Creative Association "Ekran" 1986
Hurry! Hurry! Hurry!
Run! Run! Run! Run!
Look!
The Chest
Screenplay Yuriy Koval
Director Yulian Kalisher
Art Directors Lyudmila Tanasenko, Yelena Zelyonina
Camera Konstantin Ineshin
Music Vladimir Nazarov
There hung a lock, There hung a lock,
There hung...
- There hung a lock, all folks to block, - All folks.
There hung a lock, All folks to block,
- No key would let one pass. - No kidding?
- There hung a lock... - Where?
There hung a lock, all folks to block, No key would let one pass.
Upon a chest there hung a lock,
There hung a lock, all folks to block,
No key would let one pass.
Upon a chest there hung a lock, a great big metal mass.
Inside the chest, key held to breast, Ivan Petrov did sit.
And through the years, out at his peers he looked out through a slit.
Now through a slit, now through a hole,
looked out into the world,
Now through a hole, now through a slit,
Now through a hole, now through a slit, looked out into the world.
Up to the chest comes waddling through
a bear of giant stock.
Ivan shouts out to him: "Cuckoo!"
"Try opening this lock!"
The bear then huffed, The bear then puffed,
With sweat, got soaked all through!
But he could not, the bear could not, That metal lock undo.
Then huffed the bear, then puffed the bear, and peered into the hole.
Now through the hole, now through the slit,
now through a curious opening for little, tiny bugs.
With graceful beak, a crane aspired
to find the secret gears.
this busywork kept dragging on
for many, many years.
Worn out and spent, the crane turned back,
and as he flew up high,
He heard a voice call through a crack:
"If you can't cope, don't try!"
"Don't poke into our little hole, Don't poke into our little slit,
Or through the curious opening for little, tiny bugs!"
"Don't poke into our little hole, Don't poke into our little slit,
Or through the curious opening for little, tiny bugs!"
Chest-specialists from many lands
Convened a committee.
There hangs a lock, there sits Ivan,
He sits, and there hangs a lock... - There sits Ivan.
And there's no second key.
They worked through lunch, a sorry sight, Around the lock they pressed,
They worked through lunch, a sorry sight,
Around the lock they pressed,
But still they couldn't shine a light
Upon the baffling chest.
The Committee of Little Holes, Collegiate of Little Slits,
Inspectorate of Openings for Little, Tiny Bugs!
The Committee of Little Holes, Collegiate of Little Slits,
Inspectorate of Openings for Little, Tiny Bugs!
Then to the chest walks up to stand, The author of these words.
He reaches out with his right hand,
The lock he gently prods. The lock he gently prods.
And through the hole he sternly speaks:
"My friend, I am impressed.
How did you manage, with the key
To get inside that chest?"
"To get inside the chest?"
"So was it through the little hole, So was it through the little slit,
So was it through the little hole,
And through the curious opening you crawled in with the key?"
Then from that chest there was a sound: Loud laughter from Ivan!
And that chest got up off the ground and on two feet it spun.
"My friends!" so said Ivan, "My friends, the task is not so hard:
This chest, it doesn't have a floor, but just an upper part!"
"The little hole, the little slit, the little slit, the little hole,
The curious little opening,
"Have nought to do with it!"
Film credits: S. Kel, Olga Detyaryova F. Gasanov, K. Lopatnikova, S. Simukhina V. Medvedovskaya, I. Gelashvili
Singing, mumbling and laughing by the artist Alexey Ptitsyn
The End Subs by Niffiwan March 2020