and
Cinematography of the Russian Federation

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"National Film Center"
film studio

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present

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"The Little Angel"
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"The Little Angel"
based on the story by Leonid Andreyev

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At times Sashka wished

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to give up what is called

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living:

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to no longer go to the grammar school,

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to no longer listen to everyone
there scolding him,

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and to no longer experience the pain
in the small of his back

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and over his whole body

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when his mother made him kneel
in the corner all the evening.

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But, since he was only
thirteen years of age,

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and did not know all the means
by which people abandon life,

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when they so wish,

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he continued to go to the grammar school

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and to kneel in the corner.

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Give it back!

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Wolf-cub!

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Lollipop-roosters!

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Here, take it.

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Look, look!

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Come on, come on! Hup-hup-hup!

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Wolf-cub!

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Where have you been knocking
about all night, puppy?

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Sashka! The Svetchnikovs have invited
you to the Christmas tree.

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You're lying!

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Swear to God.

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The housemaid came.

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Smug-faced prigs!

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I won't go to them.

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But I say you shall go!

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Auntie,

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do give me one thing from the tree;

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the little angel.

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Impossible.

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I promised it to Kolya.

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Isn't it nice?...

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Yeah. There's something
remarkable about him.

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Look! He is going to fly!

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And next to the eyes of the man,
who had lived his life,

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sparkled the eyes of one,
who was beginning his life,

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and caressed the little angel.

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The father and son did not look
at one another:

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their sick hearts grieved, wept,
and rejoiced apart.

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But there was something in their thoughts
which fused their hearts in one,

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and annihilated that bottomless abyss

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which separates man from man

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and makes him so lonely,
unhappy, and weak.

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All lonesome, on a Christmas night he cowers -

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A wolf cub whining, yellow-eyed and slight.

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The hoary woods are lit like lilac flowers,

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And firs wear diamonds in the night.

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The stars on heaven's floor are flickering;

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They flicker, and they tickle angels' feet.

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The disheveled cub awaits miracles,

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But the wood's silent, bare and neat.

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But up in their high homes, the angels all

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Pace and discuss in whispered voices huffy,

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Then one descends, decides to heed the call

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As a grey she-wolf, big and fluffy!

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And to her tender, milk-filled, trailing breast

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The cub clings close, with greedy, rasping bliss.

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Firs, starry heavens, and the cub at rest -

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All felt that night's deep happiness.

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screenwriter
Zalina Bideyeva

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director & art director
Zalina Bideyeva

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producer
Sergey Zernov

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lead animator Svetlana Shuhayeva

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animators Yelena Petrova, Yekaterina
Boykova, Aleksey Chistov, Aleksey Mironov

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composer
Yuriy Abdokov

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sound
Dmitriy Smirnov

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narrator
Boris Plotnikov

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voice artists Raisa Konyuhova,
Rashid Bilyalov, Nikolay Ilyin,

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Daniil Li, Danila Bobrovskiy,
Dmitriy Borisov, Nikita Belomestnykh

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production coordinator
Nikolay Makovskiy

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script editors
Mariya Pasholok, Nataliya Kuznetsova

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production director
Andrey Kanivchenko

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The artists thank the Nonprofit
Educational Institution "Myslitel",
T.A. Bogdanova, O.V. Lanina,

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Fyodor Hitruk, Aleksandr Petrov,
Aida Zyablikova, Aleksey Bogdanov,
Grigoriy Manasevich

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The End
2007

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Subs by Eus & Niffiwan, based on W.H.
Lowe's translation, Vladimir Nabokov's
1922 poem translated by Niffiwan, 2025.12