Creative association "Ekran" 1984
I Want the Moon based on “Many Moons” by James Thurber
- Boooo-hoooooo-hooooo….
0hhhh, why oh why have I allowed the court doctor to go on holiday?
What is to be done? Oh, what is to be done?
- What? Not feeling all sweet, eh? How many chocolates have you eaten?
-This many…and this…and this many!
-My oh my!
-Don’t tell anyone!
- Play with the monkey…
- Ahhhh, no, I do not want to!
- D-d-do you want the elephant?
-No!
- Don’t cry, please, don’t cry.
Perhaps, you want a chocolate?
- Arrrrghhhhh!
Daughter, dear daughter, I will get you anything,
your soul wishes for.
Well, what do you want? Tell your Daddy.
Tell me, tell me, what do you want….Well?
The Moon. I want the Moon!
If I have the Moon, I’ll be healthy again.
-You will have your Moon. I’ll get it for you!
- Get me the Lord High Chamberlain!
- I am here, your Majesty!
- It’s urgent! Get the Moon for the Princess.
- Your Majesty, but the Moon is expensive!
And the treasury is empty.
Here is the last golden sovereign, and even this one’s got a hole in it
- Give this coin to me, for good luck.
- Here, take it. Who cares…
- The Moon has to be here SOON!
- What if I can jump to it?
Oh, ouch! Nearly broke my head
- Your Majesty, I have acquired lots of various jambalaya for you:
emeralds and opals, pink elephants and a blue puddle, angels’ feathers…
- Get the Moon, Chancellor! Today!
- With our transportation? It’s 1000 miles to the Moon
and it is bigger than the Princess’s room.
And anyway…the Moon is made of cheese.
- Whaaaat?? Do you have a head on those shoulders?
- He, your Majesty, has a head….
- a smaaaal head of cheese, with holes in it. Hahaha!
- Get out of here, you buffoon! Your Majesty, I beg you…
- Get out of here. Out of sight!
- With pleasure.
- Lazy bum!
- Absolutely right. - Lazy bum!
- Absolutely right.
- Bring in the court mathematician!
- Look, you are second smartest one… after me.
So, think hard and tell me how to get the Moon!
- It is not obtainable. Out of the question!
The Moon is as big as your palace,
made of copper and is dead firmly nailed to the sky!
- Copper??
- Yep..
- Nailed??
Firmly nailed!
- You squared loggerhead!
- I am not a loggerhead.
I’m well known in London and….in Paris
- Get the hell out of here! Where is the Wizard?
Aatchoo! Messir?
- We need the Moon.
- The Moon-san is shine-san… your eyes-san be blind-san
- No, you didn’t get it. The Princess wants the Moon.
- Moon-a-sami sky-a-sami, Moon-a-sama, high-a-sama.
- Fetch it-a-sama, if you’re not a fool-a-sama!
What-sama? Moon-a-sama? Wah-wah-wah, no get-a-sama.
- So get out of here!
-Oh! Oh! Oh!
- Fraudster!
- Of course, all of them are wise men, Your Majesty.
However, it’d be interesting to know what the Princess thinks about it?
- Have you fetched the Moon?
- Not yet, but I shall do, soon.
What’s it like, in your view?
- A little bigger than my nail.
Because when I hold my finger this way,
the nail covers most of it.
- Princess, and what is it made of, the Moon?
- Hahah, so silly. Gold, of course.
- Is it far away?
- Can you see the tree?
It was hanging on a branch just now,
but then…it rolled off somewhere.
- What if it rolled into this room?
Let’s have a look!
- Okay.
- I’ve found it, I’ve found it!
- The Moon! But why does it have a small hole?
- Well, how else would it be hanging on a branch?
- I have the Moon! I have the Moon!
- If the Princess sees the Moon tonight,
she’ll understand that she’s been cheated.
Come on, think of what to do!
- Here, I’ve thought all about it, Your Majesty.
Look!
- Oh, ouch!!
- I can’t see anything!
- That’s the thing!
In these glasses, not only the Princess shall'n't see the Moon…
She won’t be able to see anything!
- But then she might fall over!
She might break her leg…
- Well???
- ..... helpless look
- What will you say?
- Fire fork.
- What???
- Fire-works!
- Stop it immediately!
You’ll burn down the whole castle.
Oh, what is to be done? What is to be done?
- Do make it clear for me, Princess:
how can the Moon be glowing in the sky,
if it is on your chain?
Haha, very easily, you simpleton.
When I lose a tooth,
another one grows in its place.
Right? - Right.
And when the gardener cuts down the flowers
new ones grow later. True?
True!
You see…It’s the same with the Moon.
- Oh, how daft of me!
The same very thing happens to us.
And to everything else in this world.
Shshsh!
written by S. Task
directed by Joseph Douksha, Maya Buzinova
art director Galina Beda cameraman I. Rogachevsky
music Alexander Zhurbin Sound V Azarovski
Animators M Buzinova, A Solovyeva, V Kadukhin
Voice actors G Bitsin, I Yasulovich O Ostroumova, A Linikov R Sukhoverko, A Snykov
Puppets & decor G Bogatsev, A mulyukina Yu Oditsov, E Pokrovskaya, A Gnedinski N Panteleyeva, A kuznetsov, N Lyarskaya
B Karavayev, M Bogatskaya K Prytkova, V Petrov
Cutter S Simukhina Tekst editor A Feodoridi Executive Producer E. Bobrovskaya
The end Translation by Victoria Timing by eus