Production studio "Soyuzmultfilm", Moscow 1960
It was me who drew the little man
Screenplay: M. Volpin, N. Erdman
Directed by: Valentina & Zinaida Brumberg
Co-Director: V. Lalayants Art-director L. Azarh, V.Lalayants
music Nikita Bogoslovsky Camera Elena Petrova sound Nikolai Prilutsky
Animator: F. Khitruk, F. Yepifanova M Motruk, I. Podhorsky E. Khludov, B. Butakov, B. Kotenochkin, B. Long
K. Malyshev, M. Voskaniants
Background: G. Arkadjev, E. Tannenberg O. Gemerling, V. valerian, Ass dir N. Mayorov, E.Shilov T. Fedorova, S. Kashcheeva
Voices: Fyodor - V. Sperantova. The man - M. Yanshin, The queen of lies -Seraphima Birman, High liar - A. Sverdlin
George Vitsin, S. Anikeev, Andrey Tutyshkin, Sergei Martinson, G. Novozhilova, Sergei Tseits, Vladimir Lepko,V. Gotovtsev, George Millyar
Scrpt Editor: Z. Pavlova Producer: G. Kruglikov
Pavel, Prokhor and Gerasim We are three skillful painters!
We choose the colors from our heart We choose them so the school'll look smart
We carefully choose color scheme, that the school will look so beautiful
that the hearts of the children will come to love school
Cast the plaster without flinch, Move the brushes cheerfully.
The ceilings we cover with 3 layers vitriol
To ensure us in all matters the children know answers.
For with three times vitriol if you ask the guys the question,
How much is six times eight? they'll answer forty-eight.
Cast the plaster without flinch, Move the brushes cheerfully.
So the guys will know exactly What oxygen is,
So the guys will respect and love their nation.
In order to create and dream, and read Pushkin,
in order to grow smarter than us, we paint the class with our heart.
Cast the plaster without flinch, Move the brushes cheerfully.
September 1 Congratulations with the start of the new school year
Good morning, Gavril Ivanovich!
Good morning, Fyodor Zaitsev.
You are the first pupil to arrive this school year!
- Why am I the first!
- How could it be otherwise?
Except from you, no one arrived yet.
You're always the first student to arrive.
So here you go,
the first student.
- Heh, heh, heh ... - Oh that's great!
That's what I am, that's what I am, I am the first student.
Of course not in terms of quality of studying but that doesn't matter!
These days I am able to never touch a book.
I am the first in
I am the first Th...
I am the first, the first-one-in!
Rule. At the end of a sentence,
One always places a point,
yet before yet and but, one always puts a comma.
Dot, dot, comma ...
Dot, dot, comma, minus smiley curve.
Stick, stick, cucumber,
And here he's out: The little man!
Oh, what have I done!
Everywhere it looks clean, and I besmirched it!
Hello, Fyodor. Hello, redhead!
Hello children! Sit Down.
I congratulate you on the beginning the new school year.
Thanks!
Did you notice, children,
how beautiful our school became.
Look how bright and clean our classroom is.
Look at these walls,
Oh ... Who has done that, children?
Whoever drew this man,
did not only besmirch the wall,
But he should bear in mind that if he hasn't the courage to come forward,
he admits besmirching the honor of the whole class!
Who did it?
Yeah ... I would like to asks all to raise their hands.
So,was it you, Kapitonov?
Nikolay Nikolayevich. It wasn't me. On my pioneer's honor!
Do you think that I ... - Just look at your hand.
- Oh ... - Shame on you, Kapitonov.
Tell your dad, I asked him to come to school tomorrow.
- What do you want? Me?.Me?....Nothing!...
Well, I did not come forward ... Well, okay.
[A. Gaidar]"Timur and his squad" My classmates said it's a marvelous book.
I am going to read it now!
Gaidar didn't write this book for you, boy!
And I don't really need to read your book.
Just imagine that ...
Big deal!
Just imagine ... it's nothing for me anyway ...
Gaidar is a children's writer anyway,
So what's this? A.P. Chekhov. A classic. For grown-up!
[A.P. Chekhov - Kashtanka] Be quiet, Kashtanka, be quiet!
Ghee! Like he's alive!... but it's just a picture!!
And it bit me!!!
Playing is better then reading anyway!
Bzz..you're a cheater! A Cheater!
Stop! Stop! I will not let you get away!
How dare you walk away from your commander?
Where are you?
Stop! Stop! Where are you going!
Fire!
A double charge on the door hook!
Fire!
Oh well,without you I still have enough soldiers.
Oh, where did they go?
None of us will serve under Fedya Zaitsev, no none!
We will go away from Fedya Zaitsev. Back to the store!
Just imagine that, well, this lying ...
What's so dramatic about it?
And also there's nothing to worry about for Redhead!
He just get's scolded, that's all
None of us will serve under Fedya Zaitsev, no none!
We will go away from Fedya Zaitsev. Back to the store!
And you don't scare me much either, toy soldiers!
The main thing is: they're gone.
Big deal! They'll come back somehow!
But even if they won't come back, I won't cry about it!
I've since long grew out of the age for toys!
And if I really need to, I can always play with my matrushka.
Don't come near and do not touch me!
You lied to your teacher!
and have let down your friend!
Shame on you!! Shame!
Look at you, trying to teach me!
Try to say one more word ...
And I'll deal with you differently.
Fyodor, listen to me.
I've known you since you were 3 years old
I'm not advising you anything awful!
Promise me that tomorrow morning you will confess!
- I'm not even thinking of it!
So you're a coward!
- Oh, really? Take this! A Coward!
- Here! - Coward! Cheater!
- This is for you! - Hey, hey, you coward!
- This is for you! Ha, ha, ha ... You can't crack all of us down so easily.
And know this: The truth will always prevail!
You're lying, as she can't show up,
when no one saw anything.
That's not true! I saw it!
No, This needs to stop! I must intervene in this story!
I know who drew me.
I know everything, as an honest man, I can't keep the truth unrevealed,
I can not, I have to stand up for Redhead
I need to visit Zaitsev immediately,
to convince him that he should help his friend
Who's knocking?
I do not see anyone.
Strange....It must be the new parquet floor squeaking...
Ah! Be the ears I'd like to drag this ...
Now I tell you! What kind of mischief is this!
The wall was just recently painted!
And then he soiled it with this coal drawing
These pupils are worse then savages!
I'll go and fetch a rag as quickly as possible.
Wow! Exactly the same man as me only drawn in chalk on the blackboard!
Please forgive me that I entered without knocking!
Come in please! Happy to meet you!
- I come with a request ... A case of emergency.
I was forced to leave "3-B".
- And what can I do you help you?
Could you please, until I return, stand there, in "3-B", in replacement of me on the wall?
where I was spotted by the doorman.
I'm afraid when he returns to the classroom and find me gone from the wall,
You know how Gavrila after all is a man of advanced years,
He might think: "Well, what the hell!"
I would have been glad to help you out!
but I'm blonde, I was drawn in chalk.
White on white will make me unnoticeable
That's all?
No other obstacles?
Then follow me please. I'll make you a brunette.
I wanted to erase the drawing But it disappeared by itself
I guess I went to the wrong floor.
This is not wine, but only ink
that Gavril pours out here in the morning.
We will drink the ink in these glasses
in honor of a clean conscience in all adults and boys
Now it looks as if everything is fine.
Please forgive me, I must be off in a hurry!
I've been everywhere! Walked all floors!
But I haven't found not any picture on any wall!
Maybe I just dreamed it.
and was alarmed by that., old fool that I am!
Now tell me please! What the hell is this!
Oh! I almost stepped on you!
Doesn't matter!, I'm used to it.
Please forgive me. maybe is a strange question,
but nevertheless, are you a horse or a dog?
well, you see, actually I don't know myself
but the boy that portrayed me was convinced that I was a typical lion
Well, it could be...
But judging by the fact that he gave you eight feet It must have been a generous artist,
You should be able to run very fast,
Since I am in a hurry, could you let me ride on your back?
Please! Go ahead!
Go like the wind, eight legged horse,
I am hopeful, I am full of anxiety,
I can't believe Zaitsev will trait his friend
I believe that children are good
I know that Zaitsev has at least some conscience and honor left.
S T O P
According to the sign it's forbidden to ride further by horseback
A circle and a horse's head
But probably you are more of a dog that resembles a lion!
Oh, my unknown horse breed!
How can I ever thank you?
Tell me what you would prefer,
sugar, barley, oats or raw meat?
- Good heavens, what a nonsense!
Well, hello Fyodor Zaitsev!
- Oh ... - Here I came.
- Who are you?
-I 'm point, point, comma.
A minus and a smiley curve.
- I'm stick, stick,cucumber.
Yes, I am the little man.
Fedya, I never stuck my "comma" in other people's business,
But you mustn't do this! I strongly protest!
I know who drew me.
Fyodor Zaitsev, you must step forward.
- I will not admit.
Just think about telling lies...
Well, I will not lie out of spite, I will lie on purpose.
I want to! I want to! I want to!
Ay-ay, ay ... ay, ay ... Only, haven't you been told,
that for boys like you
There is the terrible realm of lies.
And you will belong there.
- I'm not afraid.
I'm educated, and you yourself are lying.
I had an B mark for globe geography.
There is no such kingdom is anywhere!
Well, here, look, where is it? Well, show it to me, show it. Ah!?
Now, I did not say that this kingdom actually exists, Fyodor.
I have not lied, I have so to say ... invented it.
Alo! Alo! Here speaks the Kingdom of Lies.
What? What? What's this?
Not once has it worked at this radio-wave.
Here speaks the Kingdom of Lies with an announcement...
For additional staff in the entourage of the Queen of Lies a good boy who knows how to lie is required.
The boy becomes a nobleman, the boy will live in luxury.
In a beautiful palace and nourish on vitamin C.
Furthermore,he will get in addition to the cream cakes
All ice cream varieties,
Turkish delight, halvah, jam, almonds, nuts and cookies.
Compote, 4 jars of honey and carbonated water.
so, in order to get into the kingdom of Lies
Get up at the door and say:
We have lied, we lie and we will lie again. Seven times eight is twenty-five.
- Listen, Fyodor,
Fyodor, do you really want to go there?
- Goes without saying! Of course I want to!
Well, a neck-tie was not required!
He's gone.
And I do nothing and ask myself questions.
Can it be true, will he not come back?
And perish forever in the realm of lies?
After him! After him!
- We have lied we lie and will continue to lie!
Seven times eight is twenty-five! (7x8 = 25)
Stop! Stop!
[Pull towards you]
- Why, in that way??
There's written:
Push towards yourself
Oh, how tired I am...
We'll have a break and after I'm rested we'll draw again.
Oh, hi, ah, ha, oh, it, ah-ha ... Ha, ha. Ha, ha, ha.
- Your Majesty! Allow me to report!
The coach with Fyodor Zaitsev is close to the palace.
- Tell me, sir Supreme Liar,
what facial expression would you advise me
in this case? Well?
With your permission, Your Majesty,
I would dare to offer
Well ...? -the Supportive Smile.
-Page! Get me my supportive smile.
Fool! What have you given me?
I asked you my supportive smile,
the ninth number, but what is this?
The fourteenth number - royal boredom!
I ordered it specially for public executions
and pop concerts.
- I had nothing to do with it, Your Majesty.
When I went here this soldier with a mustache came
like a cat in a samovar,
For some reason you needed childish innocence,
He climbed up the cupboard himself and muddled up everything
A cat in a samovar?!
Let me teach you a lesson for your insolence!
You're no more a page!
I appoint you as disciple to the court chimney-sweep.
Come closer to me, Fyodor Zaitsev.
Closer, closer ... Oho!
Closer!
Oh, there you are! How likable you are!!
We immediately see that you are bold and courageous boy.
You not only lied, but also betrayed your friend.
That is quite an heroic deed!
- So I , after all, ...
You can't tell me anything,
I already know everything.
I appoint you my page!
Uh! I'm talking parrot! I'm a real parrot! I am a wonderful bird!
Uh! Do not be sad. Do not cry! Never drink soda like water.
Ha-ha-ha-ha ...
Listen, parrot, dear! Why are they afraid of me?
Well, there you fly away ...
Parrot,dear,, tell them I won't harm anybody.
They say that you first beckon, and then throw stones ..
- Honestly, I won't harm them!
You'll deceive us.
- I never tell lies.
- What do they say that is so funny?
I told them: Ah, ah, ha, you, heh, heh, heh, you never lie, Ojo, ho!
- What's so funny?
Well, yes, of course ... I never lie ...
That is, well, almost never.
Oh, that's me. I'm to blame for everything.
I wasn't able to persuade the child, I didn't find the road to the kids heart.
And now he is alone in that awful kingdom, where seven times eight (7x8), is only twenty-five (25).
And even then, what he has been taught, he soon will forget.
In the hurry, Fyodor left his textbooks home.
But here is his portfolio his book of problems.
With violet blots in them poor, poor boy!
From point A comes a freight train from point B
comes one too to meet him ...
No, I'm not able to think about this without sorrow
that the boy never will find out the answer
where the freight trains will meet according to the rules of science.
I'm with an invisible thread connected with Fyodor Zaitsev,
and I shall help him.
Fly courageous, my dear ,
Fly, fly my paper protagonist,
my message on your chest,
and to find Fyodor Zaitsev.
It's a paper dove!
Oh, if only I had my faithful slingshot on me!
If only I won't miss!
Write back on the back of the tail How can I help you. The little man.
Does anybody have a pen?
Ouch, here you are.
I'm doing very well in the realm of lies. FZ
Daddy, daddy, what does it say?
It's not for children.
Page, give me children's naivety.
Your Majesty! My father, the nice and wise ruler
of the kingdom slander always was a friend of your late father,
the great ruler of the kingdom of lies.
deep interest ...
The expression of deep interest,
which appeared on your face,
gives me the courage to continue.
Charming embarrassment
A bond as to unite our powers, a union of our hearts!
- I agree.
Excuse me, Your Majesty,
but I have to take back this proposal.
- Why?
I believe that for two spouses, one pair of whiskers would be sufficient.
- What happened to him?
- Scoundrel!
How dare you do this?
But Grandma, I swear as an honest pioneer, Well, really, I...
-What Do you think, the mustache put himself there?
From themselves mustaches only appear on males.
- You're lucky that you're a queen, and not a king.
Because if you were a king, I would...
I let it be and hold in!
- Get out! Out of my palace!
Seven times eight is fifty-six (7x8 = 56). There!
Our new queen just as our former kings, Order us to work from dawn to dusk.
But as Saturday ends, our work also ends and Sunday comes.
And our beautiful queen, our mother, so to say,
Has set it as a wonderful holiday.
The painters are invited, the carpenters are invited, all the working people are,
the tinsmiths and the builders, the blacksmiths and the coopers
go to the balloon feast.
Tell me cooper: What's with these balloons?
You see, if you catch a balloon, you can wish for whatever you want.
- Oh, that probably tastes delicious...
- Do you want a piece?
No, sir, I'm not talking about the bread, I'm talking about the cake.
That should really bee delicious, I think.
- I think so too.
But I just never had a chance to taste it.
- So what do you make them for?
- What for? For the royal table, boy.
And you yourself eat bread without anything.
- Why without anything?
With salt.
- What a poor life you live.
- Live like all live is not that bad.
- But, if I happen to catch a ball ...
then, indeed, live is great.
One then gets whatever one wants.
- And that's all because of those balloons, guvnor?
- Come back tomorrow to the Palace Square
and see it all for yourself.
Give me number three - inexhaustible kindness
Oh my good, nice commoners!
You all honestly put in some work all this week for your queen.
For this I ordered to prepare for you a great variety of ... what?
Balloons!
- New, new .. - New happiness balloons!
There are states where one strives for
total happiness for all people.
That's so queer. Ha, ha, ha ...
As they not seem to understand,
if one has one general happiness for all,
each will get ... what?
Now, only such a little part.
In our country, one can
get his personal happiness.
not to share with anyone else.
To get happiness that directly,
one only needs to ... what? Ah, yes, catch a balloon.
And on the balls for you, I did not hold back.
Just catch them, my friends!
The balls of happiness!
That's nonsense, what she said.
There was even a discussion on the theme of happiness at our school.
It was concluded that happiness must necessarily be shared.
Only one boy, Roly Dobrovolsky, disagreed.
Happiness is said to be not general, but collective.
The big inflator. Chief Puff-up!
Hey-hey! I shall now begin to inflate
the first batch of magic balloons.
Catch the balloons!
Catch your happiness!
You may wish for
everything you want.
Remember, there's only one condition:
You must have time to make your wish
before the balloon burst.
I want to ... I want ... I want ...
I want to ...
Well, now?
- Bursted again, I did not have the time ...
And I have such a short wish.
Just one word - glory.
My desire is even shorter - power.
You'll do well, with such short ones. Eventually you may well expect
success. But what about me?
My wish is so large! - What is it?
- Make ends meet and have a crust of bread
for a rainy day.
Sir Supreme liar, Chief Puff-up
asks to give him two more bars of soap.
-One piece will do.
Let him inflate smaller balloons.
- I think that one should not hold back,
When it comes to people's happiness.
- And to think that none of them knows,
they are the most common soap bubbles.
- These are the most common soap bubbles!
Uncle pastry, do not believe them, Those are no balloons of happiness,
the old woman is deceiving you.
- Which old lady?
- The queen.
- You're crazy, boy
- Well, this old woman, she wears a mask!
I worked as a page for her.
Why don't you believe me?
I, if you want to know, even gave a slap in the face.
Oh, well, okay, he's crazy ...
- No! You are all crazy!
Is it possible to even catch a soap-bubble?
And if you do, anyway Nothing will happen!
Hey, catch! Catch! catch ...
- Well, why not be catching one?!
Is it possible I never will be believed by anyone?
Well, never mind, I'll prove it today.
I'll catch a balloon and say: balloon,
Make it so that I immediately grow a beard to the ground.
- And nothing will be fulfilled anymore,
and everyone will see that I was telling the truth.
And they are cheated.
Oh ...but catching is not the point ... it just is almost impossible to hold them.
But shouldn't it probably somehow be possible? ...
- Well, I restrain myself from mournful sighing.
He was feeling good there. Oh, how bad that is!
And really nothing, no even a single scribble
by this post pigeon I do not get from him?
Dear little man, help me!
Don't you know a way to keep a soap-bubble in one's hands
so it does not burst, and then you feel very sad. FZ
How can a soap bubble be held in ones hands?
Indeed, that's serious task.
- Can you give me some advise in how to solve this question?
- I think that only modern science can answer your question.
- What do you think could I find it in arithmetic s?
- Arithmetic? Unlikely.
- And in geography?
- Neither.
- Physics in games and amusements. -That Is just what you need!
Egg in a bottle,[Experiment no.], floating needle ... How to cut glass with a simple pair of scissors ...
- How to hold a soap bubble in your hands...
Hurray !!! How to keep a soap-bubble in your hands?
Wear woolen gloves, and you can not only take
the soap-bubble up, but even throw it up again and catch it like a ball.
Wear gloves!
How very simple thing. - Hurray!
Hurray! Long live science!
-Mr Magician, we invited you to the Hall of secret meetings
to ensure that no outsiders can hear our conversation.
- Are you really a wizard, Mr. Wizard?
- Thanks !. Don't bother.
To you I can say then,
Mr. magician, well, people told me,
that one naughty boy at any moment
can ruin our whole kingdom.
The little villain found a way to catch the balloons of happiness.
You understand that then will happen?
-What?
The boy, with all the people witnessing, will catch a balloon!
- The boy, before all people, will order the balloon to fulfill his desire.
- The balloon, before all people will not perform!
And the people will understand that we deceived them.
And the kingdom of lies will burst like a soap bubble.
- What can I do for you?
It is necessary that the wish of the boy will be fulfilled!
- Before all people.
E-n-n !!! Catch the balloons!
Catch your happiness!
Hey, hey!!! So you all think I'm a liar.
But I'll catch that stupid Balloon happiness and you will see
it's just a soap-bubble.
Listen, boy, are they called for a wizard.
If you catch the balloon, each of your wishes actually wíll come true.
So you see, you can't lose.
- Is it a real wizard?
Well, he made a wooden lion sneeze.
Only agree on this: whatever you wish for, half is for me.
So I have to wish for a little more?
Let the bubble come!
Mr. magician, are you are sure...
you can fulfill whatever he desires?
- Do not you worry, your Majesty.
- Your Majesty, allow me the spyglass,
for one minute.
Lord, what is this ...
What, in fact, well, will he extort from it?
- Oh oh ... Quiet, quiet!
He begins to desire.
-Ha,ha,ha! We are very fortunate that we are dealing with a little boy.
Look, what rubbish he desires.
Balloon, balloon! I do not need anything.
If you are really magical, make...
everyone understand that you are just the most common soap bubble.
And let the kingdom of lies burst with you.
And please make it also,
that it becomes the day before yesterday,
so I will be back in school
in my own class.
- My, my, what did I make happen? ...
Hello children.
I congratulate you on the beginning of a new school year.
Did you notice, children, how beautiful our school has become?
Look how bright and clean our classroom is.
Look at these walls. Oh, who has done that??
- I drew the little man.
The End. Subs by Alevtina & Eus August 2015