Soyuzmultfilm presents
Stompy
written & directed by Fyodor Hitruk
art director - Sergey Alimov music - Moisey Vaynberg
camera - Boris Kotov sound - Georgiy Martynyuk, A. Baranov
animators - Galina Barinova, M. Kuprach, Mariya Motruk, Vladimir Morozov,
Leonid Nosyrev, Anatoliy Petrov, Gennadiy Sokolskiy, Irina Svetlitsa,
O. Kuprach, V. Leonova, Elvira Maslova, V. Chizhova,
text is read by Yelena Ponsova
In a remote, dense forest stood a little hut.
In that hut lived a mother bear with her bear cub, Stompy.
All day long the mother bear would sleep upon the stove.
What else is there for bears to do in winter?
But Stompy could not sleep.
He began to bother mama-bear: "Let me go into the woods!"
But mama-bear scolded him: "There's nothing for you out there!"
"Who ever heard of bears roaming the woods in the winter? Sleep!"
"Well, if that's how it is", decided Stompy, "I'll go out on my own,
and see what's going on out there."
He went to take a look - the whole world really was whiter than white!
"There's the thing that was shining brightly into my window. Can I fetch it?"
Then he met a beast... that was like nothing he'd ever seen before.
"Who are you?"
"I," it said, "am the hare Black-Tail. And who are you?"
"I am the bear Stompy."
"Well, then - let's be friends!"
Well, no matter. The little hare will think up something new.
Stompy returned right back home to his mother.
"I made friends with a hare," he said.
His ears are so long! And his tail goes like this.
Mother bear became angry!
"Who ever heard of bears being friends with hares?"
"Don't you dare go in the woods again, or be friends with this hare!"
And what about the little hare?
Goodness me, he also got in trouble.
"Who ever heard of hares being friends with bears?"
"Don't you dare go in the woods again, or be friends with this bear!
Stompy became even more bored than before.
He waited and waited - maybe his buddy would show up?
His friend was over there. Also waiting for Stompy.
But he didn't dare stray far from home. - mother hare wouldn't allow it.
Spring arrived.
Mother bear woke up... and led her son into the forest.
And Stompy came to the very place where he had played with the little hare.
"Why don't I go look for him?" he thought.
He walked up a steep bank, and saw... someone's house floating in the river!
That's how it went... And they've lived together ever since.
Isn't that better?
That's the End of the Tale
(subs: Eus & Niffiwan, 2022)