Soyuzmultfilm 1986
How To Lose Weight
Based on the H.G. Wells story "The Truth about Pyecraft"
Look, would you just listen, come on, be a man!
Stop crying, damn you!
Up there, high in the sky, weeps my poor neighbour.
And this is how it all began.
He talked endlessly about his weight.
And about what he was doing to get rid of his excess weight.
And about what other people are doing who are overweight.
Meanwhile, the whole time, he was eating and eating and eating!
Ah, I would... I'd give anything,
to lose... to lose some weight.
Anything at all!
Then stop chewing.
In the... In the east... In the east, I've heard...
Every time we've met for a week,
you've given me a broad hint or so about that little secret of mine.
Who told you about my great-grandmother's recipes?
Please, please, please. let me taste it! Let me taste it!
Hands! Get your hands off! Get your hands off!
Well, all right... all right.
But I won't be responsible for anything.
My father once made use
of one of these... recipes.
Just once!
Well, it's your decision.
How to Lose Weight
The cockroach should be black!
Please, it's urgent, come!
Hello, hello...
Your great-grandmother, may she...
What is this childishness?
And to think, at your weight!
Weight? Weight? I've lost it completely!
- May your great-grandmother... - Not a word against my great-grandmother!
Oh, my God! My friends, my work... all is lost!
An idea. An idea!
Iron trousers. Iron trousers!
Stop!
Stop crying!
Be a man, for crying out loud.
When a man is in such an idiotic situation, he needs to be saved.
script & artistic supervisor Nikolay Serebryakov
director Yekaterina Obraztsova
art director Viktor Dudkin camera Igor Dianov
sound Vladimir Kutuzov composer Aleksandr Zhurbin
animators Olga Panokina, Mihail Pisman
voices Vasiliy Livanov, Semyon Samodur, I. Panyarskaya
script editor Natalya Abramova montage Nadezhda Treshchyova
puppets & decor Oleg Masainov, Pavel Gusev, Mihail Koltunov, Viktor Grishin, Vlaimir Alisov, Vladimir Konobeyev
Nataliya Grinberg, A. Utkin, Svetlana Znamenskaya, Aleksandr Maksimov, Sergey Popov, Vladimir Maslov
production director Grigoriy Hmara
The End (c) Soyuzmultfilm, 1986
Subs by Lemicnor & Eus (Nov 2024) revised by Niffiwan (May 2025)