A "Soyuzmultfilm" production Moscow, 1958
THREE BEARS Based on a fairy tale by L. Tolstoy
script and lyrics Lev Pozdneyev
director Roman Davydov ass. director & animator L. Popov
art director Vadim Kurchevskiy camera Iosif Golomb
composer Yuriy Nikolskiy sound Georgiy Martynyuk
puppets & decor made at Soyuzmultfilm's art workshop, under the direction of chief artist Roman Gurov
production director Natan Bitman
Today we will tell you about
what happened once
to a naughty girl named Varvarushka.
Let me go out, grandmother, and walk in the woods.
I will bring back, grandmother, white boletes for you.
Do not go, Varvarushka -
You'll get into trouble.
You'd better, Varvarushka,
Just play in the garden.
Don't be silly, grandmother, what could go awry?
You take care, Varvarushka!
Okay, yes, yes, yes!
So the girl did not listen
and went into the forest.
Raven perched upon an oak
Wills the mushroom not to grow.
Little mushroom, grow a lot,
In the coldest, dampest spot.
In this forest lived three bears.
We love to
Traipse through the forest;
It helps our development.
No wild animal would rather
Spend the whole day in his hut.
I will dry my mushrooms soon.
Grandma can make noodles then.
For my bag of mushrooms, she
Will tell a folk tale to me, will tell me.
Further and further into the forest
wandered Varvarushka.
And at last, she lost her way.
She could not see any path at all.
But suddenly she saw someone's house in the woods.
Varvarushka went in without knocking,
and she liked everything she saw.
Birch and aspen I will bend
In a bow, pah-pah, a bow.
I will go gather raspberries
For a pie, for a pie.
Oh!
Everything here seemed interesting to her.
Varvarushka didn't know that in this house
lived three bears.
How could trouble be far behind?
She tasted the porridge that wasn't hers.
She rocked the chair.
Without taking off her shoes, she lay on a bed.
Then on the next one.
And then again on a very little one.
And, having become tired, she fell asleep.
All day through the woods we've circled
Since the morn,
Yes, since the morn.
It's time we went home for supper.
Yes, it's time, it's time, it's time.
There, on the snow-white canvas, the
Table's set, table's set.
Let us satisfy our bear-like,
Our most "wolfish" appetite.
But where are the raspberries?
Mishutka dealt with them in his own way,
for which he got what he deserved.
Who slurped from my bowl?
Who slurped from my bowl
and slurped everything up?
Who sat in my chair?
Who sat in my chair
and broke it?
Who lay down on my bed?
And who lay down on my bed?
Who lay down... Aah!!
Run, run!
Run!
Run, save yourself, Varvarushka,
Uninvited guest!
Varvarushka!
Although the bears did not catch up with her,
her grandmother scolded her for a long time.
And rightly so:
you should listen to your elders!
The End subs by Alevtina & Eus, Nov 2017 revised by Niffiwan, Jan 2024