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Kievnauchfilm
Artistic Collective for Fictive Animation

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ESSAY ABOUT MY GRANDFATHER

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My grandfather is the
same age as this century.

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He is very old.

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But once, long ago, he was very young

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and he had a friend. He was named Gray.

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He was a horse.
He was very, very smart.

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My young grandpa and Gray
came to live in the city.

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Back then, the city had neither a metro,
nor trolleybuses, nor buses.

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If you needed to go somewhere,
you hired a cab driver

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who drove a horse.

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But Grandfather and Gray were poor

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and couldn't hire a cab driver,

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so they walked.

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But then they decided to enroll in a
course for horse-drawn cab drivers

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and earn some money.

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Grandpa was very nervous;
he even put on his boots.

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The course instructor was very strict.

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Boom! Boom! Boom!

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Hey, you! Come to the blackboard.

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Answer in French: what is this?

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Grandpa didn't know how
to say "lamp" in French.

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But Gray knew.

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Lamp. Lamp.

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Now tell me how you're
going to invite passengers in.

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"Ah," said Grandpa, "I know."

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"Sit down, uncle. Sit down, mama.
Sit down, little sister."

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"Fool," said the owner,
"Come on, all together:"

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S'il vous plait, monsieur!
S'il vous plait, madame!
S'il vous plait, mademoiselle!

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And now for a geography lesson.

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These streets are special.

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[Goods for Gourmands]

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Decent, wealthy gentlemen live here.

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They have a lot of money, and
you must drive them around.

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But here - no way.

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The streets here are crooked,
the people are dirty.

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Mechanics, lathe operators, tramps,
and all kinds of Bolsheviks.

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They'll only dirty the seats.

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They have no money,
nothing to pay with.

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So it is forbidden to carry them.

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"How can you recognize them?"
asked Grandpa.

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"After all, it's not written
on their foreheads."

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BANKER

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ATTORNEY

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FACTORY OWNER

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SPOOK

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OWNER

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"You fool," said the owner,
"Come on, all together now:"

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Bolsheviks and tramps
must not be transported!

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And now, whoever earns the most
will be the top performer.

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Hitch up!

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Grandpa also carried a passenger.

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She kept asking,
"Stop here. Stop there."

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Grandpa and Gray thought it was an
advertisement for some kind of course.

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At the time, they didn't know that these
advertisements were called leaflets,

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and that the girl could be
sent to prison for them.

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Oh, mommy!

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The leaflets were brand new,

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they still smelled of printing ink.

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"Oh! Thank you so much.
You literally saved me,"

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said the girl, and rejoiced
that she didn't have to go to jail,

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but could go home.

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CASH DESK

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But the owner got very angry
with my grandpa

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because the girl was a revolutionary.

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He said he would dismiss Grandpa
from the special cab driver position

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if he carried her again.

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Then the uprising began.

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Gendarmes rode through the streets
and shot at the revolutionaries.

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Everyone hid.

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Grandpa and Gray also decided to hide

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so they wouldn't get hit by a bullet.

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Suddenly, they saw their acquaintance.

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Grandpa immediately decided
to save her again.

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The gendarmes were behind them,
about to catch up.

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But Gray ran with all his might,

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and then he really took off...

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After that, Grandpa and Gray

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became true revolutionaries,

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and the girl became my grandmother.

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And yet, I don't understand:

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how was the horse so good
at speaking French?

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screenwriter Nataliya Guzeyeva
director Natalya Marchenkova

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art director Nataliya Chernysheva
composer I. Maslovskaya

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camera Anatoliy Gavrilov
sound V. Shchigol

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animators Lyudmila Tkachikova,
E. Peretyatko, V. Vrublevskiy, S. Leshchenko,
Adolf Pedan, M. Yaremko, D. Kovtanets

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assistants T. Cherni, Ya. Petrushanskiy,
O. Payenok, L. Kucherova

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narrator L. Ignatenko
montage Yu. Srebnitskaya

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script editor Yevgeniy Nazarenko
production director Boris Kalashnikov

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The End

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Kiev Order of the Red Banner
Studio of Popular Science Films, 1987

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Subs by Eus & Niffiwan, Sep 2025
translating Mastak's Russian Subs