1 00:00:05,760 --> 00:00:11,756 THE DREAM OF A FUNNY MAN based on a novel by F. Dostoevsky 2 00:00:13,200 --> 00:00:15,156 Scriptwriter / Director / Animator - Petrov 3 00:00:46,600 --> 00:00:51,435 It was all like on earth, but it was lit up by some holy exultation. 4 00:00:53,520 --> 00:00:56,671 I had never seen such beauty in a human being on earth, 5 00:00:57,240 --> 00:01:01,074 except for in our earthly children in the first year of their lives. 6 00:01:02,640 --> 00:01:05,438 As I looked on their faces for the first time, I comprehended everything. 7 00:01:05,880 --> 00:01:06,756 Everything! 8 00:01:07,840 --> 00:01:10,513 It was an earth of no-sinners. 9 00:01:12,640 --> 00:01:14,596 Only innocent people lived here. 10 00:01:15,200 --> 00:01:17,509 I saw them with my own eyes, and I came to know them. 11 00:01:17,920 --> 00:01:20,514 I felt an affection towards them, and I had my heart bleeding for them. 12 00:01:21,160 --> 00:01:25,039 Oh dear, a dream is nothing but delirium, 13 00:01:26,320 --> 00:01:28,117 hallucination. 14 00:01:42,000 --> 00:01:44,070 But how could I turn the earth into paradise? 15 00:01:44,760 --> 00:01:48,833 I have no idea, for I can't put my thoughts into words. 16 00:01:50,720 --> 00:01:55,475 At the same time it is so simple, and it could be done in an instant. 17 00:01:57,680 --> 00:02:01,309 The most important thing is to love other people as you love yourself. 18 00:02:01,920 --> 00:02:05,435 It is the only thing that matters. 19 00:02:12,960 --> 00:02:16,748 I learnt the Truth last November, it was November, 3. 20 00:02:17,360 --> 00:02:20,079 I can recall every detail of my life since that moment. 21 00:02:21,080 --> 00:02:23,548 That night I decided to commit suicide, 22 00:02:23,960 --> 00:02:26,349 and I bet I would have shot myself but for that girl... 23 00:02:26,880 --> 00:02:27,790 Master! 24 00:02:29,120 --> 00:02:29,996 There! 25 00:02:30,560 --> 00:02:31,515 Mommy! 26 00:02:33,960 --> 00:02:34,949 Master! 27 00:02:38,360 --> 00:02:39,236 Master! 28 00:03:00,760 --> 00:03:02,671 I don't care anymore, do I? 29 00:03:04,040 --> 00:03:07,396 In an hour or two I shall be dead and neither this girl 30 00:03:07,880 --> 00:03:10,394 nor anything else in the whole world will matter to me anymore. 31 00:03:11,520 --> 00:03:18,153 I will fall into oblivion, I will become an absolute zero. 32 00:03:22,280 --> 00:03:24,157 Go! Go! 33 00:03:38,080 --> 00:03:39,274 Zero... 34 00:03:40,440 --> 00:03:42,351 Absolute zero. 35 00:03:44,520 --> 00:03:47,671 You were denied your tea, for you're a debtor. 36 00:03:48,560 --> 00:03:49,754 Look at this lodger! 37 00:03:55,120 --> 00:03:56,189 Who's there? 38 00:04:08,320 --> 00:04:10,709 The world depends on me now. 39 00:04:11,640 --> 00:04:14,518 If I shoot myself, the world will stop to exist, at least for me. 40 00:04:16,560 --> 00:04:19,836 At that moment I thought: what if I had lived on the Moon or Mars 41 00:04:20,280 --> 00:04:22,589 and had done something dishonorable there? 42 00:04:23,120 --> 00:04:25,111 Would I care on the earth? 43 00:04:29,520 --> 00:04:36,392 At that very moment I fell asleep as if keeping on thinking about that. 44 00:05:09,360 --> 00:05:10,429 Who's there? 45 00:05:21,120 --> 00:05:23,395 So there's life after death. 46 00:06:10,360 --> 00:06:12,510 Is this world the same as on earth? 47 00:06:13,320 --> 00:06:17,029 But how can it be? And why? 48 00:08:02,080 --> 00:08:03,195 Hey! 49 00:08:18,320 --> 00:08:23,075 I saw love for each other in them, and it was all-embracing. 50 00:08:35,400 --> 00:08:41,430 But they were free from lusty passion that afflicts almost everyone on earth 51 00:08:42,040 --> 00:08:48,718 and that is nearly the only source of human sins. 52 00:09:27,080 --> 00:09:29,230 Does it really matter that it was a dream? 53 00:09:29,680 --> 00:09:33,229 After all, it was a revelation. 54 00:09:37,200 --> 00:09:40,112 My shallow heart and feeble mind 55 00:09:40,760 --> 00:09:44,389 couldn't have elevated me to such revelation, could they? 56 00:09:47,240 --> 00:09:51,074 I saw them with my own eyes, I got to know them, 57 00:09:51,640 --> 00:09:54,438 and I realized that I loved them! 58 00:09:55,440 --> 00:09:57,431 Afterwards I had my heart bleeding for them. 59 00:11:09,400 --> 00:11:12,756 Now they tease me and keep repeating it was nothing but a dream. 60 00:11:16,960 --> 00:11:18,632 Does it really matter that it was just a dream? 61 00:11:19,040 --> 00:11:20,951 After all, it revealed the Truth to me. 62 00:11:21,920 --> 00:11:23,558 I saw the Truth! 63 00:11:24,280 --> 00:11:29,798 I saw it and I know that people can be beautiful and happy on earth, too. 64 00:11:32,480 --> 00:11:34,869 And they make fun of my very belief! 65 00:11:40,760 --> 00:11:42,637 But may be it was not a dream. 66 00:11:43,240 --> 00:11:47,233 I have kept it back but now I can tell you this truth, too. 67 00:11:47,920 --> 00:11:52,675 The truth is that I debauched them all. 68 00:15:27,200 --> 00:15:28,269 It's him! 69 00:16:42,000 --> 00:16:47,074 We might be liars, wicked and unjust. 70 00:16:48,040 --> 00:16:52,760 We are aware of that, but we have science 71 00:16:52,760 --> 00:16:57,356 that will help us learn the Truth once again. 72 00:16:58,000 --> 00:17:00,878 But this time we shall take it consciously. 73 00:17:01,440 --> 00:17:04,159 Knowledge comes before feelings. 74 00:17:04,840 --> 00:17:08,469 Perception of life comes before life itself. 75 00:17:09,440 --> 00:17:14,514 We all belong together. 76 00:17:46,720 --> 00:17:49,518 Who's there? Who's there? 77 00:17:52,560 --> 00:17:54,152 Who's there? 78 00:18:11,560 --> 00:18:12,436 Bang-bang! 79 00:18:30,920 --> 00:18:33,309 Who's there? 80 00:18:50,200 --> 00:18:52,714 They say this dream was a delirium, hallucination. 81 00:18:54,000 --> 00:18:56,230 Dream... But what is a dream? 82 00:18:57,840 --> 00:18:59,239 Isn't our life also a dream? 83 00:19:00,360 --> 00:19:01,918 All right, let it be just a dream. 84 00:19:02,400 --> 00:19:06,473 But I wanted to pass out of life that you praise so much, 85 00:19:07,440 --> 00:19:14,710 and my dream heralded a new blessed life to me.