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This film was comissioned by the USSR State Committee of TV and Radio.

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A production of "Armenfilm" named in tribute to Amo Bekhnazaryan

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If I tell anyone, they won't believe me.

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Once I caught a talking fish

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this...no, this big!

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Atchoo!

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Hear me out, kind man

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Let me go back home to sea.

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Wow, a talking fish!

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inspired by Toomanyan's fairy-tale

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Ha! Our whole family can talk

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My father can talk, my mother can talk

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And my grandpa says:

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"Do a good deed and throw it in the water.

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It won't be found wanting.

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What goes around, comes around."

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So, do a good deed -

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throw me in the water.

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I won't be found wanting

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One day I'll be of use to you.

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Sure you will! How exactly?

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Anyone can talk.

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But if you could, let's say, bark

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I would put you on a chain to guard my house.

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As it is, I can make nothing of you.

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Off you swim!

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And now I have nothing to eat, ek-ho.

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Here I am! Why did you call for me?

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Me?

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You said "Ekh". Ekh is my name

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I'm the great, powerful and kind wizard.

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Ekh! Ek-ho! Ek-ho! ...

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And that was my ek ... echo!

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Now, tell me, what do you wish for?

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I'll do anything, I can do everything!

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What can a poor man wish for?

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Got you!

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You've got nothing to eat, right?

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Here's a magic table for you

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Whenever you're hungry, knock on it three times

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One, two, three.

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You like it?

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When you are done eating and drinking

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Knock three times again. Three, two, one

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Thank you, kind Ekh.

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I'll always remember you

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Sure you will!

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I wouldn't be Ekh if you don't remember

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Wife!

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My darling wife!

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Oo, I forgot to tell you. There's one little condition

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On the stroke of midnight I'll come to visit you

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And will ask you riddles till dawn.

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If you manage to answer them - the table is yours.

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And if you can't, blame only yourselves!

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You'll remember me until your dying day.

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Kind people, let me stay with you tonight.

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Oh, dear son. You'd better look for shelter in a different place.

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At midnight will come a beast.

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He'll destroy us and you

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That's true, my son.

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Well, there's still time before the clock strikes midnight.

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We'll see what happens then.

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Who's there?

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It's me, the kind Ekh.

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I'm here.

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And I'm here too.

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Who are you? Where did you come from?

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From the other side of the sea.

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How did you come here?

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I straddled a lame flea and rode it here.

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The sea is what? A puddle?

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Might be a puddle, but an eagle couldn't fly over it.

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Then it was a baby-eagle.

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Could be, but the shadow of his wings covers a city.

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Night descends on that city.

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Well, the city must be tiny.

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A hare wasn't able to run across that city.

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It turns out it was a wee hare.

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It was an ordinary hare. A coat came from that hare.

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Where did it come from?

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It came from the city, which the hare ran across and the shadow of the eagle fell across

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and followed its nose.

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Whose nose?

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The nose of the coat which came from the hare in the city

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which night descends on when the baby-eagle flies over it

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sitting astride the lame flea.

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What?!

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What, what?

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Astride on the lame flea, from the other side of the sea

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which the hare can't fly over and the eagle can't run across

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maybe not a sea, just a puddle in the middle of the city,

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where the shadow of the flea fell across the hare and killed it.

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The coat came from that hare and followed his nose.

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Then the hare jumped back ...

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Which hare?

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The dead one. It jumped across the sea which you can't fly over or run across,

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which the coat came from, which the shadow of the flea

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fell across and killed the hare.

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Not simply a hare, but an eagle!

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Which hare, which eagle, which flea?!

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Shall I repeat? So the flea from the other side of the puddle ...

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Enough!

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Hey wait! We still have plenty of time  before dawn!

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Son, you saved us from death!

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Who are you? At least give us your name

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My grandpa says: "Do a good deed and throw it in the water."

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See, I turned out to be useful to you.

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Script, Director, Animator, Producer: R. Saakyants