studio "Soyuzmultfilm" creative union for puppet films
The Last Wizards
Magical products! Who wants magical products?
[Magic Shop]
Boy, look, this is a magical top hat!
Heh... so what? Could you pull a motorcycle out of it?
What???
A...
Hey girl!
Hello, little girl. Don't you need some water of life?
Nope, my mom says that I am much too alive already.
I better go for a zip of soda.
[Water of Life]
Oh-ho-ho... Times aren't what they used to be...
Such fine magical products, and nobody wants them!
[Former (evil) Wizard Ivanovich.]
Well, how are you?
Miserable! Very miserable!
Nobody is buying!
Nobody wants miracles anymore!
So... how are you doing?
You know, I no longer practice my art.
I'm retired now.
Yeah, maybe time for you to settle down too.
No, I can't.
You know, for me, good magic is a calling.
Listen... let me as a sibling, help you.
But how?
According to the law, as a pensioner,
I have the right to work for two months in a year.
So I'll work.
I'll produce some sort of evil magic for you.
And then people will to turn to you for help.
Oh-oh-oh, no, I'm afraid of that.
You'll mess things up!
Don't be afraid, don't be afraid!
Well... Yeah, yeah...
Actually, you know... it's a thought.
That's right.
So here's the plan.
I'll turn into a 3-headed dragon, alright?
And demand the most beautiful girl in town.
Her boyfriend, as in fairy tales,
will want to fight with me.
So then?...
That's when you will give him a magic sword
and tell him to behead me...
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait..
No... well, can't we do without cutting off heads?
Now, what are you saying!!!! It's tradition!
Tradition!
Oh, I'm afraid...
Do not be afraid!
Do not be afraid! You'll revive me afterwards.
Well then... it's a deal?
Well, then... it's a deal!
I repeat:
The prettiest girl is to be delivered to me, to the magic shop.
Where should the most beautiful girl be taken?
Here, here, please.
But I will not give her up!
I will fight for her!
Good for you!
A knight!
And I'll help you! A cap of invisibility for your lady!
And a magic sword!
Here she is! The most beautiful girl!
I came, my dear! Where is the dragon I should be given to?
Come now, grandma. You're joking!
You laugh in vain, sonny. For me, this granny is beautiful like no one else!
So... come on, I'll fight with your dragon!
Why do you girls love those who are handsome?
When such love only brings suffering...
Halt, who goes there?
Friends! Friends!...Yegorych, it's me!
Oh, it's going badly, really badly!
What? What's going badly?
No beautiful girls?
Or maybe noble knights are extinct?
No, my dear, on the contrary. There are too many of them,
girls as well as knights.
Ay-ay-ay...
Hey! Eureka! I got it!
Here's the plan: I'll make the extra knights fall asleep...
and fight with only one, yes!?
And you have not forgotten how the sleeping enchantment goes?
Well, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute...
I need a rehearsal.
Just a small enchantment.
I'll try it on the crow!
Sleeeeeep!
Bird, you want to sleeeeeep!
You sleep.
Well done... "Why do you, girls"*... Oh.. *( 1st. line of a lulling song)
You know, I almost fell asleep myself.
So... You know what, let's try to direct this hypnosis now.
So that... two of the three knights fall asleep.
Right!
Let's begin!
With this Death Defying Act:
The Big Sleep Enchantment!
Oh boy! The wrong ones were lulled to sleep!
Well, Grandpa. Will you fight with the dragon?
And how!
Right then, I'll give you the magic sword!
Sword "Giganormous"
Get it off me!
Oh you, you weakly midget. What's this!
Listen, I'll adjust and fight the dragon with bare hands!
Now then, you girls wait here.
I'll awake your dormant lovers later with the water of life.
We'll manage without that water.
Well now, you saw that?
Love is stronger than your water of life.
Come on, grandpa.
You shouldn't throw yourself alone at that 3-headed dragon.
As a threesome? Nevertheless, take the magic sword!
We'll get along without it! Together we are not afraid of snakes, no.
Wow, what do you know!
Yes, peculiar...
We should take it to the zoo, alive.
What? Three against one?
So? Don't you have three heads!
Will you come quietly?
Otherwise, we'll overpower you!
Well, try it!
Hold it! Hold it! You can't treat snakes like that!
Oh-oh- oh-oh...
Uh-huh...
Yes...
Achoo!
Caught a cold? Gesundheit!
Thank you.
People do not need wizards anymore.
Yes, get out of that trade.
It can't be helped..
Death Defying...
Reverse the changing...
Transformation.
Thank you! Thank you so much!
You're real wizards!
You guys need to grow up faster
Just by leaps and bounds.
Because all wizards age,
with their old age wonders.
written by Michael Lipskerov Songwriter Yevgeny Agranovich
director & camera Michael Kamenetsky art director Elena Livanova
music Igor Kosmachev sound Vladimir Kutuzov
animators Irina Sobinova-Kassil, Nina Timofeyeva, Sergei Olifirenko, Olga Panokina
New roads will there be in the universe,
New hopes and dreams.
The only thing necessary to keep
is the ageless inclination to kindness.
script editor Natalia Abramova, cutter G. Filatova voice artists V Larionov, V Vinokur, A. Geromsky, V Livanov Producer G Kovrov, Soyuzmultfilm 1979
The End Subs by Aleksandr & Eus, 1 april 2014 (ed. by Niffiwan, Dec. 2019)