Federal Agency for Culture and Cinematography
Pilot animation studio
Present
We live in Russia
Russia is the largest country in the world.
With Moscow as our capital,
there are more than 1000 towns in Russia.
Each of them has its own history.
An ancient town of Vladimir rising upon high hills dominates the Klyazma river.
It is almost 150 years older than Moscow.
The town is traditionally believed to be founded by Prince of Kiev Vladimir.
Vladimir principality is renowned for its great military leaders, artists and architects.
The legendary Prince Alexander Nevsky the great defender of Russian land -
used to reign over Vladimir.
Commander Alexander Suvorov wrote his famous book "Science of Victory" there.
Vladimir's white stone churches are known all over the world.
One of them - Cathedral of Assumption
is decorated with frescos by the great Russian icon painter Andrey Rublev.
Demetrius's cathedral shows amazing stone carving
featuring hundreds of fabulous beasts,
mysterious birds and whimsical plants.
You should hear how people of Vladimir can play
an ordinary shepherd's horn!
And of course fairy tales are told there in plenty.
Each of them is like a precious gem.
"No way!" after Russian folktale "Man and Wife"
There lived in one village a man and his wife.
The wife was a wayward kind,
even pig-headed.
Whatever the man tells her,
she would act the other way.
A beast of a woman, to be short.
- Well, honey, maybe you...
Take off your jacket?... Well it's hot after all!
- No way!
- Step aside, or you get kicked!
- No way!
- Watch out! It's going to bite you!
- No way! A-a-a!
- Add some light, it's dark!
- No way!
Well, so they lived together this way.
And one day they went mushrooming.
- Oh my!
- Come here! There are so many of them!
- No way!
- Damn, what a bullet-head you are!
To hell with you!
- Don't go there!
- No way!
- You're going to fall in the hole!
- No way. ?-?-??!!!
Here you are. Don't go alone in the woods!
The man mourned over her for a while...
and finally went home.
The wife got right through to the devils in hell.
- Oh!
- Aha!
- Get down to the boiling oil!
I'm going to boil you!
- Who, me? No way!
- Get down there! You shall obey me!
Everybody here does.
- So we are deserted now, man.
Our woman's gone for good.
- Here! Hey! Come out!
- Oh! A-a-ah!
- Leave me alone! A-a-ah!
- Uh-oh! How are we going to live without woman?
- What are you nuts?
You are really crazy.
Let me out! It's hot like hell!
- No way!
Poor devil!
The man mourned for a while...
and finally returned to his household duties.
- Please give me a break, woman!
- No way!
- That's it!
- I'm quit...
- No way!
- Who's there? What do you want?
- Let me in! We need to talk!
- Listen here, was it your wife...
who fell into the bottomless pit?
- I guess mine. So what?
- What? It was me who met her there!
I know no rest ever since,
she's uglier than my sins!
Want to take her back please?
The man was happy to hear that his wife was alive.
But showed no sign.
- Gee! No way!
- I suffered her presence for ten years...
now it's your turn.
And I'm going to have some rest now.
- Take her back! Please!
We'll give you a hundred rubles.
- Are you kidding? For such a woman?
- Well, two hundred?
- No waaay! Keep it for yourself!
Bet she's going to eat you devils with guts in no time!
- One thousand! Take one thousand in gold, man!
- Did you see it? Zing!
It's time to hit the road!
- No way!
- Take a bagful of gold man! Take it all!
- Take all that we have...
but save us from that damned wife!
- Well, a bagful you say?...
- What if you cheat?
- I never do, my dear friend!
I swear on the Bible!
- Well...
- Well? Weeeell?!
- Okay! Give me the bag!
- Here you are!
- Well...
- A deal is a deal!
The hell with you! So where's my wife?
- Hey, not so fast! Take her back tomorrow!
I want to have a quiet night once in my life.
- Hey, tom, look at this... She's back!
- Let me kiss you honey!
- No way!
- Cool down, will you!
They began to live together again.
The wife was obdurate as ever,
but the man finally learnt to turn...
her obduracy into benefit.
- Isn't it hot in here?
Open the door wider, will you?
- No way!
- And keep the stove cool!
No way!