NIKO AND NIKORA written by Shalva Dadiani & Arkadiy Hintibidze
directed by Grigoriy Chmutov & Arkadiy Hintibidze
art directors Boris Starikovskiy, G. Totibadze, I. Sumbatashvili
camera V. Shanidze music Sulhan Tsintsadze sound R. Lapinskiy, V. Dolenko
assistants S. Sulava, M. Pridonov R. Markano, D. Taralashvili camera assistants S. Sparsiashvili
animators: N. Kilossanidze, D. Belov, N. Shalikashvili, O. Shiukashvili, Nina Pomortseva, Gabriel Lavrelashvili, K. Redkina, V. Naskidashvili
Background artists N. Tandashvili, R. Arutunov, Ye. Khachoyan, N. Tsagareli, M. Andronikidze production diretor G. Darsavrlidze
JOINT STOCK COMPANY "Gruziya (Georgia) Film" 1954
My dear oxen, Nikora,
I'll lead you to good pastures,
I'll tie you down in the field...
...and let you eat your fill of lovely grass.
Onward!
Oh, my dear Nikora,
When we get home,
You can lick all the salt you want...
...and nobody will get angry at you.
Nikora, do not go far: it's dangerous.
This hill over here, I will kick away,
That hill over there, I can do with as I wish,
This overflooded river, I will make it do my will.
This hill over here, I will kick away,
That hill over there, I can do with as I wish,
This poor oxen in my hands, I will do with as I wish!
Fry it quickly. It'll be a delicious dinner.
You have an appetite, but I feel dreary. Lunch, dinner... Dinner, lunch... Lunch, dinner...
What?!
First gobble, then babble. Serve me my dinner!
Oh.
Fry, cook... cook, fry...
Come on, give it to me quickly.
Eat. Till you burst!
I am in your debt.
Nikora!
Nikora, do not go far.
You know it's dangerous.
My dear!
I ate the roast but I still hunger.
Eh, you gnawed the bone cleaner than a jackal.
Nikora. He will be my dinner for tomorrow.
Stay here!
Save yourself. Stop him.
Look between my roots.
Take all from the casket:
The steel, the tinder and the flint.
When the troll catches up with you, throw them one at a time at him.
Nikora!
Let's quickly run away.
Faster, Nikora!
He's overtaking us.
- Aha! - Nikora!
Let me go! Let me go!
At least I've got one of you.
The troll caught Niko.
Fly to the rescue.
The life of Mantoz is hard. Fry, cook and bake.
He fills the devil's belly. But he himself gnaws on a bone, like a dog.
Lock him in!
If your oxen does not come here to me
after the third toll of my water-bell,
I'll swallow you alive.
Serve me my dinner! Hurry.
- Let me go! Let go! - Go, go, move.
There!
Dear bird!
Help me! I dropped my reed-pipe somewhere near the sharp rocks.
Nikora, my friend, did you find your Niko?
Poor thing.
Thank you, beauty!
Nikora. Nikora, help me escape!
Nikora.
Nikora. Nikora.
I will help you, but on condition.
I'll bite and your horn will grow back. But you will perish.
Such is my nature.
Nikora, dear good beast.
Nikora. Nikora!
What is this? Get up, get up!
He is dead.
My faithful friend.
I will help you, but on one condition.
I'll bite and the bull will come back to life
But you will perish.
Such is my nature.
Alright!
Tear off this grass and give it to the oxen.
Nikora! My dear! My good beast!
Goodbye!
Bite then!
I won't.
Such good friends deserve to keep living.
Eat him!!!
May the evil folk grieve, and the good folk live!
The End Subs by Lemicnor & Eus Mar 2017, ed. Niffiwan (Jan 2022)