Creative association Ecran, 1978
Goldilocks After the Czech fairytale as told by K Paustovsky
In a certain country the king was an evil and grumpy old man.
Once a merchant came to his palace.
And she said: "Buy this fish from me, King and you will not be sorry."
The king squinted at the fish: "I have not seen such a fish before. Is it poisonous?"
"What'd you think!" grinned the saleswoman, "Order to fry this fish ,
eat it and you will immediately begin to understand the language of all animals,
fish and birds. Even the smallest bug squeaks something
and you will know what he wants.
After that, you will become the smartest king on earth! "
The king really enjoyed it.
“Pay,” said the old woman.
"Pay?!" outraged the king,
and he began to bargain.
He bargained, bargained, bargained,
because he was very greedy and mean.
But still he had to pay the merchant as much as she requested.
She proved to be quit a sturdy saleswoman.
Then the king ordered Irzhik - his servant - to fry the fish for dinner.
"If you eat at least one piece of this fish - say goodbye to life!"
"Now," thought the king, "I will become the cleverest king in the world,
and the animals and birds will laugh at me.
and my foes will cry! "
Irzhik was very surprised by the royal order.
How can a servant not taste the food he cooks?
What if it is underdone? Or not salted enough?
Irzhik tastes it a bit and hears thin squeaky voices.
"get us a piece! get us a piece! of frfrfried, frfrfried fish! "
Irzhik looked around - no one.
Irzhik listens and hears
as one goose asks:
"Where do we go? Where do we go?" And the other replies:
"To the miller. To the barley field. To the miller. To the barley field. "
"Aha!" said Irzhik, "Perhaps one piece is not enough for me!"
The king wanted to be the sole smartest in the world.
"What if this young, cheerful servant
plans to try fried fish? "
After lunch, the king went for a walk with Irzhik.
Irzhik's horse began to neigh and Irzhik immediately understood his words.
"Yo-go!" laughed horse, "Come on brother fast forward in one fell swoop towards this mountain!"
"It would be nice," the king’s horse answered him,
"Bugt this old fool who's sitting on me then will fall and break his neck. "
"Let him break it," said Irzhik's horse, "You will carry the young king then, and not this wreck."
The king also understood the conversation of the horses.
"Why are you laughing, you insolent?"
"I remembered, my dear csar,
how in the kitchen today 2 kettle boys were pulling each other by their tufts, "
answered the resourceful servant.
"Look at me!" said the king threatening.
He certainly did not believe Irzhika and ordered him to pour himself a glass of wine.
"If you do not fill up or decant," said the king, "I will order to have your head cut off.
At this time two sparrows flew around near them.
"Give me that hair, it's mine, thief!" shouted the first.
"Oh no!" chirped the other. "I picked it up when the beauty was combing her golden braids.
He who will marry her- will be the happiest man on earth. "
"Give it up! Beat the thief!"
"Aha!" shouted the king,
"Now say goodbye to life, Irzhik!"
But then the king had a good idea.
"Be it as it is," said the king, I will, perhaps, have mercy,
if you find the girl that lost that hair
and bring her to me as wife.
Go! "
What could Irzhiku do? He dressed up for the road
and went to look for her.
Irzhik heard some voices.
"Help, Irzhik, feed us!"
"Carr, Irzhik, Carr-Carr," cried the ravens cheerful
"We will help you too."
Irzhik walked for a long time through the dense forest until he finally reached the sea.
Two fishermen were arguing on the sandy shore.
"My nets!" One fisherman shouted, "Mine so the fish too!"
"But whose boat is it?" answered the other, "Without my boat you could not have thrown the net!"
The fishermen argued and shouted for a long time. It even came to a fight.
"Stop making this fuss," interrupted Irzhik, "Sell me this fish,
and share the money among you. "
"One good turn deserves another!" said the fish, "When you need my help, call me."
"Where are you going, good man?" asked the fishermen.
"Why, I'm looking for a golden-haired beauty."
"Well, now," said the fishermen, "You have reunited us, so we will help you."
"This beauty is the daughter of our king.
You see that island? There, in a crystal palace, does she live. "
Irzhik went straight to the king, bowed to him and told him why he came to the island.
“Okay,” said the king, “I'm not a stubborn man
- I will give my daughter to marry your king, but you must complete three tasks.
agree?" "Agreed!", said Irzhik.
"This is your first task.
My golden-haired daughter dropped a golden ring in the sea.
I give you a day to get it. "
"Eh," said Irzhik, "there's supposed to be a golden fish here
- she promised to help me... "
From the depths came the golden fish to the surface.
"Don't be sad," she said to Irzhik.
"I know where the golden ring is."
Irzhik waited for a long time.
Finally, the gold fish came back with the ring.
"Well, well," said the king, "You are a clever person."
Here is your second task.
Bring us water of life and water of death. "
But where to get that: water of life and water of death?
Irzhik went to the dark forest
and see: - 2 familiar crows came flying to him.
Irzhik told them about his sorrow.
"Carr-Carr! Take it and be happy."
Irzhik felt sorry for the fly.
The fly came to life and said flying away:
"It'll be your good luck, you revived me."
Irzhik came to the king with living and dead water.
“Well,” says the king, “Choose.
Guess who Goldilocks is and you're in good luck.
But if you don't: You'll leave here as single, as you came.
That's your third task. "
How could he find out which of them was Goldilocks?
Suddenly Irzhik heard a buzzing near his ear.
"Fffffolow me! I'llllll tell you.
Not her, not her. but this is her! Goldilocks! "
"This one is the golden haired princess."
The princess looked at Irzhik and couldn't turn away her eyes.
She had never seen such a beautiful and handsome young man!
Irzhik brought the bride to his master.
The princess fell in love with Irzhik and her heart beat hard
but a father's word is law.
She would have to marry the old king...
Irzhik also loved the princess, but dared not tell her.
The old king ordered to quickly prepare the wedding.
And said to Irzhik:
"I wanted to hang you so that your body would be eaten by crows.
But because you found me a bride, I declare my royal favor to you.
I will not hang you.
I will order to have your head cut off and bury you with honor. "
The next morning, Irzhik's head was cut off on the scaffold.
The golden-haired beauty began to cry and asked to be given the headless body and Irzhik's head.
The king could not refuse this to his bride.
Goldilocks sprinkled Irzhik with the water of life
- the head attached to his body again and he got up alive
even more beautiful than het was before the execution.
The king saw Irzhik and was dumbfounded.
The sly old man also wanted to become young and beautiful.
the executioner chopped off the head of the old king.
But resurrecting the king failed.
There must have been so much anger in him that no water of life could help.
So Goldilocks became the wife of Irzhik
and they lived a long and happy life.
written by G. Youdina
directed by Leonid Aristov, Lidia Surikova
art director Boris Moisseyev cameraman Yevgeny Turevich
music V. Kuprevich sound Vitaly Azarovsky
Narrator victor serghachev
animators Olga Degtyareva, R. Karpinskaya, V. Churik, Tatiana Molodova
executive producer Oleg Kuznetsov script editor Alexander Timofeyevsky, voice artists S. Simukhina, puppet design by N. Aralova
The end subs by Lemicnor & Eus November 2018