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ATTENTION! WOLVES! an animated political satire based on L.Lagin's short story "The Fair-Haired Beast"
screenwriter L. Lagin director Yefim Gamburg
Radio (in German): The German people demand...
Radio (in German): that their workers and farmers no longer
Radio (in German): be forced to be soldiers!
art directors Yu. So'oster, E. Nazarov camera A. Zhukovskiy
composer D. Krivitskiy sound G. Martynyuk montage I. Gerasimova
text A. Snesareva script editor R. Frichinskaya consultant L. Bezymenskiy
narrator Ya. Smolenskiy sound design Yu. Hrzhankovskiy, A. Baranov
assistants N. Palatkina, O. Yerofeyeva electronic effects M. Petrov
background artist G. Arkadyev artists I. Chervyakova, A. Demykin, S. Skrebneva, E. Treskin, A. Sher
animators V. Ugarov, G. Sokolskiy, E. Maslova, L. Nosyrev
production director F. Ivanov
In the spring of 1945,
the Second World War ended in Europe.
In Nuremberg,
the International Military Tribunal was in session.
By its judgment,
on the night of October 1th-16th, 1946,
the leaders of the Third Reich were executed.
Their corpses were burnt,
and their ashes were scattered to the wind.
Many people round the world sighed with relief,
believing that, together with those ashes,
even the memory of the Fascist idea would be scattered too.
But on the eve of October 16th, 1946,
another event occurred,
seemingly lost in the swift stream of events.
In a remote region in the foothills of the Alps,
a forest ranger found a wolf's lair
with a wild boy in it.
At that time it did not surprise anyone.
In Europe there were thousands of orphans left homeless by the war.
And the wolf-boy
was placed in an orphanage
supported by charity.
The staff of the orphanage believed in tried and true traditions.
To them the entire process of education was limited to
teaching how to use a knife and fork,
how to dress,
and how to behave in public.
But teaching this foundling
even these simple things
required years and years of hard work.
But, in the end,
the efforts of his teachers were crowned with success,
the wolf cub, it seemed,
had forgotten his rapacious habits,
stopped howling at the moon,
and seemed quite a fine young man.
And, one fine day,
the matrons decided
to let him go on a day-trip to a neighboring town.
The activities planned for the day included a visit to the Zoo.
At first, everything went very well.
The former wolf cub, along with the other kids,
marveled at the strange shapes of the giraffes,
laughed at the cute expressions on the monkeys' faces,
and everything would have been just fine
had it not been for the...
...wolf!
How did the wolf get out of her cage?
What memories surfaces in the boy's consciousness?
Why did he put the wolf back in her cage?
It's hard to say.
However, the omnipresent media
that had been present at the zoo
heralded his deed
as a selfless heroic deed.
"The fair-haired hero
saved his foster-mother
from the ravenous wolf's jaws."
German headline: [ RIDDLE OF HITLER'S ORIGINS SOLVED ]
Readers were moved to tears,
and now young people got a wonderful new role model.
But the outcome
of the newspaper sensation was unexpected.
The young hero
was kidnapped from the orphanage.
A new sensation.
Meanwhile
the kidnapped young man
was brought to the same regions
where he had been found by the forester
many years ago.
And even the gloomy,
medieval castle,
in which he was confined,
bore the name "The Wolf's Lair."
Who were the castle's owners?
What did they want from the neatly dressed orphan...
who was really only a love-starved boy with a damaged psyche?
His damaged psyche
was not a concern of the castle's owners.
A wolf in human form was their ideal.
But one thing worried them.
The boy still showed signs of humanity.
But the three great teachers -
hunger, thirst and the whip -
always get the job done.
And so, a young man from a quiet orphanage
became the first cadet of the Wolf Academy
in an obscure region of the foothills of the Alps.
Time passed.
And at last the teachers had found a ward
worthy of their ideal.
The leader was ready.
All they needed were a few more wolves in their pack.
And they found them!
Training,
training,
training!
A wolf must be strong!
A wolf must be hardy!
A wolf must be cruel...
...and blindly obedient!
Aolves must learn their own history and traditions.
Good wolves must practice what they were taught.
Nazis out! Remember 1933
1933-1966? This is the spirit of the NDP
The first graduates were deemed successful.
Time passed.
The network of Wolf Academies
was growing and developing.
Wolf dens sprang up all over.
The wolf howling grew louder.
Over the noise of the city,
and the calm of country villages,
and the daily hustle and bustle -
Can you hear it?
Can you hear the wolves howling?
Stop!
People, stop!
Open your eyes and ears!
Can you hear it?
Can you hear the howling of the wolves?
It is getting louder.
The beast is crouching to spring!
People!
Stop this beast!
THE END