Soyuzmultfilm Moscow 1959
Three Woodcutters
screenwriters Anatoliy Sazonov, S. Byalkovskaya
director Leonid Amalrik
art directors Nadezhda Privalova, Tatyana Sazonova
composer Nikita Bogoslovskiy camera Mihail Druyan sound Nikolay Prilutskiy
assistants G Andreyeva, Yu. Prytkov
animators Boris Butakov, Renata Mirenkova, Ivan Davydov, Lidiya Reztsova,
V. Dolgikh, Tatyana Taranovich, Vyacheslav Kotyonochkin, Yelena Hludova
backgrounds O. Gemmerling, I. Kuskova, K. Malyshev, Ye. Tannenberg,
voice artists Georgiy Vitsin, Yelena Ponsova, Boris Tolmazov Aleksandr Hanov
There once lived a bubble, a straw, and a bast shoe.
And so, my friends, one cold autumn morning...
Hey, Bubble, hey Bast Shoe! Get up, you lazy good-for-nothings!
Oh, I have such a tummy ache.
Hey, Bubble. Come and eat sweet porridge.
Now where is my big spoon?
Oh, dear. The pot is empty!
And why is it empty?
Because you didn't cook porridge.
And why didn't I cook porridge?
Because you didn't heat the stove yet.
And why didn't I heat the stove?
Why, why... because!
Because we haven't chopped any firewood.
That's right! Sweet porridge will never get cooked with you two!
If you want to eat sweet bread, Don't just sit there - work, my lad!
So the friends set off into the forest to chop firewood.
On their way, they came to a river, and were at a loss for how to cross.
Bubble... say, Bubble, you're the lightest
Why don't we cross sitting on your back?
Oh no, Bast Shoe...
It will be better if Straw stretches herself across the river like a bridge,
and then we can walk over her. - You don't say!
Do you know, lazybones, what would happen if I listened do you?!
What? - I'll tell you!
Bast Shoe will walk on me and I'll break!
Then he'll fall into the water...
And you, Bubble, will laugh so hard that you'll burst!
Yeah... in that case, you'd better sit on me and float over.
My dear Bast Shoe, you shouldn't go any further.
Since getting wet back there, you haven't been looking so good!
Bubble, hurry and get a fire going!
What is that burning smell?
Oh boy, that warmed me up real good!
Hey, Bubble! Come and eat sweet porridge.
Where is my big spoon?
Hey!
Bubble!
Help us split the wood!
Hey, Bubble! Come and eat sweet porridge!
Where is by big sp... oh!
Oh, you clumsy bast shoe!
Watch out, Bubble, that you don't burst!
Sweet porridge will never get cooked with you two!
Forgive me, my dear Straw!
I won't be like that any more.
Aren't you tired, Bubble?
- Let me help you. - No thanks!
I don't want to fly away again.
Excellent! Look, the river is frozen now!
Blub, blub, that's my second cold bath today!
Oh, Bast Shoe...
But where is Straw?
At last, the three friends came home again,
heated the stove, and warmed themselves up!
And you were saying that the sweet porridge would never get cooked!
Just eat, and... bon appetit!
Here is your big spoon!
The End Subs by Eus, revised by Niffiwan