SARATOVTELEFILM
This story began...
when the white men first came to the Rockies.
The country of America was conquering all the new territories of the Far West,
and no force was capable of stopping the pioneer settlers.
And yet...
...not all the animals submitted to the aliens.
More than a few legends arose about this...
THE LIFE OF A GREY BEAR
Here's a true story
about a grizzly bear.
The writer Ernest Thompson Seton...
knew him by the name Wahb.
In only two years...
...this bear-orphan became ruler of the mountains where the Shoshone lived.
Animals made way for him,
and gunmen did not appear in Wahb's realm.
The bear named Wahb
was often but unsuccessfully hunted.
He would not get trapped in the most clever traps
and knew how to free himself from snares.
His wounds from bullets...
the bear would heal in the hot mountain springs.
But with each year the forests from his childhood
...became more deserted.
For various beasts, Man came up with Nature Reserves.
Only there were animals protected by the law.
In Yellowstone National Park...
enormous bears came to stand on their hind legs...
to beg for candy much to the enjoyment of the crowds.
But beyond the fences of the Nature Reserve...
people cut down the forests
and shot the wildlife without mercy.
And so, one day, old Wahb...
was attracted by a pungent smell, brought by the wind.
It came from the bottom of one of the canyons
There through the cracks in the ground a stinking gas struggled to the surface.
Previously, it had irritated the bear almost as much as human scent,
and Wahb had avoided the valley side.
Now the smell had suddenly become indescribably attractive.
He fell asleep...
and felt...
...infinitely well.
screenplay by Yuriy Zabolotnev
directed by Eduard Belyayev
art director Aleksey Kondrashov
music Andrey Khmara
animators Eduard Belyayev, D. Palangin cameraman D. Palangin
executive producer Vladislav Pletnev sound Yu. Klyushnikov script editor Aleksandr Sapronov narrator Grigoriy Arezakov
35 mm., 16 min. SARATOVTELEFILM, 1994
Subs: Russian transcription & timing: Agape translation: Eus, ed. by Niffiwan