HOW TO BECOME A HUMAN BEING?
Based on Leonid Andreyev's story "The Rules of Good"
script Vladimir Petkevich, Vladimir Golovanov
director, animator Vladimir Petkevitch art director Valentin Olshvang
camera Nikolay Gribkov, Sergey Reshetnikov
art A. Zolotuhin, I. Klimova
composer V. Artemov sound Z. Mirkina
montage A Permakova script edior I. Duykova
production director V. Hizhnyakova voice V. Chebotarev
There once lived a demon named Nosey.
He was, like all demons, industrious at being awful.
He'd go off on benders...
But he slowly got sick, and even tired, of sin's monotony.
All that was ever heard or unheard of he'd already seen...
it was all as familiar to him as hellish torture.
He wanted air.
Maybe even light.
Do not drive me away, holy Father! I have sinned.
Much?
I came from hell.
Straight from there?
Teach me to do good.
You have refused Satan...
I feel sick to be alive, holy Father!
Yes, you have a gloomy nature.
Gloomy as anything...
that is why I want to fight it
rather than sink to the bottom like a stone.
Really, now?
You give me the rules, holy Father, and I'll...
Here is a rule for you:
If anyone asks you for your last shirt,
give it to him.
I can offer you my shirt, do you want it?
"Forward!"
- Sergeyev? - Yes, Nosey.
Right!
Mr. Sergeyev Nosey, come back!
Eh, nobody wanted that holy shirt of yours, father!
Oh.. why are you... watering heads?
It's the demons trying to fool you, come back to your right mind!
I am just a simpleton.
Rules must be understood broadly...
Remember this: do not resist evil,
turn also the other cheek and you shall benefit from it.
All in the name of the person All for the good of man
Farewell, father, I am going back to Hell.
- There at least it's warm. - But you will bring yourself to ruin!
Just like you have all ruined yourselves!
Why "all"?
Because that's how it is. I'll leave, and that's that.
Or maybe...
I'll die here...
Hey! Hey, hey, hey!
I see the way forward...
I will write you rules
for all situations which could ever occur in the world.
So you can avoid making any mistakes.
You feel tormented? Be patient!
Oh, holy father, I killed a fly,
and I do not know it is allowed or not.
A fly, you say?...
Killing a fly is allowed...
...although...
So flies cannot be killed, then. Write that down!
All right. I'll write about flies, too.
Hey, dear devil-boy!
Come down from there, I've finished my work.
I've written the rules for each day, for every minute you may live.
It is yours!
Teach yourself Good with it, and preach it unto others.
Brothers, here I have the truth! The truth! The whole truth!
Sergeyev!
Mr. Sergeyev Nosey, come back!
Come back!
Mr. Sergeyev Nosey!
Mr. Sergeyev Nosey, come back! Come back... come back...
THE END Sverdlovsk Film Studio 1988
Subs by Chapaev, Eus & Niffiwan (2023)