Soyuzmultfilm
PENGUINS
screenwriter Anatoliy Mityayev director Vladimir Polkovnikov
art director Mariya Rudachenko composer V. Konchakov
camera Nina Klimova sound Boris Filchikov script editor Zinaida Pavlova
assistant director Ye. Turanova montage Lyubov Georgieva assistant artist B. Sadovnikov
animators Marina Voskanyants, Viktor Lihachyov, Nikola Fyodorov
Nataliya Bogomolova, Marina Rogova, Olga Orlova
background artist Vera Haritonova
the author's text is read by Aleksey Konsovskiy
production director Fyodor Ivanov
From distant islands
penguins swam to Antarctica
where, in its white silence and away from danger,
they could hatch their chicks.
Among those birds was a penguin named Pen-Guin.
He was kind and strong.
And this was Pyn-Guin.
One gets these sorts of birds in the flock, too...
It wasn't long before the penguins laid their eggs
and began to warm them.
Pen-Guin had not eaten for several days now,
and he decided to catch some fish.
The chick needs warmth.
But a hungry bird is a cold bird!
So Pen-Guin asked Pyn-Guin to look after his egg.
The egg seems to have gotten heavier!
There will probably be a good little penguin!
Big and strong!
The time came, and everyone's chicks hatched.
But Pen-Guin's egg showed no signs of life.
"When will my hero be born?" thought Pen-Guin.
"You too will soon see all of this!"
"Do you hear this noise?"
"This is the noise of the ocean!"
"The ocean is not firm;"
"If you stand on it, you will fall"
"from the white above to the green below,"
"where the fishes live."
"Fishes look like narrow icicles."
"There are also whales."
"They look like black mountains."
"A fountain gushes out from their head."
"Do you understand what a fountain is?"
"It is like a huge watery feather!"
"And this is an airplane."
"It's a sort of large bird. It's not alive,"
"but people arrive on it."
"They are very similar to us penguins."
"Hm, you sure are taking your time, my little penguin..."
Once, other birds expressed their doubts to Pen-Guin:
"This egg is kind of strange!"
Pen-Guin got very angry!
He banished those impudent birds,
and shouted insulting curses after them for a long time.
"What? They dare to doubt?"
"My chick has already started pecking!"
The Antarctic summer was over.
Young penguins grew up and became indistinguishable from adults.
It was time to set off for distant islands.
They had to hurry.
Pen-Guin knew that the terrible winter was ruthless towards all living things.
But to swim was also dangerous.
The egg was so heavy.
"Yes, it's a great pity that the chick has not hatched yet."
Once he was a long way from the shore, Pen-Guin felt his strength leaving him.
He understood that it was the last time he would see the ice or the sun.
All this would have been his for many years yet
if only he would drop the stone...
But Pen-Guin was sure that he held not a stone,
but an egg with a tiny penguin
who was not yet born, but who was already infinitely loved.
The End
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