Soyuztelefilm, Rostelefilm, Kuibyshevtelefilm, 1990
Scenario: Kir Bylychev Director: Aleksandr Polushkin
Art director & animator: Vladimir Spichek Camera: Anatoliy Vinogradov
Composer: Aleksandr Yanitskiy Sound: V. Zvonov, B. Filchikov
Free Tyrant
Oh vernissage, oh vernissage... What a portrait, what a landscape...
What a landscape...
Good day! Could you please tell me where they sell fuel for spaceships here?
Heh... we have no spaceships here.
But... do you sell kerosene here?
Kerosene? We do.
But they won't sell it to you.
Heh heh... but why not?
Because you've broken the law. Descended into our zone.
I came in peace, just passing by! I've got all the right documents.
My business is a little simpler. I'm a simple prisoner.
You mean that I accidentally
landed on the territory of a concentration-camp?
So all of you here are...
prisoners?
What's going on here?
[Commandant's Office]
Your camp surprises me. Everyone is engaged in their own business,
And no-one is being educated in any specialized labor.
What!? You are a prisoner too?
Naturally!
You've been here a long time?
A long time. But you'll be sentenced for a lot longer!
For what!?
For being a runaway!
But I didn't run from anywhere!
You crossed the zone's border. So you ran away!
But I crossed into it, not out of it!
Does the direction really matter?
What can I do now?
In the afternoon the court will assemble.
Until then... go and have a bite.
To the right behind the corner is a nice cafe. I eat there myself.
Do you have any money?
Interplanetary credits, Soviet rubles...
Ah, rubles!
Well then, let's exchange them.
But if I'm arrested, how are you letting me visit a cafe?
I am not letting you go, you are already confined, and your sentence has started.
Hey! Will you feed me, you ladies' man?
The interplanetary alien is to return to the residence.
Oh, you lucky man! You'll have some freedom!
I'm sorry that I don't invite you to sit down
I can't bear it when someone sits in my presence.
I was told that you are looking for kerosene
but you were detained upon violating the border.
- Yes! - Hah, and now you face a long detainment.
Do I have that straight?
- ...Yes?... Yes, yes, yes. - Well, I sympathize with you.
They call me the "Fair Tyrant"... Funny, yes?
Why keep so many people in the camp?
Such is the logic of life.
Forgive me, but I don't understand.
When I won the fight for power,
I had to isolate the opposition.
I couldn't kill everyone, see?
Soon I discovered that maintaining camps for the enemies
was very expensive for my beloved people.
But they don't call me a genius for nothing!
I arrested the right amount of barbers, cooks and butchers,
and put them all in camps. Let them perform their duties for free!
The problem was solved!
The government is costing us dearly.
The government is to be arrested!
The zone is to be expanded by the necessary block!
As for my personal guest, take him away to the zone
and find him a bed in a decent barracks.
Tomorrow we shall continue with his vexations.
The Fair Tyrant requests the presence of the prisoner
number 67 million 894 thousand 216
Change your clothes.
- Hey, hello! - Hello!
- Our clothes become you! - Oh?
- And I got some kerosene! - Oh!
- 30 gigalitres. It should be enough. - Thank you!
So, did yesterday's arrests go well?
They went fine.
Come in, friend! Come in.
Feel yourself a free man.
Forgive you me, but I had to book you.
After all, violation of the zone's border is a serious crime.
If I understand correctly, you are the only one remaining free?
- Yes! - Uh-huh. Well then, I'm off!
Worked on the film: L. Razumova, A. Naumova, N. Tsareva, Zinaida Naryshkina, Anatoliy Barantsev, G. Kachin, Boris Rungye, Yuriy Volyntsev
The End Subs by Eus & Niffiwan, Dec 2019
Kuybyshevtelefilm, Rostelefilm, Soyuztelefilm, 1990