From the Private Lives of the Pilot Brothers
The Pilot Brothers Drink Tea in the Evenings
Summer, year 1950 South-western Sahara Hotel "NORTH"
Damn stinky little hole!
Hello! Telephone? Hello!
Hello?! ...Phooey!
Ah...
How I anger at local telephone companies!
Oh, this fan!
[...]
I've had enough of this fatiguing and sweating!!
Where's that...
Hello?! Hello!!!
Phooey!
Where is my towel here? Huh?!
Where...?
Ein, zwei, drei, vier... [...]
Town of Berdichev, 17:00
Colleague, would you agree that we are out of boiled water?
"Out of... boiled water..."
Hello?
Is this Mr. Karbofoss?
Yes, it is I! Ich bin Karbofoss!
Did you order a call to Berdichev?
Ja, ja, natürlich!
- Hello... just a minute... - Oh, Chief!
It's for you!
I'm connecting you... you can speak now.
Hey, you! I am demand my elephant returned!
I caught him in dense...
...jungle and was his owner! I will rob and steal him...
...back from you! Hello!! You return me everything!!
I will count "ein", I will count "zwei",
and when I count to "drei" it will be very... bad for you!
Is that understood?!
Hello! I do not want for my elephant living in the nasty Berdichev,
I want living my elephant in [...]
I demand moral compensation [...]
I do not want for my elephant living for damned Pilot Brothers!
I wanted to take my elephant...
- Water! - What?
- Water. - What, Chief?
- Bring me water. - I want to receive lots of...
...money, in various currencies!
And you receive my elephant for free?!
- If you had not stolen my elephant... - Well, Chief, is that enough?
- Enough.
...I would have enough to lord over everyone!
[...] natürlich, achtug, achtung!
This is what I say... [...] ...Karbofoss!
Mr. Karbofoss, have you finished?
Yes! I have said everything!
Excellent.
Call us again same time tomorrow.
We will once again be drinking tea then,
and will gladly converse with you on the subject of our dear elephant.
"The Case of the Tea Drinking"
screenplay - Aleksandr Tatarskiy, Valeriy Kachayev, Andrey Kolpin
directors Andrey Kolpin, Valeriy Kachayev
camera - Oleg Kuzovkov ass. camera - N. Tihonov, V. Apollonova
sound - Slava Tarasov, montage - Lyudmila Kopteva, Yelena Vinokurova
art director - Andrey Kuznetsov backgrounds - Irina Nazarova
animators - S. Gordeyev, V. Orlov, O. Korastelev, A. Albayev, S. Sherenov,
Ye. Chernova, O. Ten, S. Merinov, K. Kravchenko, M. Nikulina
assistants - L. Kozlova, A. Zlotnikova, O. Fomushkina, B. Nesterova, G. Gordeyeva
The film uses characters by I. Kovalyov and A. Tatarskiy, (c) Second Frod
music - Yuriy Chernavskiy
actors - Vsevolod Abdulov, Yefim Shifrin, Aleksandr Pozharov
producers - A. Tatarskiy, I. Gelashvili, A. Prohorov
artistic supervisor Aleksandr Tatarskiy
Telephone service kindly provided by the joint-stock company "The Final Phonecall"
The End (c) Pilot Studio, 1996
(subtitles by Niffiwan)