Production of Soyuzmultfilm Moscow
The End of the Black Bog
written by Arcadiy Snesarev directed by Vladimir Degtyaryov camera Mihail Kamenetskiy
art director Vladimir Danilevich music Vasiliy Solovyov-Sedoy sound Georgiy Martynyuk
animators M. Mamonov, Pavel Petrov script editor Boris Voronov
Voice actors: G.Vitsin, I.Masing, V.Ratomsky, V.Lepko
puppets and decor lead by Roman Gurov G. Lutinsky, O. Plutsinskaya, V. Kalashnikova, V. Kuranov, V. Cherkinskaya, N. Chelikov, V Chernihova
Background artists N. Tselikov, V. Chernihova executive producer Natan Bitman Montage V Egerova, Ass. dir Arkadiy Tyurin
Watersprite, hey, Watersprite!
It's time to drink tea.
Hoo-ah...
Some sugar-cubes would be nice.
Oh, dearest, what a wish!
For a hundred years now we haven't left the bog
Where would I get that?
And a linden blossom for the brew...
- There's nothing. - No. Nothing.
Maybe we should ask Baba Yaga, eh?
Don't you get involved with Yaga.
If you wake her at the wrong hour, you can get into big trouble.
- That's true. - She is, simply put -
a pain in the ass.
That goes on every night.
I haven't been able to sleep at all.
Then you should chew black henbane.
It helps a lot.
- Chew it yourself! - No, you chew it!
Black henbane without honey?!
Noise makers!
Shameless idiots!
I'll get you, you night owls!..
Now we've done it, we woke up Baba Yaga!
Don't you start yelling.
Goodness me, what a graceful beauty has turned up!
Ah, so I don't look nice to you.
Oh, you lifeless frog!
Oh no, my dear oven-fork!
What am I going to do without you?
That is not a good sign.
The end of us all is near.
Granny, oh, granny,
Fly out there, would you? For Christ's sake!
Go and see what's going on in Russia.
Maybe that was the end of the world,
and we're sitting here... - I do not want to.
We've sat here for 1000 years and here we'll stay!
Ah, you want to stay here...
There, just listen.
Phooey.
Fly out, eh?
Check out all the evil forces threatening the swamp.
And I will get your oven-fork back.
You will?
Well then, perhaps,...
...at dawn I'll fly out.
Come on, come on!
Go on, then!
At least this one is a little quieter.
Look there! Oh!
So, that was the purpose of that powder.
Oh, I hope we don't die.
Oh, you nasty thing.
May paralysis strike you!.
Granny!
Did you have an accident?
What?
Did you try out a new fly-machine?
- You're a scientist, yes? - What?
Why... why, I'm Baba Yaga!
- Oh! - Yes.
And this is not your lousy... whatchamacallit...
but my mortar!
But we're big kids already.
We know that there is no Baba Yaga.
All that stuff about her is just fairy tales.
What? Fairy tales? Oh!
So that's what children are like today! Bother it all!
Maybe something happened?
After all, it's the first time in 100 years that the old lady has flown.
Maybe it really was the end of the world?
Maybe, but nobody invited us.
Oh, you. Got some powder on you,
and now you're worse than Koshchei the Deathless.
Ah!
I'm leaving!
What's wrong with you?
I'm leaving, anywhere but here!
To some kingdom far, far away.
I'll fly off, but I won't submit!
I will not be subjugated!
Watersprite!
Uncle.
Our granny's completely lost her mind.
Keep living here, if you can.
But I can not.
Children have begun to laugh at us.
Oh!
Eh, I too will crawl under some root
and never crawl out again.
Goodbye!
Oh, no, this is too much.
I must go see for myself.
Ah. Oh!
Oh, being old is no fun.
Oh, a road.
By God, a road.
Oh, where exactly am I?
Hey, did you not notice that this is a highway?
[Kindergarten.]
Oh!
Wow!
[School]
[Club] [Today...]
Lecture: Pagan spirits in the light of modern science. Dancing
...and so, not seeing an escape from the surrounding hard reality,
the Russian peasant hoped
that help would come either from God,
or from some sort of magical force
which, according to folk fantasy,
inhabited nature.
Nature.
For example: wood-goblins, water-sprites.
He's right about that.
But in the present time
in our country, wood-goblins and water-sprites
only exist
as poetic images
in our folk art,
as beloved characters in fairy tales.
But if there are those who still seriously believe in them,
this would represent
harmful superstition. Superstition.
A relic of the past.
Wow! So it turns out that I'm a harmful superstition.
That's all.
In the garden one hears not
even the slightest rustles.* * World hit '57-'64: "Moscow Nights"
Superstition...
What to do, eh?
Where should I go?
If you only knew,
how precious to me
are those Moscow Nights.
Ah, if you only knew,
how precious to me
are those Moscow Nights.
Yes, life in the villages...
...is now quite swell.
It is hard to say
and not to say
everything that is in my heart.
Oh, it's hard to say
and not to say
everything that is in my heart.
It is hard to say
and not to say
everything that is
in my heart...
Eh, the end has come for us.
I'll go back to the bog
and I'll never come out again.
Citizen! Hey!
Citizen!
Do you know the way to the Black Bog?
Why?
Have you an errand to run, Or are you going just for fun?
We will drain the Bog and build a collective farm holiday house there.
Why are you hiding?
Ah, everything is clear.
- You are a wood-goblin. - No, we're not a wood-goblin...
We are a harmful
sun... sui... superstition.
Understood. So why are you still here?
- Well, where are we supposed to go? - What do you mean "where?"
Your place is
in fairy tales.
- Where? Where? - Well, everywhere.
First in literature,
Second: in the theater.
Third: In the movies.
In the movies too?! - Yes.
Will they take us? - Of course they will.
We do not turn away ancient tales.
- And will they take the water-sprite too? - They'll take the water-sprite too.
So there's no need for you to idle about here.
- Well, then, we will go. - Come on, then!
- You'll explain it to the water-sprite too. - Alright! Take a seat.
Let's go!
Wait, stop!
Look, granny returned.
Where are you going?
Into fairy tales.
Where? where?
Into fairy tales.
I'll join you.
The End Subs by Lemicnor & Eus, Dec 2017, & Niffiwan, May 2022 (animatsiya.net)