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- Stop, you pile of rot! Stop!
Come back, mouldy!
- Grandpa! And Baba Yaga, is she good or bad?
- Everything in the forest serves a purpose.
That helps keep things in order.
- Is that her?
- Indeed, she's at it again.
- This is not in order.
- You made things not in order again!
- Wood guardians don't command me.
Nor my hut, for that matter.
- You need a caretaker. - A caretaker!
- To keep your house in order.
- To keep it in order!
- Yes.
- What caretaker?
House caretaker?
I need a house elf!
"House Elf Adventures"
Based on tales by T.Aleksandrova
- Kuzma!
- Come on, Nafanya...
- A human is supposed to be a house elf's master!
- Ouch!
- Pots aren't washed... ...floor isn't swept...
...pans aren't scrubbed!
- I'm on it, I'm on it!
- Oh, gracious! What a mess!
- Oh dear, oh dear.
What a calamity.
- Kuzya!
- Over here!
- The room needs sweeping.
- Already on it.
- Nafanya! I'll be good, I swear!
- Hey, watch out!
- What sort of a bird are you?
- I'm Kuzya! A house elf!
We bring luck, we do!
- Interesting. I wonder who got lucky.
- Why are you trying to scare me?
- What kind of strange beastie are you?
- I'm a wood guardian!
- You're lying.
Wood guardians have huge teeth, and a belly that hangs out.
- Who's got a belly hanging out? Me?
- Grandpa! He's teasing me!
- What's this? Who's not sleeping?
That's not right.
- Let me go!
You big monster!
- Quiet. Settle down.
- Settle down!
- Ganging up, huh?
I come from a long line of house elves!
- That explains why you are so wild.
- Take pity on a poor homeless orphan!
I've worked in households since I was a child!
Always hungry, always sleep...
Not sleeping enough, I mean.
- Help yourself.
- Yuck, this is disgusting. Yuck!
I want some pancakes. With sour-cream.
- What's that?
- I want to go home to Nafanya!
Get me out of here, quick!
- You shouldn't wake him up!
Wait till spring.
- What do you mean, till spring?
With rations like that, till spring?
- You can hibernate with us!
- Hiber- what now?
- Sleep through the winter.
Like so...
...then like so...
...and then like so.
- What, no supper, then?
- If it's not too much trouble...
...wake me up on March 30th.
Some time morning-ish.
- When you wake up in spring...
...poor Kuzya will be already dead.
From cold and hunger.
- Kuzya, my baby!
- I'm not your baby, grandma.
- You are! My beloved baby! Let's run now.
- Where?
- My place!
I have a new samovar, silver spoons, sugar muffins!
We'll have a cup of tea... if we catch it!
- Grab on, Kuzya!
- Hit the brakes!
- Listen up, hut! Stop, one-two!
Dig in.
- My general!
Just like his grandma.
- Stove ain't been lit.
Pots ain't been washed.
Pan ain't been scrubbed!
- Here you go, my precious!
If you're done with the pretzels, then try a few buns.
- What did I say?
I said I wanted some cheese tarts.
And what did you bake?
You baked it, now you eat it.
- Oh, I'm so sorry, pet! I got it all wrong again.
The cheese tarts will be ready in a bit, treasure!
Shoo!
Worse than a dog.
- I hear you got lucky!
- Those are shameless lies.
- Lucky! Baba Yaga got lucky!
- Kuzya! Kuzya!
Come out.
I give up!
My unbeatable one!
- Kuzya! Don't scare your grandma like that.
- What's with him?
- That's our Kuzya going sugar crazy.
Soon he'll crash and then it's sleepy time.
- Can't stand freeloaders.
- I don't feel so good.
I feel like I want something, but don't know what.
- A good spanking!
- Maybe I'll go clean the rugs while the snow is fresh.
- You'll get your handsies and footsies cold! Freeze your poor nosey off!
- Grandma... Is spring coming soon?
- Whenever the wood guardians awake, pet.
- When spring comes...
...they'll lead me out of the woods.
Yeah.
- Well, we'll see about that, won't we.
- Oh yeah, spring will come.
I'll make them sleep for a hundred years.
- This is the good life.
- Indeed.
- Any news? Is spring coming this year or not?
- Not.
- Won't come ever again.
- No way! I've got to make a nest!
You guys got lucky, but what about me?
The wood guardians are buried in snow, maybe they won't wake up ever again!
And nobody seems to care!
- Get going, get going. You'll wake up the baby.
- Wait! Wait!
When is March 30th?
- Wake up, buddy! It's almost May!
- I'm late! I'm late!
Let me go! Let me go, quick!
- Not a chance!
- Listen up, hut!
Giddy...
...up!
- Let's go wake the wood guardians!
Pick up the speed, darling!
- Halt, one-two!
- Start digging!
- Spring has come!
- Wow. The birds are flying!
- Good. That's how things ought to be.
- Grandpa wood guardian! Rescue me!
- Wha? What's this?
- Grandpa... the house-elf is flying, too!
- That's not how things ought to be.
- Grandma!
- I'm here, Kuzya!
- There! Now we're lucky, too!
We're lucky! We're lucky!
Happy housewarming!
- I didn't agree to this!
- What did you used to be?
The last among the house-elves!
And now!
- And now?
- The first among the nest-elves!
- I just want a bit of care and a peace of mind.
And someone to keep an eye on the kids
- What are you saying?
I have to sit on these now?
- Rock-a-bye baby, on the tree-top...
Nafanya!
- Kuzya! Come back!
We love you!
- Nafanya!
"Kuzma! You now ought to be big, clever, and a good housekeeper."
"So we'll be moving into the new flats separately..."
"I'm assigning you to the flat number 588."
"See you soon. Your neighbour, Nafanya."
Screenplay: M.Vishnevetskaya Director: A.Zyablikova
Art director: G.Smolyanov Camera: L.Kolvinkovskiy
Composer: M.Meyerovich Sound: S.Kel
Voices: G.Vitsyn, T.Peltser, F.Ivanov, S.Travkina
Also worked on the film: O.Anashkina, L.Afrina, O.Usacheva
K.Ineshin, A.Kuznetsov, V.Sletkov, V.Petrov, Yu.Odintsov, A.Gnedinskiy
A.Mulyukina, E.Pokrovskaya, M.Bogatskaya T.Morgunova, A.Feodoridi, E.Bobrovskaya
The End
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