"Ekran" Creative Association 1987
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- Scene 2, take 3. - Check.
Go, Yuriy!
I'm taking a decisive step in life.
I'm singing a song about Flying Mice* *(as Bats are called in many languages).
I'll say with conviction at the very beginning
that mice have never flown.
- Let the author in! The author! - We'll manage on our own.
Don't yank the door open. Go on, play, sing!
Play, you!
"A Song About Flying Mice."
Written by Yuriy Koval
Directed by Yulian Kalisher
Art-director - Lyudmila Tanasenko
Camera - Yevgeniy Turevich
Composer - Stepan Sosnin
I'm taking a decisive step in life.
I'm singing a song about flying mice.
I'll say with conviction at the very beginning,
that mice have never flown.
They haven't.
They used to, all quiet-like - "shur-shur" and "murr-mur" -
run around in the basement and eat cheese.
They would slowly steal cheese
from Uncle Semyon in the cold basement.
From Uncle Semyon in the basement.
But Uncle Semyon was tough and smart.
Tough and smart, tough and smart.
And these mice he disliked.
He didn't like them.
He used to scream when he saw mice:
He-ey, he-ey!
Get 'em, boys, get 'em outta here!
Get 'em outta here!
One day, Dementius, a helpful neighbor,
a helpful neighbor,
Gave Uncle Semyon some kind advice,
some kind advice.
Go and get yourself a cat, Senya.
- A cat? - Yes, yes, a cat.
Cats, Dementius, are boring,
are boring.
I'll manage without a cat, I'll think of something,
When they're in reach of my "hot hand"* *feel his bad side
But the mice, all quiet-like - "shur-shur" and "murr-mur" -
still ate the tempting cheese, like before.
Semyon was sad: "Ah, my bread's gone missing."
And he warmed his right hand over the stove.
Down to the cellar he went, grumbling, muttering.
Oh, mice, you just wait - the hand is hot!
Oh, mice, you watch out, I'm not so simple as you think!
And immediately he caught the mice by their tails.
And, warming his big hand over the stove,
he sat and contemplated the matter for a long time.
The matter, the matter... What matter?
Bingo! Music!
Then he thought of something, and shook off his boot,
And with a knife he cut out a piece of leather. - That's it!
He cut out some thingabobs out of the leather.
However you turned them, they looked rather wing-like.
He cut out some thingabobs out of the leather.
However you turned them, they looked rather wing-like.
"GLUE"
I'm not gonna lie, I speak from the heart.
He took those wings, and glued them to the mice.
Then he laughed: "Winged ones, shoo!"
And ...bats... flew up into the sky!
Shoo! Shoo!
Shoo! Shoo! Shoo! Shoo!
And then all the bats crossed the sky in an arc,
the sky in an arc,
took off, disappeared one after the other.
one after the other.
Semyon said, gazing after them:
I once had a boot, but I have one no more.
It is no more.
But I won't begrudge a boot for a job that needs doing.
Footwear's not too expensive these days.
Well, brothers, you've been rather creative.
I'd never think of anything like that.
May you have joy and wings, my friend!
To you, good friend!
and magical fairy tales, plus a chest full of songs!
A whole chest!
Voices Yuriy Koval, M. Kozakov L. Ilina, Ye. Pylnova, T. Shatilova
Pther film crew: S. Kel
Ye. Zelyonina, O. Degtyaryov
L. Afrina, Ye. Lopathikova
Ye. Pokrovskaya, N. Panteleyeva
N. Lyarskaya, M. Bogatskaya
G. Kruglova, G. Bogachyov
A. Kuznetsov, Yu. Odintsov
S. Simuhina, A. Feodorida,
R. Borovikova
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