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Soyuzmultfilm

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POYGA AND THE FOX

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Based on a fairy tale by Boris Shergin

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screenwriter Vladimir Golovanov
director Nataliya Golovanova

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art director Maks Zherebchevskiy
composer N. Sidelnikov

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camera Boris Kotov
sound Boris Filchikov

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animators Anatoliy Abarenov,
Violetta Kolesnikova, Aleksandr Mazayev,

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Tatyana Fadeyeva, Vladimir Zarubin,
Nataliya Barkovskaya, Vladimir Palchikov,
Lev Ryabinin

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assistants L. Nikitina, V. Gilyarova,
O. Isakova, M. Popova
montage I. Gerasimova

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background artists Anna Atamanova,
Dmitriy Anpilov, Irina Troyanova,
Pyotr Korobayev, Sergey Marakasov

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narrator Ivan Ryzhov
script editor Tatyana Paporova
production director Lyubov Butyrina

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Back in the olden days, this was.

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There lived a man named
Poyga, a Karelian.

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He lived his life in the northern lands.

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By the river and in the woods,
yet close to the sea.

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Broad was Russia.

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There were not enough state troops
for all its borders.

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So back then, all sorts of brigands
roamed the outskirts of the Russian land.

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After all, the beauty of our land
is known far and wide.

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And beauty is a thing that every evil
power has always lusted after.

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And so it happened that Culimana came
to us, an invader borne of foreign soil.

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That fiendess loved to plunder,
steal, and play the villain.

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Poyga was hunting at that time.
Tracking squirrels.

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He chased after them
further and further.

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It had been a long time
since Poyga had been home;

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the hunt had led him on and on.

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And when he came back,
he wished he hadn't.

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Poyga was simple:

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he was accustomed to
the silence of the north,

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to human conversation.

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But here, he found screaming, shrieking,
noise and clatter!

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Poyga had nowhere to live any more.

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So he went down the river.

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The forest sheltered him.

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But can a man really
live without a home?

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You'll become one
with the forest yourself,

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and you'll never escape your fate.
You're all alone, after all.

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The whole northern land was
in the sights of Kulimana's gang.

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They were driving everything
into the ground.

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Poyga walked and walked.

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He thought, grieved.
Made traps.

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Slept. Went to wash up.

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He saw a boat on the water.
Someone sleeping in it.

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On the shore he saw a maiden,
not asleep.

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It was a summer night;
the midnight sun shone.

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Poyga was frightened by the
beauty of this maiden.

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"Are you a morning star?"

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She laughed.

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"If I'm a star, you must be
the young moon."

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"Whose are you, then?"
"I am the daughter of Ustyanka the widow.

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There's my retinue -
five steadfast old women.

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They were searching for berries
on my mom's orders."

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"Maiden," Poyga cried out,
"wait here!

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Let me at least bring you something
to eat. A fox, at least."

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Poyga forgot himself.

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The maiden's beauty lit up his world,

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kindled a fire in his heart,
and brought fortune to his hunt.

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The mother fox came running.

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She began to beat her head,
beg, and cry.

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"Poyga, my dear, give me my children!
Don't rob me of my joy!"

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"Why do you cry so bitterly, fox?"
Poyga then said.

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"Take your children.

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I can understand your grief.

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I myself was wronged by Kulimana."

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So, the promised gift is still there,
running around the forest.

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Poyga hid. But he lacked the strength
to stop seeing the maiden.

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The only outcome of this for him
was shame and grief.

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The widow Ustyanka
mistook him for a vagrant beggar.

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Bitter was the taste
of the bread given as alms.

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Bitter.

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And besides, in a desecrated land,
where was joy to come from?

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Only Kulimana, recalling
in her coiffured dreams

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the ghostly dances
in her distant palaces,

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brightened up and preened,

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scheming of fiery, ruinous

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pleasures yet to come.

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The fox came to Poyga
to do some grieving.

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She grieved a little,
then all of sudden jumped up!

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"Hold it," she said,

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"I'll marry you off.

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Your loneliness must be undone.

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It is unheard of that some trickery
couldn't be found to solve a problem!
And we'll surely find it!"

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Poyga did not believe her.

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What could the fox do?
She was just being nice.

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The fox ran into Ustyanka's
house and said:

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"Mistress Ustyanka,

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Poyga, my son,

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is asking for a quarter-measure.

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He wants to measure his grain."

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"Take one."

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But the fox stuck
two silver coins in the rivet.

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And went back to Ustyanka again.

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"Look, there's silver
stuck in the quarter-measure.

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So that's the sort of 'grain'
they're measuring. Those tricksters!"

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"What were you measuring the grain for?"

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"He's preparing to get married."

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"Why does a wealthy man need to prepare?
Just ask for her hand and be done with it."

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"Mistress Ustyanka, it is your daughter's
hand that I have come to ask for."

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"But we must look the groom in the face,"
said the widow.

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The fox led Poyga to the appraisal
and thought to herself:

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"You are not dressed properly, my groom.

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The clothes you wear for trapping
are the ones you wear for proposing.

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Well, if we're gonna use trickery,
no reason to stop now!"

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Oh, how morose Poyga became!

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"The bride will be scared of me now.

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She'll say a devil crawled
out of the swamp."

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But the fox laughed merrily at him.

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"You go and dry yourself now.
I'll get you some nice clothes."

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Here's the fox bringing clothes
for Poyga from the widow.

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She had made a big fuss there:
"We're losing the groom!!

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He tripped, fell
and ruined his clothes!

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Now he has turned around."

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The widow became distraught,
and pulled out her husband's clothes.

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Ustyanka's husband had been
taken by war long ago.

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The clothes, however, had been kept.

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Now they came in handy.

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Meanwhile, oarless boats were
already floating down the rivers nearby.

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Desecration was afoot.

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But so was love.

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Now Poyga sat well dressed,
but didn't feel well.

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Not by deceit did he wish
to enter the household.

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Then the widow said:

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"Well, good man,

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we must see your house too,
see how you live and spend your days."

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"Oh, Fox..."
Poyga now realized everything.

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"It would be better for me to fight
Kulimana, and die without sorrow."

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But the fox replied to this:

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"You are a straightforward person.

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And so you shall die
at a straightforward time.

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And that time is already near.

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I'll run ahead now.
I'll prepare things over there.

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But you, when the sun comes up,

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sound the ship's horn unceasingly!

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Lead the boat to desperate battle.

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Remember firmly your sweet bride

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and be ready for your fate.

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Now the crimson sun rose!

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And a loud ship's horn blew
from the morning river.

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Kulimana fell out of her bed,

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and didn't know what was going on.

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And the fox blustered:

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"Trouble is coming, you witch!
It is Rus that trumpets!"

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And that word contained for
Kulimana immeasurable fear.

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"What should I grab," she thought,
"and what should I leave?"

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The Russians are a kindhearted people.
But not forever!

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And the vixen kept doing her thing -
she completely bewildered Kulimana.

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Her henchmen, though
formidable in appearance,

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had their faces hidden
behind iron for good reason.

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Out of fear!

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An unjust cause is never strong.

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The witch Kulimana was left with
only one barrel out of all her loot.

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And a bad name for her villainy,
for her robbery.

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When a battle ends,
life begins.

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The Earth revives, songs are played,
weddings and joys arrive. Is that bad?

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Poyga's shoulders were now straightened
by his strength and daring.

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His spirit stood tall.

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Far across the northern land
could his wedding be heard.

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The fox rejoiced.

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Her irrepressible cunning had
given her glory!

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Peace and love came to
Poyga's lively household!

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And let there be joy to all!

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Here ends the northern fairy tale.

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Everything in the world has an end.

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Only our native land does not.

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The End

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