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Commissioned by the Ministry
of Culture and Arts of Ukraine
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Ukranimafilm
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Based on a poem by Daniil Kharms
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IT WAS SUMMER
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It was summer.
The sun was shining.
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It was truly a hot day.
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In the garden hung a hammock,
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and in the hammock lay a little boy
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named Plato.
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He swayed and squinted at the sun.
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Suddenly, something peeked
out from behind a bush...
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and vanished again.
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Plato wanted to see what it was,
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but getting out of the
hammock was difficult.
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Something again peeked out
from behind the bush
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and again vanished.
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"It must be our cat, Eugenia."
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Indeed,
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a cat did emerge from behind the bush.
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But it wasn't Eugenia.
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Eugenia was gray,
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with white spots.
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But this one was all gray
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with no spots.
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"When did we get a cat like that?"
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The cat was wearing glasses.
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Furthermore, it held a
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small pipe in its mouth and
was smoking it.
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Upon seeing Plato,
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it took the pipe out of its mouth
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and said:
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Excuse me, please.
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Do you know where Plato lives?
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That's me.
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Ah, it's you!
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In that case,
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follow me behind that bush -
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there's a certain someone
waiting for you there.
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Behind the bush, on one leg,
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stood a heron.
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"Cancel the handshake,"
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said the cat,
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"Don't you dare do that.
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If you want to introduce yourself,
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shake feet instead."
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"There, now we've
introduced ourselves,"
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said the cat.
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"Now let's be off."
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"Where to?"
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But the heron had already
grabbed him by the collar with its beak
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and was beginning to rise into the air.
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"Let me go!"
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"You're talking nonsense,"
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said the cat.
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"If we let you go,
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you'll fall and crash."
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"Where are we going?"
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"Over there."
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Across the sky fly balloons,
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They fly across, they fly,
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Across the sky fly balloons,
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And patter as they fly,
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Across the sky fly balloons,
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And people wave at them,
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Across the sky fly balloons,
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And folks wave at them with their hats,
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Across the sky fly balloons,
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And folks wave at them
with their forks,
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Across the sky fly balloons,
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And folks wave at them
with their buns,
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Across the sky fly balloons,
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And folks wave at them
with their cats,
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Across the sky fly balloons,
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And folks wave at them
with their brooms!
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Across the sky fly balloons,
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And folks wave at them
with their lamps,
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Across the sky fly balloons,
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While people stand below,
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Across the sky fly balloons,
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They glisten and patter,
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Across the sky fly balloons,
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And people patter, too!
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"Save me!"
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"Silence!"
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shouted the heron,
opening its beak wide.
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"He's falling! Catch him!"
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Plato heard the cat's voice above him.
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screenwriter & director
Masha Medvid
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art director
Serhiy Mindlin
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music
Serhiy Stepanenko
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camera
Anatoliy Havrylov
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arrangement
Yernest Hrann
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sound
Lyudmyla Roman
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animation
Masha Medvid
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art Maryna Olshevska, Olena Korotkevych,
Nataliya Tarabarova, Nataliya Lysenko,
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Tetyana Suliz,
Natalya Hmelevska, Vanda Litvin
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assistants
Olena Korotkevich, Vlad Kostetskyy
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script editor
Svitlana Kutsenko
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montage
Yuna Srebnytska
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voices
Yuriy Kovalenko
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Sung by the boys' duet of "Film Plus"
studio (Kostyantyn Panchenko, Yernest Grann)
under the baton of Myhaylo Kruchiyevskyy
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production director
Vyacheslav Kilinskyy
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The End
Subs by Eus (2025.10), rev. Niffiwan (2026.07)