Soyuzmultfilm
The Little Tiger on the Sunflower
Screenplay Yuriy Koval, Leonid Nosyrev
Director Leonid Nosyrev
Art director Galina Shakitskaya
Composer Yevgeniy Botyarov
Camera - Svetlana Koshcheyeva Sound - Boris Filchikov
Animators - Anatoliy Abarenov Renata Mirenkova, Marina Rogova
Olga Orlova, Aleksey Bukin Aleksandr Panov, Galina Zolotovskaya
Voices - Yevgeniy Leonov, Aleksey Ptitsyn, Aleksandr Baranov
Other film crew - O. Isakova, Vera Kudryavtseva, Natalia Stepantseva
T. Agafonova, M. Drynkova Inna Zaruba, Nikolay Mitrokhin
I. Nefyodova, Yelena Karavayeva Yevgeniya Bogolyubova, Lyudmila Krutovskaya
Pyotr Korobayev, Irina Svetlitsa Irina Troyanova, T. Yegorova
Script editor - Natalya Abramova Production manager - Ninel Lipnitskaya
By the faraway river Ussuri,
there in the green cedar taiga,
where the white-chested Moon bears live,
where the noble Red Deer bugle,
treads the Amba.
Amba,
the Ussurian tiger.
Yes! He was Ussurian, from nose to tail.
And even his stripes were Ussurian.
That's our tongue he's chatting in.
Our Ussurian taiga tongue.
I will translate for those who don't understand.
"Grandpa Cedar... is that you snoring so loudly?"
The chipmunk asks:
"Is it spring yet? Is it spring yet?"
"Mr. Chipmunk, let me in to get warm."
"Crawl in."
"Pardon me, Mr. Chipmunk."
Who's sleeping so loudly up there?
That's the white-chested Ussurian bear.
He lives on trees, grows on trees,
and makes his home in tree caves.
The Nanais call him "Mamafa". Mamafa, the tree bear.
"Mrs. Mamafa! Let me in to get warm!"
"Crawl in."
"Pardon me, Mrs. Mamafa."
See how things can be!
The Ussurian taiga does not like to fool around.
With blowing Ussurian snow it buries you.
Oh, woe! Woe!
What is this?
No, this wonder is not Ussurian!
Is it a winter ginseng?
What is that nutcracker prattling on about?
"Ah! A sunflower! In mid-winter!
Sunflower! Sunflower! Sunflower!"
Here sleeps the owner himself.
"How did I get here?"
"What a big sunflower!"
"This is now the little tiger's home."
"Pardon me."
The hot summer has come at last.
The hot Ussurian summer!
And the sunflower has grown wonderfully tall!
The little tiger is glad,
as are all the animals.
Now autumn has come.
Winter is not far behind.
Nuts must be stored, mushrooms, berries...
and other taiga reserves.
Oh, for a honey hoard of hoarded honey!
How good it is!
And how far the view is!
"If only we could all live on sunflowers!"
Just look at our little tiger!
He gave warmth to the seed, and now it is giving warmth back to him.
By the faraway river Ussuri,
there in the green cedar taiga,
a little tiger lives on a sunflower.
An Ussurian wonder.
The End (subs - Niffiwan @ animatsiya.net)