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Creative Association “Ekran"

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Hans Christian Andersen
THE LITTLE FIR TREE

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A glorious little fir tree
was standing in the forest

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The place where she stood was good,
it was warm and Sunny,

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and there was plenty of fresh air.

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All around her grew older comrades:
Yes, also pine trees.

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She just could not wait
to become an adult fir tree herself.

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"Oh, if I could be just as big
as the others ” - sighed the tree.

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Oh, how I would spread my branches.

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Yes and let my crown 
raise up into the open sky.

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And wasn't her joy not the sun, the birds,

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the scarlet clouds, Morning
and evening passing by over her?

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Thus a few years went by.

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One fall lumberacks came in the woods
to cut down the biggest trees.

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" Would you know where they were taken,”
- asked the tree a stork that passed by.

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"Perhaps I know", said the stork

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“When I flew back from Egypt, I met

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many new ships with magnificent masts.”

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I think this is what they have become.
They smelled like pine.

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I met with them over and over again.
They held their head high.

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Very high!

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Oh, if I were but an adult and
could sail across the seal “- sighed the tree.

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"Just enjoy your youth,” - said the sun's rays.

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The wind caressed the tree
and the dew shed its moisture over it.

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But she did not understand.

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When it was winter, very young
trees were cut down in the forest .

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"Where are they? " - Asked the tree
- "Where are they going? "

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“We know where they are going,”
- the sparrows twittered.

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"We have been in town and
looked through the windows. "

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"Shine and glory is awaiting
them like you can't imagine "

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They are put in the midst of a warm room,

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and decorated with toys
and hundreds of candles.

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"And then?" - Asked the tree.

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"Then what? "

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" We haven't seen more!
but it was great! "

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“Se maybe I am destined to become
shining like them? “ - rejoiced the tree.

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"Oh, How I yearn, how I yearn! "

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"to know what will become of me! "

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Day passed after day, week after week.

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And the tree grew and grew,

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And all those who saw her,
said; " What a wonderful tree! "

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At Christmas she was the first to get felled.

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She awoke when she heard a voice say:

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" Tonight she will shine. "

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"Ah! " - Thought the Christmas tree -
" Let the evening come soon! "

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The tree dared not even tremble.

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Oh, how terrible it was!

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As she was afraid of losing
anything from her decoration!

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As all these were stunningly shining.

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" What are they doing? " - Thought the tree.

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"What will happen next?"

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"A tale! A tale! " - cried the children.

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And a little fat man told them,
a story about Klumpe- Dumpe*,
*(AKA Humpty Dumpty)

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that fell from the stairs,

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but all the same after it hit the ground,

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a princess took him for herself.

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" Hear! Hear! Sometimes in the world
it happens like that! "

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the little fir tree thought and
she believed that it was all true,

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because it was told by suceh a nice little man,

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And she was glad that the
next day they decorated her again

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with candles, toys, gold and fruit.

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" Now I will get dressed up once more! "
- rejoiced the tree.

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Meany days and nights passed,

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But no one came to the attic.

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"What does that mean? " - Thought the tree.

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" What am I doing here? "

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" What am I hearing? "

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"How are you doing old tree? " 
- Asked the mice.

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"I am not old,” replied the tree.

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“There are many trees much older than me.”

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Tell us about the 
most wonderful place in the world.

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" Were you there? "

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" Have you ever been in the pantry? "

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" Where cheeses lie on the shelves? "
" And hams hang from the ceiling? "

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" Where you enter skinny, and come out fat? "

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"I do not know such a place,” - said the tree.

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" But I know the forest, where the sun
is shining and the birds are singing. "

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And she told them alll about the fir's youth.

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About how they decorated her
with cakes and candles.

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And about Klumpe - Dumpe, the unique tale
she had heard and memorized word for word.

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"Oh, how much you have seen! "

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"Oh, how happy you were! " Said the mice.

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" Happy? " - Repeated the tree and thought.

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" Yes, Perhaps... merry were these days, "

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" But they'll come back! Back! "

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"Oh, now I will not miss any event "
? rejoice I will once again...

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shining with light. "

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" Well, this must be the beginning
of a new life " - thought the tree.

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"Oh, now I feel alive againg "
- She was happy.

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And the fir tree regretted not having
slayed in her dark corner of the attic.

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She remembered her fresh youth in the forest

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and the cheerful Christmas Eve.

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And the frisky little mice,

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who listened with such pleasure,
to what she told them.

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“ Oh, if I only had enjoyed it,
during these times,” - said the poor tree.

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Written & directed by Anatoly Solin
art director Inna Pshenichnaya
Camera V Milovanov

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music Victor Babushkin
sound Nelly Kudrina
Read by A. Batalov

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Background artist Igor Mednik
animators N, Bazeltseva, V. Sporykhin,
S. Sichkar, S. Petetsky

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Cutterr L. Rudan
script editor V. Medvedovskaya
Producer L. Barentsova

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The End
Suits by Aleksandr & Eus
Creative Association for USSR TV, 1984