The Green Pill
directed by Yuriy Skirda written by Sofia Prokofyeva
art directors Yuriy Skirda, L. Valuyeva
animators Natalya Marchenkova, Adolf Pedan, Ye. Peretyatko,
Mihail Titov, Aleksandr Viken, Aleksandr Lavrov, S. Berezovskaya
camera Anatoliy Gavrilov production director Ivan Mazepa
music L. Verbitsky sound Irina Chefranova, script editor Vladimir Gaidai
voices Nina Trofimova, Z. Moskayeva, Vladimir Korshun, V. Pupkov
montage Yu. Srebnitskaya, other crew A. Vratarev, S. Teslenko,
A. Ibadulayev, Ye. Dyomkina, Lyudmila Sheykina, O. Kasyanenko, Nina Trofimova
Artistic Collective for Fictive Animation of the Kievnauchfilm Studio, 1974
Back to school again!
Idea!...
I'm sick.
"I am sick,
send for the doctor."
Who is sick here?
Here are some pills for you. Green and red.
Swallow any one of them, and you won't have to
go to school.
And no one will scold you.
They're magic!
Magicians don't exist.
You just try it.
Some doctor.
I thought he would give me a doctor's note.
But he...
gave me some sort of candy!
Eh! I'll have to go to class after all.
Or I'll be scolded again.
"Magic"!
[School]
Late again.
They'll take me to the principal's office.
But what if they really are magic?
What do you want, young man?
Me?
I'm heading to my third grade class.
You've gotten mixed up.
Our school is for children, not for adults.
Wow!
The pills helped.
What a doctor!
Now I'm an adult.
So I don't need to go to school!
Eh! Now that's life!
I'm gonna become a sailor!
What a bloke! What strength!
Take me as a sailor!
How could I not take such a warrior!
A wonder of a warrior!
Bring your graduation papers from school.
On the double! - On the double!
But I'm only in third grade.
Stand down! Straighten up!
Ten-hut!
Face right!
To class, quick... march!
"A wonder of a warrior", hah!
To the 3rd grade, fast... march!
[Stand]
[Milk] [Bread]
Citizen!
- Mister! - You're under arrest!
The red pills have failed me.
How about the green ones?
Oh, wow!
Hey there, little guy, where did you come from?
[Film]
I'm not a little guy! I'm already in 3rd grade!
Hockey!
Guys!
Help!
Long live the champion!
It's not me!
It's the pills that are to blame!
Class is over! Back to school!
Don't cry, little guy!
Come back when you're older!
Guys! Wait!
I am from your class!
There's my briefcase!
It's too early for you to go to school, little one.
What? Me?! I'm not little!
Oh, green pill!
Open up! I'm gonna grow up!
You won't!
Why won't I grow up?
Who threw a briefcase at me?
Huh?
Give me the pills! - I won't!
Come on!
I won't!
Caw!
Let me go! I want to go to school!
To the other kids!
Well, who is sick here?
Well, it doesn't matter,
once you take two or three pills...
No pills. I'm not sick.
I'm hurrying to school!
The school opens up its doors wide, Tick-tock, the clock now strikes.
Jump, skip, the verbs come running, While all the Xs hide.
Into these doors, into these doors Every single student walks.
Both a small bug - a first grader - and a huge, big graduate. There!
Well done!
You are the first to arrive.
What's with you today?
Don't tell a soul!
The End Subs by Eus & Niffiwan, Aug 2025