Studio "A-film" With financial support of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation
Alyosha, let me have the kite!
Alyosha, let me hold it, please...
Mitya, pump faster. Vadka over there already left.
Heh, Mishka's fallen off.
...but nobody listens. So who's to blame here?
I should've gone to the union committee from the start!
- And what does Mastya say? - Same as always!...
I haven't decided yet. There's still all summer left.
That's right, all summer.
- We meet tomorrow evening. - But where?
You'd think it was a holiday, today!
Look, ice cream.
Two plombirs*. [*Soviet vanilla-like ice cream]
- Thank you! - You're welcome.
Wait, wait! We were going to go to the shooting range.
- Oh, right! - Right, so let's go there first.
Go ahead then, you Voroshilov Sharpshooter!
Like this, and... ready.
Choose the target!
- Ah, that not fair. - But you hit it.
It doesn't matter. Let's do it again.
In democratic Berlin city,
For the first time this waltz did sound.
And everyone began to sing it
And it became beloved all' round!
So he says: "but that's not me."
- Hello! Hello, Maria Andreyevna! - Hello, children!
Kolya, hello!
Hello.
Maybe for me, or maybe for you...
Hey! Oh, what a crowd!
Hey! Shura, hey!
Listen, come with us! Our friend's been assigned a job. Let's see him off.
Guys, let me introduce you. This is Masha.
When the Student was born unto us,
Then did the heavens open up.
A bottle did come dropping down
And then, some voices did resound:
Into this little shot-glass, dear, pour in, pour in, pour in.
Hold on...
Into this little shot-glass, dear, Just like the horses get.
- But I don't drink! - B.S.!
- By God, I don't!
So pour it to the college girl...
College girls do drink wine as well!
College girls that don't drink are rare; They have long since become extinct.
What do you think you're doing, my daughter?
Have you thought about us old folks?
You might at least look at the clock!
You "schoolteacher". Are we nothing to you?!
And why are you groaning? Tell her something!
So, you'll be a surgeon?
That's a good job.
So what happens next?
Well, we're still waiting for the job assignment.
Of course, of course. That's perfectly reasonable.
Mother, where are you?
- Coming, coming! - Take some berries.
It's over!
Five minutes remain until the departure of train number 25.
The train departs from platform number 5 on the right side.
We ask all passengers to take their seats,
and those seeing them off to leave the train cars.
Have a happy trip!
And Masha later told me that...
Girls, look! A warrior stands here!
- Yeah? And then she... - No, here stands a chief!
Look at him!
Konkov!
- Report to the teachers-room tomorrow! - I'll be there!
You're a "chief" all right! A chief of the red-skins!
[Next we play the Nocturne for Piano by Frederic Chopin.]
Hello, Peter. Autumn has come. But over there in Samarkand, it's probably...
- You go home? - No, not home!
Some "Englishman"!
[Home assignment: declination of verbs]
Soon it will be the New Year. In our school...
And I haven't much more to add. I got married.
Be happy. Goodbye. Peter.
We want to have lunch.
Do you to go by bus?
They want to stay here.
He wants to go back.
Who said that the lesson is over?
Konkov, to the blackboard!
The Letter
screenwriter Valentin Olshvang director Pyotr Zakrevskiy art director Alina Yakhyayeva
background art Anna Metelyova ass. director Nadezhda Zakrevskaya animation Yuliya Voytova, Sofya Guseva,
Mihail Dvoryankin, Anna Kritskaya Yuliya Mikushina, Yevgeniya Opalko,
Sergey Savkin, Izolda Solodova, Natalya Fatikh, Natalya Chernyshova
background art Valeriya Baholdina, Svetlana Kolesnik, Yevgeniya Lavrentyeva, Natalya Fatikh, Natalya Chernyshova
3-D modeling & animation Nadezhda Boyko
sound Nadezhda Shestakova music Dmitri Shostakovich Waltz no. 2, Jazz Suite no. 2
Friedrich Chopin - Nocturne no. 2 in D Major, Claude Debussy - Claire de lune & Bergamass Suite
Archibald Joyce - Remembrance Waltz
Songs: "Studencheskaya", "Domino" performed by Vladislav Golovkov, Oksana Shmakova, Gleb Romanov
Accompaniment (guitar) Pavel Zverev
synchronized sounds Nina Denshchikova, Nadezhda Pletenyova
sound recording Pavel Orlov, Pavel Timoshenkov
voice actors Mihail Maslennikov, Alisa Rusinova, Yuliya Gracheva,
Georgiy Dobrovitskiy, Irina Seregina, Alyona Tsepayeva, Valeriy Sharin,
Darta Akoyeva, Vladimir Vagin, Denis Dobrynin, Darya Knyazeva,
Aleksey Knyazev, Polina Plavskaya, Dmitriy Plavskiy, Aleksey Shorikov
Filmed on the technical base of the firm "Animatsionnye Tekhnologii"
tech support Dmitriy Filonenko
producer Valentina Hizhnyakova
Subtitles by Lemicnor & Eus (April 2016) revised by Niffiwan (Jan 2024)
The End Animation Production Studio A-film, 2011