The Stolen Sun (based on text by Korney Chukovsky)
Translated by Niffiwan
Screenplay Ivan Ivanov-Vano Emmanuil Dvinskiy
Director: Ivan Ivanov-Vano Assistant director: Aleksandra Snezhko-Blotskaya
Art directors: Yevgeniy Migunov Anatoliy Sazonov
Composer: Yu. Nikolskiy Sound operator: S. Renskiy
Camera operators: Nikolay Voinov N. Sokolov
Artist-animators: A. Bergengrin Roman Davydov
Grigoriy Kozlov Faina Yepifanova Tatyana Fyodorova Lev Pozdneyev
Decorative artists: I. Vereshagina
O. Gemmerling G. Nevzorova
V. Rodzhero V. Suteyeva
Ye. Tannenberg N. Troyanova
A production of Soyuzmultfilm, 1944
It's time!
All you animals, come out! We must overcome this lout!
Let the terrible crocodile Return the sun into the sky!
How can we fight such a beast?
He's toothy and horrendous.
He won't give the sun to us.
Let us run to the bear's lair.
"Won't you help us, kind bear?"
Oh, where did you thick-heeled cubs get off to?
Who do you take this old bear for?
Shameful, old one, to despair.
You're not a hare, but a bear!
You should go, knock-kneed bear,
Claw that crocodile rare.
Mangle him in one fell blow!
Tear the sun out from his maw!
And, when it is set aright
in the heavens, shining bright
Then your wooly children will -
My dear bearcubs, thick of heel,
- run back home, and you will hear:
"Hello, grandpa, we're here!"
Give us our sun!
Hello, grandpa, we're here!
END