Sverdlovsk Film Studio
I am "SP",
I am "SP".
Requesting permission to land!
Permission to land granted. [Polar Explorer]
Understood.
The Penguin Chick
Who... who are you?
I'm a penguin chick.
And you?
A bear cub.
Where are you from?
From the pole.
From the pole?
But, except for us and the polar explorers, there's nobody at the pole!
No.
Except for us and the polar explorers, there's nobody at the pole.
Ah, is that so? Hm.
Then tell me, what is that settlement?
That's where the polar explorers live.
Correct...
Tell me, what is this?
This is where they measure the air temperature.
And this?
This is where they measure the temperature and depth of the water.
Yes... you know everything.
But why have I never seen you here at the North Pole?
"North"? Ah!
It's the South Pole! The South Pole!
No, it's the North Pole!
Here, look:
[North Pole]
I see.
Then I have again ended up in the wrong place.
What do you mean, "in the wrong place"?
You're from the pole, right?
Yes.
But, I think, from a different one.
But how did you get here?
You see, bear cub,
I was born in Antarctica.
In An... tar... ctica.
Antarctica, too, is always cold,
full of ice,
and home to polar explorers.
So that is why you know about the polar station!
Well, well! Tell me more.
One day, there was an awful blizzard.
Good job, little one!
I saw how bravely you swam!
But who are you?
I'm a pe... penguin chick!
But I don't know who you are.
I'm an albatross!
My duty as a bird is to help you!
Thank you.
I want to go home, to the pole.
To the pole? But where is it?
I don't know. Maybe over there... or maybe, over there!
We'll find it!
Let's fly!
I cannot fly.
But you're a bird!
Hold on, hold on... I've already met a flightless bird somewhere!
I remember! Get on me.
Now I know where your homeland is.
The pole!
No, this is not the pole.
But it is here that the wingless bird lives.
Yoohoo! Kiwi-kiwi!
Yoohoo!
Well, what is it? "Kiwi, kiwi"...
I am Kiwi-kiwi!
Come on, stop yawning!
Just look at who I brought to see you!
A relative, ha-ha! See?
Thank you. Relatives...
Relatives never let you sleep!
I'm from Antarctica.
Well, how do you do!
And this is New Zealand.
Oh, oh... I must take you in.
You, naturally, you're... my avian neighbour...
I want to go home.
Home!
Ah, just look at you, what a nice little lad!
But... but I don't know how to return there, to Antarctica.
It's over there, beyond the sea. Yes...
Kiwi-kiwi is a nocturnal bird.
Lights!
That must be the polar station!
The pole!
Albatross,
this is also not the pole.
The Kiwi-kiwi! She got everything muddled.
Of course this isn't A-...
This is Australia!
And who would you be?
I? I would be a penguin.
But for now, I'm a pe... penguin chick.
Pleased to meet you.
I am a dog.
I am, regrettably, in a hurry.
My owner is a seafarer.
We will be sailing to cold and distant shores.
Take me with you!
That's where my homeland is.
You see, it is forbidden for trespassers to be on the ship.
But... hmm...
It is my duty as a dog to help you!
Please hurry up.
Please make yourself at home,
and look into the porthole illuminator.
The what?
The porthole illuminator!
We are sailing past India.
Past who?
India is an enormous country!
My owner and I have had ocassion to visit it.
Magnificent!
And now we are approaching the shores of Africa.
Look:
the Sahara desert!
I'm looking.
But this is not the pole.
Penguin chick, wake up.
We're almost there!
Ah! Snow!
Snow, the pole!
Antarctica!
I am happy for you!
Ah, I'm so grateful to you!
I'm so... so grateful to you!
Tell me, please,
Does this plane fly to the pole?
Yes, this plane really will fly to the pole.
All the best!
Hold on, hold on.
It is my duty as a reindeer to warn you
that you could be seen by polar pilots there.
That's all right.
They treat me very well.
Humanely?
Uh-huh.
And that is how I found myself at the North Pole.
And I never imagined that there could be
so many poles in the world.
Well, that's not so many at all!
"One, two", and you're through.
Say, you know what, penguin chick?
It doesn't matter that we're from different poles.
Let's be friends, eh?
All right.
screenwriter Lev Arkadyev
director & art director Valeriy Fomin
camera Nikolay Gribkov
backgrounds Aleksey Dyomin, L. Romanova, Yelena Teder, I. Morozova
voices Klara Rumyanova, Boris Runge, Zinaida Naryshkina, Vsevolod Larionov
composer Igor Kosmachyov
sound Z. Trubnikova
montage L. Sadovskaya
script editor I. Duykova
production director Valentina Hizhnyakova
The End USSR State TV & Radio, 1983
Subtitles - Niffiwan (2026.06) Animatsiya.net