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Soyuzmultfilm
1981

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Many centuries ago, on the
southwestern coast of India,

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in Travancore, a special art of
dance arose named Kathakali.

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The most important place
in it is held by gestures.

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They convey the wisdom of the ancient
people more expressively than words.

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The Speaking Hands of Travancore

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Who are you?

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Who am I?

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What does this world mean?

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What efforts must be made

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to preserve it?

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The ancients, too, prayed to their gods.

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And they saw that Shiva

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with the movements
of his divine dance

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recreates and renews the world.

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People started to imitate it.

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O fingers that speak,

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O hands that created
all things on Earth,

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Is that not why Shiva is many-handed?

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O dance of the gesture,

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the dance of Kathakali,

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that transmits the beauty of the world

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and the death

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of man and gods.

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The legend says that

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Travancore arose from
the ocean after the battle

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between gods and demons.

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Mahisha,

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the leader of the dark forces,

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caught the gods unprepared

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and the sky crashed down to earth.

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The stars fell.

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Then, from the darkness,

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from a fiery spiral,

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to allow the quivering
thread of life to continue,

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a multi-armed goddess appeared -

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the ferocious female warrior Kali -

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and rushed like a wild panther

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onto the miasmatic,

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swirling demons.

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But then, covering the roar of battle,

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there was a cry from the earth:

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STOP!

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You trample me like a herd
of mindless elephants

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You trample me!

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If you don't stop your wars,

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I will die.

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Then silence spread over the world!

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Such silence

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that it was possible to hear

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the blossoming

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of the lotus sprout

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and the formidable warrior became

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more tender than a nursing doe.

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It does not do for mothers
to hold weapons in their arms.

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O Earth!

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Now your protection and defence

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shall be my beloved son

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Parashurama.

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Remember, my son:

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in the direst hour,

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when you feel your strength fading,

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you must overcome yourself.

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Only after defeating yourself

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will you be able to surmount Evil

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and serve Good.

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Then, all of a sudden,

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disturbing the peace,

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again did the forces of Evil

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hammer the earth,

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raising waves

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and gnawing at the shore.

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And the young man saw
that he was weakening

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and he called out:

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O mother goddess!
and you, Earth!

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Do you hear me?

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Then give me the strength
to overcome myself

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and let my axe

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serve Good.

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That is how, according to legend,

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arose

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the flowery coast

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of Travancore.

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And the air above the earth
is fresh and bright,

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and beauty like a butterfly flutters.

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But the eternal questions remain:

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Who are you?

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Who am I?

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What does this world mean?

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What efforts must be made

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to preserve it?

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screenwriter M. Rodionov
director Vladimir Pekar

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art director Tatyana Kolyusheva
composer Eduard Artemyev

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poem by Aleksandr Timofeyevskiy
narrator Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy

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camera Kabul Rasulov
sound Boris Filchikov

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animators Yuriy Batanin,
Galina Zebrova, Anatoliy Abarenov

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script editor Pyotr Frolov
montage Natalya Stepantseva

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other film crew Tatyana Lytko, Lyudmila
Biryukova, Dmitriy Anpilov, Nikolai Mitrokhin

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consultants G. Das Gupta, N. Krasnodembskaya
production director Lyubov Butyrina

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The End
Soyuzmultfilm, 1981

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Subs - Eus (2023), rev. Niffiwan (2024)