UKRANIMAFILM
On the eve of visiting Europe,
it is as well to acquaint ourselves on the spot with its indigenous inhabitants.
THE CROCODILE Based on the story by F. M. Dostoyevsky
Oh my crocodile! Oh mein Karlchen!
He did swallow a ganz official!
He will burst himself now!
Rip him up, rip him up, rip him up!
Rip him up!
I will not allow rip up my crocodile!
Now the publicum will come many more,
and I will funfzig kopeks charge at door!
THE ECONOMIC PRINCIPLE
The crocodile is private property.
The economic principle applies here.
Ivan Matveyevich
Oh my crocodile!
Mein allerliebster Karlchen!
We are bereaved and without bread!
They are right.
The economic principle before everything.
Enough, all of you!
I am alive and well, and swallowed without any damage whatsoever.
I suppose... I can ask for a divorce now?
On the Nile river's bank, I got bored with my man.
So the crocodile I called up, Gave my sinful body up.
He then grabbed me, what a tail he had!
How I melted, melted, melted...
With his reptile teeth, my body
He voluptuously embraced.
I've been biting ever since.
Ivan Matveyevich Skapidarov 2-3pm
What do you think about economic relations?
Do you believe in God?
Are you familiar with the novel "Lisa and Copper"?
Since I've been in the crocodile,
everything seems so stupid to me
that I wonder
how I considered anything else to be smart.
You have only to find yourself in a crocodile,
shut your eyes,
and you immediately devise a utopia for all mankind.
A new social system.
With his reptile teeth, my body
He voluptuously embraced.
I've been biting ever since.
Of late, I have already invented two social systems,
Now I am preparing the fourth.
Being in the very bowels of Nature,
I have deduced all of this
independently.
Wife... wife!
To tell the truth, I feel very sorry for him.
First one must refute everything that has gone before;
but from the crocodile it is so easy to refute it.
What is more,
it all becomes clearer, seen from the inside of the crocodile.
I have joined with the crocodile on an equal footing.
Ivan Matveyevich, all by himself,
doubled the value of the German's capital,
and possibly even trebled it.
This is the best way to attract capital to the country!
It is necessary to give birth to capital!
We must begin to live
like the Western European peoples.
The crocodile is not private property...
The economic principle applies here.
I am suffused with grand ideas...
On the Nile river's bank, I got bored with my man.
I can report facts about the crocodile.
I deliver benefits, I entertain the public!
Oh my crocodile! Oh mein allerliebster Karlchen!
We are bereaved and without bread!
Get in again...
Alle marsch! Eins-zwei! Eins-zwei! Eins-zwei!
Instead of pitying Ivan Matveyevich,
they pity the crocodile.
We must be up to Europe, mustn't we?
They have a very warm feeling for crocodiles there too.
Screenplay and director Mihail Titov
Art director M. Cherkasskaya
Camera S. Maksimovich
Composer V. Bystryakov
Sound V. Shchigol
Animation artists M. Titov, A. Pedan
Assistants: L. Vrublevskaya, O. Yankovskaya, O. Rayenok
Voices: O. Dranish, S. Dashevskiy, N. Gudz
Editor O. Pedan
Script editor S. Kutsenko
Production director B. Kalashnikov
THE END (subs by Niffiwan, partly using Constance Garnett's translation)