(English translation by Niffiwan)
Higher Courses for Screenwriters and Directors and Sverdlovsk Film Studio
Screenwriter, director, artist: Aleksandr Petrov
Camera: Nikolay Grobkov, Vyacheslav Sumin Editor: L. Permyakova
Sound operator: Z. Mirkina Musical arrangement: Sergey Sidelnikov
The film uses music by Dmitriy Shostakovich, Alfred Schnittke, and Tomás Luis de Victoria
Voiced by Nikolay Gusarov, Lyubov Teplova, Kostya Panov
Artistic supervisors: Fyodor Khitruk, Yuriy Norshteyn
Production director: V. Khizhnyakova
THE COW based on the story by Andrey Platonov
Mother, I've eaten!
-Wait, he's not yet ready. -He will be.
-But not like that... -We're not the only ones...
Maybe our luck will change...
He'll still have to go. No fooling around, now!
Oh dear God...
Come on...
It's a holiday!
Come on, come on...
Yes, like that...
Yah, we gave water and food to the little bull, and now...
Don't cry...
Cow...
don't brood, all right?
Think something pleasant about him.
It'll probably be easier for you that way.
Move! Move!
Are you asleep over there? Are we going to stay hungry?
You think it's me? Try it yourself.
She's grown completely dumb.
At least she hasn't died yet.
She'll plant her hooves, stay there - and what am I supposed to do? Pull it?
You should shake it off.
He won't return... ever.
Now I will be your son.
Malyona!
Mother!
We owned a cow.
When she lived, we drank her milk:
mother, father, me and her son, the calf.
And there was enough for all.
Then the calf was sold for meat.
The cow began to suffer,
and soon, she was killed by a train.
And she was also eaten, because she was meat.
The cow gave us everything :
her milk, her son, her meat, her skin,
her insides and her bones.
I remember our cow, and will not forget.
The End (Aleksandr Petrov, 1989)