Soyuzmultfilm
KOMINO Based on a Mari Legend as told by Vasiliy Yuksern
screenwriter Vladimir Danilov director Leonid Kayukov
art directors V. Bayramov, V. Kayukov
camera Kabul Rasulov composer Vladimir Krivtsov
sound Sergey Karpov montage Nataliya Stepantseva
animators Galina Zebrova, Tatyana Pomerantseva, Marina Voskanyants,
Vladimir Vyshegorodtsev, Dmitriy Novoselov, B. Kayukov
assistant director O. Apanasova
artists Irina Sobyanina, Viktoriya Makina, Sergey Marakasov, A. Ratkovskaya
voices Nikita Dzhigurda, V. Bogachyov
script editor Tatyana Paporova
production director Yelena Vasina
Praise to you, Komino, our matriarch!
Your forest is full of wild animals and game,
your rivers are full of fish.
The women and children of the camp are well-fed.
Thank you, Komino, river otter!
May the four-legged and the winged live in peace.
No one will go hunting.
No one.
Hunting is done with!
May it be so!
Ai-wai, Maska! (Maska means "Bear" in Mari)
Did you see my mark on the tree?
By law, the prey is mine.
Go away! Saigelde never gives up what is his!
Komino, matriarch!
Let me go hunting. Accept this treat.
It is I that ask, Saigelde.
Listen,
I was foolishly caught.
I understand; you won't help.
We are both predators.
You're right.
Komino!
I have broken the law of nature.
Let me say goodbye to my daughter.
Komino, give him to us! Komino, give him to us!
There can be no forgiveness for him! There can be no forgiveness for him!
Blood for blood!
Ever since that long-ago age,
the forest-dwelling Mari people celebrate a holiday
dedicated to the wise river otter Komino.
The Holiday of Mercy.
The End (c) Soyuzmultfilm, 1990
Subs by Lemicnor & Eus (2025.10), revised by Niffiwan (2026.02) @ animatsiya.net