The Fir Apple
Oh! A fir apple!
Wow!
This is my apple.
I hope you're not very keen on picking it?
To be honest, very!
Let's eat it together.
Huh! No way!
I noticed it first,
back when it was still small. It's my apple.
Too bad!
I really wanted to try its sappy flavour.
All right, I'll treat you to some.
Thank you.
What's this treat I'm hearing about?
An apple!
Oh! Would you look at that!
So what, you're actually going to eat it?
What of it? There isn't enough for everyone, anyway.
Ho! I think...
...that this is an apple of happiness!
Such an apple isn't for eating.
What's it for, then?
Ooh!... I think...
...it is thrown into the grass,
and as it rolls, it'll lead you into the land of happiness!
But it's my apple!
It's already ours! You yourself promised me a piece of it.
Promises, promises...
How will we split it into three now?
Very simply!
It must be thrown into the grass,
and it will lead each of us to our happiness!
I agree!
Fine, then.
Quickly, after it!
Oh! Why did it stop?
We've probably arrived.
Although... I don't see anything special here.
Where's the happiness?
Look at all these mushrooms!
This makes me so happy!
It'll last the whole winter!
I'll salt them, dry them, and treat everyone!
I like golden chanterelles!* *("little foxes")
You'll have your golden chantarelles.
Let us go on!
I wonder,
if his happiness is mushrooms, what will make me happy?
What's this?
My children! Where are you?
Take a look, are they in the grass?
No, there's nobody here!
Mommy, mommy! We learned to fly!
We're now adults, too! Mommy, mommy!
My children! Oh, goodness...
...how happy I am!
I think it's starting to rain?
But I still haven't learned what my own happiness is.
How good it is that you've come, sonny.
A thunderstorm's starting, come into the house.
Dad, I was running to the land of happiness,
but the apple brought me to our house.
Dad! I'm so happy that we're home!
screenwriter Igor Farbarzhevich director Boris Tuzanovich
art director Yelena Karavayeva camera Ernst Gaman
composer Shandor Kallosh sound Nelli Kudrina
voices Lyudmila Gnilova (Little Fox), Aleksandr Lushchik, Pavel Ivanov
animators Svetlana Sichkar, Vladimir Sporyhin, Oleg Safronov,
Semyon Petetskiy, Yelena Sichkar, A. Yabrova, S. Shchegolkova
artists I. Ivancheva, Teodor Velikorod,
Aleksandr Brezhnev, Nataliya Dmitriyeva, Nina Podlesnykh,
Irina Cherenkova, Anatoliy Tsybin, Yevgeniy Potsyus, Larisa Podsypanina
assistant director Svetlana Aleksashina montage Lyudmila Afanasyeva
script editor Galina Komarova production director Lyubov Zaryuta
The End (subtitles by Niffiwan @ animatsiya.net)
(c) Creative association "Ekran", Studio of animated TV films, 1993