Soyuzmultfilm Moscow
Barankin, Be a Human Being!
written by V. Medvedev directed by Alexandra Snezhko-Blotskaya art director Ildar Urmanche, music Vitaliy Geviksman
cameraman Ye. Rizo sound Boris Filchikov script editor Z. Pavlova
Assistants: Ye. Novoselskaya B. Korneyev, L. Kukina, A. Petetskaya
animators Vladimir Krumin, Galina Barinova, Elizabeth Komova, Tatiana Fyodorova, V. Karp, Tatiana Taranovich, Ye. Vershinina, Konstantin Chikin, Boris Chani, O. Stolbova, Boris Butakov
artists Ye. Tannenberg, Irina Svetlitsa production director G. Kruglikov
"Happy New School Year!"
Topics: "Corner for the young naturalist"
"Corner for the philatelist"
"When learning, aim only for 'good' and 'excellent'"
"Take, for example, Yuriy Barankin. I, as class-representative, told him every day:
- Barankin, be a human being! - Do not fidget! - Do not copy from someone else! - Do not be rude!"
"Shame on you D-students!" "If you fail again, watch out!"
Barankin, be a human being!
Fix your "D" by tomorrow! And you too, Malinin!
- Tomorrow is a weekend! - So what? You can still study.
But we don't understand how to solve the problems.
I'll help you.
So we're agreed on Sunday?
You'll study with Misha, then come to the school garden - to plant trees.
Even planting trees!? Grr.
If I could live a day just as these sparrows!
Not to hear all this "wake up! Get dressed! Go! Solve this! Learn! Answer!"
Even just Zina Fokina is bad enough.
"Barankin, be a human being!"
What if I don't want to be a human being!?!
My mother said: "If you truly want it, even a pug-nose can turn into an eagle's beak!"
Why would you want to change your nose? - It's not about the nose!
What if we turned into sparrows and spent our Sunday like real people?
Good thinking, Barankin, a great idea!
Only, wouldn't it be better to turn into butterflies?
Butterflies, butterflies!! Butterflies are insects.
But sparrows are birds!
Okay, let's transform before Mishka comes!
Prepare for the transformation of a person into a sparrow!
Repeat after me.
Let's begin:
Don't want to learn, want to be a bird!
I am sure that a sparrow lives without worries,
Here I am, here I am, turning into a sparrow!
How goes?
Oh, Mishka is coming! All is lost, we don't have enough time!
Here I am, here I am, turning into a sparrow!
Barankin!
Wow, you became one! - As you can see!
And me?
You're going to study, cap!* *his nickname
- Here I am, here I am, turning into a sparrow! - Malinin!
Well done, Malinin! You did it in time! Chick-tweet!
A cat!
There's a cat behind you!
Muska! Hi! It's me! Don't you recognize me?
You're crazy! She'll eat you!
Ha-ha! Me? Her owner? It's you who's crazy.
Muska, you won't eat me, righ- ...
Got it?
Blockhead! You should study! Not shoot slingshots!
Here's where you are, you loafers! Fine sons you are!
Why are you hiding?
Excuse me, citizen, we see you for the first time.
"Citizen"...
Good sparrows, listen to what he calls his own mother!
What a disgrace! Here is today's youth for you!
Honestly, we are not your children!
Oh, Mommy!
Oh, my little nestlings!
Now we will begin to learn how to build a nest.
What do you mean, learn? What nest?
And you said they had a wonderful life!
That's what Nina said.
I'm not going to learn!
Who doesn't want to learn?
Me! And quarrels are not pedagogical!
What?! Where did you pick up these words? Just you watch yourself!
A nest is woven like this:
One takes a straw in one's beak, rolls it into a ring, and then...
Daddy flew home! Our Chikanka, chica-chica-chica!
Hear now, sons, quick! Hear now sparrows! A nesting box became available, you hear?
A birdhouse? My dream! My dream, my dream!
Yes, yes, a birdhouse!
We must hurry to occupy it. We'll have to fight for it.
Give us the birdhouse!
Good for you! You're truly my son. Come on! Forward, eagles!
- I will not fight for a birdhouse. - I've had my fill of tweeting.
Alright then, wait for the signal.
Daddy is getting routed. Let's flee!
I told you that we should have turned into butterflies!
What a life they have! Totally carefree!
- What do they do? - The fact of the matter is they do nothing!
Flutter by a flower, drink sweet nectar and do nothing.
You're lying! How can they do "nothing"? They pollinate the flowers!
Pollinate... they've nothing better to do. But you and I don't have to.
Well, if we don't have to the pollinate, then we can turn into butterflies.
Ah! Cats again!
Prepare for the transformation!
I am convinced that a butterfly lives without worries,
Hurray. Just in time!!
Kostya! -Yes? - You're a Swallowtail!
And you're - A cabbage worm! An orchard pest.
By the way, swallows feed on butterflies.
I see that!
Butterfly, hide! Or they will eat you too!
It's useless. She went into hibernation.
- The law of nature. - You're lying!
It's true. Nina said that all butterflies fall asleep in autumn until spring.
- Oh, but what about you and me?
- Ah, ah... maybe we won't fall asleep!
We're not just butterflies. We're humanoids.
I'm starving! You promised nectar. - Come on, treat me!
Why are you not at work?!
Here's your designation: The pollination beds down there.
What tripe... I thought for a moment it was Zina Fokina...
That's where we're going to nosh nectar, Yurka!
Ah-choo!
Our team's working hard! - Let them! But we will eat nectar.
- Zina! Butterflies are flying here!
- Where are the butterflies? Hide!
- Where did you see them? - Here on this flower. Or over here...
One butterfly was so small! But the other was so big!
Kostya, let's escape, before we get caught by Zina Fokina.
Are you asleep?
- Here it is! Here it is! - Where?
Right here, near the paper.
A cabbage worm. From the family of white flies. We already have this one in our collection.
Ha, ha "already have"! Young naturalists are lunatics!
Oh, Zina, there's another butterfly! How beautiful it is!
A swallowtail! Girls, it's a miracle!
Stop, let me catch it!
Gotcha!
First, we'll put them in the kill jar. Then, to the spreading board.
Malinin, listen to my command.
I am sure that an ant lives without worries! Here I am, here I am, turning into an ant!
Later, we put them in the dryer.
Nothing there!
Ha, ha, ha.
Hey, you guys! Want to play some football?
- Ha, no technique.
Uneducated people. - No colour!
If it were me I'd come up with using a stretcher or a wheelbarrow...
Ha-ha-ha!
Strange... it's a weekend, yet they're at work.
What can I say - instinct. Ants obey it.
What fools! I would not obey!
Don't you know what a powerful thing it is, this instinct?
Instinct... Here we are under its spell, damn...
- So let's not obey it? - Right on.
- Uh-oh. It's influencing me again! - Overcome it!
Phew, we've overcome it!
- What's with you, are you sick? - No.
- Personally, I'm well. - And I'm healthy too.
- We're just relaxing.
- And why do you relax when everyone else is at work?
Today, we have a day off.
When we lived there, in the brick warren, that is, in the human anthill...
We all would not do anything this day...
Alert! Red ants! Red ants! Go!
Oh! Oy-oy-oy!
- The reds are beating our guys! - Scoundrels!
Forward you guys! Beat the reds!
Yuriy, look! They're taking them into slavery!
- Death to the reds!
- Kostya, stop!
Climb up the flower! And immediately transform into a human!
Repeat after me:
Not by day and not by night do I want to be ant! I WANT TO FOREVER BE A HUMAN BEING!
- Malinin, well, did you transform? - Nothing's happening!
I WANT TO FOREVER... be a... human being...
- All is lost. Goodbye Barankin!
- No. it's not lost! Listen to me.
Kostya! My faithful buddy...
- Malinin! It's you! - I...
- I thought the swallow pecked you. - I thought he pecked you.
Their voices! - This means we still exist. Hurray!
- I WANT TO FOREVER BE A HUMAN BEING!
- Barankin...
- Malinin!
He is always late. - Malinin!
Did you people fall from heaven? - Mishka!
We exist again! As people! - As human beings!
- It sure is good to be a human! - Just great!
Well, let's go study. I will help you.
We'll do it ourselves!
We'll come to work in the garden, and solve the problem ourselves.
But... you said you did not understand problem solving.
- We didn't, earlier. - But now we understand everything!
The End Subs by Chapaev, Eus & Niffiwan