Do you think that these are merely ornaments?
Listen, then,
and I'll tell you a tale.
An Ornamental Tale
Once upon a time,
long, long ago,
there lived an evil sorcerer named Karahan.
The villain kidnapped the daughter of the sun,
and had her chained in his dungeon.
She could not send a message to her beloved,
Baatyr.
And so then,
she wove these ornamental patterns
and in them, related her sad fate.
People were thrown into an underground prison by the evil Karahan,
all the herds were taken by the greedy Karahan,
the springs, the blooming highland summer pastures were captured by the monster Karahan.
And the sad news reached Baatyr.
And he learned
that under the blue mountain
live people
who will give him a horse and show the way to his beloved.
Such is the tale that ornaments can tell.
screenwriter, director Vyacheslav Belov
art director B. Zhumaliyev camera A. Litvinov
sound Ya. Ryvkin
animators S. Selskiy, G. Soltobayeva, M. Sopukeyev,
B. Kariyev, T. Murzakhmetov, G. Sabirova
script editor M. Gaparov production director K. Akmatov
Kyrgyzfilm
The End shot on "Tasma" film stock
Subtitles by Niffiwan @ animatsiya.net, 2025