Soyuzmultfilm Puppet film association 1967
The Legend of the Evil Giant Scenario: Ivan Ivanov-Vano
Directors Ivan Ivanov-Vano & Vladimir Danilevich
Art director Vyacheslav Naumov Camera Iosif Golomb Composer Vladimir Yurovskiy
sound Boris Filchikov script editor Natalya Abramova montage Nadezhda Treshchyova
animators Yuriy Norshteyn, Vladimir Puzanov, Galina Zolotovskaya, Aleksandr Rozhkov
Narrators Dmitry Zhuravlyov, Anatoliy Papanov
puppets and decor Aleksander Gorbachyov, Liliana Lutinskaya, Galina Gettinger, Marina Chesnokova, Valentin Ladygin
V. Kalashnikova, Aleksandr Maksimov, Pavel Lessin, Roman Gurov, F. Oleynikov
production director Natan Bitman
This happened long ago.
On the sea's shore, in an old shed
lived a poor fisherman.
Together with other fishermen
he fished the sea.
It was the only life he knew.
[WHOEVER OPENS THIS BOTTLE...]
[...WILL BECOME HIGHBORN, POWERFUL AND RICH]
"Curious, what could be in this old bottle?"
thought the fisherman.
- Let's see, what it is.
- Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!
Ha ha ha ha ha!
Do not be afraid, bug! Ha-ha-ha!
You will be highborn and rich.
Don't you believe the word of a giant?
Ha ha ha ha ha ha!
Then look! Car-ra-bola!
Bala-kara!
Take it! All this is yours,
Bug!
Ha ha ha ha ha!
Keep this bottle as a keepsake!
but now I want to travel
the wide world. Ha ha ha ha ha!
To fool around for a while
and show people my strength!
Good-bye, small fry!
Kar-r-ra-bala-ah!
Ha-ha-ha-ha!
A-ah! Ha-ha-ha-ha!
Ha ha ha ha ha!
- Years passed.
The fisherman became famous and rich.
But neither wealth nor nobility
could please the fisherman.
Unable to forget the deaths of his friends,
the fisherman decided to go for advice
to a wise man.
"I know, my son," said the wise man.
"I know why you've come.
Here is the mirror of life.
Look inside it at the different corners of the world
and you will see the work of your hands."
- Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!
"Go and reflect on it, my son."
"Hey, buddy," cried the fisherman,
"Come down to me for a minute."
- What do you want, small fry?
Do you need more money or jewelry?
- No, that's not it. It's something else.
I've been sitting here for three years and thinking,
but I just can't understand
how someone as big as you
could you have fit into this bottle?
- Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!
You, small fry, are a fool! Ha ha ha ha ha!
Well, that is the simplest thing.
I just want it and... climb in!
Don't believe me? Then look!
Kar-r-ra-bala-ah!
Ha ha ha ha ha!
Ha-ha-ha!
- Fool! Come to your senses!
You will lose all your wealth! [PEOPLE, DO NOT EVER OPEN THIS BOTTLE]
Think!
T H I N K!!
THE END Rus. subs 2018, by bornik @ KG Translated by Eus (2018) & Niffiwan (2021)