Movie Studio "Soyuzmultfilm" 1968
Creative Association for Puppet Films
Happiness is Not in a Hat
director Nikolay Serebryakov
art director Alina Speshneva camera Vladimir Saruhanov
composer A. Artemyev sound Boris Filchikov
animators Yuriy Klepatsky, �avel Petrov, Iosif Douksha
script editor Natalya Abramova montage Nadezhda Treschyova
puppets & decor Oleg Masainov, Pavel Gusev, Gennadiy Lyutinskiy, Pavel Lesin, Vladimir Abakumov, Vlaentin Ladygin
Marina Chesnokova, Galina Gettinger, Lilianna Lyutinskaya, Tatyana Sokolskaya, under the direction of Roman Gurov
production director Natan Bitman
Come and see! She sings and dances!
Here I am in this town again.
But once upon a time,
things were very different.
Sad and boring was our town
because it never had any festivities, not even a wedding.
But he was there - our town lover.
And she was there.
But he was hesitant to open his heart to her.
Every morning I drove up to this house
and I'd see the girl's sad face in the window.
She kept waiting.
And then he would appear again, our timid lover.
As he was walking along, looking at him, our tailor dreamed:
I'd like to sew for a wedding...
I'd like to sew for a wedding, a wedding coat!
That's happiness right there!
Ah, what a master!
Ah, what a craftsman, our old tailor!
I'd like to make for a wedding, I'd like to make for a wedding
a pair of shiny new boots.
This is happiness! Ah, what a craftsman!
Ah, what a master, how could he even do that?
Ah, that's what our cobbler dreamed of.
The hatter dreamed too:
I wish, for a wedding,
I could make a well measured, dashing bowler.
Who is he, where did he come from?
How could this miracle
have been invented by our old master?
Ah, the musicians are also fine talents.
What diamond brilliance, how well they could play!
Will the wedding come soon? Oh, we wish we could play!
Hear that, guests? It's time for the wedding!
And it seemed to me that if he had opened his heart to her
something would have come about that I had never dreamed possible.
Farewell, stroller!
Stage! Lights! Applause!
I'm dancing for this happy couple!
But, alas, he hesitated,
Once again, he hesitated,
still hesitated to open his heart.
Shyly, the lover would back away.
Backed further away.
Oh, what is to come of this?
And the dreams of our city could not be fulfilled.
The dreams could not be fulfilled.
One day...
One day into our town came a merry organ grinder.
He grinned and said:
"Come on, learned bird, bring out happiness for this city!"
Butterflies of happiness, butterflies of happiness,
Butterflies of happiness Fly into our town.
Grab your hats, Catch some happiness,
Catch your happiness Out of a hat
Grab your hats, Catch your happiness,
Catch your happiness Out of a hat
Everyone wanted to know whether or not there was a butterfly under his hat.
But the organ grinder kept singing.
Carefully, carefully - a butterfly can easily fly away.
Happiness is reliable and unreliable. It's better not to look under the hat.
And then everyone left their hats in the square.
Because everyone was sure that his happiness was in his hat.
And the young lover, Whose love gave him wings,
Boldly believed in his happiness.
His heart sang And rushed forward,
And rushed to her door.
And a festive day came to our town!
All the dreams of our town had come true.
But carefully, ah, carefully - a butterfly can easily fly away!
"How can it be?" we asked the organ grinder,
"The hats are empty but the dreams came true!"
He winked slyly and sang:
Happiness is not in a hat.
Clearly, our fate won't Be found in a hat.
It's a simple matter: One simply needs to,
One simply needs to Believe in oneself!
Yeah, we've traveled all over the world.
And here I am in this city again.
Ah...
And now I'm going to tell you:
Happiness is not in a hat, happiness is not in a hat.
Clearly, our fate won't be found in a hat.
It's a simple matter: one simply needs to,
one simply needs to believe in oneself!
Still, where is my lucky hat?
The End
Subs by Lemicnor & Eus (Nov 2024) revised by Niffiwan (May 2025)