Creative association "Ekran" 1987
The Return of the Little House Elf
Once there was a girl,
Clever, beautiful, but a klutz.
She could neither bake bread nor mend her clothes.
And then she found a house-elf.
Still young, but earnest.
And everything in their household began to go smoothly...
...but then came trouble - Baga Yaga turned up.
- Can you believe it, she dragged off the little house-elf!
Nafanya, you'll have some tea? - Thanks but I had some at home.
And then, Baba Yaga got the idea
to have the house-elf drink a potion,
that would make him forget his dear home. - Ah!
- There is no good fortune in this house anymore! And why?
- Because little Kuzya is still not back!
Mama, mama! - Take care of my children!
Three, two, one, zero!
Start! - Where are you going?
- One needs to fight for one's good fortune!
- I want to go to the city! I want to go home!
- Kuzenka, my emerald!
- It's "Kuzma" to you!
You're in my way! - But if everyone were to leave for the city,
who'd remain in the fairy tale? - You have your own fairy tale, and I have mine.
- You forgot to take some pies for the road.
- Yeah? What's in the pies? - Ha ha, it's a surprise.
- Well, come on then. Be quick about it! - Ah, I'll make them right away!
Whoever gets my pie to eat, forgets his native home with speed.
People he once liked - he'll cease to love.
- Oh, that's what the surprise is about?
A hate potion? No, you've picked on the wrong house elf!
Carry me, oh broom, To where you brought me from.
- No, Kuzma!
If you won't be mine, then you'll be nobody's!
- Meow! - Start a fire.
You can't just flee from grannies, You can't forget old grannies.
- A-ah-ah! Now, hut, start a Cossack dance!
- To the river! Hurry to the river, fool!!
- Hey, folks!
Gee! Flying through the air! How about that?
Oh!
Go, go away! - Stop!
Wait, where are you going?!
- Shoo! Shoo-shoo-shoo!
- Oh... there goes my good fortune.
- Never mind! All things go through the mill of life and come out as flour...
- What, are you a miller?
- Are you kidding? I'm a house elf.
Kikim's my name. - What a coincidence!
- Huh? What do you think you're doing?!
Ah!
- Hmm. We don't have any luck with house elfs.
- Dear Kikim!
Oh!
One-two,
One-two.
- Where am I? Who am I?
- You're a house-elf, old one.
The last one in the whole district. - Caw!
What have you done with our house elf?
- He was a house-elf, now he's a water-sprite.
- Caw! Kuzenka!
Ku Ku! Ku, Kuzya, where are you?
Oh, what happened to you...
- Uh-uh, don't eat it, hurry, spit it out!
There's a hate potion in it. E- Hey!
- And... and who are you? No, who are you?
- Ah, don't you recognize me?
- It's the first time I've seen you. - Oh! There's no one at home upstairs...
- I have no home. I am a free bird!
I fly where I want to. I fly where I want to...
- Stop! Wait, Mrs. Crow!
Oh! This villain! Fire does not burn him and water doesn't drown him.
- Oh, those city-dwellers!
They throw out homes like it's nothing!
Come on, now. Cheep! Cheep-cheep-cheep!
- You've still got it, old sport! Sharp as an eagle!
I fly where I want to!
Where do I want to? Where do I fly to?
- Home! Double back home!
- I have no home.
Everyone has one, but I haven't.
Follow me! Don't fall behind!
- Okay, then. Sleep, sleep, sleep...
- Mom! Mama!
- Children! One, two, three!
All here! What good fortune!
- Good fortune? Where? Where is that good fortune?
Good fortune is when everyone is home.
Natasha, look at the clock.
- Ku-ku! Ku-ku!
- Oh! Ha-ha! - Shh!
- Till tomorrow? - Till tomorrow!
There! All is well again!
written by Marina Vishnevetskaya
directed by Aida Zyablikova
art director Gennadiy Smolyanov
cameraman Konstantin Ineshin
music Mihail Meyerovich
sound V. Azarovskiy
voice artists Georgiy Vitsin, Svetlana Travkina, Tatyana Peltser, Grigoriy Bolshakov
animators Vladimir Kaduhin, Alla Grishko
Puppets made by V. Petrov, Ye. Dymova, A. Gnedinskiy
Ye. Pokrovskaya, G. Bogachev, B. Karavayev M. Bogatskaya, A. Degtyarev, V. Sletkov
montage L. Koltyeva
script editor Alisa Feodoridi
production director Ye. Bobrovskaya
The End subs by Eus (2016), ed. Niffiwan (2021)