Soyuzmultfilm
Vasilisa the Beautiful
screenwriter Viktor Merezhko
director Vladimir Pekar art director Tatyana Kolyusheva
composer Yevgeniy Botyarov camera Kabul Rasulov
sound Boris Filchikov script editor Raisa Frichinskaya
animators Marina Voskanyants, Marina Rogova, Yuriy Kuzyurin,
Galina Zebrova, Vladimir Shevchenko, I. Svetlitsa, T. Pomerantseva,
S. Marakasov, Oleg Safronov, V. Zaharov
assistants O. Apanasova, L. Biryukova, L. Krutovskaya
montage Nataliya Stepantseva
voice artists Anna Komenkova, Anastasiya Georgiyevskaya,
Yevgeniy Leonov, Mihail Kononov production director Fyodor Ivanov
For you to sit is not my will;
My will is for you to stand and listen.
So,
before I become old,
I would like to marry you all off.
Each of you, children, should take an arrow,
go into the open field,
draw the bowstring
and fire.
Wherever each son's arrow lands,
there shall his fate lie.
- You overdid it, brother!
You won't find it in 100 years, now.
- Such is my fate, it seems.
I'll go and look for it.
A frog!
Frog, give me back my arrow!
- If you take me as your bride, I'll give it back.
- Are you serious? How can I take you,
when you are a frog?
- It seems that such is your fate.
Take me.
Your fate...
- For you to sit is not my will;
My will is for you to stand and listen.
I want to see which of your brides
has the most skilled hands.
By tomorrow, let each of them
sew me a shirt.
- I know, Prince Ivan, why you are so sad.
Do not grieve;
come, you should go to sleep.
Tomorrow will bring the answer.
- This shirt...
would be good to wear in a sooty house.
And this one, I'd better wear in the bathhouse.
Now this shirt...
this is a shirt to wear only on a holiday!
Well,
this time let the brides
bake me some bread by tomorrow.
I want to know who'll do it best!
- Did your father like the shirt?
- He did.
- Well, do not worry about the rest.
Do not grieve!
Go home, go to bed.
Tomorrow will bring the answer.
- This brick...
you can kill enemies with.
This stone...
you can build a barn on top of.
This bread...
is just the thing to eat on a holiday!
So,
today
I will have all three brides
appear for an evening banquet
in silks and dresses.
- Do not worry, Prince Ivan.
Go to the feast alone,
And I... will follow you later.
When you hear the sound of thunder,
do not be frightened. Say:
"That's my little frog,
riding in her little box."
- Ivan,
And where is your
little bride?
- Ah, she will arrive later.
Fear not,
that's my little frog
riding in her little box!
- Well, hello,
my sunshine, Ivanushka.
My fate.
- Klutzes!
You'd attack your Sovereign?
Get out of my sight!
Ah, Prince Ivan...
what have you done?
If we had waited but three days more,
I would have been yours.
But now... farewell.
Look for me beyond thrice-nine lands,
in the thrice-tenth tsardom.
- Hello, young man.
Sit down and rest.
- Hello, old-timer.
- You burned the frogskin, then.
- How do you know?
- How could I not know?
It was not your skin to don,
and it wasn't yours to remove.
You must now search for your dear Vasilisa
in Koschei's tsardom.
- Koschei's?
But how do I get there?
- Roll a yarn ball in front of you,
and follow it
while holding the string's end.
Do not turn aside!
Wait, Ivan,
don't joke around.
I will yet
be of use to you.
Do not shoot me, Prince Ivan.
Some day, I will be able
to do you a service.
Do not shoot, Prince Ivan!
I'll be of use to you!
Prince Ivan, take pity on me,
throw me back into the blue sea.
Hut, hut,
Stand as in past Your dear mother placed thee:
With your back to the wood and your front facing me!
What brings you, you fine youth,
to my home?
- Might you know, dear Granny,
where Koschei lives?
- For calling me "dear Granny", I thank you.
No one has ever called me that.
Everyone only calls me
Baba Yaga, the bone-legged.
Are you really set on defeating old Koschei?
- What do you think about this?
- Get in the bucket.
I'll show where Koschei's tsardom lies.
But it will be hard for you to deal with him.
Because his death
lies on the tip of a needle,
the needle is in an egg,
the egg is in a duck,
the duck is in a hare,
the hare is in a chest,
and the chest hangs chained to the branches of a oak tree.
And that oak, Ivan,
is guarded by Koschei
more closely than he guards his own eyes.
- So here it is -
Koschei's tsardom.
The End
subs by Eus (2015), revised by Niffiwan (2024) @ animatsiya.net