Federal Agency for Culture and Cinematography
Studio "Animos"
Present
Russian Classics for Children
Boris Zhitkov
PUDYA Based on the story by B. Zhitkov
To Mr. Gennady Zotov
Why are you, youngster, standing in that freezing cold out here?
Or has your youth made you lose your way?
I'm not lost.
I left my home.
...For good. - So that's how it is.
Wouldn't you like to come inside and have a cup of tea with me?
Quickly now, before a snowdrift piles up in the entry of my pastry-shop.
Now, little traveler, have you warmed up?
Uh-huh.
What made you wander off in such unsuitable weather?
You see, I tore off the tail...
...of an evil giant.
Tail? From a giant?
Interesting!
One day he came to visit us.
Good afternoon!
G.S.
"Giant Scoundrel" - that's what it meant!
Here you are, hero, help yourself.
So what, were you afraid of him so you decided to leave home?
No, I wasn't afraid. It wasn't like that at all.
The bearded giant had this tassel coat.
The fur on it was yellow.
And everywhere it had tails on it.
So Tanya, my sister, said:
This is a coat from a rare beast.
It's called a hundred-tailed royal Meopard.
It's not a Meopard at all - I told her.
It's just that the bearded giant, when he realized that winter was coming,
went into the forest to hunt.
But Tanya again insisted: "No, it's a Meopard".
So we had an quarrel.
One tail went "puk!" and came off.
Then Tanya said: "I'll go to mama and cry!".
What, you want that bearded villain... to repair his coat with your braids?
Then the bearded giant readied to go home.
Goodbye!
"Jam"
What if he counts the tails on his coat?
At home he'll find out!
In them, I suppose, the whole force of his villainy lies.
So, did he notice?
No, he just said: "Hello, youngsters",
put on his coat and left.
So why did you then run away from home, when it all ended well?
This is Pudya.
He was made from that tail.
Pudya proved so clever.
He learned all commands in three days.
Then dad came in.
"What is this?"
"This is a tail from His coat!"
And Tanya went: "Papa, Papa-dear!"
"I'll tell you everything."
Little girls always behave like that!
And Papa said "Go to the study this instant!"
I was left behind.
With Pudya.
So your sister, then went off to face the music.
So, what will happen to her now?
I don't know. Probably, she will be given to the villain
to be eaten. Because he's an important person.
Papa respects him.
But not us. Nobody ever respects children.
Yeah...
Where do you reckon you will go now?
I haven't decided yet. Maybe to America.
G.S.
Hello, Gennady Petrovich! Your cake is just ready.
Hello, hello!
What's this toy?
It looks like one of my coat tails.
Oh yeah, a boy left it here.
He and his little sister made it themselves.
His little sister, you say?
Yeah... e-heh-heh-heh-heh.
Stop! It was me... I tore off the tail.
What, did I have a tail?
Thank you, then, for tearing it off.
Hey, wait a minute. I know you.
It was me that tore it off from your coat.
Do with me what you want.
But Tanya had nothing at all to do with it.
Yes...
Well, I don't mind it being torn off.
I had not noticed until now.
But what are you doing here alone?
Well, that young man was going to America.
Better come with me, I'll take you home.
Isn't today your mom's birthday?
Her birthday. I'd forgotten completely.
screenwriter Andrey Stvolinskiy director Sonya Kravtsova art directors Yekaterina Trigub, Sonya Kravtsova
composer Aleksandr Gusev camera Igor Skidan-Bosin sound Viktor Brus
animation Alla Solovyova, Milana Fedosyeva, Fasil Gasanov
voice actors Aleksandr Pozharov, Aleksandr Pinegin, Nikita Lizunov montage Vladimir Dzhioyev
computer processing Vladimir Dzhioyev, Pyotr Zaharzhevskiy line producer Vladimir Gassiyev
executive producer Anna Dzhioeva artistic supervisor Natalya Orlova producer Tengiz Semyonov
Filmed with the state financial support of the Federal Agency for Culture and Cinematography
The End Studio Animos 2008
Subs by Lemicnor & Eus (June 2016), ed. Niffiwan (May 2024)