SOYUZMULTFILM
THE MAGIC RING (adapted from Boris Shergin's folk tale)
screenwriters Yuriy Koval, Leonid Nosyrev
director Leonid Nosyrev art director Vera Kudryavtseva
composer Yevgeniy Botyarov camera Boris Kotov
sound Boris Filchikov montage Olga Vasilenko
ass. director O. Isakova ass. artists I. Karavayeva, V. Gilyarova ass. camera M. Popova
animators Anatoliy Abarenov, Yuriy Kuzyurin, Oleg Kamarov, Lev Ryabinin
Renata Mirenkova, Marina Voskanyants, Marina Rogova, Viktor Lihachyov
backgrounds Vladimir Zaharov, Svetlana Davydova, Irina Troyanova, Irina Svetlitsa
voiced by Yevgeniy Leonov, Yuriy Volyntsev, Anatoliy Barantsev
Mariya Vinogradova, Kira Smirnova, Tatyana Vasilyeva
script editor Natalya Abramova production director Lyubov Butyrina
Soyuzmultfilm, 1979
In a certain land, in our very own kingdom,
in a place flat as a tablecloth
lived Ivan Goodheart with his mother, in the suburbs.
Their home was humble as could be.
No wood to burn, no food to eat.
And so Ivan decided to sell his only hat
to buy his mother some gingerbread for her name day.
Thus he went to the market.
Stranger, why are you torturing that animal?
What, I'm supposed to ask for permission?
Sell me the cat.
Sure.
The whole thing?
The whole thing. I'll give it to my mother for her name day.
The hat is ours, the cat is yours.
All right.
Mother, I bought a kitty.
Named "Mashka".
A present for your name day.
"For mother's name day"
Phooey!
We wouldn't need it even were it given freely.
Then Ivan resolved to sell his last shirt.
To buy some flour and fish.
Lad, why are you tormenting an animal again?
What's it to you?
Well, we want to purchase the dog from you.
Sure.
Your dog, our shirt.
She's a unique dog - "Zhuzha", with a white coat.
Take it!
Where's the shirt?
See, I traded it for this dog, Zhuzha.
With a white coat.
Buying dogs and cats...
while at home there's nothing to eat.
Well, what choice was there?
Ivan decided to sell his jacket, with pockets.
For the third time Ivan went to the market.
I feel sad for the jacket with pockets, Masha.
Ivan looks so handsome in it.
Stranger,
what're you toying with animals for? Stop that!
Here is a snake that I can part with.
Buy it to amuse your mother.
I'll exchange it for the jacket.
With pockets, of course.
Mother...
I bought a snake.
His poor mother was about to faint right there!
Without question.
This was the worst that could happen.
So they began to live, white Zhuzha and grey Mashka.
Ivan with his mother, and the snake Scarapeya.
The mother did not like Scarapeya.
Didn't call her to dinner, didn't call her by name.
What a tale!
Oh mother, what are you hurting her for?
From beyond the wooded island To the river wide and free
Proudly sailed the arrow-breasted Ships of Cossack yeomanry.
On the first is Stenka Razin With his princess by his side
Hark how they sing.
Oh father, what bad taste!
That's Ivan from the suburbs, screaming his throat out.
Listening, are you, old warbler?
Letting in smoke and bloodthirsty bugs!
Ivan?
A deep "merci" to you.
You gave me drink, food, and gave away your only jacket with pockets
in exchange for me.
I'll tell you my secret.
Ivan, I'm the daughter of the snake king.
For my rescue, I grant you a golden ring.
A magic one.
What? Does our mistress? Want?
Here is your master. Serve him from now on.
But first, photograph us for remembrance
and send me to my father.
Mother, if you were rich, what would you want?
Onion, fish, butter. I'd bake some pirogis!
What? Does our new master? Want?
Some flour, sugar and butter too.
Mother! Get the dough ready or the pirogis will take over a day to make!
Oh, what pirogis, where's the flour for them?
You're dreaming.
Wake up yourself, I say, and visit the storehouse.
Oh, how much easier it became to breathe now!
His mother had a yellow dress, a hat with 20 feathers!
What a fashionable dame she became!
Ivan also didn't leave the mirror.
On him was a hat, galoshes, a new jacket - with pockets.
Mother, no need to daddle; go and propose marriage to the tsar's daughter.
There!
Ivan, of course I'm a respectable lady now, with fashionable clothes,
but aren't you aiming a little high? Maybe a general's...
Go and propose, talk no more.
Meanwhile, the emperor is drinking tea with his family
from an archaic samovar,
with three pounds of chow on each plate;
lots of foodstuff.
Greetings, Your High Noble Emperor-ness.
Hello.
You have a product; we have a buyer.
Will you not give your Ulyanka to my Ivan to wed?
What a laugh - a husband has turned up!
Who is he? A prince?
Of what kingdom?
The kingdom is yours, and his rank is not high.
So is he rich in capital?
The capital is in Ivan's head!
Are you insane, you matchmaker?
We're swimming in suitors like in a compost heap.
So if he's with a head, as you say,
let him, from his porch to our castle,
create a bridge, systematically engineered.
And have it be made of crystal!
His Highness has posed a fine riddle.
"Let there be from our castle, to your porch,
a bridge,
systemically engineered, from crystal."
Don't worry, mother! The mind's fresher in the morning!
What? Does master? Want?
Instead of our home, let there be a kingly dwelling,
and from our door to the tsar's palace, a crystal bridge.
Also a car with a kerosene engine.
There.
In the morning Ivan and his mother woke up...
What happened? In every corner is a golden bed!
Mirrors everywhere! Curtains!
Store-bought furniture!
Oh, Ivan!
What beauty!
Mother, go call the emperor, and I, as the groom, will drive up in the car.
There!
Greetings, Your Greatness.
Hello!
Yesterday you ordered a bridge to be cobbled,
so now please look over the work.
The groom will personally come for coffee.
A bridge! Rest my poor soul, a bridge!
-Marimyanna! -What?
Leave the trough alone! Throw my crown here, and my coat here.
I'll go and feel it, maybe it's an optical illusion...
Well now, it's a fact! A bridge!?
And it's crystal! Crystal!
Marimyanna!
What?
Dress Ulyanka in the veil!
I'm pleased to invite
Your Greatness, with your spouse and your daughter to take a ride.
To open the roads, so to speak.
I wouldn't mind.
I won't crawl into that monstrosity.
What am I, insane?
It'll fall into the river.
Marimyanna, don't shame yourself,
don't shame yourself before other countries.
Get into the buggy!
I think I'd prefer to lie on a nice sofa right now,
or at least on some grass...
even the ground would be fine.
Ivan!
Go back!
They designed a fabulous wedding.
The whole affair was covered in the newspapers.
They sent the young couple to Ivan's house.
But only this young princess didn't need Ivan.
She already had a suitor outside the country.
What a gangrene Ivan wedded himself to!
Oh, I feel in my heart - she'll show her nature.
Ivan, I'm yours for eternity.
But won't you be open to your lovely spouse, Ivan?
Where did you get these riches from?
How handsome you are
but won't you tell me, Ivan?
He couldn't dodge it.
Ulyanka's trying to find out about Scarapeya's magic ring.
This Ulyanka smells worse than kerosene!
What? Does our new mistress? Want?
Take me and this house, and the bridge
and place us in the middle of Paris, where my beloved lives!
The emperor went for a walk along the river in the morning.
And it was like the bridge was never there.
Where's the bridge?
Oh, there is no bridge!
I ask, where is my bridge?!
Ivan was put under guard and thrown into prison.
So what, Ivan is supposed to sit innocent in a dark prison, while Ulyanka strolls around Paris?
Let us run and get the magic ring, Masha!
And so they went to Paris!
Treading through dark forests,
Walking through wide steppes,
Climbing over high mountains,
Well, they gave some concerts in cities along the way, with great success.
And, just like that, they reached Paris.
You, Zhuzha, warm up the engine; we'll escape from Paris in the car.
And I'll climb in and get the ring!
See where the drapes are lowered; that's the bedroom.
Oh, how they made legs with the dog!
They drove away from Paris
and without rest all the way home they flew...
What? Does our old master? Want?
My house, and the bridge, bring from Paris to their old places,
and Ulyanka - return her to her parents!
She is my wife no longer!
There!
Ivan! I'm yours for eternity!
Ivan! Accept a telegram!
I forgive you! Full stop.
Instead of Ulyanka I'm giving another daughter. Full stop.
I'll add some money! You hear? Really!
Tsar-emperor.
We won't take your daughters for free, nor for money!
And so, Ivan took a wife from the village.
A fine girl...
[SCARAPEYA]
THE END (subtitles by Niffiwan)