1 00:01:07,877 --> 00:01:12,825 Promulgate to us dear father What is this thing called Frother. 2 00:01:23,744 --> 00:01:30,813 Do not confuse, my sons The day of the end and the knight of spring. 3 00:01:30,933 --> 00:01:38,829 Blue, terrible and grizzled is Frother. I am your angel. I am your father. 4 00:01:50,727 --> 00:01:57,067 I know its cruelty, My death is close at hand. 5 00:01:57,187 --> 00:02:03,602 Bald spots gape on my head, Empty patches. I am bored. 6 00:02:03,722 --> 00:02:10,234 And should my life drag on, Neither a falcon nor a tuft of hair 7 00:02:10,354 --> 00:02:17,594 Will remain anywhere. This means death is at hand. This means hello boredom. 8 00:02:20,728 --> 00:02:23,497 But that wasn’t our question, 9 00:02:25,267 --> 00:02:28,547 Our thoughts gestate like mansions. 10 00:02:30,806 --> 00:02:34,085 Won’t you tell us dear father What is this thing called Frother. 11 00:02:39,551 --> 00:02:42,757 And the father exclaimed, “The prologue! 12 00:02:43,632 --> 00:02:46,109 In the prologue what matters is God. 13 00:02:52,995 --> 00:02:55,545 Go to sleep, sons. 14 00:02:55,665 --> 00:02:59,554 There are dreams: watch some.” 15 00:03:08,080 --> 00:03:16,898 "Frother" Based on Alexander Vvedensky poem "Frother" 16 00:03:28,966 --> 00:03:31,881 Directed by Alexander Fedulov 17 00:04:08,364 --> 00:04:12,591 Let the gray-haired people Sing and dance. 18 00:04:12,711 --> 00:04:16,453 Let them wave their arms Like a man. 19 00:04:16,573 --> 00:04:20,898 On a placid, beautiful day You diminish in breath. 20 00:04:21,018 --> 00:04:26,582 How soon I will apprehend The perfection of death. 21 00:04:26,702 --> 00:04:31,921 The horses rush like waves, Hooves clop. 22 00:04:32,041 --> 00:04:36,777 The steeds are dashing and ablaze, Vanished they gallop. 23 00:04:36,897 --> 00:04:42,753 But how to clasp their abatement, And are all of us mortal? 24 00:04:42,873 --> 00:04:48,801 What can you tell me, O moment Will I understand you? 25 00:04:48,921 --> 00:04:54,413 The bed stands before me, I’ll softly lie, 26 00:04:54,533 --> 00:05:00,063 And under the wall I’ll feign to be A flag and gladioli. 27 00:05:00,865 --> 00:05:04,946 Sons, sons. My hour approaches. 28 00:05:05,066 --> 00:05:09,172 I’m dying. I’m dying. 29 00:05:09,292 --> 00:05:15,731 Don’t ride in coaches. The end, it comes. 30 00:05:26,190 --> 00:05:30,781 Please do tell us dear father What is this thing called Frother. 31 00:05:42,296 --> 00:05:47,178 Maybe Frother is a tether, A teether or a head in feathers. 32 00:05:58,604 --> 00:06:03,414 I can’t understand O father Where is Frother? What is Frother? 33 00:06:10,410 --> 00:06:15,001 O I wallow in pillows! 34 00:06:16,021 --> 00:06:21,632 Father, I pallow in willows. You must not die Before you ply reply. 35 00:06:21,752 --> 00:06:26,879 O Frother, Frother, Frother. O father, father, father. 36 00:06:26,999 --> 00:06:31,616 Dolls and dunce caps have burned out, I’m a boat a boat a bout. 37 00:06:47,550 --> 00:06:56,368 Frother is the cold froth forming on the dead man’s brow. It is the dew of death, that’s what Frother is. 38 00:07:13,630 --> 00:07:19,970 I saw, as you’d have it, a rose, This tedious petal of earth. 39 00:07:20,090 --> 00:07:25,639 The flower apparently was Thinking its last thoughts 40 00:07:25,759 --> 00:07:31,396 It caressed the neighboring mountains With the terminal breath of its soul. 41 00:07:31,516 --> 00:07:38,174 Princesses floated and stars Above in the heavenly pall. 42 00:07:38,294 --> 00:07:43,126 As my sons went away And my horse like a wave 43 00:07:43,246 --> 00:07:49,102 Stood and clacked its hoof, The moon yellowed nearby. 44 00:07:49,222 --> 00:07:55,369 O flower convinced of delight The godly hour is at hand. 45 00:07:55,489 --> 00:08:03,094 The world comes to like the dawn And I have gone out like a light. 46 00:08:05,353 --> 00:08:07,612 And he hasn’t even answered our question. 47 00:08:29,132 --> 00:08:32,848 Pillow pillow Tell us rather What is this thing called Frother. 48 00:08:35,034 --> 00:08:39,042 I know. I know! 49 00:08:50,848 --> 00:08:54,419 Then answer, Wherefore speak you not. 50 00:08:54,539 --> 00:08:59,864 In vain are you a widow, O comfortable pillow. Reply. 51 00:09:02,365 --> 00:09:03,365 So answer. 52 00:09:08,828 --> 00:09:11,087 Some fire here! Fire! 53 00:09:11,207 --> 00:09:15,386 I am going to hang somebody, I can just feel it. 54 00:09:15,506 --> 00:09:21,216 A little patience, Then maybe I’ll answer all your questions. 55 00:09:21,336 --> 00:09:28,168 I’d like to hear you sing. Then maybe I’ll grow loquacious. 56 00:09:41,335 --> 00:09:46,364 I’m so exhausted. Maybe art will give me a second wind. 57 00:09:46,484 --> 00:09:54,453 Farewell, pedestal. I wish to hear your voices set to music. 58 00:09:54,573 --> 00:10:01,230 Big brat brother Brutus, A marvelous Roman. Everyone lies. Everyone dies. 59 00:10:01,350 --> 00:10:07,425 Sang sank skittered stole A lonely tightrope walker That acrobat. What gall. 60 00:10:07,545 --> 00:10:12,192 The stallion In the netherworld Is waiting for the clarion. 61 00:10:42,093 --> 00:10:49,089 You’re waiting to hear what the father will blather. Will he or won’t he explain what is Frother. 62 00:10:49,209 --> 00:10:56,522 O Lord I am a disconsolate widower, A sinless singer. 63 00:11:15,286 --> 00:11:20,169 Papa, the end is near. I see a crown form above your ear. 64 00:11:20,289 --> 00:11:23,448 Your breathing is tall and austere, 65 00:11:23,568 --> 00:11:25,707 You’re already a popsicle. 66 00:11:48,471 --> 00:11:52,697 If only I were a priest Or a deceased released, 67 00:11:52,817 --> 00:11:57,507 I would have visited your court, Almighty Lord. 68 00:12:12,559 --> 00:12:17,806 Where is the key to my mind? Where is that ray of light, The sudden generosity of winter? 69 00:12:19,920 --> 00:12:24,875 You see no eyebrows father, How barren are the bloodlines of Frother. 70 00:12:56,761 --> 00:13:04,485 Look: a gun barrel! It’s so big and unsterile! 71 00:13:04,605 --> 00:13:06,599 Where? How? Teach us— 72 00:13:07,910 --> 00:13:09,878 Everywhere. Like finches. 73 00:13:14,571 --> 00:13:19,089 The last fear, After mass Was past, Crumbled to dust. 74 00:14:05,356 --> 00:14:11,040 The gates of heaven then flew open. And a nanny came out of the barn. 75 00:14:11,160 --> 00:14:16,141 The nanny had two legs, one after another. She hung in the room mercilessly smothered. 76 00:14:16,261 --> 00:14:22,874 And this again reminded everyone of their eternal question, namely: What is this thing called Frother? 77 00:14:41,260 --> 00:14:44,394 Over your cradle... 78 00:14:45,633 --> 00:14:48,038 drool runs down your lips 79 00:14:48,839 --> 00:14:54,451 And the moon lives. Over the grave, over the pine 80 00:14:54,571 --> 00:14:59,115 Sleep and repine. Better not rise. 81 00:14:59,235 --> 00:15:02,198 Better pulverize. 82 00:15:02,318 --> 00:15:06,206 Hey there blacksmith jacksmith, 83 00:15:06,326 --> 00:15:13,493 We’ll sleep in your forge. We’re all prisoners. 84 00:16:20,909 --> 00:16:26,812 Frother is the cold froth forming on the dead man’s brow. 85 00:16:26,932 --> 00:16:28,707 It is the dew of death, 86 00:16:28,827 --> 00:16:31,841 that’s what Frother is. 87 00:16:31,961 --> 00:16:34,193 Dear God 88 00:16:34,313 --> 00:16:36,306 Dear God 89 00:16:36,426 --> 00:16:38,492 Dear God 90 00:16:39,178 --> 00:16:42,773 the sons could have said if only they could. 91 00:16:43,988 --> 00:16:45,810 But we knew that already.