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Soyuzmultfilm
1984

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Neither Bird Nor Beast
(based on a Mongolian tale)

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director Vladimir Pekar
screenwriter Vladimir Valutskiy

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art director Tatyana Kolyusheva
composer Eduard Artemyev

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camera Kabul Rasulov
sound Boris Filchikov

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script editor Pyotr Frolov
narrator Natalya Gundareva

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animators
Tonno Sooster, Dmitriy Kulikov, 

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Marina Voskanyants, Antonina Alyoshina,
Yuriy Batanin

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background artists
Anna Chistova, Nikolay Mitrohin

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assistant director O. Apanasova
montage Yelena Belyavskaya

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production director
Liliana Monahova

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Do you want to know why a bat

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only flies at night?

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I'll tell you.

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Once, a long time ago,

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the golden eagle - the king of birds - 
gathered his subjects and said:

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Snowfalls have bleached the sky.

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We need to give back the sky 
its blueness.

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And the eagle commanded
every bird to find a blue flower

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and with those blue flowers
to cover the bleached winter sky.

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Oh! Why aren't you hurrying? -

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The swallow asked the bat.

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Hurrying where?

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Haven't you heard?

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The great king ordered every bird
to get a blue flower

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so that spring would
come unto the sky.

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Well, that's for birds!

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But am I a bird? 
I'm a beast.

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I am still a beast!

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Hello, king of all beasts! -
called the golden eagle,

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It's time for you too
to welcome spring.

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And so the bear -
the king of beasts -

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gathered his subjects and said:

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The ground has deadened from the cold!

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We must return life to the soil.

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And the bear commanded each animal 
to get a spark of fire

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and melt the ice on the mountain

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so that water would revive
the deadened winter land.

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What's everyone getting
worked up about? -

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said the bat to the jerboa -

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Some are flying somewhere,
others are jumping about, like you.

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Don't you know that the great king

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has ordered every beast to
get a spark of fire

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and melt the ice on the mountain so
that spring would sooner beset the earth?

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Well, that's for beasts!

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But am I a beast?

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I'm a bird.

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I'm a bird!

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What's going on? Why is everyone
having fun, and I can't?

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We're having a birds' feast,
but you're a beast!

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So go to the beasts.

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Well, fine and dandy! -
said the bat, offended.

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They'll be having even more fun.

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Well! Are you really a beast?

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Who else would I be?!

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But every beast brought a spark

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to melt the icy mountain.

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Go! Go to the birds' feast!

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Well, fine and dandy!

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I'll have even more fun by myself.

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Don't need anyone else.

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Big deal!

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Well, so be it -
thought the bat, resentfully.

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Fly up there in your blue sky!

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Jump around in your spring flowers!

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There are many like you,

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but I'm unique,

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and not like anyone else.

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Since then the bat has
lived on its own,

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renouncing all animals,

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while not belonging to the birds.

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It has flown in the twilight
for a thousand,

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or maybe for a thousand thousand years.

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The End
Soyuzmultfilm 1984

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Subs by Lemicnor & Eus (Aug 2015)
revised by Niffiwan (Dec 2024)