Ukranimafilm 1997
Made with the support of the Ukrainian Ministry of Culture
A Pumpkin Walks Through the Garden
Based on Ukrainian folklore
A pumpkin walks through the garden, asking how his kin are doing:
"Oh, are you all alive and well,
all of you pumpkin relations?"
At that, spoke the yellow melon, She spoke up, the pumpkin mistress:
Where the heck did you just come from, where have you been until now?
Have you lost all fear of God, then? Why did you not sleep at home?
Oh, just listen, to what happened;
terror still takes hold of me!
'Twas a bit of an adventure,
and I very nearly died!
With a pestle, I will crush your arms and legs - you'll know what for!
May you be beset by demons, may the devil take you, lout!
Oh!
Ha, ha, ha, ha.
Oh, are you all alive and well, all you pumpkin relations?
Then the cucumbers responded. the pumpkin's dear sons and daughters:
Ah?
Oh, we are all alive and well, all of us pumpkin relations!
- What are you standing on? - On a rock.
- What are you selling? - Kvass.
Then catch us! Ha-ha-ha!
Stop! Hup, two!
Oh, are you all alive and well, all you pumpkin relations?
We are all still alive and well, all of us pumpkin relations!
Stand ready!
Hup, two.
Hup, two! Hup, two!
Ha-ha-ha.
Ha, ha, ha, ha.
Forward march!
Still alive, still well and healthy, are all the pumpkin relations! (2x)
Oh, you hen named Ryaba,
go dig us a seedbed.
A small, not too big one, one that like a glove fits.
We will sow some poppies and also some parsnips.
We will plant some flowers fine to amuse the children.
Still alive, still well and healthy, are all the pumpkin relations!
The blackthorn's blooming, the blackthorn's blooming,
but the flowers are falling off...
Daughter, what's wrong?
He who does not suffer love...
What do you want?
I'll get you everything. Tell me what you need.
She needs beetroot, that's what she needs!
Ugh, you old man! Don't act disgracefully in front of the kid!
Oh, Mum, be quiet. And you, Dad ...
Oh?
Do you have that maiden carrot here?
We've got a buyer, a fine young lad!
Oh!
- Dad and Mum asked... - And we would also ask!
A pumpkin walks through the garden, asking how his kin are doing.
Are all the pumpkin relatives still alive and well?
Eduard Kirich (screenwriter) Valentina Kostyleva (director) D. Churilov
Mariya Lashkevich, Svetlana Novi (camera), O. Nikolayenko, Oleg Kiva (composer)
Yu. Nechesa, Yu. Shchelkovskiy, Zhan Taran, Anatoliy Radchenko
Oleg Pedan, Vadim Gahun, I. Dushevska, S. Melnichenko
A. Lapchinska, Svetlana Kutsenko (script editor), Lidiya Mokrousova (montage), V. Kilinskiy (production director)
The End Subs by Eus, December 2024 revised by Niffiwan, April 2025