A-Film Studio
Supported by the Cinematography Dpt. of the Russian Ministry of Culture
About Crayfish
Green, awfully long hair...
Big, big breasts...
They brush my hair, and keep telling me:
"If you swim here, I will tickle you, drag you to the depths, to your grave in the silt!"
Go away. I'll find my clothes somehow...
...
"Oh, treasured days are coming..."
"...hard days for us."
Go! Go!
Here I am.
Giddyup!
A torn, sick, restless execrable soul I am...
Torn, big and sick...
It's too early for me...
She's tearing up what is torn...
He traipsed around and woke everyone up.
Really! That's no good!
He got so drunk that he just collapsed under a bench.
...
If you've decided to do the washing, wash!
Look... she's come.
Let's go.
Salasha, Vilka! We're going home!
Mother...
They've trampled all over...
...with smears and sneers and jeers...
...this forsaken, torn, sick, restless, listless soul...
Let me go...
to visit my dear mother and my homeland.
I miss her...
Where do you live, daughter? How do you come there and talk to him?
I come and say: "Dragon, dragon, open the door for me."
Then the water splits in two, and a corridor opens
and there is a steep ladder.
a steep ladder...
He who covets to fool and torment my child,
and then to hide himself in the deepest hell, in boiling resin and scorching heat,
His charms will not help him,
His tricks will not help him, His artifices will not help him,
Let him sleep his final sleep,
Let his eyes burst
May a scourge befall you,
May your bones rot in a pit,
Damnation upon your mother.
You will go there no more.
Plain crayfish, sea crayfish,
Running, lying, on the bottom, bubble-eyed,
We shall be remembered. We shall be remembered.
Subtitles by Niffiwan, helped by his family, lana-sv and nadejg
Screenplay: V.Olshvang Legend recorded by: D.Zelyonin
Director and Art Director V.Olshvang
Animation: V.Olshvang K.Ustyuzhaninova, A.Karpova
M.Dvoryankin, Ye.Brazhkina
Artists: K.Ustyuzhaninova Y.Brazhkina, O.Lyashenko
Ye.Yagovitina, M.Ponomaryova Yu.Cherkasova, M.Maydurova
A.Fertikova, A.Lazukov (?) N.Kononova, I.Yefimova
Camera Z.Kireyeva, V.Sumin
Assistant director I.Klimova
Editor L.Putyatina
Composer D.Borisov
Music recording Ye.Kormiltsev
Sound operator N.Shestakova
Voices: T.Zurovskaya K.Ustyuzhaninova, Ye.Gracheva
D.Borisov's poem "Kainnaya" is used in the film.
Synchronized sounds N.Pleteneva, N.Denshchikova
Digital sound recording S.Morozenko, P.Zakrevskiy
Administrator N.Malysheva
Financial director I.Volodina
Replacement economics director S.Gavrilova
Script editor V.Olshvang
Producer V.Khizhnyakova
We thank Frances, Nikol and Elvir Salomon for help on this film
THE END Russian Ministry of Culture A-Film Studio, 2003