Federal Agency for Culture and Cinematography
Pilot animation studio
Present
We live in Russia.
The state emblem of Russia is a golden double-headed eagle,
...powerful and majestic.
On his chest we see St. George slaying...
...the evil dragon with a silver lance.
The Russian flag has three colors:
...white, blue and red.
The capital of our motherland is Moscow.
It is an old, but at the same time a modern city.
Russia is the biggest country in the world.
It's so big that when children at one end are at school,
...children at the other end are already going to bed.
There are more than thousand towns in Russia.
In the Central Russian Upland there is an old city Voronezh,
...which is famous for its songs.
Surprisingly, here, far away from the sea,
...the tsar Peter started to build the Russian navy.
The Russian statesman Orlov grew here...
...a famous horse breed - swift Orlov Trotter.
The Voronezh soil is also the most fertile!
Here grows wonderful wheat, which is delicious...
and odorous bread is being made of.
And of course, wonderful folk tales are told here,
...each of them is like a gem.
«Clever Daughter»
Once upon a time there lived two brothers.
One of them Ignat was rich...
and another, Kuzma, was poor.
One horse is all his farm,
...but Kuzma still keeps his chin up.
A smart daughter was growing up with him.
- Good morning!
- Sweet Pelageya.
- You my sweetheart!
- Our breadwinner!
- So... aha. Nothing is here.
- And here.
- What's up?
- Where is it?
- No bread makes no good meal.
- Daddy! We have neither flour, nor salt!
- We should go the town!
- You should borrow a cart from your brother.
- Catch it! Seize it!...
- Get its legs!
- Oh, you, pig!
- It's wrong side! Try another!
- Don't teach me!
- Where are you going?
- To the town's market, to get some flour and salt...
...I'd like to use your cart.
- Flour! Salt!
- Look... Let us go together to the town!
- Together?
- My cart plus your horse!
- Good!
- Oh! Too much!
- Hold it!
- Go!
- Come on, honey.
- Not so fast!
But big rock on the road crushed their plans.
A wheel fell off!...
So, the brothers did not reach the town.
They had to spend a night outside...
- Oh! Thank you! Here happiness!!!
- Ignat! Look here!
- What's up?
- Look! My cart has got a baby!
- Are you serious, Ignat?
- Nice colt! Isn't it?
- How could it?
- So! Whose the cart is?
- It's yours!
- Where's a colt?
- Under the cart.
- So?!
- So what?
- A colt is the cart's child!
- Well, they're always horse's.
- It's cart's!!!
- Wait!... How could it?
- It's my colt!
- No, it's mine!
- Mine!
- If so, we go to the judge!
- Let's go!
- Silence!...
- Shut up!
- Listen to our judgment!
- According to the law of our country...
...adopted by wisdom of His Majesty Father Tsar...
...the High Court confirms...
...that an animal is always born by... an animal!
- Which means that the mentioned colt...
...was born by its mother mare!
- Therefore, it is an only and lawful...
...son of the here present...
...cart!
- And... a title to the colt...
...is finally conferred on Ignat!
- Ah! How could it be? ...People!
...It this really the court?!
...Where's the truth then?
- A colt! Was born... from mother mare!
...And justice! And the cart!
And the state!!!... Damn it!!!... And Father Tsar!!!
- What?!!!
- Eh!... It?... Oh?!
- You know, for such words...
...your head off your shoulders!!!
- Well, boyars! Shall we judge whose the colt is?!
- Silence!!!
...Here is my Tsar's Order!!!
- The colt shall be the one's who guesses a riddle!
- There must be three riddles.
- Who guesses three riddles!!!...
- Here is the first riddle!!!
- What?!...
...So, it's...
- Yes!!! What is the fattest of all in the earth?
- What is... the fastest of all in the earth?
- And... What is...
...the softest of all?
- You must answer by tomorrow!!!
- What may be the fattest?... the fastest?...
- Shoo!
- What may be the fastest?... the fattest?...
...Eh... Pelageya!... I really don't know.
- Tomorrow will be a new day.
- It is the early bird that catches the worm.
...Get up!
- The Tsar's waiting!!!...
...I've got answers to his riddles!
- Well! Have you guessed?!!!
- Yes, Your Tsar's Majesty!!!
- Then answer!!!
...What is the fattest of all in the world?
- Your Tsar's Majesty, that is a pig...
...of Your Tsar's Majesty!
- And what is... the fastest of all in the world?
- The fastest of all...
...is a chestnut stallion of Your Tsar's Majesty.
- So... what was the third riddle?
- What's the softest of all?
- That's your Tsar's feather bed!
- Well..., and what you say?
- The softest, Your Majesty, is... a hand.
- However soft one's bed is, he still...
...puts his hand under.
- The fastest is a thought... Father Tsar!...
...as it flies over the world in a blink.
- That's a thought!
- And the fattest is the earth.
- What?!
- Then eat it!
- Indeed, the earth is... the fattest.
- As it... the earth, that is...
...feeds and waters everyone...
and it gives birth to everything...
...And all that's on Your table...
...are the earth's gifts.
- Did you hit upon by yourself?
- Oh, I didn't... That's my daughter.
- Which daughter?
- Such one.
- Such small...
- Such a smart one?
- Well, if she's so smart...
...let her appear before me!
- Neither on horseback nor on her foot!
- And neither dressed nor undressed!
- And... let me think...
...Without any present and with a present!
- We need a sparrow.
- What's up there?
- What is this?!
- She is my daughter!
- Neither on horseback nor on her foot!
- Neither dressed nor undressed!!!
- Without any present, but with one!!!
- This is for you.
- With a present!... With a present!!!
- Without a present!!!
- Oh come on, what a grasshopper...
and still has overtaken the Tsar!!!
- How do you like it! So small but so smart...
- I am, but you, Father Tsar, may be you too...
...was born by the cart?
- Don't you know...
...whose the colt is?!!
- Oh, poor you!!! Then look at it!
- Exactly!... Exactly!!!
- The colt is the horse's son!
- Father Tsar, have a mercy on me!!!
- Here you are! Take it!
- Ha!... a viviparous cart!
So, everything turned out...
...the colt was taken to Kuzma.
The judges — to stables, of course...
It's quite, more orderly there.
Well, that's fair.
The final word is always with truth.