The Deer and The Wolf An Estonian fairytale written by August Yakobson
director Dmitriy Babichenko, art-directors Konstantin Zotov, Grigoriy Kozlov, music Yuriy Levitin
camera N. Sokolova sound Boris Filchikov montage Lidiya Kyaksht
Assistant director Ye. Trunov Assistant art director B. Petin Technical assistant Ye. Shilova
animators Mihail Botov, D. Belov, Vyacheslav Kotyonochkin, Igor Podgorskiy, Roman Davydov, Nadezhda Privalova, Vladimir Arbekov, Yuriy Prytkov,
Ye. Kazantseva, Gennadiy Filippov background art Galina Nevzorova, K. Malyshev, Dmitriy Anpilov
Soyuzmultfilm 1950
Look out, heron!
A wolf is coming!
So it was you who startled my heron?
Help!
Oh...
Huh? How did you, neighbor, get into such trouble?
Oh, brother, don't ask!.
Apparently my end has come.
Be so kind, and lift the tree with your antlers.
Help me!
Do not listen to him, deer, don't free that wolf!
Don't listen! Don't listen!
Where are you going, brother?
Don't leave me in my misfortune!
It is not for nothing that deer are called noble...
Believe me on my wolf's word,
I will always be grateful to you
and never hurt anyone!!
I won't hurt even a fly.
Oh!
Well, you are free again, neighbor.
Goodbye.
Too early to say goodbye, I think...
Hold it! You won't get away!
What are you doing, neighbor?
Be ashamed! You gave me your word!
I gave it myself, and take it back myself.
We, wolves, are not slaves of our words.
Indeed, I was lying in ambush under that pine, waiting for you.
Wait, wolf.
Whoever heard of paying for good with evil?
Ask anyone. Here, ask this badger.
Let him judge us.
Why not, we can try the badger.
Come here, badger.
No! No! You see,
a badger can't be judge to a wolf!
You better ask my neighbor, the rabbit.
Oh!
He fled, that rabbit!
A-ha-ha! Well, brother, it seems we can't find us a judge.
Come into my lair!
Let's ask my she-wolf. She will settle our dispute in all honesty.
Oh! Oh, Uncle!
A misfortune has happened to us!
A gray wolf came wandering to our edge of the wood!
Now let us discuss this,
and get to the bone of the matter...
Hello neighbors. Where are you going?
So, well here, dearest neighbor, kind bear...
Uh... I was laying in ambush for the deer.
I want to eat him, but he does not want that!
He's arguing!
Arguing? Is that the matter, now.
What have you to say to that, deer?
I rescued the wolf and pulled him out of harm's way from under the pine
and for that, he wants to slay me.
Be our judge and arbitrate between us!
Well, okay then.
Only to judge you in good conscience,
in all fairness, I should first
look at this pine.
Lead me to it!
Well-well-well-well-well...
So then you, deer, lifted this pine with your antlers? Yes?
I cannot believe it. You're bragging!
Come on, lift it once more!
Yes, indeed you raised the pine. What a powerful beast you are!
Well, now you wolf, show me how you could fit under here!
Perhaps you're trying to deceive me?
I was lying here like this.
Well come on, let the pine down.
Well, wolf? Are you now lying in an ambush?
Well then, keep lying. No one will want to help you out any more!
And you, deer, don't be stupid and get fooled again!
Never believe a wolf's word!
The End subs by Eus (2013), edited by Niffiwan (2021)