Federal Agency for Culture and Cinematography
Pilot animation studio
KROK International Animated Films Festival
Present
We live in Russia.
Our coat of arms is a proud and powerful golden double-headed eagle.
Saint George on his chest pierces...
...the evil dragon with the silver spear.
There are three colours on the Russian flag: white, blue and red.
Our capital is Moscow.
Russia is the biggest country in the world.
Many different peoples live in this vast land
and each has its own folk customs and traditions.
Our closest neighbor is Ukraine.
Lots of Ukrainians live in Russia as well.
We have common ancestors -- the Early Slavs.
Our languages are very similar.
The name of the biggest river in Ukraine is Dnieper.
The capital of Ukraine stands...
...on the hilly river bank of Dnieper.
It is the ancient and incredibly beautiful city Kiev.
Kiev is often called the mother of all Russian cities.
In the waters of Dnieper knyaz Vladimir baptized Rus'.
This happened a thousand years ago.
And that country was called Kievan Rus'.
All Ukrainians remember and often tell wonderful folk-tales.
And each and every one of them is a precious gem stone.
Mountain of Gems
"Be Caught, Fish" a Ukrainian fairy tale
- Cluck-cluck-cluck.
- Oh, how cold it is! Everything is frozen!
...and the old man's pants too.
- Oh, my! Where's the shirt? It was here this morning!
- O-oh, everything is on the floor!
- That's right! I will make some patties.
- Hey, Old Man! What do you want the patties with?
- With apples? - Hey?! What?!
- Meow! With fish! Patties with fish!
- Then go and catch the fish yourself!
- Where is our Old Woman off to?
(singing): - Oh, willow, willow,
...how big you've grown...
(singing): - Oh, I'm so young, so young!
- Oh, what an old fool I am! I left my rod at home!
- Oh! Basil! Thank you so much, my friend.
- I'm useless without the rod, you know that.
- Hey, Old Man! What's for bait today?
- The fly is the bait, of course! - Oh, no! I don't eat flies!...
...You know that I like lard. Lard!
- Oh!
- Well, good luck to you!
- Oh! Here's a small one! I will give it to Basil.
- Mmm, the Old Man's caught a lot of fish.
- O-o-oh! Ah!
- Grandfather Frost, oh, he, ah...
- Hmm! Like this!...
...No, that's not comfy. Better take the shirt off.
- There! And now I'm dead!
- What luck! A fox!
- Hah! She's dead!
- Really dead!
- She'll make a great collar. What a treat for the wife!
- Oy! Wife! I not only caught lots of fish...
but got you a present, too.
...A collar out of an entire all-natural dead fox!
- Where's the collar? Where's the fox?
- There's no fish, either!
- Oh, you old fool, where's everything?
- Hello, Foxy. What are you doing?
- Are you blind? Eating fish!
- Will you give me some? - You?...
...Oh! Where did you get that shirt?
- Who cares?... But where did you get that fish from?
- In this... winter (excuse me)!
- Where? I caught it myself! With my tail!
- With your tail?...
- ...But would you... teach me how to fish... with my tail as well? Huh?
- Teach you? Ha-ha-ha!... - Uh-huh.
...Nothing could be easier! You go to an ice-hole... - Uh-huh!
- ...put your tail in the water...
- ...and say a spell: "Be caught, fishies big and small!"
..."Be caught, fishies big and small!"
- And that's it!
- Imagine that! I must try not to forget the words!
- "Be caught (excuse me), fishies big and small!"
- I just need to write it down, or I'll forget it.
- "Be caught, fishies big and... small!"
- Wait. Why do I need small ones?...
...I want big fish! ...huge ones! Ok, I wrote it down!
- To your health, Wolfie! - Oh, shush you! Be quiet.
...You'll scare all the fish away! - What's the bait?
- Don't you see? My tail! - Your tail?...
...No, I don't eat tails! I like lard! Lard!
- You fool!...
- ...If I had lard... do you think I'd be sitting here?
...You should think with your head! Not with (excuse me) the other thing.
- Oh, good luck then!
- Be caught, fishies big and... huge.
- Freeze-freeze, wolf's tail! Ha-ha-ha!...
...Freeze-freeze, wolf's tail!
- Hey, Fox... what are you mumbling over there, eh?...
- I'm chanting a spell to make all the fish bite your tail!...
...All, all, all the fish from the river. Ha-ha! - Ah! Right! I can feel them already!
- A-a-ah?!
- Ah! Women! Oh!! Women!!!
- Oh, women, women! Let me go!!!
- What are you doing?...
- Women! Please!
- Hey, what's the bait? Carrying yokes? You're all crazy!
- Well, while you are all busy here...
...I'd better go to the village.
- Oh! That's disgusting!
- What's up, sad sack? You look like you've been through the wringer.
- I'm so wrung that my tail's gone.
...I was tailed and... my tail bailed!
- Hah, yup! To lose your tail is no... Um...
- What are you sighing about, old fool! Where's your fish?
...Nowhere!
- What, the bait is flies again?!...
...I told you about the lard!
- What a fish just got away!
- Giddy up!
- No slipping away!
- What a fight!... And left without a tail!
- Fox! What were you playing at with those fishing lessons?
You wanted to leave me without a tail? At all?...
And then those women beat me up with their yokes! Oh, the pain!
- You think you are in pain? I am in pain!...
...Look, how they beat me up, they squeezed my brains out!...
...O-o-oh! What will I think with now?
- Brains? Outside? You serious, lady?
- Oh, it hurts!
- Ah! Poor fox!...
...Come on, sit on my back, and I'll carry you.
- Uh-huh. The unbeaten rides the beaten...
- The unbeaten rides the beaten... - What are you mumbling up there, Fox?
- I'm chanting a spell for your wounds to heal faster.
- Ah! Well, please continue, then! Thanks a lot.
- The unbeaten rides the beaten. The unbeaten rides the beaten!
- Hey, where are you taking me?
- To the village. Where else? They'll heal you there.
- No need for that...
...I feel better all of a sudden.
- Have patience, Fox.
I know this nice Old Man in the village.
He'll definitely cure you!
- I don't need to be cured!...
...I feel a lot better now! Better than before!
- You might feel better now, but...
...what if you get worse again, later?
- Look, wifey, here is your collar!
One large fox inside our locks!
- Here it is, true happiness!
- Grab her! Grab the red fox!
- Oh God, poor me!
- Oh! This is real lard!
- I remember... eh... last winter...
...I caught a whole basket of crayfish here!
- They spend the winter here, you know!
- And I remember how, two winters ago...
...I caught a fish THIS big! - How big?
- This big! - What, really? No way!
- I give you my word! May my legs fall off if I'm lying!
- What was the bait? Flies?!
- Ha-ha, of course not, - it was lard!
- Really?! No way! - I give you my word!
- I remember that last winter...
...I caught a whole basket of crayfish here.
- They spend the winter here, you know!
Screenplay: M. Lipskerov Director & art director: I. Smirnova
Artistic supervisor: E. Nazarov Composer: L. Zemlinskiy
Voice actors: N. Kastorf, V. Astahov, Yu. Kovalenko
Sound: R. Gimadiyev, V. Tarasov Musical arrangement: Yu. Shchelkovskiy
Animators: A. Slesarevskiy, S. Tochin, N. Marchenkova Art director assistant: M. Smirnova
Assistant director: U. Tretyakova Artist: Ye. Pavlenko
Camera: I. Sergeyeva, A. Gavrilov Effects: A. Karnatov, A. Cherkasskiy, A. Gankov, V. Polikarpov
Production directors: R. Makarskiy, I. Gelashvili Producer: I. Kaplichnaya
Plasticine intro: Director: S. Merinov
Art directors: S. Chyornyy, E. Belyayev Animator: A. Levotskaya
Camera-montage: A. Puchnin Artistic council of project: E. Nazarov,
A. Tatarskiy, M. Aldashin, V. Telegin, G. Zakolodyazhnyy
Project director: A. Tatarskiy Executive producer of project: I. Gelashvili
The End