1 00:00:00,180 --> 00:00:03,460 Film studio Soyozmultfilm 2 00:00:03,560 --> 00:00:07,340 The Nymph Salmacis 3 00:00:07,460 --> 00:00:11,120 screenwriter and director Anatoliy Petrov 4 00:00:11,200 --> 00:00:15,360 art directors Lyudmila Lobanova, Galina Barinova 5 00:00:15,420 --> 00:00:21,040 camera Michael Druyan sound Vladimir Kutuzov montage N. Stepantseva 6 00:00:21,440 --> 00:00:26,520 animation Anatoliy Petrov art L. Biryukova, A. Brodova 7 00:00:26,620 --> 00:00:34,640 voice artists O. Golovanova, V. Kurkov, Tamara Semina, A. Belyavskiy, A. Danilina V. Klyagina, T. Chernopyatova 8 00:00:36,040 --> 00:00:40,700 script editor Ye. Nikitkina production director N. Sokolova 9 00:02:51,360 --> 00:02:56,360 - Salmaka! - Salmaka! - Salmaka! - Salmaka! 10 00:02:56,500 --> 00:03:01,100 Wait, is it really she? - Look how many huntresses already have gathered! 11 00:03:01,840 --> 00:03:05,840 - Today we're after bigger prey... - A lion! Are you coming? 12 00:03:05,940 --> 00:03:08,080 - Come see, all the nymphs are here! 13 00:03:08,200 --> 00:03:11,090 We've agreed that the bravest will win a prize. - The lion's skin! 14 00:03:11,120 --> 00:03:13,660 Come on! Something strange has happened to her. 15 00:03:13,661 --> 00:03:16,961 - Hurry, Hurry! We'll be left behind... - ...Who will get the booty? 16 00:03:17,040 --> 00:03:21,500 Don't trip me up! - Come on! Come on! - I won't give up that lion's skin! - We're here! 17 00:04:22,730 --> 00:04:24,160 Don't be afraid of anything! 18 00:04:24,280 --> 00:04:27,820 I am the hostess here. You are my guest. 19 00:04:27,880 --> 00:04:30,640 You are so beautiful! Are you a God? 20 00:04:30,700 --> 00:04:35,740 If you'd say you are the God of Love I'd believe it! - No I am not a love-God 21 00:04:35,840 --> 00:04:39,660 - But you are created to love! Here, all is mine: 22 00:04:39,740 --> 00:04:44,060 My forest on these slopes, the water in the creek and the lake... 23 00:04:44,120 --> 00:04:45,480 Be my guest! 24 00:04:45,520 --> 00:04:48,780 Even if you are a shepherd, an ordinary mortal, 25 00:04:48,860 --> 00:04:52,720 you're all the same divinely beautiful! 26 00:04:53,720 --> 00:04:57,980 Stay back! What if you're one of those that sacrifice wanderers to their Gods? 27 00:04:58,040 --> 00:05:01,960 Do not worry, it's not a weapon, it does not hurt. On the contrary: 28 00:05:02,020 --> 00:05:05,700 A little sting of it inspires the body to a sweet languor. 29 00:05:05,760 --> 00:05:07,780 No, No! I don't want that! 30 00:05:07,800 --> 00:05:11,660 - You do not believe me? Here, sting me first! 31 00:05:11,720 --> 00:05:18,800 I can see that you haven't known yet the joy that lovemaking gives... 32 00:05:22,680 --> 00:05:29,700 Now you... prick yourself... and you'll... experience pleasure... 33 00:05:29,800 --> 00:05:31,700 No, no! 34 00:05:32,800 --> 00:05:37,360 You've lured me in with your hospitality! If I run away from you now... Yes, yes - you'll see, you'll see... 35 00:05:37,420 --> 00:05:41,240 ...for violating the Holy Law, the Gods will punish you! 36 00:05:41,320 --> 00:05:44,660 Stop, I swear to you by any God... 37 00:05:44,740 --> 00:05:48,120 You are my guest, and will be the owner of the place, 38 00:05:48,200 --> 00:05:51,940 I will leave you. You can do what you want. 39 00:06:11,460 --> 00:06:19,180 Oh-oh... My desire is boiling, like the sacrificial blood on the altar of Cybele. 40 00:06:29,140 --> 00:06:31,740 Now he's mine. 41 00:06:53,360 --> 00:06:58,820 Give yourself to me! Don't keep resisting, you cruel one! 42 00:07:01,760 --> 00:07:08,280 Oh, Goddess Cybele! Mother of all Gods! Help me to satisfy my passion! 43 00:07:08,320 --> 00:07:11,500 Grant me full possession of his desire! 44 00:07:11,560 --> 00:07:15,180 I thirst to merge body and soul! 45 00:07:20,080 --> 00:07:24,060 Naiad*, I heard your prayers! *Water-nymph 46 00:07:24,840 --> 00:07:28,680 What you ask will find its way into the flesh. 47 00:07:28,760 --> 00:07:33,220 Die, separated essences. 48 00:07:33,420 --> 00:07:38,260 Merge into a single entity. 49 00:07:39,240 --> 00:07:43,500 Be born again... in eternal bliss! 50 00:08:16,440 --> 00:08:20,840 My parents, Hermes and Aphrodite! Tell me what I should do? 51 00:08:20,980 --> 00:08:22,580 - My dear... 52 00:08:22,640 --> 00:08:26,380 - Please let things remain as they are, I'm at the peak of bliss. 53 00:08:26,480 --> 00:08:29,120 For fear and worry there is no reason! 54 00:08:29,160 --> 00:08:31,860 Your androgynous state makes you equal to the Gods. 55 00:08:31,920 --> 00:08:37,080 Your magical power is limitless! You can do anything! 56 00:08:37,160 --> 00:08:41,460 Only, you don't have the power to reverse Cybele's decision. 57 00:08:41,700 --> 00:08:46,180 Ah-ah-ah! Somebody help me! 58 00:08:47,060 --> 00:08:51,020 What should I do? - Help me, he'll kill me! 59 00:08:51,060 --> 00:08:53,540 Make a decision! 60 00:08:55,720 --> 00:08:59,100 Every pair that will plunge in there... 61 00:08:59,100 --> 00:09:00,620 Yes, yes, yes! 62 00:09:00,700 --> 00:09:04,660 ...will merge into one, as I and the nymph have! 63 00:09:07,200 --> 00:09:10,640 Oh! You are a God! 64 00:09:13,280 --> 00:09:17,160 How wonderful! You're saved! 65 00:09:27,820 --> 00:09:33,760 Just as I said, right? Now you're a God! 66 00:09:52,530 --> 00:09:56,200 The End Suyuzmultfilm 1992 Subs by Chapaev & Eus, ed. Niffiwan