"The Eagle and the Mole" based on I.A. Krylov's fable
screenwriters, directors Panteleymon Sazonov, Lamis Bredis
composer Nikita Bogoslovskiy
animators Lamis Bredis, Boris Dyozhkin, Faina Yepifanova, Gennadiy Filippov
camera N. Sokolov, P. Alipova
technical assistant A. Yanovskaya
A production of "Soyuzmultfilm" film studio, Moscow, 1944
To deepest, thickest forest, flying,
There came from distant clime an eagle and his spouse.
Here in the thickest depths they thought to house...
Look there.
Look there - that lofty oak, wide-spreading.
In its top branches we shall build our nest.
I'll venture to suggest...
I'll venture to suggest: this ancient tree
is hardly fitted for a dwelling;
the roots are neatly rotted through,
and may soon fall; there's just no telling.
What counsel from a hole
have eagles need of learning?
And from a mole! Does anyone deny
the eagle eye to be discerning?
Exactly!
How comes it that Moles
would dare to mix in Kingly matters?
So, on the Mole not wasting further words,
He quickly set to work, that scornful King of Birds!...
From close against the sky, his hunting done,
With a rich breakfast for his brood, returned the father...
Wretched soul!
For his pride, Fate has punished him most terribly.
If you had not despised my standing,
you might've recalled
that it is in the earth I make my hole,
and thus so near the roots must be,
that none can better know
what health is in the tree.
Mind, and despise not any one's advice, Before you've looked it over twice.
The End
Subs by Niffiwan, partly using translations of Bernard Pares, I. Henry Harrison,
C. Fillingham Coxwell & W.R.S. Ralston [ animatsiya.net, May 2025 ]