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THE SMILE OF LEONARDO DA VINCI
Inspired by the writings of Leonardo Da Vinci

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Written by Genrikh Sapgir

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directed by Ivan Aksenchuk

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art director Yelena Fyodorova
camera Mihail Druyan

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music Igor Tsvetkov
sound Vladimir Kutuzov

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animators Oleg Safronov, 
Vladimir Shevchenko, Aleksandr Panov

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artists Tatyana Stroyeva, Irina Sobyanina, 
Georgiy Dorn, Anna Atamanova, 
Nikolay Mitrohin, Aleksey Razuvayev

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assistant director Olga Apanasova
marrator Yuriy Yakovlev
montage Elena Beliavskaya

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executive producer Lubov' Butyrina
script editor Tatyana Paporova

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One day, a sheet of paper started
scolding an inkwell:

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"Inkwell, why do you have to inflict 
such an incredible humiliation upon me?"

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Your indelible ink
tarnishes my whiteness.

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Who will want me in such a state?"

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"Do not grieve, - said the inkwell gently -

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how can what is written here humiliate you?

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Listen to its content. 

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"In the glass workshop work was in full swing."

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The fire in the huge, red-hot furnace
was burning night and day.

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The fire was very proud of itself and
ascribed all the glory to itself alone.

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Then one day a tongue of flames broke out.

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Suddenly it noticed a burning candle.

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Immediately a desire to absorb
this faint light took possession of it.

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The insatiable flame in an instant
swallowed the fragile candle,

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but then it did not manage to escape
from the clutches of the melted wax,

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and thus ends this cautionary tale.

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Here is another...

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"Once there was a kind king in the world,

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but he had thousand enemies.

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His obedient and loyal cranes were
very worried for what might happen to him.

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"What can we do?" said their leader,

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"The king's soldiers are a useless bunch,

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his dogs are so exhausted by the daytime
hunt that they can not be relied upon.

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No other option remains than
to guard the castle ourselves."

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"But what if one of us gets overcome 
by sleep on duty?" - worried a young crane

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"Let each one of us, standing on a post, 
hold a stone in his paw.

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If someone, in an odd hour, falls asleep 
- the stone falls
and its noise will alert the others. "

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Since then, for their nobility of spirit 
and devotion to duty

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the birds were named Royal, or crowned, cranes.

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"Why overstrain yourself? 
Leave me here."

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"If I leave you here, 
we are left without food,

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and we are many. 

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"I understand your concern, honest worker,
but you must understand me too;

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my purpose is to generate new life.

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Let's make a contract: leave me in the ground...

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and in the autumn you can collect 
one hundred like me in return."

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"One hundred-for-one? But such
miracles happen only in fairy tales.

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And how would you do that?"

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"Oh, that's the great mystery of life!"
"Oh, well - never tried, never gained!

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Where is that grain? Nothing here. Not even one.

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That grain deceived me!

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One, two, three. Oh-oh-oh!"

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The great mystery of life...

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The good inkwell was right:

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This sheet was preserved.
For us now, it represents a great value -

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It saved the thoughts of this man
and the insights of his mind.

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The End
1986
Subs by chapaev & Eus, ed. Niffiwan