Gosfilm USSR
Tbilissi Lenin Order Film studio 1950
The Molly-Coddle
Written & directed by Shalva Gedevanishvili art director Teimuzar Mikadze
Assistant director V Bakhtadze camera Lubov Kvaliashvili, Sarra Sparsiashvili
music A. Keresselidze sound R. Lapinsky, V. Dolenko
animators V. Bakhtadze, P. Gigolashvili, N. Sulava, Grigory Chmutov, V. Dzhabadari, N. Shalikashvili, Nina Pomortseva, Gabriel Lavrelashvili, T. Assatiani
background artists I. Sumbatashvili, Ye. Khachoyan
I would not mind letting you go out, Misha. But your mother...
It is better if you play here.
Oh, it would be nice for you to run around a bit.
But my mother does not allow it: Too cold.
When it's warmer, my son, we'll let you go out.
Don't even think of it. Don't even think of it!
Where are you blowing? You can give our child a cold this way.
He's lying in bed with a padded blanket.
He will eat nothing other than buns and cakes.
Shoo!
Why? Because...
If he but opens his eyes, they take his temperature.
They put on his shoes. And his clothes.
So always, at any hour, something is the matter here.
Shoo!
Oh-oh-oh, he's coughing!
Ah, stop, please! He just choked on something, that's all.
He's growing up afraid of the cold,
with his mom and dad close by.
Like a mimosa plant
in a botanical garden.
Oh!
What? He ran away? He ran away?
Seduced, lured away by this useless hare.
- Ah, well, let it be! It's good for him. - WHAT?!
- Ay-yay! Poor thing, he'll freeze. -Hurry, hurry, break the ice!
Doctor! Doctor!
Doctor!
- You always muffle him up like that? - Yes, always, always.
- He doesn't go out into the fresh air? - Oh, never!
- No. You know, the weather... - Oh, it's useless!
Your son needs to be toughened up.
He must be sent out into the fresh air, to a youth camp.
To a camp? When?
Immediately. Now!
Step assuredly! Hit the road
and sing a song!
Step assuredly! Hit the road
"Get in line!" ...and sing a song!
Cheer up and march boldly!
Hey, do not fall behind!
Cheer up, march boldly!
Hey, do not fall behind!
Everyone must man up,
so don't waste any time.
With exercises every day,
train yourself up.
With exercises every day,
train yourself up.
For the body to be free,
and the soul full of cheer...
- Drop those clothes! - Mama does not allow it, I could catch a cold.
- I'm comfortable like this. - Then try it like that...
Look, the sun laughs over there,
She goldens our skin.
Let a song of happiness pour out
to the Moskva River.
So our health will bloom
in the days of our youth,
We'll stand in line, and shout out together:
"Fitness! Fitness! Hurrah!"
Tell me, doctor, how does our son feel?
- He's well! - He's well!
And when we can we pick him up?
Come as soon as you like!
Mama, dear Mama!
Well done!
Stop! Home! Home!
Oh!
- He escaped again. - It's your fault.
- Shall we catch up? - We'll overtake them!
Not afraid of frost, hurricanes and thunderstorms...
...is he who is always friends with sun, air and water.
The End Subs by Lemicnor & Eus Mar 2017, ed. Niffiwan (Jan 2022)