Soyuzmultfilm Moscow, 1957
Workbook of 1st grade pupil Vanya Ivanov
Geography: 2
* In Russia the marks run from 1 to 5; 1 is bad - 5 is excellent
A TWO AGAIN* *In Russia the marks run from 1 to 5; 1 is bad - 5 is excellent
screenwriters Vadim Korostylyov, Mihail Lvovskiy
directors Yevgeniy Raykovskiy, Boris Stepantsev
art director Anatoliy Savchenko composer Nikita Bogoslovskiy camera Nina Klimova
sound Boris Filchikov director's assistants Ye. Shilova, Yuriy Prytkov
animators Fyodor Hitruk, Viktor Lihachyov, Tatyana Taranovich, Gennadiy Novozhilov,
Vadim Dolgikh, Konstantin Chikin, Igor Podgorskiy, Boris Chani
The New Adventures of............... .
The New Adventures of............... Our Special Correspondent
The New Adventures of Murzilka, Our Special Correspondent
Lightning* Telegram *Urgent
Please enquire urgently
why and for what reason was a "two" received
by the boy in Reshetnikov's famous painting "A Two Again".
Uh-huh...
"The lads from Postal Street."
No smoking!
Picture Gallery
K - A -
R - T - I - N
N - A - YA
Picture gallery!
Let's go!
Cashier's Office Closed.
Ah, we're too late!
Picture Gallery
["Bogatyrs", 1898, Vasnetsov]
Long life to thee, brave lad!
Tell me, why hast thou come to us?
I'm looking for the painting "A Two Again"
- Do you know where it hangs? - "A Two"?
No, we have heard no tidings of "A Two".
Perhaps "A Three" is what thou seeketh?
It hangs on the wall opposite.
["Hunters at Rest", 1871, Perov]
No, no, thank you.
"A Two" is what I'm looking for.
["Alyonushka", 1881, Vasnetsov]
Perhaps fair Alyonushka knows about it?
Perhaps fair Vasilisa the Wise
will help us in this situation?
My bad. ...will aid us in our time of grief?
["Ivan Tsarevich Riding the Grey Wolf", 1889, Vasnetsov]
Hold on, Ivanushka.
We must help Murzilka.
Such a painting does exist in the world.
Art Gallery Catalogue
And the road to reach it... is not long.
The grey wolf will bear you there quickly!
Get down, Ivanushka. We can walk the last stretch.
We've been riding for so many years.
Sit, fair Murzilka.
["A Two Again", Reshetnikov, 1952]
Hello!
A "two" again.
Ha, bad pupil, bad pupil!
- What's your name? - Um, Kolya.
And what did you get a "two" in?
Well, in geography. It's not fair, you know?
"You don't know maps," he said!
And do you?
Ha, of course!
Give me your geographical atlas.
Atlas? Of course.
This is it...
Yeah, atlas...
Hold on, hold on...
- Hold on. - All right.
Just a minute.
Please, let me have your globe.
[???]
Thank you!
Now let's check how you do.
- Do you like to travel? - Yeah, I do.
Where would you like to go right now?
To a hot country.
To... oh, what's it called? The equator!
Equator.
And what would you do there?
I'd lie around on the beach and get a really good tan.
That's one thing. Go on.
I'd run, make a big leap!..
and I'd swim, and swim...
...and swim!
That's two things. Go on.
I would...
I would eat five scoops of ice cream.
No! Ten scoops.
That's three things.
Well, all right.
Show me the equator on the globe.
The equator? Uh-huh...
Ah, there you go.
So, in this spot...
...you think it's hot? - Yeah.
And this is where you're gonna carry out all three of your wishes?
In accordance with the climatic conditions.
- What are you doing, eh? - Getting undressed.
- Caw... help us! - Hey, stop cawing!
What for? Don't.
What do you mean, "what for"?
The equator, in the month of January, has a temperature of 50 C!
- That's right, but... - And they say...
...that I don't know geography. - Well, then,
...let's set off on our journey, since...
...you're ready.
- Maybe you want to bring your coat, eh? - Hah!
Obviously it's not me, but you,
who doesn't know geography.
Hey, now!
Spin the globe!
With pleasure.
Hello! I'm the Gulf Stream -
a warm current.
You're lucky I stumbled upon you in these polar waters.
You hear that? "Polar waters"!
You got the equator wrong on the globe!
Shall we go back before it's too late?
If it's a warm stream, it can't be in cold waters.
It doesn't know the geography itself.
We don't seem to be going the same way.
I'm turning here.
Where shall I drop you off?
Oh, let's go back! Already I can see the icebergs.
That way! Already I can see the pyramids of Egypt.
North Pole
Ice Cream Cafe
Beach
Temperature water +1�C; air -40�C.
Wow, it's hot!
Where did we end up?
From the painting "A Two Again"
into the painting from that candy bar, "Bear in the North"?
We are where he wanted to go, - the North Pole.
But he wanted to go to the equator, caw-caw.
Yet he pointed to the North Pole on the globe.
No, I pointed to the correct place. This is the equator.
And this is where I'm going to get a tan.
Got a tan.
That's one.
I've traveled to the Torrid Zone.
No, you've traveled to the Pole.
Not true, this is the equator.
No, you've got the countries of the world mixed up.
You must've been sitting at your desk for nothing
And never got good with a map.
You hoped to rely on the plane and the bus
And you forgot about the globe.
I'm going to swim now, I'm going to dive.
May-mayday! Only a miracle will save him!
Let's go back!
Just tell me that they were fair to give you that "two"!
No, it was unfair!
- Dived. - That's two.
"A Two Again".
Now, for your last wish...
Five... No, ten scoops of ice cream!
Fish Oil
- That's three. - No! I don't want to.
I don't want your bear favours!
Now it's time to go home!
So, do you still feel
that you got a "two" in geography unfairly?
No, I got it... fairly.
Thank you.
I don't want to go into that painting again.
I'm going to fix the "two"
and make it a "five" for sure!
I want to get into the painting...
"A Five Again!"
Well, that picture doesn't exist yet.
But when you get a "5", and then you get a "5" again,
that's when it's going to be painted.
- But how? - Like this, look!
But that picture
doesn't exist yet.
The End (subs by Eus & Niffiwan, 2025)