As someone who sometimes likes watching opera, this one is more painful than fun.
I wonder if it was inspired by the previous year's Captain Pronin at the Opera?

I think this one was made in a rather lazy and uninspired way, unfortunately - like at least half of Georgia Film's cartoons that I've seen from this period (with the films of Iosif Samsonadze being a notable exception).

I had to increase the length of the allowable titles on the site specifically because of this film!..

I found this one to be quite funny.

Interesting how Liana Makaryan has so far managed to avoid making any film at all that's child-friendly!

Ah, that's where the traffic cam from to my new channel! Thanks eus347

There's a nice interview with the creators of this cartoon over here in which they talk about it (it's in Russian).

All I can do is translate the meaning but it's really not that appealing. This poem is not famous in Vietnam and no one knows it, although Robert Louis Stevenson's novels have been very familiar to Vietnamese children since the early twentieth century.

This story seems like a version of the Brothers Grimm. It tells the story of a poor couple who chose the angel of death to be the godfather of their newborn child. That child grew up to become a physician. This physician was allowed by the angel of death to hold a leaf, which if placed upside down means the patient lives and upside down means the patient dies.

Because the physician disobeyed his godfather's orders to save the king (or princess, depending on the versions), the angel of death led him to hell, where the lamps were. According to the Saigonese play, the angel of death held the lamps of the physician and the princess together so that they could live longer. However, in the Grimm story, the angel of death deceived the physician, causing the lamp to fall and the physician to die. Anyway, I myself still love the message of the play better : Today is the happiest day of my life, even though I am the angel of death, I have saved a person's life.

In my understanding, the lamp or the angel of death are both manifestations of the Zoroastrian culture that remained in the Caucasus during the period of Christianization. Zoroastrians tried to preserve their beliefs in remote and hidden places, such as caves. It seems like Peer Gynt : The Gnomes and the Mountain King (Гномы и Горный Король).

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>As for its title, I used Eus's plan.
Eus got that translation from Google Translate, but it's wrong. Try to search for both in quotes, and you'll see that the "poppycake seller" title is the one used by actual human translators.
>This film is in Belarusian, so I tried everything but couldn't translate it.
It's in Russian, actually. I just checked. I starts with "Я хотела бы сходить за сокровищами… Не бежать от своего детства, а идти ему навстречу; любить и видеть то, что нельзя тронуть рукой: лес, воздух, тишину, небо, луну, время". (by the way, if you do a Google search for that, you will find the academic article "ЗВУКОВОЕ РЕШЕНИЕ АНИМАЦИОННОГО ФИЛЬМА В КИНЕМАТОГРАФЕ БЕЛАРУСИ", which talks about the film).
To be honest, I hope that a better scan of that film turns up. With the existing VHS scans, I find it hard to tell what's going on too often, given the detailed art style.

Since ancient times, a story has been passed down that a Chinese king once went to the river to fish. He saw a male crab taking care of a female crab that was in the process of shedding her shell very painfully, but after her recovery, she colluded with another male crab to kill her husband. The king immediately returned to the palace to issue this order : Any woman who dares to behead her partners will be rewarded. Soon after, thousands of women brought their spouses' heads to the royal palace. The king again issued a similar order to men. However, after a year he found that no one came to receive the reward. There was a poor farmer who went to the palace and asked the king to lend him a sword to kill his wife. But when he returned home, he heard his wife's voice lulling their child very plaintively, so he returned to the palace and asked the king to kill him because he had not completed it. The king immediately praised him and gave him a big reward.

The story is officially written like that. However, in other popular versions : Dã Tràng killed the snake's wife for adultery, so the husband gave him a blood-colored gem, which could help him understand the language of birds. Because he understood the sounds of birds, he once again helped the goose family not to be separated after an acquaintance wanted to treat him to goose meat. The geese gave him a pearl, which enabled him to walk under water like Moshe. The geese also swore that they would never eat shrimps again, because the small shrimps died in their place (the meal that should have had goose meat was replaced with roasted shrimps). Dã Tràng took the pearl without care, causing the sea to tremble, so the Dragon King condescended to give him many precious things. After that, the Dragon King lied to Dã Tràng's wife and said he wanted to marry her on the condition that she steal the gems, then brought them to the aquarium. After the incident broke out, Dã Tràng, out of anger, carried sand to fill the sea until he died. That's why there is a verse that says : Dã Tràng rolls sand in the East Sea ; Although it was very tiring but that was of no use (Dã Tràng se cát biển Đông ; Nhọc nhằn mà chẳng nên công cán gì). That's it !