Soyuzmultfilm
The Legacy of the Wizard Bahram
written by Roman Kachanov, Eduard Uspenskiy
art director Yelena Prorokova
camera Boris Kotov
music Mihail Meyerovich sound Georgiy Martynyuk, A. Baranov
animators Yuriy Butyrin, Marina Voskanyants, Viktor Lihachyov, R. Mirenkova, Marina Rogova, Oleg Safronov, Viktor Shevkov
Assistants Ye. Turanova, Ye. Gololobova, N. Nikolayeva, M. Popova
background artists I. Zaruba, V. Maksimovich, V. Haritonova
script editor Nataliya Abramova montage Olga Vasilenko
voice artists Mariya Vinogradova (Masha), Georgiy Vitsin (Bahram), Vasiliy Livanov (Zil'zilya), sound A. Baranov
production director Fyodor Ivanov
[Oil Exploration] [Entry Prohibited]
I am late...
Well it's for the best... I didn't do my math homework, or my reading!
Oh no! I forgot my uniform.
- Hop-hop, hop-hop... 1-2-3-4-5...
Oh! What is that?
Listen, boss - I finished working in the little cave...
I shall go now to the middle one...
Wait, Zemzela... you can see that I am old. Soon...
...all my castles and treasures will be without a master.
It's sad...
Yes! It is sad...
Don't cry. I want to leave everything to you....
Will you be able to handle it?
I don't know.
Can you count?
Yes. 1, 2, 3, 4...
...17, 20.
No.
Can you write?
I've never tried to write.
Then don't start now.
I am going, boss.
Wait...
Go to the surface, Zemzela.
Pick some boy with a good head on his shoulders.
He will be your future boss.
Many years ago, I myself was stolen away like that.
Go, Zemzela, and do not return without a boy.
Hey, mister, are you installing new pipes down there?
That's right. I am installing pipes.
Pipes? Oh, how interesting!
Can I see?
Yes, you can... come closer. Closer, closer...
Ouch!
Here, boss... it bites.
What can I say.. a beautiful child... not too thin or too fat.
Are you about to eat me?
He-he. I'm not a cannibal.
I am Bahram the Wizard
Can you count and write?
Yes.
How much is 5 x 5?
25
Boss! He is great scholar, yes?
6 x 6 = 36 7 x 7 = 49
Enough, enough. You're in luck:
You will stay with us forever!
No, I don't want to. I don't want to!
Bir-ike
Oh.. what an embarrassment. A boy crying like a girl.
But I am a girl... Masha.
Zemzela, what have you done?!
You will go to the surface and exchange her. Exchange her! For a boy!
But why, boss? I like her. She is bold.
I like her too.
She can write. She can count.
I want mummy and daddy.
I'll be your mummy, daddy... and, of course, your grandpa.
Listen... and I'll be the grandma.
Eh? Grandma Zemzela!
Grandma... Grandpa... I've got to do my lessons.
Masha, what is that?
I won't tell you!
That's fine, you don't need to... look!!
Bir-ike!
Boss, there is a wondrous creature. On its back it has a rope, and on its front a clothes hanger!
Have it appear for me! Please, boss...
Bir-ike!!!
Serves you right!!
Zemzela! Help!!
I remember! I remember. She needs grass.
Bir-ike!
Get them!
Masha! Masha!
What do you want?
Why is this monster chasing me?
I'll tell you if you let me go.
Let you go? Not for anything!
Then keep hanging like pears.
Dear Mom, I was kidnapped by the wizard Bahram.
He is stubborn like a... wait... like a...
Tonkey
You spell donkey with a D!
All right, I'll let you go! Mommy!..
Cows do not like the color red!
Bir-ike!
Now let me go!
To let such a smart girl go... not for anything!
But you promised! I want to study!
She wants to study.
Nobody asked you.
Go and work.
Hey boss, let me through!
Oh, what a nuisance. Bir-ike!
Ah, what a lovely scent!
Nasty girl!
I'll take everything with me and go into another cave!
Bir-ike!
When you're ready to behave, you can call for me.
Mommy! Ah!
No one is here.
I've got to escape!
Hey, listen... you escaped?
Yep... I escaped...
Then take this - it's a necklace with beads.
Thank you, Zemzela.
It will bring you luck.
Don't touch that.
It's geologists looking for minerals. It's a drill!
Wow! This is tough!
Right... I'll write a letter.
"Dear geologists, give this letter to my mum."
"There are many valuables here: gold, oil..."
And beads, too.
Oh yes, "and beads"... "I am going to escape. - Masha."
Hey Masha... is it really better up there?
Yes!
I didn't understand that before, but now I want to go home more than anything!
- To school... - School? - Yes, to my classmates...
To your classmates. Right! Give me the letter!
Zemzela!
Hold it!
I'm holding it!
There! There goes your letter!
Thanks!
Tell me Zemzela, have you ever had a vacation?
What is that?
Oh! Everybody should go on break for one month each year!
Have you been working long?
1000 years!
So that means you're entitled to...
83 years of vacation.
- Really?! - Yes.
Right! I'm going on vacation!
I'll show you a vacation!
Hmm... here we are... To turn a man into stone...
... I can't see anything!
Masha, read me this please.
To transform into stone for 5 minutes... One must touch the man...
...and say: Azhda-kika!
Let's run!
Vacation!
They have left me... all alone.
They think that I don't also want to see the sun!
Catch them and return them!
Zemzela, why did you put out the candle?
Eh... there's oil around us. It could alight. I can see just fine in the dark!
Oh! What was that, Zemzela?
Don't be scared. That was Zemzela hitting his head.
Right...
In the darkness I can see even better than in the light, I...
Ah!... ...What was I saying?
- You said you see well in the dar... - Quiet! Shh!
See that? That is Bahram's fire-belt.
Oh! What is that?
The oil lake is burning! Run back, quickly!
Hah... so you've come running back?
Did your vacation end...
...Zemzela? Go and work!!
And you, Mashenka go study from the magic book.
Listen, boss! We should leave. The oil lake's burning, we'll all die.
No, I cannot... I have to guard all these treasures!
No! You don't have to guard them, Mr. Bahram. Let's go!
Why?
Nobody up there needs me.
They do! You know everything about the underground!
You'll be a Doctor of Underground Studies.
No!
Come on, I'll carry him...
Where to? I can't see a thing...
We need to free the cow.
She will find the way.
That's what they taught us in school.
Boss, the cow won't fit through. Okay... cow...
You need to return her into the book.
You are right. Sure thing.
Bir-ike.
Hey! The cow went missing.
Come out of there! She's in here.
Masha, who are they?
They... are children.
Then I'll give them all of my underground treasures.
Zemzela, look!
There are so many boys here!
And you brought me a girl.
But I am happy... I am happy...
...that I met her.
She is better than all of them, our Masha.
Mashenka.
Director Roman Kachanov
The End (subs by OolYaKoo, Chapaev & Eus, Corrected by Niffiwan, 2022)