1 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:12,900 HOW TO BECOME A HUMAN BEING? 2 00:00:13,051 --> 00:00:17,000 Based on Leonid Andreyev's story "The Rules of Good" 3 00:00:18,800 --> 00:00:21,900 script Vladimir Petkevich, Vladimir Golovanov 4 00:00:22,000 --> 00:00:25,900 director, animator Vladimir Petkevitch art director Valentin Olshvang 5 00:00:26,000 --> 00:00:29,900 camera Nikolay Gribkov, Sergey Reshetnikov 6 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:32,800 art A. Zolotuhin, I. Klimova 7 00:00:32,900 --> 00:00:37,100 composer V. Artemov sound Z. Mirkina 8 00:00:37,200 --> 00:00:39,500 montage A Permakova script edior I. Duykova 9 00:00:39,601 --> 00:00:42,501 production director V. Hizhnyakova voice V. Chebotarev 10 00:00:51,500 --> 00:00:55,600 There once lived a demon named Nosey. 11 00:00:55,700 --> 00:01:00,050 He was, like all demons, industrious at being awful. 12 00:01:00,150 --> 00:01:02,650 He'd go off on benders... 13 00:01:02,750 --> 00:01:10,180 But he slowly got sick, and even tired, of sin's monotony. 14 00:02:59,430 --> 00:03:02,420 All that was ever heard or unheard of he'd already seen... 15 00:03:02,520 --> 00:03:09,350 it was all as familiar to him as hellish torture. 16 00:03:09,450 --> 00:03:11,230 He wanted air. 17 00:03:11,531 --> 00:03:13,831 Maybe even light. 18 00:03:40,330 --> 00:03:44,550 Do not drive me away, holy Father! I have sinned. 19 00:03:44,670 --> 00:03:46,210 Much? 20 00:03:46,390 --> 00:03:48,440 I came from hell. 21 00:03:48,540 --> 00:03:52,590 Straight from there? 22 00:03:54,010 --> 00:03:57,640 Teach me to do good. 23 00:03:57,740 --> 00:04:00,390 You have refused Satan... 24 00:04:05,870 --> 00:04:10,140 I feel sick to be alive, holy Father! 25 00:04:10,630 --> 00:04:13,490 Yes, you have a gloomy nature. 26 00:04:14,440 --> 00:04:16,370 Gloomy as anything... 27 00:04:16,850 --> 00:04:19,640 that is why I want to fight it 28 00:04:20,190 --> 00:04:22,870 rather than sink to the bottom like a stone. 29 00:04:26,470 --> 00:04:28,570 Really, now? 30 00:04:29,480 --> 00:04:33,520 You give me the rules, holy Father, and I'll... 31 00:04:34,370 --> 00:04:36,620 Here is a rule for you: 32 00:04:36,720 --> 00:04:39,380 If anyone asks you for your last shirt, 33 00:04:39,480 --> 00:04:41,440 give it to him. 34 00:05:37,480 --> 00:05:41,680 I can offer you my shirt, do you want it? 35 00:05:44,570 --> 00:05:50,420 "Forward!" 36 00:07:11,520 --> 00:07:13,150 - Sergeyev? - Yes, Nosey. 37 00:07:13,251 --> 00:07:14,401 Right! 38 00:07:14,501 --> 00:07:17,351 Mr. Sergeyev Nosey, come back! 39 00:07:17,560 --> 00:07:22,600 Eh, nobody wanted that holy shirt of yours, father! 40 00:07:23,410 --> 00:07:27,600 Oh.. why are you... watering heads? 41 00:07:28,800 --> 00:07:32,000 It's the demons trying to fool you, come back to your right mind! 42 00:07:44,620 --> 00:07:50,000 I am just a simpleton. 43 00:07:51,990 --> 00:07:55,100 Rules must be understood broadly... 44 00:07:55,300 --> 00:08:00,530 Remember this: do not resist evil, 45 00:08:00,631 --> 00:08:03,331 turn also the other cheek and you shall benefit from it. 46 00:08:23,000 --> 00:08:37,000 All in the name of the person All for the good of man 47 00:13:36,090 --> 00:13:39,500 Farewell, father, I am going back to Hell. 48 00:13:40,040 --> 00:13:44,400 - There at least it's warm. - But you will bring yourself to ruin! 49 00:13:44,500 --> 00:13:47,000 Just like you have all ruined yourselves! 50 00:13:48,240 --> 00:13:50,130 Why "all"? 51 00:13:50,131 --> 00:13:52,531 Because that's how it is. I'll leave, and that's that. 52 00:13:56,800 --> 00:13:58,530 Or maybe... 53 00:13:58,940 --> 00:14:00,710 I'll die here... 54 00:14:11,210 --> 00:14:14,420 Hey! Hey, hey, hey! 55 00:14:17,260 --> 00:14:19,310 I see the way forward... 56 00:14:19,990 --> 00:14:22,010 I will write you rules 57 00:14:22,110 --> 00:14:26,540 for all situations which could ever occur in the world. 58 00:14:26,740 --> 00:14:30,060 So you can avoid making any mistakes. 59 00:14:47,300 --> 00:14:50,880 You feel tormented? Be patient! 60 00:14:50,980 --> 00:14:53,220 Oh, holy father, I killed a fly, 61 00:14:53,321 --> 00:14:55,421 and I do not know it is allowed or not. 62 00:14:55,570 --> 00:14:57,420 A fly, you say?... 63 00:14:57,520 --> 00:14:59,670 Killing a fly is allowed... 64 00:15:00,270 --> 00:15:01,720 ...although... 65 00:15:02,320 --> 00:15:06,330 So flies cannot be killed, then. Write that down! 66 00:15:06,800 --> 00:15:09,680 All right. I'll write about flies, too. 67 00:15:32,830 --> 00:15:35,320 Hey, dear devil-boy! 68 00:15:35,421 --> 00:15:38,471 Come down from there, I've finished my work. 69 00:15:38,590 --> 00:15:43,210 I've written the rules for each day, for every minute you may live. 70 00:15:43,510 --> 00:15:45,210 It is yours! 71 00:15:45,600 --> 00:15:50,640 Teach yourself Good with it, and preach it unto others. 72 00:16:05,480 --> 00:16:12,700 Brothers, here I have the truth! The truth! The whole truth! 73 00:18:01,860 --> 00:18:03,200 Sergeyev! 74 00:18:06,201 --> 00:18:08,101 Mr. Sergeyev Nosey, come back! 75 00:18:10,900 --> 00:18:13,200 Come back! 76 00:18:16,380 --> 00:18:18,920 Mr. Sergeyev Nosey! 77 00:18:29,130 --> 00:18:35,810 Mr. Sergeyev Nosey, come back! Come back... come back... 78 00:18:47,920 --> 00:18:48,770 THE END Sverdlovsk Film Studio 1988 79 00:18:48,771 --> 00:18:49,481 Subs by Chapaev, Eus & Niffiwan (2023)