Soyuzmultfilm Moscow 1946
The Song of Joy
Scenario & direction Mstislav Pashchenko music Georgiy Kreytner
art directors Yevgeniy Migunov, Anatoliy Sazonov cameramen Anatoliy Velikohatko, Nikolai Voinov sound S. Renskiy
ass dir. R. Davidov, L. Popov, P. Repkin tech. ass. V. Shilina production director N. Tsofnas
animators Roman Davydov, Ye. Kazantseva, N. Privalova, L. Popov, L. Restsova,
Lamis Bredis, Faina Yepifanova, G. Kozlov, Pyotr Repkin, O. Sysoyeva
backgrounds O. Gemmerling, V. Suteyeva, K. Malyshev, G. Pozin, V. Valeryanova montage Lidiya Kyaksht
The polar night in that year was particularly cold and seemed endlessly long.
- Farewell, sister! - Happy hunting!
I very nearly fell!
Is that you?
[Sneezes] No, not me.
[Sings slowly:] A-ah...
Who's in there?
- A stove...!
- Let's knock? - Oh, no!
Come on... knock, knock.
Who's there?
Well, come in, come!
Oh, what a dummy you are!
You think these are berries?
These are beads. Berries will come in the spring.
In the spring? And what is Spring?
Phew, how young and naive you still are!
Spring... first the red-chested robin will fly in.
It will fly in and begin to sing.
From this bird song, the icicle will thaw.
The icicle will wake the icy creek. The creek will wake the river.
The river will wake the sea. Then the forest will become green! Flowers will bloom!
Berries will ripen!
Phew, it sounds like a fairy tale.
No, this is not a fairy tale. It's spring.
The reign of the polar night will end,
and it will get bright and so, so warm!
So, so warm! [Sneezes]
Oh-oh-oh! Oh! Our stove has gone out.
We'll get it going again. Let's go get some firewood!
A robin!
I saw a robin!
- Trouble, queen, there's trouble! - Speak!
A... a... a... bird is singing its spring song!
The ice is melting! It's time to sail to the north!
Just give the word! - Be quiet!
Spring won't come again!
There will be only me.
Only the night.
Night forever!
Though the stream is chained by ice, Though the snow still bends the branches,
Now the robin's going to sing, Once it sings, the woods will waken.
The light blue bellflower will, On its green and delicate stem,
Ring its bell
As it wakes
Spring has come to visit us again!
Ah-ah-ah-ah! Ah-ah-ah!
Girl [sings]: Ah-ah-ah-ah! Ah-ah-ah!
Did it end?
[Shivers] I think it's over.
And where's... the girl?
[Sobs] She's not here.
And neither is the robin.
And it became so very cold again. [Sneezes]
No trace of them.
Look, a berry...
[Laughs] Dummy!
That's a bead. For berries it needs to be spring!
This is her bead! Come on! We'll find the girl!
Fly away, little bird, fly away.
But as for me... [sobs] I'm stuck here.
The last bead.
Where do we go from here?
Look, a bird... the robin!
Cheep-cheep! Cheep-cheep!
Robin, where is the girl?
What? What is it saying?
The girl is there, beyond the snowy mountain. Quick, let's go!
Why are you here?
I... I came for the bird. For the robin.
It is no longer a robin.
It's just a piece of ice now. Look!
Where is the bird?
Here it is.
It will never again sing its stupid song!
Have you heard how the storm whistles, and how the ice cracks?
No! Your song is evil!
I will sing the robin's song!
Oh, you're a brave girl.
Go - sing the robin's song,
that is, if you can find your way back.
Watch out! Do not fall! The stairs begin there.
Oh, who is that?
Don't you faint, now. Look.
Lock the gates! Extinguish the stars!
Do you hear? That's Old Woman Night.
She is chasing us!
The robin!
Dummy! That is a hunter, the brother of the girl.
Let's call him. He will wake the girl.
E-easy to say "call him"! But how?
It's easy! Go talk to him.
[Trembling] But he has a gun!
Take away his gun!
- Right! Go on. - I?
- You. - Oh.
Sister!
Wake the girl.
I cannot wake her up. I cannot.
She's... frozen.
What if you sing a song?
What song?
A song that will make her all warm inside.
But I do not know such a song.
And we... can't sing.
It's you who can't sing!
Then you sing, Bear! Try it!
- Ah... well... - Sing, sing!
Va-va-va-va-Vava ...
Vaa, vaaa.
The robin! It knows how to sing this song!
Sing your song, bird!
"Wake up, forest, hurry up! In the field, the snow has melted.
The sun warms us all right up, And a flock of birds has flown in.
The woodpecker taps his beak, A stream runs down from the hillside.
It murmurs As it wakes:
"Spring has come to visit us again! Ah-ah-ah-ah!"
Go away now, hoary Winter, Blizzard furious,
Your worst snowstorm can no longer bury us!
Now the robin has arrived, hear, and a song of joy it sings here,
With that song Spring comes to us!
It becomes all bright and warm, our ears are no longer chilled.
The sun stands high in the sky - Above the top of a fir tree.
Let us run, fast as we can, Over the green, pleasant meadow.
All things sing As they wake: -
Spring has come to visit us again! Ah-ah-ah-ah!
Go away now, hoary Winter, Blizzard furious,
Your worst snowstorm can no longer bury us!
Now the robin has arrived, hear, and a song of joy it sings here.
To us Spring, Spring, Spring now comes!
Sings a song of joy
Spring, Spring!
The End Subs by Eus (2012-14) after Russian subs by Elena, edited by Niffiwan (2021-23)