1 00:00:05,763 --> 00:00:07,990 Soyuzmultfilm presents 2 00:00:10,900 --> 00:00:13,960 BONIFACE'S VACATION Based on the story by Miloš Macourek 3 00:00:14,270 --> 00:00:16,940 Screenwriter & director: Fyodor Hitruk 4 00:00:17,480 --> 00:00:20,050 Art director: Sergey Alimov 5 00:00:20,870 --> 00:00:23,360 Music: Moisey Vaynberg 6 00:00:23,840 --> 00:00:26,889 Camera: Boris Kotov Sound: Georgiy Martynyuk 7 00:00:27,410 --> 00:00:29,340 Assistant directors: N. Mayorova, H. Sumarokova 8 00:00:29,840 --> 00:00:32,267 Animators: Galina Barinova, Yana Volskaya, Mariya Motruk, 9 00:00:32,540 --> 00:00:35,809 D. Anpilov, Yuriy Kuzyurin, Vladimir Morozov, Eduard Nazarov, 10 00:00:35,940 --> 00:00:39,060 Yuriy Norshteyn, Leonid Nosyrev, Anatoliy Petrov, Igor Podgorskiy 11 00:00:39,340 --> 00:00:41,200 Script editor: Raisa Frichinskaya 12 00:00:41,790 --> 00:00:44,000 Narrator: Aleksey Polevoy 13 00:01:52,960 --> 00:01:57,490 In one circus, there lived a lion 14 00:01:57,490 --> 00:02:00,300 whose name was Boniface. 15 00:02:00,410 --> 00:02:06,410 He was a very obedient lion - no-one ever had to ask him something twice. 16 00:02:38,580 --> 00:02:41,910 Everyone liked Boniface a lot. 17 00:02:41,980 --> 00:02:45,040 And the circus director himself often said 18 00:02:45,740 --> 00:02:49,500 "Boniface is a true talent." 19 00:05:00,530 --> 00:05:04,110 The director often went on walks with Boniface 20 00:05:04,220 --> 00:05:08,600 and bought him bananas, Boniface's favorites. 21 00:05:16,220 --> 00:05:18,960 One day, Boniface asked: 22 00:05:18,961 --> 00:05:21,490 "Why are there so many children out on the street?" 23 00:05:21,560 --> 00:05:24,440 "Shouldn't they be in school?" 24 00:05:29,990 --> 00:05:33,080 "Why should they be in school?" replied the director, 25 00:05:32,920 --> 00:05:35,090 "It's summer now, and they're on vacation." 26 00:05:35,260 --> 00:05:38,180 "Vacation?" said Boniface. 27 00:05:38,520 --> 00:05:41,680 "But I've never had a vacation... not even once!" 28 00:05:44,340 --> 00:05:49,360 "But where, pray tell, would you go?" asked the director. 29 00:05:49,640 --> 00:05:52,350 "To visit my grandmother, of course!" replied Boniface, 30 00:05:52,380 --> 00:05:55,510 "Isn't that obvious?" 31 00:05:56,630 --> 00:06:01,410 "Hmm," thought the director to himself, 32 00:06:01,550 --> 00:06:05,580 "I had forgotten that lions also have grandmothers." 33 00:06:08,310 --> 00:06:10,410 "All right," said the director, 34 00:06:10,480 --> 00:06:15,640 "You are an exemplary lion, and I will grant you a vacation." 35 00:06:16,450 --> 00:06:19,610 Boniface was beside himself with joy. 36 00:06:19,650 --> 00:06:22,350 He had not expected this at all. 37 00:06:22,420 --> 00:06:25,090 "What could be better than a vacation?" 38 00:06:25,190 --> 00:06:30,490 And he immediately ran off to buy a ticket to Africa, and a present for his grandmother. 39 00:07:00,100 --> 00:07:01,906 (on train:) "Prague-Villeneuve" 40 00:08:13,890 --> 00:08:18,040 Throughout the long journey, Boniface tried his best to keep his eyes open. 41 00:08:18,210 --> 00:08:21,860 He was very worried about missing his stop. 42 00:08:23,860 --> 00:08:27,550 During the journey, he spotted many strange and wonderful fish. 43 00:08:27,620 --> 00:08:30,530 He had never seen their like before. 44 00:08:44,590 --> 00:08:51,120 And Boniface daydreamed about his vacation-days to come. 45 00:08:52,130 --> 00:08:55,850 He dreamed of how he would tan himself on the sand in the sun, 46 00:08:56,060 --> 00:09:01,150 eat bananas every day and bathe in the lake. 47 00:09:30,500 --> 00:09:33,130 Then the boat suddenly stopped, 48 00:09:33,130 --> 00:09:35,940 and Boniface had come home. 49 00:09:37,730 --> 00:09:40,260 Everything still looked the same. 50 00:09:40,330 --> 00:09:43,210 The little house and garden, 51 00:09:43,310 --> 00:09:47,070 And his grandmother, as always, sitting in her rocking chair. 52 00:09:47,140 --> 00:09:49,770 And, as he often did in the old days, 53 00:09:49,870 --> 00:09:53,100 Boniface crept up behind her - and.. 54 00:10:00,020 --> 00:10:02,487 And his grandmother, as usual, couldn't guess who it was. 55 00:10:37,690 --> 00:10:43,440 The next morning, Boniface came out wearing his new swimsuit. 56 00:10:47,560 --> 00:10:53,280 "Ah!", Grandma said, "That costume matches your eyes!" 57 00:10:54,090 --> 00:10:56,097 And the happy lion set off for the lake. 58 00:11:26,830 --> 00:11:29,350 Suddenly he came upon a little girl. 59 00:11:29,617 --> 00:11:33,636 When she saw a lion she had never seen before, she got awfully scared. 60 00:12:02,960 --> 00:12:06,550 "What a strange girl," thought Boniface, 61 00:12:06,690 --> 00:12:10,270 "I suppose she's never seen a circus." 62 00:14:44,540 --> 00:14:48,400 That day Boniface never did catch that fish. 63 00:14:54,300 --> 00:14:58,830 The next day he again set off for the lake, 64 00:16:58,230 --> 00:17:01,140 Boniface showed the children various tricks. 65 00:17:01,210 --> 00:17:03,700 No other lion could've done what he did. 66 00:17:03,840 --> 00:17:06,470 The children had not seen anything like it in their lives. 67 00:17:06,540 --> 00:17:09,740 The day went by fast. 68 00:17:55,610 --> 00:17:58,530 And so another day passed. 69 00:18:00,190 --> 00:18:03,490 And then a third... 70 00:18:04,740 --> 00:18:09,160 From dawn to dusk Boniface performed for the children... 71 00:18:09,200 --> 00:18:14,080 completely forgetting about bananas, swimming, and even fishing. 72 00:18:14,180 --> 00:18:18,360 And the children kept clapping their hands and shouting: "More, more!" 73 00:18:49,100 --> 00:18:50,093 And suddenly... 74 00:18:53,110 --> 00:18:54,631 His vacation was over. 75 00:20:12,070 --> 00:20:15,160 The ship sailed further and further away, 76 00:20:15,270 --> 00:20:18,430 Grandma was getting smaller and smaller, 77 00:20:18,460 --> 00:20:22,780 and Boniface thought: "What a wonderful thing it is," 78 00:20:23,660 --> 00:20:26,920 "Vacation!" 79 00:20:29,826 --> 00:20:33,056 The End Subs by Eus (2011) & Niffiwan (2022) Revised by Kitkat