A production of SOYUZMULTFILM
In the World of Fables
music Alfred Schnittke
performed by the "Madrigal" ensemble conducted by L. Markiz
narrators E. Garin, A. Gribov
animators A. Abarenov, A. Gorlenko, Yu. Batanin, V. Ugarov, T. Fadeyeva
camera N. Klimova sound V. Kutuzov
assistants T. Lytko, V. Kudryavtseva, M. Trusova, N. Nikolayeva
script editor A. Snesarev production director L. Butyrina
The film makes use of drawings by A.S. Pushkin and G.G. Chernetsov's painting "Parade on the Field of Mars"
Krylov's fables: "The Curious Man", "The Donkey and the Nightingale", "The Cuckoo and the Rooster"
Inventory #000-0003 Elephant
Listen, my dear!
They say you have a great mastery over song:
I dearly wish to judge for myself, after I've heard you sing,
whether your talent really is great, or whether it's all fake.
That's not too bad, to tell the truth. Not at all tiresome...
...to listen to;
But it's a pity
that you don't know our...
...rooster:
You would sing even better yet
if you were to take a few lessons from him!
The Bolshoy Theatre presents a program by I.A. Krylov,
"The Cuckoo and the Rooster" an opera bouffe
Cuckoo, cuckoo, cuckoo, cuckoo!
Oh, dear Rooster, you sing so strong and proud!
Cuckoo, cuckoo, cuckoo, cuckoo!
And you, dear Cuckoo, my light,
How smooth your song is, how drawn-...
- ...-out! - ...-out.
In all our forest, there is no other such singer!
To you, my dear gossip, I could listen for ever.
In all our forest...
- ...no other such singer! - ...I could listen for ever!
- ...such singer! - ...for ever!
- ...no other such singer! Such singer! - Cuckoo, cuckoo! Cuckoo, cuckoo!
I wait...
I wait with
bated breath till you begin once more...
Whence comes such voice as thine?
So pure, so tender, and so high!..
- So pure, - so tender, - and so high!..
In song - a regular nightingale!
Ta-ra-ra-ra-ra-ra-ra...
Cuckoo, cuckoo, thank you, gossip, and on my conscience I declare,
You sing nicer than a bird-of-paradise.
My friends!
Though you may praise each other till you're hoarse,
Yet, all the same, your music's bad!
Why is it that, not fearing sin, the Cuckoo praises the Rooster?
Because he praises the Cuckoo.
- Dear friend, hello! - Where have you been?
- At the Kunstkamera, my friend! I spent three hours there.
- What animals, ah-ah-ah-ah!
What birds have I not seen there! Oh-oh-oh-oh!
What butterflies (ooh!), small insects (ah!),
Bugs, flies, little cockroaches!
Some like emeralds, others like corals!
What tiny little ladybirds!
Why, really, some of them are smaller than a pin's head!
And did you see the elephant? What a sight that is!
I imagine you thought that you had met a mountain?
- What, is one really there?
- It is.
- Then, brother, I'll confess:
The elephant I must have missed.
Bonjour, chers amis, comment ca va?
Oh-la-la, tres bien, magnifique...
The End (subs - Niffiwan @ animatsiya.net)