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The Liu Brothers
A Chinese story

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written by Nikolay Erdman
directed by Dmitriy Babichenko
art director Aleksandr Trusov

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music Klimentiy Korchmaryov
camera Nikolay Voinov
sound Georgiy Martynyuk

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consultants: Zhou Song-Yuan, O. Gluhareva
animators: Boris Chani, Vyacheslav Kotyonochkin, 

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Grigoriy Kozlov, Roman Kachanov, 
Renata Mirenkova,  D. Belov, 
Lidiya Reztsova,  M. Kuprach,

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Mihail Botov, Viktor Lihachov
Background artists: Irina Svetlitsa,
I. Troyanova, V. Rodzhero,  K. Malyshev

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Assistants: Ye. Novoselskaya,
L. Azarkh, Yuriy Prytkov
montage N. Mayorova

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Long ago in China there were
three brothers: the Liu brothers

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They looked so much alike that even
their mother could only tell them apart
by using coloured ribbons

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The first Liu could command fire

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The second Liu could drink up the sea...

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and then spit it back out again

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The third Liu knew the language
of birds, fish and beasts

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One day...

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Woe is me, woe is me...

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Woe is me, woe is me...

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What are you crying about, old man?

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The only wealth I had...

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was a single coin, and now I've
dropped it into the sea.

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What shall I return home with now?

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What shall I use to buy rice
for my old wife?

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Do not cry, old man!
This is something we can help with.

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I will drink up the entire sea,
and then you'll be able to find your coin!

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Don't drink! Don't drink any further!

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See that fish?
It's yelling something at us!

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I can't hear a thing.

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The fish language isn't audible for us!
But it's yelling with all its might.

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What does it say?

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It says that if you drink up the entire sea...

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...all the fish will die.

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Tell the fish that as soon
as we find the lost coin

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I will put the water back!

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Put the water back now...

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and they will try to find
the coin themselves.

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Themselves? Well, all right!

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They want to know what
sort of coin it was.

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It was this big.

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Woe is me, woe is me!

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My coin is not amongst them!

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Mine was copper and these are all golden!

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Why do you need copper ones?
Take the gold coins!

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Take them!

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For this...

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...I thank you!
- Quiet!

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A terrible thing has happened.

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Let's run! Quickly!

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A woodcutter is chopping a tree

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in which this bird has her nest.

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Her children are in that nest:
two sons and a daughter.

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Let's hurry!

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Stop!

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Wait!

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Don't chop it down...

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See that nest? 

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If you chop down the tree,
this bird's children will die!

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Two sons and a daughter!

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Two sons and a daughter...

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Soon night will be upon us and I need
to have cut ten more trees by then.

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Don't sigh like that, kind lumberjack!
We will help you. 

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Okay, let's see... For today's lesson, 

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you were supposed to learn words
starting with the letter M.

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Isn't that right? Very good!

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Go on, speak. Well? I'm listening...
- Meeh

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Well, what can I say... your memory's
good, but your diction could be better.

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Let's repeat it again.

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Mail!

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Well done!

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- Let's continue!
- Mye-e-ed

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No, not Mye but Mea. Got it? Ea 

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Mead (Honey)

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- Mead.
- That's right!

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So now tell me: what's this?

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My-i-i-i

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Don't interfere.

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That was in goat language. But what
is it in human language? You forgot?

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Oh, dear...

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We studied it only yesterday.

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Mee.
- No.

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Bee.

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Not "mee" and not "bee", but "tree"

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"Tree", "Tr". Do you understand?
- T-r-ee

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Very good! And in bird language?

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Tweet, tweet.

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And now say "tree" in fish language!

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Blub, blub

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Well done!

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I guarantee, before the year is done,
you'll speak all three languages

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Well... now you can go and play!

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Run away!

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Run!

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Couldn't you see that the great mandarin
wanted to kill that little goat?!

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- I saw.
- So why did you cry out?

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The reason I cried out
was because I saw.

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Arrest him!

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And feed him to the tiger!

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Halt!

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This is not a tiger,
but a damn purring kitten.

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Take him away!

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We will burn the boy instead.
Tomorrow at noon.

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You're asking me how you can help?

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How could you help me?

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You're such a small bird!

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Here! Fly!

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And let my mother
and my brothers know...

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that in my last minutes 

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I think of them.

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I couldn't find him anywhere.

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What could have happened to him?

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I searched through the whole forest...

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but there is no sign of him.

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Where is he?

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Where is he, my little one?

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That's him! That's him!

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My little one... where is he?

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We do not understand your language

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Who could understand it?
- Me-e-e!...

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You?
- Me-e-e!

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How can you help us?

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I ca-a-n tra-an-sla-ate!

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You can translate?
- Please translate!

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Trou-ble!

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Trouble? Where is he? 
- What happened to him?

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In pri-son.

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In prison?

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Hey, executioner!
Take this boy!

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Don't let him out of your sight!

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That boy is wily like a fox.

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He could escape from you!

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He could escape you say?

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I won't even look at him, 
and he still won't escape from me.

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Oh, executioner, don't brag!

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Want to bet?!
- On what?

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Anything you want!

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How much will the mandarin pay you 
for today's execution?

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He will give as much as he wants.

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So we'll bet against half of that!

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Won't that be a little much?
- Aha! Are you scared?

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Me?!!... Scared?!!

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Hey, guards. Cover up
the boy with that barrel!

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Well? What do you say now, guard?

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Do I have him in my sight? No.

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But can he escape from me?
Nope!!

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Well, where is the boy?

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I'm over here!

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Why aren't you under guard?

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I tricked the executioner and escaped.

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But then I had second
thoughts and... returned.

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So... the executioner let you escape?!

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Guards!

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Arrest the executioner!

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Come, executioner!
Come, you braggart!

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Go and receive your reward!

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Give him a hundred canings!

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O, noble mandarin!

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I can receive only 50...

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because I lost half of my reward...

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...to that guard!

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You shall receive all 100 first, 
and then hand over what you owe...

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...to the guard!

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Tongues of fire, let me be,
Move yourselves away from me!

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Like a sheer, unmoving wall
Stand around me, burning tall!

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Do not throw hot sparks up high,
But diminish by and by.

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Burn! Burn!

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Burn! Burn!

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Help!

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Water! Water!
Water! Water!

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As he did not die by fire,
let him be drowned by water!

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Bring him aboard my fast ship.

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When the sun comes up
I will join you there myself!

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Look! Look!

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Hold on, hold on, I'll ask!

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The fish ask if they should bring
back the mandarin to the surface.

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Tell the fish that they needn't bother!

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The End
Subs by Eus (2012) after Esperanto
translation, ed. by Niffiwan (2022)