Soyuzmultfilm Film Studio
When the Sand Will Rise...
Screenwriter Anatoliy Petrov
Director Galina Barinova
Art director Galina Petrova
Camera Mikhail Druyan
Age-old Russian ballad sung by V.Popov, Yu.Moiseyev
Sound operator Vladimir Kutuzov
Animators - Antonina Alyoshina, Marina Rogova, Galina Zolotovskaya,
Sergey Dyozhkin, Iosif Kuroyan, Yelena Malashenskaya,
Olga Orlova, Aleksandr Panov, Tatyana Pomerantseva
Assistant director Ye.Plekhanova
Artists - Olga Pavlova, Aleksandra Karaseva
Editor Yelena Velyavskaya
Script editor Andrey Byatkin
Film group director Lyubov Butyrina
Subtitles by Niffiwan
Drink and food did the father give his son;
Yet one day did the father dislike his son;
And disliking him, turned him from his door:
"Go forth, my son, from my door abroad!
Go and learn, my son, of the foreign side,
Of the foreign side unfamiliar!"
How the brave youth's sisters were like him,
Three sisters, three of kin;
How the big sister did lead the horse out,
How the middle sister did bring the saddle out,
How the younger sister did give the whip;
And, on giving the whip, she did cry,
Through her tears, to her brother words she spake:
"Oh, but when, brother, will you return to us?"
"Oh my sisters, my dear kin!
You may go to the sea blue,
You may gather the sand yellow,
You may plant it in my father's field;
And when the sand will rise, and blossom,
That is when, sisters, I will return to you..."
"Yes, when the sand will rise, and blossom,
It is then, sisters, I will return to you."
How nine years for the brother passed;
On the tenth did his sisters go forth to seek:
Went the big sister to the sea, pike-transformed,
Went the middle sister to the field, falcon-donned,
Went the younger sister to the sky, star-enshaped.
How the big sister of her brother did not hear,
How the middle sister of her brother did hear,
How the younger sister her brother did see:
That felled does lie the brave youth
On the wild steppes of Saratov.
His good horse stands by his side,
Stomps his hoof he against the damp earth:
"Oh, stand up, wake up, brave youth!
All your sisters have gone to look for you!"
On not finding their brother, they all flew
Over steppes, over steppes of Saratov;
And they flew upon the brother dear to them:
"Oh, stand up, wake up, brave youth!"
The End (C) Soyuzmultfilm, 1986