Soyuzmultfilm Moscow 1963
Yuri Olesha's THE THREE FAT MEN
Scenario Victor Shklovsky
Directed by Valentina and Zinaida Brumberg
Art directors Lana Azarkh, Valentin Lalayants
music Alexander Varlamov
camera Elena Petrova sound Nikolai Prilutsky
animators Igor Podgorsky, Anatoly Solin, Marina Voskaniants, Oleg Safronov, Ye. Vershinina, Vitaly Bobrov
Youry Babichuk, Elvira Maslova,
Background artist I. Troyanov Cutter N. Mayorova
Voices Maria Vinogradova (Tutty) Oleg Yefremov (Prospero), Nadezhda Rumyantseva (Swauk) Tatiana Peltser (aunt Hanimed)
Alexei Konsovsky (Tibal), Andrey Tutyshkin(Fat men), Lev Sverdlin (Gaspar)
Text reader Yacob Smolenski
Yuri Olesha The Three Fat Men
The time of magicians has passed. Probably there never has been such a time.
There was this doctor. His name was Gaspard Arneri.
Many would mistake him for a magician, but he was a scientist.
He was the master of a hundred sciences.
The doctor's housekeeper Aunt Ganymede sang of him:
How to fly from the earth to the stars?
How to catch the fox by the tail?
How to turn a stone into vapor, knows the doctor, our Gaspar.
- Doctor, finally! - Ah.
But where are your glasses?
Did you break them? ... And where is your raincoat?
You lost it!
Auntie Ganymede!
What's more I nearly lost my umbrella.
Oh, what a misfortune!
Today the most important events happened, Auntie Ganymede.
All the rest is of no importance.
All the poor working people of the city
rose up against the power of the Three Fat Men.
And the doctor, despite his fatigue,
began to write down in his diary all that he had witnessed with his own eyes.
In the morning people crowded in front of the closed city gates.
All the time making noise and being agitated.
The guards did not let the people out of the city so that they couldn't help the rebels.
and the rebels stormed the Palace of the Three Fat Men.
They were led by the gunsmith Prospero and the gymnast Tibul.
But nevertheless the people retreated.
Gunslinger Prospero was captured. The Gymnast Tibul had fled.
He hastened to get to the square of the "Etoile".
The light from that lantern was so different from any other earthly light,
that people gave the lantern the marvellous nickname "Star"
So everybody began to call the lamp and the square it was on, like that.
Only after crossing this square, you could get into the workers' quarters.
Wait, I'll shoot him myself.
Long live the people!
Long live the Three Fat men!
Save yourself, Tibul! Hold on, Tibul!
Save yourself, Tibul, hold on!
Just now on the Star square, a guardsman shot his officer.
This means that soon all the soldiers will refuse... to fight against the people
and defend the Three Fat Men.
Yes. However, for the fate of Tibul one has to fear.
Tibul!
They're after me.
You need to change your appearance.
Next time do not eat the marmalade, albeit I put a lot of acid in it.
Now no one will recognize you.
But the essence in this bottle, will wash off the paint.
Dr. Gaspar, I caught a mouse.
A negro! ..The mouse! ..My marmalade! ..A negro! ..
[There will be an execution of gunsmith Prospero and the other rebels]
Caution Tibul!
This is One-Twothrees, the court's dance teacher.
One-Twothrees rushes to the palace of the Three Fat Men.
The grim Palace towers threateningly over the city.
Here lived the Three Fat Men.
Wicked and greedy, they kept all the people of the country in submission.
In the palace also lived a little boy, their heir Tutti.
The Fat Men wanted him to grow up evil and cruel.
He was not allowed to play with other children.
A clockwork doll was his only friend.
We will not disturb them, and return to the city.
This day it is quit windy!
A balloon-seller then had this quite incredible accident
which had a great influence on the whole course of events that unfolded itself.
This is outrageous, I do not want to fly, I have no idea how to fly!
The wind carried him toward the Palace of the Three Fat Men.
My friends, behold the palace pastry-shop.
This looks all very tempting. The fat men had an expert taste of foods.
the cake is destroyed... We need another right away! In the hall they're waiting for desert.
Add cream!
The candied fruit!
Hooray, we are celebrating our victory!
What's happening? They will eat me!
Let Prospero be brought in. We'll eat the cake and have a look at this monster.
Tremble, gunsmith Prospero! Soon we'll cut off your head.
Only my head.
The people have hundreds of thousands of heads, you can not chop off!
We the three Fat men are strong and powerful.
Everything belongs to us.
Your brain is swollen fat. You don't see any further than your belly.
Put him in a cage, a cage in the menagerie!
- And now we have the cake. - Ouch!
Doll, my doll!
The heir Tutti is crying.
My beloved doll broke.
The guards stabbed her with their swords.
What? The guardsmen? stabbed her? With their swords? That's impossible!
But It did happen that way.
But then there the guards came.
They said, "here with you, wolf-cub! We'll get to you later as well as those fat pigs."
Treason! Why didn't you stop those terrible words?
I ... I ... I was afraid of them.
Get out of the palace!
She died. What grief!
She died.
Do not cry, we'll buy you another doll.
I do not want another.
By all means, one needs to fix the doll.
Count Bonaventura!
The captain of the palace, guard Earl Bonaventure,
accompanied by two guards
hastened to town to find Dr. Gaspar Arneri
and give him the order to fix the doll of the heir Tutti.
But how did the adventures of the flying balloon seller end?
He was taken away from the room. The celebration was canceled.
I'm tired of this adventure. Can you help me flee?
We can! We can!
Give us your balloons.
I know a secret. Leave the balloons and climb into this pot.
In the saucepan?
Climb in quickly. It doesn't have a bottom.
What's going on here!?
Late in the evening the persecuted Tibul, found himself in the outskirts of the city.
And here's what happened.
- Help! - What's this?
That cabbage head spoke!
This is not a cabbage head. It's my head.
I escaped from the palace of the 3 fatties and got into this secret tunnel.
It starts in the saucepan and ends here.
Ah, a secret passage to the palace!
Auntie Ganymede, still recovering from the morning's commotion,
spied through the split of the door.
The doll should be fixed by tomorrow morning.
If you do this,
You can look forward to a reward.
If not,
severe punishment will follow.
Yes ... Well, well. Yeah...
Who dare stabbing a sword into the doll of the heir Tutti?
Strange.
Somewhere I've seen that face before. But where?
When?
Poor man! Didn't he go to bed at all?
I can not fix this poor doll.
The gear wheel is cracked.
- So, can't there be inserted another wheel? - Impossible!
I tried everything. Nothing worked out.
The doctor decided to go to the Palace of the Three Fat Men, and tell them
the doll can't be fixed by tomorrow morning.
Let them do with it what they want.
The wind raised and whistled in both ears of Dr. Gaspar.
The doctor closed his collar
and the wind moved up and whirled around
Then the wind took up the stars.
He blew them ahead, rolled them,
then he torpedoed them toward the dark triangles of the rooftops.
When tired of this game, he build up clouds.
But the clouds fell apart, like toy block towers.
Then the wind just went cold. He went cold with anger.
Stop!
You can not go any further.
By the orders of the Three Fat Men.
- I'm Dr. Gaspar Arneri. - Ha-ha-ha! You're a liar.
The doctor is at the moment occupied with a most important matter.
- He's repairing the heir Tutti's doll.
- What?
I'll show it to you now.
Oh, where is she?
Well? Turn away and get out of here!
What to do? What to do?
Maybe I can still find her?
There! What's that? Oh, it's just a keg.
Ah. Not her...not her either...
What is that? A piece of glass. Not her, that neither, and that neither.
And, there ... No, that's a torn shoe.
No, not there. Not there, not there. There isn't the doll neither.
Perhaps someone took it.
Wait ... Yet he can not have gotten far. Hurry! Hurry!
The doll is gone. I could go home...
But it's so far away. I'll die of hunger.
But the doctor did not die of hunger.
Quitting the nightly search.
The doctor, the driver and the horse found refuge at a traveling little circus.
In fact, Tibul used to perform there as tightrope walker.
It can not be. Is it... the doll of the heir Tutti or a girl?
It's the doll of the heir Tutti.
Quite by accident, I found you.
Where finding you seemed impossible.
Should I be a doll?
I'm just an ordinary girl.
Dr. Gaspar, this is not a doll. I can assure you.
What? - This girl is the dancer Swauk.
My faithful companion in the circus.
This means that I really have lost the doll.
This means that you found her.
- What? - Swauk, you'll be a doll.
You're a brave and clever girl.
You'll have to play the role of the doll of the heir Tutti.
Allez!
But that's not all. You need to liberate the gunsmith Prospero.
Ther's an underground passage.
Let them. But don't they fear that the doll be found and then?...
Perhaps they hope that they will get help from the guards,
that defected to the side of the people.
There they were in fact.
Stop! You need to find the doll of the heir Tutti.
If anyone else finds it, and brings it to the palace,
everyone will understand that Swauk is not a doll, and our plan will be lost.
Hide the doll.
It could come in handy.
The doll of the heir Tutti.
I'm saved.
So, you have to play the role of doll of the heir Tutti.
Mm.
Very good!
Mr. heir, I have repaired your doll.
How fantastic!
Is that you, doll?
And most importantly, I have taught your doll to talk...
Make up songs and dance.
What seperate sciences weren't able of; fusing them together in his melting pot
Our wonderful and kind doctor Gaspar brought life to me.
Look, I smiled. Did you hear, I sighed.
Yeah, returning life to me made me cheerful.
All my life I tried to see you. So many confused roads.
Don't forget the name of your sweetheart sister my name is gentle Swauk.
Swauk!
Dr. Gaspar, you have executed our orders.
Now you have the right to claim an award.
I ask to grant all prisoners life and liberty.
I ask to cancel penalties altogether and burn the chopping block.
No! No! No!
I think that Mr. heir would not be very happy,
if his pink clothed doll became unusable.
Die.
Oh, Swauk!
Burn the chopping block!
That's better.
[There will be an execution of gunsmith Prospero and the other rebels]
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You know, when I lay sick at Dr. Gaspar's,
I had a strange dream.
I dreamed that I came out of the doll into a living girl.
And I was a circus actress.
How interesting!
- I knew how to whistle and use keys.
- What?
Look. I have a wonderful key. Here.
So why are you hiding it on your chest?
I was told that this is a most important key.
It is the key to one of the cells of my menagerie.
Oh, the key to the cell of Prospero.
Prospero! Prospero!
Prospero, it's me, Swauk.
Treason! My lantern is stolen.
Someone entered the menagerie.
Flee!!!
Save yourselves! It's Prospero! Prospero!
- Hands up! - Don't move!
Oh, so many pots.
In which of them starts the underground passage?
Found it! Here it is!
Run, and get to Tibul.
Hurry!
Hurry, no time to lose!
Three Fat Man are waiting in the courtroom.
Bring the girl before them.
Do not worry, Swauk.
Where's Count Bonaventure?
The count has gotten an upset stomach on his way over here.
The accused! The culprit! The culprit!
Fine. She does not deign to answer us.
Call the witnesses!
Tell us what you heard.
- Prospero! Prospero. - Where are you?
- It's me, Swauk. I have come to liberate you. - My cell is tightly locked.
I have a key to your cell.
Despicable girl.
She stole the key from the heir Tutti
and released the gunsmith Prospero.
The deceiver is sentenced to death. Let her be torn by beasts.
The Fat men were disappointed. They realized...
it was only an old broken doll.
But Swauk ...
What is this? What is this? I can hear gunshots.
Hooray! It seems to have started.
The people stormed the palace of the hated Fat Men.
Thus ended reign of the money-bags and over-eaters
Today is the day of our victory.
Remember this day, remember this hour!
Swauk! Swauk!
The people celebrated their victory.
At Star square there was a big show.
Everyone was waiting for the appearance of the beloved actress Swauk.
But this day she did not come alone.
Together with her performed a happy little Tutti.
The End subs by lemicnor & Eus July 2015