Artists Association "Ekran" ("screen") 1985
Ricky of the Tuft based on the fairy tale by Charles Perrault
- Ricky of the Tuft
- Based on the fairy tale by Charles Perrault.
Script Aleksandr Timofeyevskiy
Director Marianna Novogrudskaya
Art direction Yuriy Isaykin
Operator - Yevgeny Turevich Composer - Nikolay Karetnikov Sound S.Kel
Animators - Vladimir Kaduhin, Alla Grishko Puppets - A.Mulyukina, N.Lyarskaya, M.Bogatskaya L.Pokrovskaya, A.Kuznetsov, Yu.Odintsov
V.Shafranyuk, V.Petrov, A.Gnedinskiy Background Art - A.Rodionov, Ye.Dymova
Voice artists - L.Ilyina, Aleksey Borzunov, Aleksandr Kalyagin, Georgiy Burkov Montage - L. Koptyeva
Script editor - T.Borodina Production R.Borovikova
Our tale has its primary protagonists.
Their names are: Mind and Beauty.
To amuse you, let's have all the other roles...
...performed by two jesters.
The Queen gave birth to a son!
(echo)...gave birth to a son, son, son, son...
There once was a queen who gave birth to a son, (echo) son, son, son, son...
He was so ugly and misshapen
that for a long time they wondered...
(echo) was he even human? ...was he even human?
was he even human? was he even human?
- And yet, the child will be lovable.
- Because he will be very clever.
(echo) very clever, clever, clever, clever...
- On the same day, in one of the neighboring countries,
a baby girl was born. A heavenly beauty!
(echo) beauty, beauty, beauty, beauty...
- Oh! Truth is, over the years she became...
stupider and stupider.
Also, she was so clumsy,
that she could not rearrange any items upon the mantelpiece
without breaking one of them,
nor drink a glass of water without spilling half of it
upon her dress. - Oh! Phooey!
Yes... as the years went on, she became ever stupider...
And if she was asked something, she either gave no answer at all
- or she said something very idiotic. - Y-yes!
Why do the stars shine in the sky?
I do not know.
Why are there pines in a dense pine forest?
I do not know.
Where do the days and nights go?
I do not know.
Why are my eyes full of tears?
I do not know.
The sky at night...
is a purse tightly packed with stars,
The stars shine upon us! We are made for each other.
Where do night and day hasten after?... Why ask them?
They are hastening to meet us, they want to become ours.
Everyone lives by the rules of etiquette, structured, well-conducted lives,
They do things how they are done, how they should be!
I do not know how to tread, how to deliver conversation
It's prompted to me ... but I forget again within the hour.
- Defend yourselves, sir!
- Ah!
- I am at your service.
- Ah!
How people live in the world, I do not know.
You live as a star shines in the night.
As a pine in a dense pinewood, as a blade of grass,
as my soul's other half.
- I often dream this stupid dream
One heatbeat it lasts.
There's a green mountain with tall grass
I have fun in the grass, that's just slightly higher then my head.
And I scream, "Ahoy ahoy..."
And that grass smells so sweetly...
...but how...?
I cannot find the words.
...but how...?
I cannot find the words.
... but how...?
I do not know...
I'm stupid...
Tears sparkle in your eyes, joy they promise you.
Pines rustle in the woods, As wife I will take you.
Not for an hour, for a lifetime,
'till death do us part.
Prince Ricky...
Proposed to the princess.
The wedding was postponed for a year.
The princess was dismayed...
by the Ugliness of the Prince.
This is a brilliant proof of women's stupidity.
- Women's stupidity, stupidity, stupidity, stupidity...
- Chapter Two.
The prophecy!
You would know what godmother Adele had wished
for the fates to endow the Prince with.
Well, I can easily tell you that he will everywhere become
known for his insightful, brilliant mind.
Genial, ideal. But ...!
The Prince will be ugly and hunchbacked.
I will tell you the plain truth: (Truly-la-la! Truly-la-la!)
Someone's destiny can not be repaired! (Truly-la-la! Truly-la-la!)
However... I love Prince Ricky
So I'll bestow upon him a magical gift.
that will be useful to him.
Prince will manage to bestow good sense...
To the one he loves most!
You would know what godmother Adele had wished
for the fates to endow the Princess with.
Well, I can easily tell you
that the princess will be lovely,
charming, delightful,
beautiful, marvelous...
But! Not clever.
Alas! Not clever.
I will tell you the plain truth: (Truly-la-la! Truly-la-la!)
Someone's destiny can not be repaired! (Truly-la-la! Truly-la-la!)
Yet... I'll do something good for the princess.
I'll bestow upon her a magical gift.
It will be useful to her.
She will be able to bestow beauty...
Upon the one person who is dear to her!
Poor prince!
- Let time now turn backwards.
THE END
From this fairy tale we may learn one thing,
yet that one thing is more truthful than the truest history:
Anything that we fall in love with
becomes, for us, outstanding and clever.
Subtitles: Jan 2021 by bornik @ KG, Eus, Niffiwan
THE END
Radio and Television of the USSR in 1985