KYIVNAUKFILM Artistic Collective of Fictive Animation
Where have you ever seen a village as pretty as our Blokesville, eh?
And where else have you seen such idiots
who would eat sour cherries that aren't inside dumplings?
Oh wait, that's us!
Three Blokes Keep House
This is the end for you, dog!
And you're doggone gonna get it, cat!
There, there, there!
Look over there!
Uncle Svirid - that's one.
Auntie Palashka - that's two.
And their rooster (phooey!) - that's three!
Oh-oh-oh-oh, auntie!
We can't count any higher!
They've ripened already!
Yeah, they've ripened, we can see that.
But this one's still green. It won't fall by itself.
"*Cough, cough*. You fools!" said grandpa Fedot then.
"Nobody makes dumplings from unripe apples.
And if they did, they'd feed their livestock first,
and only then feed themselves."
How unthoughtful people are!
They leave rakes lying everywhere - here, there, here, there!
Eat hay, you evil spirit - we want dumplings, you know!
That puts an end to that!
Try and find your rake now!
Right on, girls! Who's gonna win?
Whoa! The goat! But where's auntie Palashka?
"*cough, cough, cough*, you're all touched in the head!"
rightly said old grandpa Fedot.
"Who eats dumplings when the livestock isn't tied up?
There's definitely a reason people say that our goat's an evil spirit!
He has good heart, that uncle Svirid
(may God grant good health to him and his mare!).
Go bleat over here, that's right!
She's bleating...
she wants some dumplings, dontcha know!
Dumplings, dumplings, dumplings, quickly, quickly, dumplings...
We must do everything quicker, or the dumplings will overcook.
What a senseless idiot!
One doesn't take water from the well, but from a barrel!
Safe and sound, thank God!
Take it, take it - we won't begrudge it...
It won't knead.
There's no happiness in the world.
What's she up to, the villian?
Is she trying to be nice or kill us? We can't figure it out.
We knew it - these dumplings have no sour cream.
Thank you very much, auntie Palashka!
Thanks again.
We blokes are kind-hearted - if it'll make one of us happy, then...
...may he burst asunder!
screenwriter Mihail Tatarskiy
director Yefrem Pruzhanskiy
art director I. Divishek
composer O. Osadchiy
camera Anatoliy Gavrilov
sound Igor Pogon
animators Nina Churilova, Lyudmila Tkachikova, I. Borodayeva
animators V. Vrublevskiy, Yefrem Pruzhanskiy, M. Yaremko
assistants R. Lumelskaya, N. Kotyuzhan, O. Perekladova
assistants S. Ignatenko, V. Bozhenok
narrator A. Palamarenko
montage O. Pedan
script editor Yevgeniy Nazarenko
film group director Ivan Mazepa
The End
Kyiv Order of the Red Banner Studio for Popular Science Films, 1990
subtitles for Ukrainian version (24fps) by Niffiwan @ animatsiya.net