THE MONSTER after the tale by Nina Katerli
Good morning. Will you breakfast with me?
Good morning. I'm full up to my ears.
Oh, good heavens! How wonderful!
I'll give you to the kindergarten.
I will be living here!
And what is this object?
You see, it simply... came to be this way.
This is our neighbour. It likes to joke around.
And my name is Masha.
Pleased to meet you.
But I'm left with the thought, my darling Masha,
that your neighbour is an animal.
And an animal ought to live in the woods!
We will yet see, who bests whom!
Virus-kvartirus!
Henceforth, I shall ask you to clean up those loathsome scales!
I am reporting... for... your... notice...
I ask you to take... certain measures...
I wish to notify you that in our apartment...
We will definitely take care of this varmint.
How tired I am of cleaning this!
I am fully in agreement, my dear.
Nobody should have to clean up after that old vermin!
But let's not worry.
Soon it will all change!
Dressing me down to my very bones?
Tut-tut.
But where is my bone?
Yesterday... I bought... a bone in the grocery store.
Your bone?
But it is right here! You made a broth from it this morning!
Remember?
Truly? I don't remember.
And this pot isn't... mine...
It's a good bone!
This is a madhouse!
Lady Masha is a dear.
But this... this is ridiculous!
That vermin just ate your whole dinner and you don't mind!
And where, truly, is its bone?
It never had any bones.
And it hasn't gone to the store in a week.
Then what is it looking for?!
Oh, who knows? Maybe it forgot,
or maybe it simply wants to show that everything is fine.
After all, it's a nobody... you see?
It's like it doesn't exist.
Then for whose benefit is this spectable?
If there had been a person... but it's just some filthy thing!
In a word, a vermin!
Do you really feel no pity for it?
And I repeat:
An animal ought to live in the woods!
Right... so... "an animal"?
Now I'll show you.
Now first! Your legs will deform!
And second! You'll fall on the floor!
And then! Thirdly!
To the floor! To the floor! Well?
And you? Does this not concern you?!
Why don't you fall?
And why am I supposed to fall? Kindly tell me!
But I laid a spell on you!
Oh, I can't take it!
It cracks me up!
Why, you only know how to messily shed your scales,
What?!
and how to eat others' handouts!
You are nobody!
Nobody?! Who's nobody?
I... I can do anything!
Look, she fell? She fell! So I can!
She's only pretending; from pity, do you see?
And you are nobody, nobody, nobody!
What?
No! No!
No! I'll show you!
I'll show you now!
A rat!
I'll turn you into a rat!
Have you no shame?
Let it go!
What cruelty!
Into a rat... a rat...
one...
two...
three...
A rat! A rat! A cowardly rat!
One...
two...
three!
There... you see?
You did it. There's no reason to cry.
No, you did it.
And I...
truly am nobody.
Well, what business is it of ours? Don't be afraid of anyone.
And if somebody should hurt you, then, then...
Screenplay Sergey Vasilyev
Director and artist Yevgeniya Nitylkina
Camera Vladimir Rozhin
Composer Vladimir Dikanskiy
Actors: Yuriy Astafyev Lidiya Fedoseyeva-Shukshina Galina Sokolova
Animators: L. Dyachkova S. Sobolev, Tatyana Kostousova
Sound operator: Sergey Vasilyev Editor: L. Turovets
Script editor: O. Borzova Production director: I. Antonova
Sverdlovsktelefilm (C) Gosteleradio USSR, 1990