Creative Association "Ekran"
Director: Vladimir Samsonov Art director: Maina Novozhilova
camera Ernst Gaman sound Sergey Kel
animators A. Grishanova, Mihail Pershin, Olga Horova, S. Sichkar', Aleksandr Levchik, A. Raspopov, Kirill Malyantovich, Anatoliy Tsybin
artists I. Doroshenko, I. Cherenkova, Yelena Kosareva, V. Vinitskaya, T. Areshkova
Narrator: Yu. Puzyrev
Montage L. Kopteva executive producer L. Varentsova script editor V. Medvedovskaya
FIREBIRD
This film uses the music from the orchestral suite by
Igor Stravinsky, "Firebird"
In a certain kingdom,
in a certain country,
a dark, unknown power suddenly appeared
and the entire nation was conquered.
When the news spread that
the dark power had taken Vasilisa the Beautiful too,
the young prince Ivan was far away in a distant land.
He took his invisibility cap, his self-serving tablecloth,
sat himself upon Grey Wolf,
and took off to rescue Vasilisa from captivity.
Then Prince Ivan remembered the fiery-feathered Firebird
that always came flying to the Magic Garden with the golden apples.
And that was the end of the dark, unknown power.
Prince Ivan opened the dark keep's doors,
and embraced Vasilisa the Beautiful.
And when the sun shone again and warmed the earth,
there was no evil and dark left on it at all.
Translated by Quigley, ed. by Eus, based on Alevtina's ru subs (2014), further edited by Niffiwan (2021)
The End