Soyuzmultfilm studio 1961
Big Troubles
written by Moris Slobodskoi
directed by Zinaida Brumberg, Valentina Brumberg
art directors Valentin Lalayants, Lana Azarkh
cameraman Elena Petrova music Alexander Varlamov sound Nikolai Prilutsky
animators Igor Podgorsky, Joseph Kuroyan, Marina Voskaniants, Maria Motruk, Fedor Khitruk, Ye. Vershinina
Voice: Maria Vinogradova Ass. dir. T Federova, N. Maiorova
executive producer G. Kruglikov script editor Raisa Frichinskaya
This is Mama
This is Papa
This is the Cat
This is me
This is Kolya
This is Capa
They are all my family.
My whole family is crying today
Why that is I couldn't say
I better tell what seemed to bother
and what they told to one another
I'll use the sequence things occurred
and the words I overheard
It went like this: First about Kolya:
When he was little, as a rule, he was worst kid in the school
He couldn't even for a minute sit still in a stool: It was his limit.
From class to class, so did I hear, they had to pull him by the ear!* *to avoid grade retention
He then got stuck* in his final year * (he had to do the year again)
A strongman* we hired living near *(a private tutor)
to pull* Kolya in better gear. *(tutor)
All that finally pulled him through
But with Kolya - Papa, Uncle Vashya, Mama, Capa all then wondered what to do.
Where to go with him from here?
Most satisfactory seemed working in the factory
But of that he wouldn't hear
So to give in to Kolya dear
He could enter an institute next year
Kolya could agree to that,
but for the institute he missed the mindset
stumbling over matriculation as expected
he landed on the neck* of dad * freeloaded from him
Every time he papa spotted
he went to shake* [out] Daddy's pocket * (asking money)
When Mum and dad were out to work
Kolya hit the diner
to jerk down* there went the jerk *(dance)
thus he flung* many a shiner *(throw money down the drain)
He bought himself a tape machine
and can now with a beard be seen
Mother says he's like a trooper
Whipping* vodka . *(He's a boozer)
Now I'll tell you about Capa
She looks like mama, not like papa
Capa is a well shaped girl
Capa has no need to be a working pearl
Capa doesn't have a need to study
Capa can live happy-go-lucky
This is what mama's thoughts do seem
As she for Capa has a dream
Our Capa is such a picture-like* lass *(pretty)
that she the opportunity has
to meet a solid, wealthy, man
and jump* him quickly while she can * (get him to marry her)
As her girlfriend Nina did
And also Nellie had that wit.
But when a good man comes along
Nina and Nelli are jumping strong
but Capa always gets her leaping wrong.
Missing chances that she had is making mama real upset
"All that's in our Capa's head
Ar fashion-rags*" that's what she said. * (rags = slang for fashion)
Only "rags", and only dancing,
and with foreigners romancing
but then for Capa came a chance
to get a "real" man to romance
he came falling from the sky* *( meeting by chance)
and saw Capa coming by
in her trail* he diligently thread *(he suited her)
and he even lost his head* * (fell in love)
This is the luck our Capa met
A wonderful dacha this man had
As he offered it to let
It brought in coins as one does say
That the hens can't peck away
Capa could only dream
how her life with him would seem
He would dress her like a queen
A willing prey he would have been
"wearing her on his hands*"she said. *(spoiling her)
How disappointing for mum and dad
that the promise he did seem
turned on Capa and her dream
He threw* her soon, never to come back *(ended the relationship)
Poor Capa then landed, oh what the heck,
She landed on her fathers neck*. *(Freeloading from him)
Father had to pull* the entire household * (pay all the bills)
It wore him out and made him fold
Left direction* he decide to go *(Black market)
To fire* refrigerators in a row *(Sell illegal)
but as they to the left* did pace * (black market traded)
they seemed to've left a trace* *(It was found out)
In his heart this fear now crept
that it'd cause him to get swept* *(Arrested)
Because papa knew how much his deputy wanted to eat* him *(get him fired)
All he dreamed of was to eat* him, it was surely not a flim
Although he didn't succeed in eating
It was clear before another thing
Who had dripped* on papa-sweet * (denunciation him)
and was digging* under his feet * (trying to find evidence)
and for unleashing* an auditor to blame * (he called for one)
that was pointing to papa as his game
For papa to avoid scandal and shame
he had to grease* the auditor * (bribe)
To grease his palm* as never before *(bribe)
said papa...
would make him close his eyes once more.
But probably greasing him enough he couldn't.
As closing his eyes the auditor wouldn't.
As he refuse to shut his eyes and stop
Papa immediately starting sewing up* *(Sleep at work to do more overtime)
Papa sew himself up an awfully lot
real caught up in it he got
But then perhaps the sewing ceased
as wriggling* out would make him pleased * ducking responsibility
twisting out* he thought he could *(escaping responsibility)
But it didn't work out as it should
"And now" said Capa,
they put him* in, our papa *(in prison)
We were criticized by the neighbors
Uncle Fyodor had a name for us
in which his outrage could reside
he called our family "Parasite"
I asked my neighbor what he meant
"What is a parasite", my friend?
He answered while he pointed his hand:
It is Kolya, it is Capa,
It is mama, it is papa.
It is all my family
except the two you here now see
That is all that I can tell,
So to all of you: Farewell!
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