A Path to Eternity
screenwriters Vladimir Pekar, Aleksandr Timofeyevskiy
director Vladimir Pekar art director Tatyana Kolyusheva
camera Kabul Rasulov composer Eduard Artemyev sound Boris Filchikov
animators Galina Zebrova, Dmitriy Kulikov, Tonno Sooster, Yuriy Batanin, Elvira Maslova
background art E. Antusheva, I. Svetlitsa, N. Mitrohin
Based on Korean classical poetry as translated by Anna Akhmatova
Read by A. Demidova & Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy
script editor Pyotr Frolov montage Yelena Belyavskaya
ass. director O. Apanasova production director Liliana Monahova
Beyond the garden fence are flowers. Along the lakeside are willows.
The voice of the oriole sounds loudly. The dances of the variegated butterfly weave.
Among those butterflies, willows and flowers, I want to stroll without a care.
The stronger the rain pours down, the fresher the lotus is.
But the petals, if you'll note, are not any more moist.
I wish my soul were pure as a lotus...
A wonderful dream from afar has brought me my sweetheart.
I shiver with delight, then my dream whirls away and she is no more.
Could it be that you disappeared because I dared to wake too early?
Rain pours down over the lake, drops splash on the willow-branches,
while slow birds carefully tread the earth.
There is no better place in the world than where I met my sweetheart.
Will the gale knock down the mountain?
Will the rain wear away the stone?
Who has seen it run dry?
Who has seen the love that bound the eyes run dry?
If the mountain should crumble from the gale!
If the mountain should crumble from the gale, then you will know estrangement.
Hurry, kindle a fire in the furnace.
Fire easily melts metal.
The fire that overcomes evil can be kindled only in the heart.
It is so easy to deal with evil, but where can one find such a heart?
Hurry, kindle a fire in the furnace.
Fire easily melts metal.
The fire that overcomes evil can be kindled only in the heart.
It is so easy to deal with evil, but where can one find such a heart?
If they ask what I will become after death, I will answer.
Higher than the Kunle summit, A lofty pine I will become.
Let the whole world freeze under the snow, And only I'll turn yet more green.
Subs by Aleksandr & Eus (2014) revised by Niffiwan (2024)
The End Soyuzmultfilm studio 1983