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Soyuzmultfilm presents
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BONIFACE'S VACATION
Based on the story by Miloš Macourek
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Screenwriter & director:
Fyodor Hitruk
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Art director:
Sergey Alimov
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Music: Moisey Vaynberg
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Camera: Boris Kotov
Sound: Georgiy Martynyuk
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Assistant directors:
N. Mayorova, H. Sumarokova
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Animators: Galina Barinova,
Yana Volskaya, Mariya Motruk,
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D. Anpilov, Yuriy Kuzyurin,
Vladimir Morozov, Eduard Nazarov,
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Yuriy Norshteyn, Leonid Nosyrev,
Anatoliy Petrov, Igor Podgorskiy
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Script editor: Raisa Frichinskaya
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Narrator: Aleksey Polevoy
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In one circus, there lived a lion
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whose name was Boniface.
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He was a very obedient lion - no-one
ever had to ask him something twice.
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Everyone liked Boniface a lot.
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And the circus director himself often said
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"Boniface is a true talent."
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The director often went
on walks with Boniface
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and bought him bananas,
Boniface's favorites.
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One day, Boniface asked:
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"Why are there so many
children out on the street?"
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"Shouldn't they be in school?"
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"Why should they be in school?"
replied the director,
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"It's summer now, and they're
on vacation."
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"Vacation?" said Boniface.
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"But I've never had a vacation...
not even once!"
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"But where, pray tell, would you go?"
asked the director.
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"To visit my grandmother, of course!"
replied Boniface,
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"Isn't that obvious?"
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"Hmm," thought the director to himself,
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"I had forgotten that lions
also have grandmothers."
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"All right," said the director,
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"You are an exemplary lion, and I
will grant you a vacation."
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Boniface was beside himself with joy.
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He had not expected this at all.
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"What could be better than a vacation?"
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And he immediately ran off to buy a ticket
to Africa, and a present for his grandmother.
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(on train:) "Prague-Villeneuve"
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Throughout the long journey,
Boniface tried his best to keep his eyes open.
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He was very worried about missing his stop.
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During the journey, he spotted
many strange and wonderful fish.
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He had never seen their like before.
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And Boniface daydreamed about
his vacation-days to come.
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He dreamed of how he would tan
himself on the sand in the sun,
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eat bananas every day
and bathe in the lake.
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Then the boat suddenly stopped,
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and Boniface had come home.
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Everything still looked the same.
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The little house and garden,
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And his grandmother, as always,
sitting in her rocking chair.
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And, as he often did in the old days,
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Boniface crept up behind her - and..
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And his grandmother, as usual,
couldn't guess who it was.
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The next morning, Boniface came out
wearing his new swimsuit.
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"Ah!", Grandma said,
"That costume matches your eyes!"
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And the happy lion set off
for the lake.
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Suddenly he came upon a little girl.
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When she saw a lion she had never
seen before, she got awfully scared.
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"What a strange girl," thought Boniface,
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"I suppose she's never seen a circus."
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That day Boniface never did
catch that fish.
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The next day he again
set off for the lake,
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Boniface showed the children
various tricks.
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No other lion could've
done what he did.
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The children had not seen
anything like it in their lives.
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The day went by fast.
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And so another day passed.
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And then a third...
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From dawn to dusk Boniface performed
for the children...
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completely forgetting about bananas,
swimming, and even fishing.
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And the children kept clapping their
hands and shouting: "More, more!"
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And suddenly...
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His vacation was over.
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The ship sailed further and further away,
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Grandma was getting smaller and smaller,
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and Boniface thought:
"What a wonderful thing it is,"
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"Vacation!"
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The End
Subs by Eus (2011) & Niffiwan (2022)
Revised by Kitkat