Creative association "Ekran"
A House
A House for
A House for Kuzya
After T. Aleksandrova's tale "Kuzya Moves to New Lodgings"
- Natasha, close the door! We'll be back soon.
- Okay. - Go sweep the floor, meanwhile.
If there's someone who's not somewhere,
Then someone is somewhere new!
Only then where is this someone?
Where could he have gotten to?
Atchoo!
- Ah!
Atchoo!! Oh! - Oh...
- Atchoo!! Oh...
U-hu-hu! Nafanya!
You did not see me, I did not see you.
- Why? - We are not supposed to be seen.
Turn away! - Ah...
- How awful! How wretched! Where can I hide?
No cellar, no closet, no cracks, no holes!
U-hu-hu!
Nafanya!
Kuzya!
- Is Ku... Kuzya your name?
- Kuzya. Or sometimes Kuzenka.
I'm still small: seven centuries, going on eight.
- Seven... years...? Like me?
- Well, you count in years, and we count in centuries. Each century is one hundred years.
- Oh! You're a cave man!
Heh! You silly girl, you slow-witted dummy!
I'm no caveman. I'm a house-elf!
- A house-elf? - Yes!
Only at the moment I'm homeless.
- How awful! How wretched! There is no place to lay my head!
- Don't get upset, Kuzenka. Come live with us.
- You won't betray me? - I won't.
- Okay. I'll do my honest best, your household will be safe with me.
Do you have stables? - No.
- That's a pity. Do you have parents? - Yes.
- I'll keep an eye on them.
Ouch! Oh! Nafanya!
One-two, got it! -Let's go, let's go, let's go!
Come on, bring it in. - Left, left!
Careful with the door-post! Careful with the door-post! Over here! Here!
Hold this, daughter!
Daughter, help your mommy! Come help!
- Come on, Mama, Step aside! Carefully! Step aside!
No, here, here! I tell you, here! - Come on, come on!
Ah!
Come in. - Okay.
- Look at how nice it is in here! Just the right place for me to live!
Yeah! There's even room for guests, if they come in one at a time.
Sure, it's white on the inside, but we'll redecorate it!
First it will be like spring here.
Then summer... butterflies flying! Hehe!
Then autumn.
And then, after a while, we'll live to see winter.
Oh! What's this?
What's this for? Spoiling such a nice place! What nonsense!
There! - But where will we put the garbage?
- Bring it here!
There we are!
- Ha! Straight onto that man's hat!
- So what? He'll dust it off and go on his way.
- Natasha.
You took out the garbage already? Well done, my clever girl!
- Kuzya! - Yoohoo!
- Kuzenka! - Yoohooly?
- Where are you hiding? - Ha-ha-ha!
If I say "cold", I'm nowhere near.
And if I say "hot", then I'm really close!
Cold... cold...
It's no big chill, but you shouldn't stand still!
The icicles are melting... warmer...
Warmer yet... You'll burn yourself! To a crisp!
- Oh! You're the one who'll burn himself! Imagine climbing into the oven! What am I to do with you?
- Let me go! I'm going to live there!
It's a good place! It's warm there!
- This place is not for you, but for this:
- Natasha!
You already put the duck in the oven? Well done, my clever girl!
- Kuzya! Kuzya!
Kuzya-Kuzya!
Kuzya!
Oo-hoo! Oo-hoo!
Nafanya, is Kuzya with you?
- Oh! Uh-oh...
Phew!
What? What are you laughing at?!
- You're as green as a frog! Ha-ha-ha!
- Thank you, house; you're a bother - I'll go to another!
- Kuzya, where are you going? - Nafanya. - Kuzenka, don't go!
- Who needs me here? - I need you! I've come to love you!
- Oh-ho-ho! Do... do you even know fairy tales?
First steam the young lad in a bathhouse, feed him and water him, and only then love!
- But we have no bathhouse! - Yeah?
It's a bad owner who doesn't know his own household.
And what is this? - But this is a bath, not a bathhouse.
- All alike, all the same. Aren't you going to steam me?
- Well, take your shirt off. - No way! Steam me as I am!
That will wash both myself and my garments all at once.
There! Ha-ha-ha! Hotter! Hotter, little mistress!
More steam! More steam for my young bones!
- Just look at how nice you look!
Oh! Who is that?
Washed! And shaped into a bride!
- Nonsense! You're just a very pretty house-elf.
- You know, I've already gotten quite used to you!
Go set the table. - Oh! Right away, Kuzenka!
- Oh-oh-oh! Happy housewarming!
How lovely! O-la-la!
I wonder many square meters this is? - Hello!
-How lovely you look, how much you've grown! And how old are you now?
- Seven. - Look at that! Seven! How lovely!
Starting school soon? - Yes.
- Ah... how unfortunate... Well, may you grow even more!
- Thank you! - Yes, and my congratulations.
- Ah! Oh...
Why are you... in the fridge...
- But I must be somewhere. Come in, you'll be my guest!
- You'll catch a cold after that steam-bath! - So what?
On the plus side, I'll eat my fill for an eon, like a camel.
But they'll find you right away in here! - Let me go! Let me go!
The well-fed is no friend to the hungry! - Silly, I will hide you!
- Oh-oh-oh, hehe. A nice top floor room!
Is it yours? - It's mine.
Now I will bring some food. Hold on!
- Help yourself! Just look at the flowers.
- Those I do not eat, I am not a goat.
- What do goats have to do with it? You just try it!
- Yeah? Well then... Uhm.
- Well? - Not bad!
Did you bake it yourself or did someone help you?
- Don't be silly, I can't bake.
- It's... it's very simple. I will teach you.
- If there's cottage cheese inside, Then a pie has been supplied!
But if it is on the top, It's a cheesecake, boppy-bop!
Either one is very good, Either one is tasty!
...then a pie has been supplied!
Let each neighbour see their neighbour, Cheery gossip is no labour!
Where my friends are, there I am. And where I am, are my friends!
Either way is very good, Either way, together!
...and where I am, are my friends!
- Ta-ra-ra...
- Ta-ta-ra...
Natasha!
Natasha, what are you doing? Playing? Well done, my clever girl!
Who is that?
Just look at what toys they've started to make! What fine work.
Did you trade it with Pavlik? Tomorrow give it back!
Ah! How lovely!
A chest in a beautiful folk style. Did aunt Klava give it to you?
I'll put in the cupboard.
Now go to sleep. - Kuzya.
And clear away your toys.
- Kuzya! Kuzenka!
Kuzya! Did you really become a toy?
Did none of this really happen?
- Nafanya! My chest has been taken! My chest with the fairy tales!
What's now to become of me, a house-elf without fairy tales?!
- Kuzenka, do not worry! Kuzya!
- Oh-oh-oh! Nafanya!
- Well, what's the matter? -The chest... my chest... Wah-ah-ah!
- Stop whining and don't worry yourself. We'll rescue your chest.
Well then, I'll be off.
If anything happens, wake me.
- Little mistress! - Ah! Kuzenka! You're back!
- Quiet, quiet, quiet...
There will be a fairy tale now. Here.
Listen.
Fear not the fairy tale, fear lies.
The fairy tale never will deceive you.
The fairy tale quietly recite -
The world will have more truth - I guarantee you...
scenario Valentin Berestov direction Aida Zyablokova art direction Gennadiy Smolyanov
camera Leonard Kolvinkovsky music Sergey Tomin Sound S. Kel
voice artists Georgiy Vitsin, Grigory Bolshakov, Anatoly Kuznetsov, Svetlana Travkina
animators A. Grishko, K. Prytkova Vladimir Kaduhin, Alla Solovyova, Olga Anashkina
puppets and decor Anatoliy Gnedinskiy, A. Mulyukina, Valeriy Petrov, Margarita Bogatskaya, Tatyana Morgunova, Yuriy Odintsov, Yelena Pokrovskaya, Viktor Sletkov
script editor Alisa Feodoridi montage Tatyana Morgunova production director I. Gelashvili
Subtitles Eus (July 2016), heavily edited by Niffiwan (Oct 2021)
The End Creative association Ekran USSR TV 1984