Department of Culture of the Russian Federation
Pilot Animation studio of Aleksandr Tatarskiy
present
We live in Russia.
Our capital city is Moscow,
but there are over 1000 other cities in Russia,
and each and every one of them has its wonders.
For example, Ulyanovsk!
It was founded at the order of Tsar Alexis I
on the high bank of the Volga-river.
Back then, it was a fortress town named Simbirsk,
also known as the city of seven winds!
This place is nothing short of miraculous:
Here, not very far from Undor village,
they found the remnants of ancient ammonites...
and marine reptiles -
long ago, a prehistoric sea lay here.
Near the village of Staraya Mayna,
they found what is likely the oldest settlement in Russia.
During excavations, they discovered...
...not only Bulgar coins, but also coins from Arabia,
but even those belonging to the Vikings!
They even say that the rebel Stepan Razin...
...buried his treasure here somewhere!
But the greatest treasure of all...
...are, of course, the people of this region.
Such writers as Ivan Goncharov,
Nikolay Karamzin and Sergey Aksakov.
The city of Ulyanovsk has its own heavenly protector...
the Blessed Andrei Ilyich
Simbirsk, when it was still mainly made of wood, burned to the ground several times.
But during the lifetime of Blessed Andrei...
there wasn't a single big fire.
The folk tales here are no less wonderful.
For example, the one about the dough ball, Kolobok!
Or Kolebyatka, the local name...
for a small round bread.
There are many marvelous tales...
that are told here in Simbirsk,
and each and every one of them...
is like a precious gem.
"KOLOBOK"
Once there lived an old man and an old woman.
- Here we go again!
- Old woman... hey, old woma-a-an!
- Well?
- Bake us, dear, a little dough ball!
- Hey, now! What will I make it from? We've had no flour for days!
- You just go and scrape the bottom of the barrel, sweep the flour bins...
...and there'll be enough flour, surely!
- Just listen to what you've come up with! Scrape the bottom of the barrel!...
...sweep the flour bins!
As the old man said, so the old woman did.
The old woman baked a dough-ball - a "Kolobok"!
- Wow, you're very hot! Lie here and cool down a bit.
- There we go!
- ...Oh, how nice that smells!!
- ...Whoa!...
- ...Food! Ha-ha!
- Wow!
- Oho! It works at last!
- Kolobok, dear, where have you gone? Kolobok!
- My darling Kolobok!
- Come back, my child!
- Kolobok!
Kolobok rolled along the paths and garden beds...
...and suddenly came upon...
...a Hare!
- Hey, you! Who are you?
- And who are you?
- Me? I'm a Hare! And you?!
- I... I am Kolobok.
- What sort of a "Kolobok"??
- Here!
- Ha!... Kolobok, Kolobok, I'm going to eat you!
- Oh! Don't eat me, Hare!
I... I... I will sing you a song!
- Kolobo-ok!
- All right, sing, only not too loudly!
- Uh-huh!...
- I'm Kolobok... ...a ball of dough!
- My ruddy sides were baked just so!
- From the barn I was swept up!
- From the flour bins scraped up!
- Then with sour cream I got stirred!
- And on the windowsill got chilled!
- From the old man I ran away!
- From the old woman ran away!
- And from you, too, you long-eared Hare,
- I'll surely run away, as well!
- Hmm! I don't get it! Where'd he go?!
And Kolobok rolled onwards -
Hare had laid eyes on him, but nothing else.
Kolobok rolled on and on...
...and suddenly come upon...
- Uh-oh...
...a Wolf.
- Halt! Ha-ha-ha!
- Kolobok, Kolobok... I'm going to eat you!
- Do not eat me, Grey Wolf... I...
...I'm not tasty!
- But I... *a-gulp*...
- ...will eat ANYTHING!
- But I... but I... I will sing you a song, first!
- What song?!
- I'm Kolobok, a ball of dough!
- My ruddy sides were baked just so!
- From the barn I was swept up!
- From the flour bins scraped up!
- Then with sour cream I got stirred!
- And on the windowsill got chilled!
- From the old man I ran away!
- From the old woman ran away!
- And from the Hare I ran away!
- And from you, Big Grey Wolf, I'll run away as well!
- Oh, you!!... Oh...
And Kolobok rolled onwards -
Wolf had laid eyes on him, but nothing else.
- Kolobok! - Kolobok, come back!
- Ah... wow!
- How nice!
Kolobok rolled on and on...
...and suddenly came upon...
...a Bear!
- Kolobok, Kolobok, I'm going to eat you!
- Well... you can eat me any time you want...
- Haha... maybe I can sing you a song, first?
- Well...
- Yes! Yes! Yes!
- Go on! But don't be long about it...
...because I haven't eaten anything since morning!
- I'm Kolobok, a ball of dough!
- My ruddy sides were baked just so!
- From the barn I was swept up!
- From the flour bins scraped up!
- Then with sour cream I got stirred!
- And on the windowsill got chilled!
- From the old man he ran away!
- From the old woman ran away!
- And from the Hare he ran away!
- And from the Wolf he ran away!
- And from you, too, you Shaggy Bear, I'll simply run away as well!
- Oh?! Ah, you...! Ooh, you...!
- Oh, I'll catch you up!
And Kolobok rolled onwards -
Bear had laid eyes on him, but nothing else.
- Ah, Kolobok!
How nice you are...
...and how heavenly you smell!
- Oh!
- Hm! Maybe you can sing songs, too?
- Yes! Very pretty ones!
- Sing to me just once, cheer up a poor widow!
- Run! Run! Run!
- To tell the truth, I'm already pretty tired...
- I'm begging you!
- ...Well, all right.
- I'm Kolobok, a ball of dough!
- My ruddy sides were baked just so! - Run! Run! Run!
- From the barn I was swept up!
- From the flour bins scraped up!
- Then with sour cream I got stirred!
- And on the windowsill got chilled!
- From the old man I ran away!
- From the old woman ran away! - Run! Run! Run!
- And from the Hare you ran away!
- Run! Run! Run!
- And from the Wolf you ran away!
- And from the Bear you ran away!
- And from you, Foxy-Beauty, I'll run away as well!
- Bravo! Bravo! Bravo! Genius!
- Yeah?
- Ah, only I can't hear you very well...
- Probably, because I'm now so very old.
- Come sit on my snout and sing your song again.
- Run! Run! Run!
- What?
- Sit on my snout.
- And sing your song again!
- Uh-huh...
I'm Kolobok...
- Nom!
- Before Kolobok could finish his song, the Fox went "Nom!" and ate him!
- That's what happens to children who run away from home!
- That's right! And now it's time to sleep!
screenplay, director-producer Eduard Nazarov
director Marina Karpova
music by Viktor Dementyev, Marina Karpova
actors Svetlana Zalesskaya-Ben, Yan Luchina, Vera Kavalerova,
Igor Sidorik, Andrey Karako, Raisa Astredinova
recording & mixing by studio soundmixer.by
sound directors Yevgeniy Rogozin, Yelena Nikolayeva
noise design - Shamil Ismailov sound montage - Tamara Kolosovskaya
art directors Aleksandra Mihailova, Mariya Puchkova, Marina Karpova
artists Lyudmila Shidlovskaya, Svetlana Kotlyarova, Marina Romushkevich,
Polina Pototskaya, Natalya Krivoshlykova
animators Viktoriya Bratishko, Olga Rybina, Sergey Germanenko,
Aleksandra Muhomelzyanova Vadim Babavoz, Olga Ptichkina, Yuliya Titova
3d modeling Vadim Babavoz, Kirill Kravchenko
compositing Maksim Gerasimenko, Aleksei Pochivalov, Aleksandr Smirnov
montage Lyudmila Koptyeva production director Igor Gelashvili
plasticine intro Sergey Merinov, Darya Larionova, Aleksandr Melnikov composer Lev Zemlinskiy
the project's artistic council E. Nazarov, V. Telegin, S. Merinov executive producer Igor Gelashvili
creator of the project Aleksandr Tatarskiy
Financially supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation
THE END (English translation mostly by Niffiwan)