Fund "Gubernia" With the support of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation
A TRANSGRESSION from the series "Stories by Anton Chekhov"
It would be nice just once... one last time to believe...
Why should I care for that which will be forgotten?...
Love cannot... oh, be understood...
Love cannot be measured... Oh... God...
Wait a bit! I'll cook you such a crab that'll teach you to ruin innocent girls!
I'll leave the baby at your door, and I'll have the law of you, and I'll tell your wife, too...
I'll tell her everything!
She has left it!
Ugh,
Here it lies.... Here lies
my transgression!
Oh, oh, O Lord!
Haste, haste!...
I'll carry it away...
and lay it on somebody's doorstep...
I congratulate you!...
He-he-he! Though your beard is gray, your heart is gay....
You are a rogue, Semyon Erastovitch! A rogue!
A wonderfully nasty position!
A collegiate assessor walking down the street with a baby!
Good heavens! If anyone sees me and understands the position, I am done for...
I'd better put it on this doorstep...
No, stay, the windows are open
and perhaps someone is looking.
Oh, Lord, Lord ...
Where shall I put it? Where?
Ah! I know! I'll take it to the merchant Myelkin's...
Merchants are rich people and tenderhearted;
very likely they will say thank you and adopt it.
If only it does not begin screaming...
Here I am carrying a human being under my arm as though it were a portfolio.
A human being, alive, with soul, with feelings like anyone else...
If by good luck the Myelkins adopt him,
he may turn out somebody...
Maybe he will become
a professor, a great general, an author...
Anything may happen!
Now I am carrying him under my arm like a bundle of rubbish,
and perhaps in thirty or forty years
I may not dare to sit down in his presence...
How mean it is really!
So mean that one can't imagine anything meaner...
I've done wrong and the child has a cruel fate before it.
If I lay it at the Myelkins' door, they'll send it to the foundling hospital
and there it will grow up among strangers, in mechanical routine... no love, no petting,
no spoiling...
And then he'll be apprenticed to a shoemaker,... he'll take to drink, will learn to use filthy language,
Oh my God! He will go hungry...
A shoemaker! And he the son of a collegiate assessor,
of good family... He is my flesh and blood,...
Baby...
Asleep! You little rascal! Why, you've an aquiline nose like your father's...
He sleeps and doesn't feel that it's his own father looking at him!...
It's a drama, my boy...
Well, well, you must forgive me. Forgive me, old boy....
If I were a decent, honest man,
I should damn everything, go with this baby to Anna Filippovna,
fall on my knees before her, and say:
"We have no children; let us adopt him!" She's a good sort,
she'd consent...
Forgive me, old fellow! I am a scoundrel.
It seems it's your fate...
Don't remember evil against me.
What is this?
Oh, come what will! Damn it all!
I'll take him! I'll take him!
Anna Filippovna! Hear me before you punish... I have sinned!
This is my child...
You remember Agnia? Well, it was the devil drove me to it.
Here's a go! Did you ever!
Aksinya, the washer-woman, was here just now, Semyon Erastovitch.
The silly woman put her baby down on the steps here,
and while she was indoors with me, someone took and carried off the baby...
Who'd have thought it!
What? What are you saying?
I am sorry, Semyon Erastovitch, but it's the summer holidays,...
one can't get on without... without a woman, I mean....
Be off, you scoundrel!
Bastard!
Written and directed-by Natalia Malgina
Art director- Igor Oleynikov
Music- Sergei Kazantsev
Voices: Miguyev - Alksey Colgan Yermolay - Aleksandr Chutko Agnyushka - Irina Klabukova
Casting director: Yelena Gabets
Animators: N. Malgina, G. Ivanov, A. Plugar, V. Shevchenko, A. Aleksandrov, Ye. Zaharchenko, M. Nefedova, G. Kiseleva, T. Podgorskaya, Ye. Filayeva, N. Duguyeva
Art: I. Oleynikov, I. Borisova, N. Drozhzha, M. Prudnikova, S. Savelyeva, V. Korogodina, I. Kuzmin, Z. Kozhevnikova. L. Lobachyova, L. Razgulyayeva, Yu. Sanchez-Perez, I. Cherenkova
Computer processing: D. Rodionova, Ye. Filayeva, N. Nikolaeva, N. Berezovaya, A. Nagaytseva, V. Korogodina, N. Dugayeva, A. Androsova
Compositing and special effects: Andrey Smirnov Line tests and scans: Yuliya Kuzakova
Sound Engineers: Andrey Korinskiy, Artyom Fadeyev Production director: Natalya Latysheva Producer: Aleksandr Gerasimov
The film was made with the support of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation
Cultural fond "Gubernia", 2010 translation by Constance Garnett (1921) Subs by Alevtina, Eus & Niffiwan (2015/2021)