UNION CARTOON PRESENTS
Icarus and the Wise Men
screenplay, director - Fyodor Hitruk art directors - V. Zuykov, Eduard Nazarov composer - Sh. Kallosh
camera - M. Druyan sound - V. Kutuzov script editor - A. Snesarev
animators - V. Kolesnikova, A. Gorlenko, D. Kulikov, Yu. Kuzyurin, V. Palchikov, A. Panov, T. Pomerantseva
assistants - T. Lytko, A. Koshkina montage - I. Gerasimova production manager - L. Butyrina
narrator Yakov Smolenskiy
Once, there lived a strange man on Earth, named Icarus
All his neighbors, smart people,
had already found their place in life
and now, devoted their leisure to philosophical discussions
about the meaning of existence, and so on.
But this one was... strange.
Seeing the falling Icarus,
the smart people began to ponder
and one of them, the smartest one, said,
"Quod licet Ioci, non licet bovi"
"What is permitted Jove is not permitted a bull"
That is how the first Undoubted Truth was born.
"Wear clothes that fit"
Pronounced the second wise man
And the world was enriched by one more Truth
"The slower you ride, the further you'll get"
Warned the third wise man
"Only cross a river if you know where the ford is "
"Know thy place"
"Don't get in over your head"
And then, many other wisdoms
sufficient to protect from mistakes
all future generations.
Then, suddenly, a miracle happened!
"One born to crawl cannot fly"
"Quod licet Iovi non licet bovi"
"Pes sic tendatur ne lodix protereatur"
"Quo altior gradus tanto profundior casus"
"Est avis in dextra (melior quam quattuor extra)"
"Quod licet Iovi non licet bovi"
"Quod..."
"...licet Iovi, non licet bovi"
- "Quod licet!"
"...Iovi, non licet bovi. Quod licet Iovi, non licet bovi!"
The End translation by Ilya Landa (2007) edited by Niffiwan (2021)