Belarusfilm Masters of animation
On your marks!
Roger. I'm starting my approach towards the sun.
Go ahead. How's the engine?
The engine parameters are normal.
Like a ball of wool, as yet unwound by the universe,
Mysterious are your living threads.
A long time ago in childhood for the first time twirled 'round me
some unconscious daydream
of getting out into orbit.
All is going to plan. All is going to plan. All onboard systems are working normally.
The horizon's appeared.
Roger that. Roger. I can see the horizon.
Again, flight.
Life is compressed like a spring.
Yet from the earth, from its inceptive beauty,
My soul hasn't been riven off for ages.
Roger. Roger.
Commander, we have received the clearance to descend.
Attention! We are beginning the descent.
Over there, on another planet lie my footsteps,
But my life is here.
And it is too late to return.
As riversides do, planetary shores
touch me with their light and starshine.
Again it all repeats, again.
The carefree light run, the soaring slant-wise kite.
Well, how could I not understand that boy
who flies towards himself, though he flies into the cosmos.
Scenario & Direction Lev Shukalyukov
Art-director Vladimir Tarasov Camera Yu Miltner
music O Yanchenko Poetry R Tarmoly Sound S Shuhman
Montage N Volchek Animators Yu Butyrin, V Bobrovskiu, A Gorulev, V Kozlov
Artists Ye Bezruchko, T Mihalyuta, M Delun Ye Pudneva, V Dovnap, N Los, T Yevmenova T Pevzina, I Kodyukova, V Chaychuk
L Karaban, V Hozhevets, A Stasyulevich
Assistants L Lukashenko, Ye Galkina
Script-editor O Belousov Production director L Zubenko
The End Subs Lemicnor, Eus, Niffiwan Feb 2022