Soyuzmultfilm
THE SHEPHERDESS AND THE CHIMNEY SWEEP Based on Andersen's fairy tale
screenwriter Vladimir Suteyev poetic text Mihail Volpin
director Lev Atamanov
art director Viktor Nikitin
music Andrey Babayev
camera Mihail Druyan sound Georgiy Martynyuk
montage Lidiya Kyaksht script editor Raisa Frichinskaya
assistants L. Nikitina, Ye. Novoselskaya, V. Kirillov, B. Korneyev
artists Irina Svetlitsa, Olga Gemmerling
production director F. Ivanov
Ole Lukoye's role was realized by animator Viktor Shevkov and actor Mihail Yanshin
The Shepherdess' and Chimney Sweep's roles were realized by
animators Marina Voskanyants, Violetta Kolesnikova Renata Mirenkova, Yelena Khludova
and actors Nina Gulyayeva, I. Vlasov
Other roles were realized by animators Nataliya Bogomolova, Vladimir Krumin,
Aleksandr Davydov, Tatyana Pomerantseva, Vadim Dolgikh, Gennadiy Sokolskiy,
Galina Zolotovskaya, Nikolay Fyodorov, Konstantin Chikin
actors Lyudmila Gnilova, Anatoliy Papanov (Captain-Sergeant), Sergey Martinson, Yelena Ponsova (Mouse), A. Shabarin
Good evening.
No doubt you've heard of me.
I am Ole Lukoye.
I'm the one who sends you sweet dreams every night.
Today, I will show you a most interesting story.
Follow me!
- In this town, every house has its own life,
its own story...
But hush! Quiet!
Children are sleeping here...
This old lantern also has its own story...
...but that's for another day to tell.
There, under that roof...
...lives a poet.
A true young poet...
And that mansion...
...is today hosting...
a ball!
But we had better go on.
Turn right here!
Do not linger too long! This way, come this way!
Step lively, now! After me!
Ooph! My beating heart...
But we've practically arrived.
Here's the bakery... There's the watchmaker...
Yes, yes, there it is...
...this is the house.
Just look at it, friends!
This must be the oldest house in the whole city...
Now... it is empty and abandoned,
but it used to be full of life.
Come in!
But walk quietly! Don't cough!
Don't sneeze!
Who knows what might happen!
I told you we ought to be very careful. Up!
I'll catch up with you!
There they are, the heroes of this story:
The Shepherdess and the Chimney Sweep.
It was 100 years ago...
I love you!
What should we do?
You see... my grandfather does not want this.
I ask for the hand of your granddaughter.
We love each other!
Have mercy!
This is terrible, he wants to marry me to that...
horrible, goat-legged General Captain-Sergeant.
She will be my wife!
I have in my cabinet...
...much silver, gold, and other fine things!
Not to mention all the things I have hidden in secret compartments!
You won't go back on your word, will you?
I don't want to go to him in that dark cabinet!
They say he keeps six porcelain wives in there.
So you will be my seventh! See?
There is one remaining empty spot!
The wedding will be at 12:00 o'clock sharp!
Soon the wedding, soon the wedding, soon the wedd..
I beg you, save me!
Calm down, dear!
We cannot stay here... let us escape...
...out into the wide world!
- You're not afraid to run away with me? - No!
Do you have any idea how big the world is?
Mm-hmm.
The most difficult part is to leave one's place...
and take the first step!
- Let's go! - Let's go!
I know, let's go up the chimney!
Soon the wedding, soon the wedd... Eh?! What?!
They ran away... they ran away!!
Alarm, alarm!
Alarm!
Catch them! Find them!
He who will bring back the fugitives will be rewarded!
Load cannons, fire!
Grandfather woke up!
Grandfather fell apart!
- He went to pieces! - Oh!
Forward... march!!
Unfortunately, I cannot step away from my cabinet!
My porcelain wives would all flee...
...and I would be left � poor, lonely bachelor, ooh!
They are looking for us!
We are being followed!
Look, we can hide here!
Oh? A theatre?
That's actually interesting.
Oh, I love, love the theatre!
All right!
All right...
Oh, how that reminds me of our own fate!
Only she had two chivalrous gentlemen desiring her.
All right...
Get them, get them!
Flee, my dear, I'll delay them!
Her again? Heyyyy!
All right...
Forward...
Shoulder arms!
Get him!
Hurry, hurry, mommy is waiting!
Oh, oh!
You want me...
You want me to marry off my dear daughter...
...to this tailless deadbeat...
...who does not even have one piece of cheese to his name!
Never! - But listen, ma'am...
Mommy, he loves me so much!
As for the tail... it accidentally got caught in a mousetrap. And...
He-he, you just look at him, my good gentle-mice!
No tail, one ear almost torn off... He looks awful!!
Oh! Your father would die of grief if he ever found out.
Mommy, it was the one-eyed cat who bit off a bit of his ear...
But only a little. Mommy, it hardly shows!
Hardly shows? And his colour is indecently blue!
He's a freak! You cannot show yourself in public with someone like him!
So what?
He fell into a sooty basin... It could have happened to anyone.
Quiet, unworthy girl.
As for you...!
Get out of here! I don't want to catch even a whiff of you, you "bridegroom"!
In that case... I will leave with him!
What did you say?!
Go, you miserable bugger, before her father gets home!
Goodbye, forever!
As if it matters... "indecently blue"...
Take heart, buddy! All is not yet lost.
Right now, all is lost... but I'll take heart...
I'll take heart!
Idiots, fools, you've seized the wrong man!
My Shepherdess!
Chimney Sweep!
My dear...
Ah, you are cruel. How could you have left me by myself?
Them again!
Further advance is impossible!
We'd stain our uniforms.
To your boxes! Forward... march!
How dark it is in here!
Look dear, that is our star,
The way out into the wide world. - Ha- ha- hatchie!
Oh, I can't breathe in all this soot!
But just look at that beautiful star shining above!
How beautiful it all is!
How ugly I am!
How wonderful!
How awful!
The sky is full in stars!
My skirt is full of black spots!
And my face... is full of soot!
- The sea is full of lights! - And my hat is ruined.
- The world is at our feet! - And my sleeve is torn...
Faint light shines from the East.
The restless wind will soon awake...
It has awoken!
And it already fills ships' sails as it yearns to roam the boundless ocean!
The anchors' chains are pulled...
...and the ships at last set sail on their distant journeys!
And we will sail with them before the wind...
...out into this great, wide world, my love! - Ah-chie!
Look, there is our white sail! We will sail there!
Where?!?!
Wherever you want!
You have gone mad! Where would I want to go...
all stained with soot and with a cold?
Don't even think about it!
Why travel around the world without rhyme or reason?
I want to go home!
- What home? - The shelf.
But we cannot go back!
Home! Back to the shelf!
What are you saying? Impossible!
Your grandfather's there, and that goat-legged bully...
And the general with his troops! - Nonsense!
You no longer love me, you're just thinking about yourself...
I followed you out into the wide world...
...but you do not want to go back for me!
Oh, how trusting I was!
Are you coming?
Well, as you wish!
"As you wish"! "As you wish"! "As you wish"!
"As you wish"!
- We escaped! - We're on our way to the port...
- And tomorrow... - Tomorrow, we will already be at sea!
I wish you a good journey out into the wide world.
What's good about it? No, no...
There are too many stars and it has too much air.
- Let's go! - Let's go...
- Oh, my grandpa! - Don't worry. He can be mended.
And that bully is pretending not to notice my return!
He's such a rude one!
I feel so happy, dear. And you?
And you?
- Ah, yes!
Of course I'm happy...
The old Chinaman got repaired and he looked again as good as new.
Only, he could not nod his head any more...
...and so no longer answered any questions.
As for the Shepherdess and the Chimney Sweep,
they remained together on their shelf, until...
...they broke.
THE END Subs by Eus (2011) & Niffiwan (2023)