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Tomshek was doing his daily exercise

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because he was very concerned
about his health.

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For the last three nights
he'd had a very pleasant dream:

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He would be walking down the street,
lightly pushing off with his left foot,

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soar three metres above the ground,

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and drop gently to the pavement.

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In the dream, he wasn't
surprised in the slightest.

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It seemed to him very
natural and very pleasant.

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The only strange thing was

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that no one had ever
experienced it before.

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<b>The Man Who Could Fly</b>.
Based on a tale by Karel Capek

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screenwriter Boris Kryzhanovskiy
director Yevgeniy Sivokon
art director Eduard Kirich

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animators Vladimir Goncharov,
Yefrem Pruzhanskiy, Vladimir Dakhno,

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Yevgeniy Sivokon, David Cherkasskiy,
Mark Draytsun, Nina Churilova

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composer F. Bryl
camera Anatoliy Gavrilov
script editor Tadeush Pavlenko

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sound Leonid Moroz
narrator Aleksey Polevoy

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assistants A. Balov, V. Ryabkina,
Yu. Srebnitskaya

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It wasn't until late that night
that Tomshek returned home.

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In the following days he trained hard.

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At night, of course,
and in secluded places.

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Finally, Tomshek couldn't
take it any more...

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He really wanted to make his
flights known to the public.

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After all, it was so easy to fly: you
push off, you flap your arms a little,

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and off you fly like a bird.

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Tomshek was clearly having bad luck
with his conversation partners.

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Luckily, he remembered that
his neighbour worked at a newspaper.

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A reporter for the sports section,
as he recalled.

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"You ought to be handled by experts.

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I'll set it all up," the reporter said.

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Tomshek became flustered.

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Now he really didn't know
where to put his hands,

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how to breathe and where
his centre of gravity was.

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"God, I wish they'd get off my back,"
thought Tomshek.

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Then he jumped two more times,

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but further attempts
had to be abandoned.

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From that day on,
Tomshek could no longer fly.

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Artistic Collective for Fictive
Animation of the Kiev Studio for
Popular Science Films, 1968

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The End
Subs by Eus & Niffiwan, July 2025