Creative association "Ekran"
The Tale of the Old Echo
Ah-ha-ha! Eh-hey-hey!
Quickly, come outside today!
One, two, three, And four, and five...
...Play with me when you arrive!
One, two, three, four, five...
...Play with me when you arrive! Quickly, come outside today!
Hello.
Who's here?
I'm here.
Who... are you?
Echo.
Hello! Where are you hiding?
In the tree hollow?
In the bushes?
I think I know...
Are you playing hide and seek?
No. I'm not hiding.
I just don't have a body.
I'm invisible, like a dissolved cloud.
How will we play then?
Run to my voice.
If you can hardly hear me, then I'm far away.
If I'm close, catch me quickly.
But if you are like a dissolved cloud,
what will I catch then?
Let's do the opposite.
You will seek me.
Dad! I...
I played with Echo!
You can't play with an echo.
You say to it "good morning",
and it says "good morning" back to you.
You say to it "goodbye",
and it says "goodbye" back to you.
It's boring.
But my Echo doesn't speak like that at all!
To "good morning"
it replies "how are you?"
What, what?
What did you say?
To "good morning" it replies "how are you?"...
Uh-huh!
And what's more, we had plenty to talk about!
Where does this strange "Echo" of yours live, my son?
I haven't seen such a thing for a long time in our forest...
That's because it's invisible!
Everything is possible... everything...
You know what?
Introduce me to it tomorrow.
- Deal? - OK.
Everything is possible...
everything...
Eh-hey-hey!
Good night.
How are you?
Is it really you?
It's me.
I thought...
one can only speak to you in childhood.
- Do you remember?... - I do.
Me too! I still remember
your lullaby.
Fall asleep my dear son,
Sniffle softly with your nose.
Close your little eyes...
...and let the fairy tales begin.
Yes...
This is my lullaby.
It's such a pity that nothing can ever be brought back...
Why not?
Catch.
My toys!
My childhood...
Thank you, Echo!
Film was created by: I. Farbarzhevich, B. Tuzanovich, Ye. Karavayeva, S. Tyunin,
Ye. Turevich, Sh. Kallosh, N. Kudrina, I. Yasulovich, L. Gnilova, A. Pozharov
S. Petetskiy, I. Samohin, Z. Plehanova, N. Dmitrieva, V. Lopuhova, A. Zuyeva,
V. Zolotuhina, L. Ruban, A. Feodoridi, L. Zaryuta
The End
(c) Creative association "Ekran", USSR Gosteleradio, 1989
Subs - houzdog03 (2008), revised by Niffiwan (2023) @ animatsiya.net