An "Uzbekfilm" production
The Cuckoo's Secret
screenwriter, director Damir Salimov
art director Yuriy Petrov
camera I. Gavrilenko
composer Rumil Vildanov
sound Yevgeniy Shatskiy
animators S. Inogamov, S. Shim, Yu. Lukyanov
artists K. Tsoy, U. Allakulova, M. Akramova, T. Horosheva,
Irina Kryuchkova, N. Tishchenko, V. Grebennikova
scipt editor A. Kamenov
montage R. Hachaturova
production director R. Radzhabov
Every spring,
birds from distant lands would return to this place.
Without even taking a small break,
they immediately got to work.
But there were those among them
who were not used to working.
They were the cunning, wily cuckoos.
And here is the plot they devised:
The days went by
and the mother bird, not suspecting a thing,
continued to sit on the cuckoo's egg.
The trusting bird never realized the deception.
And, though the little cuckoo did not look like her own chicks,
she transferred all her maternal affection unto him,
her only son.
He really put them through the wringer,
until finally he grew up
and became a big, young cuckoo.
The cuckoo chicks who'd been placed into other nests also grew up.
They became strong
and mean.
And though the little birds had raised them with love, like their own kin,
the cuckoos lacked
the feelings of affection or love.
There was only blind malice.
And then,
the nightingale said to the little birds:
He who would destroy another's home
Won't find joy or pleasure in his own.
Ill malice cast at others, sharp and grim,
Will wound the one who fostered it within.
So hurt no soul -
the bill will come tomorrow.
No joy is born to us from others' sorrow.
And the small, peaceful birds
flew forth to drive away the vicious cuckoos
and their adoptive parents.
And then an amazing thing happened.
A mother's love
turned out to be stronger than malice,
and the little cuckoo at the last moment
felt himself to be a son
and turned back to take the brunt of the flock's attack
and defend his parents.
And he defended them.
Commit good deeds
So that, with love, Good may locate you too.
Commit no evil,
Lest one day Evil lay waste to you.
A beast begets its like;
Birds too, since days primeval.
What's born of good is good,
And evil begets evil.
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