1
00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02,300
A film adaptation of a school program
2
00:00:02,320 --> 00:00:08,460
Studio Ekran & Chief Editorial Office
of Literary-Dramaturgical Programming
at Central Television
3
00:00:15,260 --> 00:00:21,380
Aleksandr Stepanovich Grin
4
00:00:21,860 --> 00:00:25,400
ASSOL
5
00:00:25,420 --> 00:00:30,140
Adapted from the novel "Scarlet Sails"
6
00:00:35,740 --> 00:00:42,620
A hope aspires to find a way,
but all the paths are closed.
7
00:00:43,140 --> 00:00:48,500
A hope aspires to find a way
where the paths are marked out.
8
00:00:49,240 --> 00:00:56,910
A hope aspires to find a way;
the paths are open wide.
9
00:01:10,080 --> 00:01:14,940
Lengren, a sailor on the brig Orion,
10
00:01:14,970 --> 00:01:19,660
had returned home after
after a long voyage.
11
00:01:30,400 --> 00:01:32,960
But he hadn't yet seen from afar,
as he always had, his wife
8
00:01:33,063 --> 00:01:36,063
Mary, running towards him
12
00:01:37,180 --> 00:01:40,320
until she lost her breath.
13
00:01:56,600 --> 00:02:00,540
He was met instead by his neighbour.
14
00:02:07,560 --> 00:02:10,960
"Look at your daughter," she said.
15
00:02:19,900 --> 00:02:22,860
"And this is your wife Mary's ring.
16
00:02:23,540 --> 00:02:25,700
She's already in heaven."
17
00:02:26,480 --> 00:02:29,720
And Lengren heard the sad story.
18
00:02:29,720 --> 00:02:33,460
When there wasn't a crumb of food
left in the house,
19
00:02:33,500 --> 00:02:40,340
Mary decided to pawn her engagement
ring to Menners the innkeeper.
20
00:04:23,900 --> 00:04:27,980
"It's all on her," Menners
explained to his wife.
21
00:04:28,140 --> 00:04:30,420
"I had nothing to do with it."
22
00:07:44,760 --> 00:07:50,660
And so Lengren was left
alone with his daughter.
23
00:08:40,420 --> 00:08:42,700
He named her Assol.
24
00:08:43,180 --> 00:08:45,020
A strange name,
25
00:08:45,040 --> 00:08:48,460
sounding like the whistle of an arrow
26
00:08:48,480 --> 00:08:51,780
or the sound of a seashell.
27
00:10:37,460 --> 00:10:46,700
Sometimes in the evenings, Assol
strongly longed for her mother,
28
00:10:46,880 --> 00:10:50,770
whom she had never seen.
29
00:12:13,220 --> 00:12:19,800
"Lengren!" Menners called out,
"Why on earth do you stand
there like a stump?
30
00:12:19,960 --> 00:12:24,360
Look, I'm being carried away!
Throw off the mooring-rope!"
31
00:12:24,420 --> 00:12:26,960
She too begged you.
32
00:12:26,980 --> 00:12:31,320
Think about it, Menners,
while you still are alive.
33
00:15:06,620 --> 00:15:14,780
Grief and hatred burned in the heart
of little Hin, Menners' son.
34
00:17:16,400 --> 00:17:23,470
To comfort his daughter,
Lengren made her a boat.
35
00:17:52,600 --> 00:17:58,400
The flaming cheerful colour
burned so brightly in Assol's hands,
36
00:17:58,520 --> 00:18:02,060
as if she were holding a fire.
37
00:19:15,020 --> 00:19:17,270
The shadow of alienation,
38
00:19:17,430 --> 00:19:20,280
that had once fallen upon her father,
39
00:19:20,300 --> 00:19:23,660
now shrouded the daughter as well.
40
00:20:25,720 --> 00:20:27,900
In the forest, Assol
41
00:20:27,900 --> 00:20:30,830
met a strange man.
42
00:20:31,740 --> 00:20:36,270
Listen, little plant,
what's your name?
43
00:20:37,080 --> 00:20:38,580
Assol.
44
00:20:39,420 --> 00:20:42,420
So, Assol...
45
00:21:11,020 --> 00:21:17,050
One day, when you
grow up, in the distant sea
46
00:21:17,070 --> 00:21:23,090
a scarlet sail will sparkle in the sun.
47
00:21:24,740 --> 00:21:35,140
And the shining bulk of the scarlet
sails of a white ship will move,
48
00:21:35,210 --> 00:21:39,180
cutting through the waves,
straight to you.
49
00:22:01,380 --> 00:22:05,430
And you'll see a brave handsome prince.
50
00:22:09,100 --> 00:22:12,720
"Hello, Assol!" he'll say,
51
00:22:13,120 --> 00:22:19,360
"Far, far away from here, I saw you
in a dream and I've come to
52
00:22:19,360 --> 00:22:23,570
take you away forever to my kingdom.
53
00:22:24,200 --> 00:22:27,540
And there we shall live
54
00:22:27,540 --> 00:22:34,660
in such friendship and joy that never
will your soul know tears and sorrow.
55
00:23:10,040 --> 00:23:11,620
Go.
56
00:23:11,970 --> 00:23:16,570
Let there be peace
in your fuzzy little head.
57
00:24:12,200 --> 00:24:16,860
Listen to what I'm about to tell you!
58
00:24:16,930 --> 00:24:22,600
So Assol began to tell about the wizard
and his prediction.
59
00:24:51,060 --> 00:24:57,500
Do you think the wizard's
ship will come for me or not?
60
00:25:00,470 --> 00:25:04,000
Since a wizard told you this,
61
00:25:04,220 --> 00:25:05,360
it must be true.
62
00:25:05,740 --> 00:25:07,160
It will come.
63
00:25:19,960 --> 00:25:25,160
"All right, prissy princess,"
thought little Hin,
64
00:25:25,200 --> 00:25:28,350
"I'm gonna get you a shipload of red
65
00:25:28,380 --> 00:25:31,270
sails and an overseas prince."
66
00:25:43,820 --> 00:25:48,970
From a trough and a mop
Hin built a ship,
67
00:25:49,360 --> 00:25:54,890
with an old rag
for a scarlet sail.
68
00:26:46,260 --> 00:26:52,100
Ever since then, she was nicknamed
"Ship Assol".
69
00:26:53,720 --> 00:27:02,180
They used to make fun of her, saying,
"She's touched in the head,
not in her right mind."
70
00:27:11,340 --> 00:27:14,680
Assol got used to this pain as well.
71
00:27:15,600 --> 00:27:20,750
Yet each time, worried and timid,
she went to the seashore,
72
00:27:20,860 --> 00:27:24,660
and in all seriousness
looked out for a ship
73
00:27:24,700 --> 00:27:27,600
with scarlet sails...
74
00:28:02,900 --> 00:28:08,220
Meanwhile, the son of Menners
the innkeeper was doing well,
75
00:28:08,280 --> 00:28:10,880
carrying on his father's work.
76
00:30:09,560 --> 00:30:15,420
Captain Arthur Gray had a hollow
77
00:30:15,480 --> 00:30:18,780
yearning for no reason at all,
78
00:30:19,420 --> 00:30:22,490
and could not understand
what he pined for.
79
00:30:39,500 --> 00:30:41,980
His father and mother were
80
00:30:42,000 --> 00:30:46,030
haughty slaves to their
81
00:30:46,060 --> 00:30:48,700
position: of the wealth and laws
82
00:30:48,740 --> 00:30:50,360
of that society,
83
00:30:50,480 --> 00:30:55,680
about which we could speak.
84
00:31:04,220 --> 00:31:07,740
But their son was born
with a lively soul,
85
00:31:07,820 --> 00:31:11,800
not at all inclined
to continue the line
86
00:31:11,800 --> 00:31:14,580
of the family inscription.
87
00:32:44,520 --> 00:32:47,420
Gray tirelessly studied the castle
88
00:32:47,920 --> 00:32:51,320
in which he increasingly
felt himself cramped,
89
00:32:51,350 --> 00:32:55,900
making astonishing discoveries.
90
00:34:05,200 --> 00:34:08,240
The need was awakened in him early
91
00:34:08,800 --> 00:34:10,350
of taking on,
92
00:34:10,360 --> 00:34:13,800
out of the countless
variety of roles in life,
93
00:34:13,840 --> 00:34:20,520
the most dangerous and touching one:
The role of providence.
94
00:35:01,780 --> 00:35:05,690
"Why did you ruin the painting?"
Father asked.
95
00:35:06,780 --> 00:35:08,240
"I cannot allow for there
96
00:35:08,240 --> 00:35:13,100
to be nails sticking out of hands
and blood flowing out, on my watch!
97
00:35:13,160 --> 00:35:14,960
I do not want that."
98
00:35:37,160 --> 00:35:40,660
He was already in his twelfth year
99
00:35:40,680 --> 00:35:43,500
when all the hints of his soul,
100
00:35:43,580 --> 00:35:50,770
all the disparate traits of his spirit
came together in one powerful moment
101
00:35:50,900 --> 00:35:54,590
and became the indomitable desire
102
00:35:55,620 --> 00:35:58,920
to be captain.
103
00:36:38,660 --> 00:36:40,690
To become the destiny,
104
00:36:40,710 --> 00:36:43,710
the soul and mind of a ship.
105
00:36:45,260 --> 00:36:49,670
To know danger, risk,
106
00:36:49,900 --> 00:36:54,480
the light of a distant land,
and a love
107
00:36:55,830 --> 00:37:00,880
that blooms through
brief visits and separation.
108
00:37:24,760 --> 00:37:28,470
Passing the village where Assol lived,
109
00:37:29,110 --> 00:37:35,460
the ship pulled into a roadstead
near the lighthouse.
110
00:39:26,820 --> 00:39:29,120
The awareness
111
00:39:29,120 --> 00:39:32,400
that something marvellous
112
00:39:32,400 --> 00:39:35,510
and extraordinary
was just around the corner,
113
00:39:35,510 --> 00:39:41,000
close at hand, did not leave Assol.
114
00:41:16,460 --> 00:41:20,540
All that Assol had been waiting for,
115
00:41:20,560 --> 00:41:22,920
so long and ardently,
116
00:41:22,960 --> 00:41:26,880
was being done out there
at the end of the world.
117
00:41:26,900 --> 00:41:28,530
Out of the scarlet
118
00:41:28,550 --> 00:41:32,720
ripples of the first rays
of the sun appeared the ship.
119
00:41:32,760 --> 00:41:34,420
It surfaced
120
00:41:34,420 --> 00:41:38,400
and stopped in the middle of the dawn.
121
00:41:38,540 --> 00:41:49,830
Spreading mirth, it sailed,
its sails blazing like crimson fire.
122
00:41:57,880 --> 00:42:00,940
The morning mist hid
123
00:42:00,940 --> 00:42:03,230
the rising sun.
124
00:42:03,590 --> 00:42:15,140
Feeling suddenly incredibly tired, Assol
sank into the field of grass and fell asleep.
125
00:42:23,340 --> 00:42:26,380
He didn't care where he was going.
126
00:42:26,460 --> 00:42:29,200
And he began to row to where
127
00:42:29,200 --> 00:42:34,560
in the thickening darkness,
the shore was coming into view.
128
00:42:34,580 --> 00:42:42,240
"I'm waiting, I can see, I'll soon know."
129
00:42:42,980 --> 00:42:48,330
Such were the feelings that
held Gray in their grip.
130
00:47:25,740 --> 00:47:30,360
There was no explanation
for what had happened.
131
00:47:30,380 --> 00:47:32,760
But, without words or thoughts,
132
00:47:33,580 --> 00:47:35,050
Assol found them
133
00:47:35,080 --> 00:47:37,580
in the strange feeling
that held her.
134
00:47:37,820 --> 00:47:40,480
The voices of her heart
135
00:47:40,520 --> 00:47:43,790
spoke prophetically:
136
00:47:43,820 --> 00:47:45,000
"Yes."
137
00:47:54,540 --> 00:48:01,380
And the very same did the voices
of the heart repeat to Gray.
138
00:48:23,420 --> 00:48:24,270
And then
139
00:48:24,760 --> 00:48:33,040
Hin told Gray how seven years ago,
Assol had made everyone laugh with
her tale about a ship
140
00:48:33,060 --> 00:48:35,260
with scarlet sails.
141
00:51:56,340 --> 00:52:02,130
Arthur Gray was at that happy
height of spiritual uplift
142
00:52:02,180 --> 00:52:05,570
that told him what to do next.
144
00:52:04,506 --> 00:52:07,506
He acted decisively
143
00:52:08,630 --> 00:52:11,630
and calmly.
144
00:52:33,760 --> 00:52:36,300
Gray visited several shops,
145
00:52:36,320 --> 00:52:39,320
giving special importance to the
146
00:52:39,350 --> 00:52:41,170
accuracy of the selection,
147
00:52:41,220 --> 00:52:46,260
because he had already mentally
seen the right color and shade.
148
00:52:52,460 --> 00:52:56,040
Digging through the light
resistance of silk,
149
00:52:56,170 --> 00:52:59,170
Among the reds, the pale pinks,
150
00:52:59,190 --> 00:53:02,190
the thick boiling cherry-hues
151
00:53:02,210 --> 00:53:06,070
and dark red tones;
among the shades
152
00:53:06,130 --> 00:53:09,280
of all strengths and meanings,
Gray had already
153
00:53:09,300 --> 00:53:11,060
almost lost hope
154
00:53:11,080 --> 00:53:12,740
of finding that
155
00:53:12,780 --> 00:53:14,040
true scarlet colour
156
00:53:14,080 --> 00:53:16,960
that had so clearly appeared to him
157
00:53:17,000 --> 00:53:19,160
before his mental gaze.
158
00:54:18,020 --> 00:54:21,560
And then, finally, it shone before him:
159
00:54:21,590 --> 00:54:23,760
absolutely pure,
160
00:54:23,800 --> 00:54:26,470
full of noble gaiety;
161
00:54:26,910 --> 00:54:32,890
exactly the proud colour
that Gray was looking for.
162
00:56:20,000 --> 00:56:26,240
Meanwhile, Gray's ship was heading
towards the shore at full speed,
163
00:56:26,470 --> 00:56:30,630
spreading her bright scarlet sails wide,
164
00:56:30,810 --> 00:56:36,660
shining with the colour of deep joy.
165
00:57:24,300 --> 00:57:30,820
At the same time, in the village there
was such fuss, such excitement,
166
00:57:30,900 --> 00:57:33,550
such widespread confusion
167
00:57:33,800 --> 00:57:35,740
as would not have been outdone
by the effect
168
00:57:35,780 --> 00:57:38,780
of famous earthquakes.
169
01:01:03,680 --> 01:01:11,620
Now we shall take a step back from them,
knowing that they need to be together alone.
170
01:02:04,480 --> 01:02:08,750
I have realised one uncomplicated truth:
171
01:02:09,200 --> 01:02:15,880
It's about making so-called
miracles with your own hands.
172
01:02:17,040 --> 01:02:23,600
When the most important thing to a
person is getting a precious nickel,
173
01:02:23,860 --> 01:02:27,170
it's easy to give that nickel.
174
01:02:27,450 --> 01:02:34,180
But when the soul carries the seed
of a fiery plant of wonder,
175
01:02:35,000 --> 01:02:37,810
make that miracle for it.
176
01:02:38,440 --> 01:02:45,660
That soul will be renewed,
and so will yours.
177
01:02:50,080 --> 01:02:51,760
On the film worked:
178
01:02:53,420 --> 01:02:57,900
Assol - Yelena Zaytsyeva
Assol as child - Marina Pyazantsyeva
179
01:02:58,520 --> 01:03:02,390
Gray - Andrey Haritonov
Gray as Child - Denis Bondar, Adryusha Govorov
180
01:03:04,020 --> 01:03:08,080
Longren - Lembir Ulfsak
Meri - Marina Yampolskaya
181
01:03:09,340 --> 01:03:16,900
Menner - Vladimir Soshalskiy
Hin - Aleksandr Litovkin
Hin as Child - Andryusha Haykin, Tolya Hristyushin
182
01:03:18,180 --> 01:03:22,200
Grey's parents - Natalya Vlasova,
Nikolay Zabrodin
183
01:03:23,880 --> 01:03:28,240
Storyteller - Igor Yasulovich
Neighbor - Yelena Maksimova
184
01:03:31,220 --> 01:03:34,700
In Episodes - artists from
the Moscow theaters
185
01:03:37,380 --> 01:03:41,200
screenwriter, director
Boris Stepantsev
186
01:03:43,780 --> 01:03:48,140
camera director
B. Kiparisov
187
01:03:50,340 --> 01:03:53,880
art director
A. Oparin
188
01:03:54,940 --> 01:03:58,860
animation art director
Anatoliy Savchenko
189
01:04:00,080 --> 01:04:03,800
musical composition
V. Babushkin, A. Goldshteyn
190
01:04:04,040 --> 01:04:08,700
balletmeister/choreographer N, Avaliani
Pantomime director Ye. Lagovskiy
191
01:04:08,700 --> 01:04:12,380
narrator
Gennadiy Bortnikov
192
01:04:13,660 --> 01:04:16,920
The film used the music of
Benedetto Marchello
193
01:04:18,080 --> 01:04:23,400
USSR State Symphony Cinema Orchestra
conducted by E. Hachaturyan
194
01:04:36,920 --> 01:04:50,920
Film crew
195
01:04:50,920 --> 01:05:00,220
The End
Subs - Eus (2024.12), Niffiwan (2025.07)
Translated from anonymous Russian Subs