I could speak once...
I could...
Skilfully...
Castling (A Confession from the Aquarium)
screenwriter A. Kanevskyy director Y. Syvokin art director V. Sertsova
composer Y. Lapynskyy camera A. Muhin
animators I. Kovalyov A. Tatarskyy
assistants T. Cherni, V. Ryabkina, M. Titov
montage Y. Strebnytska script editor L. Prygoda production director I. Mazepa
(C) Kyiv Studio of Popular Science Films Collective of Fictive Animation, 1979
I once bought an aquarium, with fish.
I sit...
I dine...
I study them...
for a day...
for two days...
for a week...
The water in the aquarium is dirty...
There's seaweed growing in it...
It ought to be changed...
But I'm too lazy to get up.
Go away.
Or I'll have to smack you...
Thank you, Vasya.
You're a true friend.
I see...
another fish has appeared.
How frightful it is...
I think... maybe it should be separated?
It really should... but I seem to be stuck to my chair...
Well, what can it even do?
It may eat one fish, another...
...and then it will calm down.
Seems it has eaten everyone.
Uh-huh...
It's grown completely beastly.
I think I need to interfere...
I'll say, "look at that, Vasya! Just what exactly is going on here?!"
Poor Vasya.
My only friend.
It's going to... eat him!
I should help him...
I should...
Anyway... it's too late already.
Poor Vasya.
What's the meaning of this?
By what right?
I will prot-
I will compla-
I just need to stay above water...
I will... complain about you...
Or maybe... I should try to reach an understanding with it?
Or it could get angry...
and completely stop feeding me.
I'd better protest from here.
I'll kick up a fuss underwater.
Give me more worms, I'm bubbling with anger!
It's not so bad... I can breathe...
I think, gills have grown...
I really should get out of here.
But how?
My brain has become the brain of a fish...
I'm in no state to think of anything...
But I should have...
Or maybe... I don't need to think of anything?
Why disturb the waters?
I've already gotten used... to the aquarium...
This place is also liveable.
Quiet...
Cozy...
I can adapt to anything.
To any pond scum gooey.
I'll cling to any buoy.
As long as I'm not touched.
As long as I'm given worms.
The End
(subtitles by Niffiwan, helped by ayri) Animatsiya.net, 2026.01