Kievnauchfilm Division of Fictive Animation.
Attention! Attention! Attention!
As it was before, and will be in the future:
It is not permitted in urban homes to burn lights in the evenings!
No rushlight shall be lit, nor a candle, nor a torch.
SVICHKA'S WEDDING Based on a play by Ivan Kocherga
screenwriters B. Kryzhanovskiy, T. Pavlenko.
director Tadeus Pavlenko art director R. Sahaltuyev
camera P. Rakitin composer B. Yanivskiy
sound V. Gruzdev animator I. Borodavko
voice-actors O. Naumenko, B. Stunka A. Gashinskiy, N. Matviyenko
assistants S. Borisovskiy, S. Lechshenko S. Vasilyeva, R. Lumelskaya
script-editor S. Kutsenko production director Ivan Mazepa
So this, then, is the princely custom:
That a horde may break into a peaceful home!
- Grab them all!
- Tomorrow morning in the town-square, gunsmith Ivan Svichka will be executed
as a warning for the others, that they may learn fear and be frightened of violating the prince's decrees.
- Oh, take pity, have mercy on him... Pardon him...
Speak one thing: Just one small word
and give me back my one true love
and let the wedding candle glow...
- With your prayer you have confused my heart...
- Get up, girl, I cannot refuse.
I command: Let Ivan Svichka go free at once,
if his bride can bring a lighted candle
to the place of execution.
- I'll carry my light there, you'll see!
Attention! Attention! Attention!
- Today, by order of the prince the gunsmith Ivan Svichka will be executed.
For lighting a fire in the night, for disobedience,
for inciting rebellion.
So that all may see and be frightened of violating the prince's decrees henceforth.
- Here, prince, is the light... Look, I brought it...
- Ivan Svichka I must now punish.
Immediately prepare everything for the execution.
- Are you all really frightened of iron scarecrows?
Forward! To battle!
Nothing I can do... My light, my darling light!
- Ivan, my love...
I brought the candle.
Goodbye!...
- Goodbye... my dove.
But we, with a dreadful slashing,
will pave and battle the way to freedom
and in your honor, like wedding candles, will light the flames of rebellion in the city.
The End Kiev Science Film, 1982
Subs by Alevtina & Eus, Aug 2014 Revised by Niffiwan, Feb 2024 animatsiya.net