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Soyuzmultfilm presents

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BONIFACE'S VACATION
Based on the story by Miloš Macourek

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Screenwriter & director:
Fyodor Hitruk

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Art director:
Sergey Alimov

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Music: Moisey Vaynberg

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Camera: Boris Kotov
Sound: Georgiy Martynyuk

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Assistant directors:
N. Mayorova, H. Sumarokova

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Animators: Galina Barinova,
Yana Volskaya, Mariya Motruk,

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D. Anpilov, Yuriy Kuzyurin,
Vladimir Morozov, Eduard Nazarov,

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Yuriy Norshteyn, Leonid Nosyrev,
Anatoliy Petrov, Igor Podgorskiy


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Script editor: Raisa Frichinskaya

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Narrator: Aleksey Polevoy

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In one circus there lived a lion

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whose name was Boniface.

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He was a very obedient lion - no-one
ever had to ask him something twice.

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Everyone liked Boniface a lot.

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And the director himself often said

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"Boniface is a true talent."

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The circus director often went
on walks with Boniface

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and bought him bananas,
Boniface's favorites.

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One day, Boniface asked: "Why are there
so many children out on the street?"

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"Shouldn't they be in school?"

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"Why should they be in school?"
replied the director,

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"It's summer now, and they're
on vacation."

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"Vacation?" said Boniface.

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"But I've never had a vacation...
not even once!"

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"But where, pray tell, would you go?"
asked the director.

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"To visit my grandmother, of course!"
replied Boniface,

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"Isn't that obvious?"

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"Hmm," thought the director to himself,

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"I had forgotten that lions
also have grandmothers."

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"All right", said the director,

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"You are an exemplary lion, and I
will grant you a vacation."

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Boniface was beside himself with joy.

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He had not expected this at all.

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"What could be better than a vacation?"

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And he immediately ran off to buy a ticket
to Africa, and a present for his grandmother.

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(on train:) "Prague-Villeneuve"

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Throughout the long journey
Boniface tried to always keep his eyes open.

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He was very afraid of missing his stop.

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During the journey he spotted
many weird and wonderful fish.

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He had never seen their like before.

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And Boniface daydreamed about
his vacation-days to come.

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He dreamed of how he would tan
himself on the sand in the sun,

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eat bananas every day
and bathe in the lake.

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Then the boat suddenly stopped...

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and Boniface had come home.

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Everything still looked the same.

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The little house and garden,

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And the grandmother, as always,
sitting in her rocking chair.

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And, as he often did in the old days,

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Boniface crept up behind her and...

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And his grandmother, as usual,
couldn't guess who it was.

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The next morning, Boniface came out
wearing his new swimsuit.

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"Ah!", Grandma said,
"That costume matches your eyes."

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And the happy lion set off
for the lake.

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Suddenly he came upon a girl.

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When she saw a lion she had never
seen before, she got awfully scared.

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"What a strange girl," thought Boniface,

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"I suppose she's never seen a circus."

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That day Boniface never did
catch that fish.

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The next day he again
set off for the lake,

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Boniface showed the children
various tricks.

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No other lion could've
done what he did.

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The children had not seen
anything like it in their lives.

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The day went by fast.

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And so another day passed.

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And then a third...

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From dawn to dusk Boniface performed
for the children...

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completely forgetting about bananas,
swimming, and even fishing.

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And the children kept clapping their
hands and shouting: "More, more!"

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And suddenly...

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His vacation was over.

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The ship sailed further and further away,

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Grandma was getting smaller and smaller,

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and Boniface thought:
"What a wonderful thing it is,"

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"...vacation!"

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The End
Subs by Eus (2011) & Niffiwan (2022)