1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:01,616 SOYUZMULTFILM presents 2 00:00:02,017 --> 00:00:06,426 An animated fantasy based on the works of VLADIMIR MAYAKOVSKY 3 00:00:11,464 --> 00:00:13,808 Listen, dear comrades-descendants 4 00:00:14,927 --> 00:00:18,469 to a hellraiser's bellows, quivering, 5 00:00:19,323 --> 00:00:22,550 Damming Poetry's floods in myself 6 00:00:22,650 --> 00:00:26,066 I stride through thin volumes of lyrics, 7 00:00:27,198 --> 00:00:30,359 Alive, and I speak to those living! 8 00:00:38,471 --> 00:00:41,627 Forward, my land, 9 00:00:41,727 --> 00:00:44,147 Faster, my land, 10 00:00:44,885 --> 00:00:48,672 May things worn out be erased! 11 00:00:48,780 --> 00:00:49,533 WE WILL ACHIEVE SOCIALISM 12 00:00:51,620 --> 00:00:52,991 Forward march, Time! 13 00:00:53,191 --> 00:00:54,447 Forward march, Time! 14 00:00:54,747 --> 00:00:56,025 Forward march, Time! 15 00:00:56,125 --> 00:00:57,607 Time, march on, race! 16 00:00:58,601 --> 00:01:03,319 FORWARD MARCH, TIME! 17 00:01:03,419 --> 00:01:06,025 Most Highly-respected Comrades-descendants! 18 00:01:06,748 --> 00:01:10,070 Milling through the mess of today's debris, 19 00:01:10,770 --> 00:01:13,483 Through today's darkness, rubbish and nonsense, 20 00:01:14,094 --> 00:01:17,316 You just might also ask about me. 21 00:01:17,856 --> 00:01:20,323 And perhaps, you will hear from some scholar, 22 00:01:21,023 --> 00:01:24,342 Hiding, behind learning, from hordes of hard questions lurking, 23 00:01:25,042 --> 00:01:26,640 That there once lived, supposedly, maybe, 24 00:01:26,840 --> 00:01:28,995 A poet of pure hard-boiled water, 25 00:01:29,295 --> 00:01:32,554 And dread foe of tap water murky! 26 00:01:33,655 --> 00:01:36,795 Hey, Professor, take off your bicycle-spectacles, do! 27 00:01:37,524 --> 00:01:39,057 I'll speak for myself 28 00:01:39,457 --> 00:01:40,632 of this time 29 00:01:41,005 --> 00:01:42,199 and myself, too! 30 00:01:42,218 --> 00:01:46,156 "For sale, a most penetrating book for those in longing: 31 00:01:46,945 --> 00:01:48,575 A Complete Interpretation 32 00:01:48,675 --> 00:01:50,547 of Dreams, Visions 33 00:01:50,647 --> 00:01:51,769 and Miracles." 34 00:01:54,784 --> 00:01:56,776 "Magic cards!" 35 00:01:56,876 --> 00:01:59,719 "Just one vial of Ali's special lotion..." 36 00:01:59,809 --> 00:02:03,793 "Midwife services!" 37 00:02:03,943 --> 00:02:07,302 "Just one vial of Ali's special lotion, 38 00:02:07,402 --> 00:02:11,960 and my hair will start growing!" 39 00:02:16,241 --> 00:02:27,379 How wonderful it is... 40 00:02:27,642 --> 00:02:30,946 ...for me to be alone with you 41 00:02:31,246 --> 00:02:37,157 "Daily: the phenomenal female boxers of Madame Garais - total knockouts!" 42 00:02:37,357 --> 00:02:39,010 "Devilish Attraction: 43 00:02:39,564 --> 00:02:40,977 The Voisin Biplane 44 00:02:41,078 --> 00:02:44,578 loops the loop 13 times in a row!" 45 00:02:45,033 --> 00:02:48,197 "Automobiles on sale! 46 00:02:48,897 --> 00:02:49,889 Fiat, 47 00:02:49,989 --> 00:02:51,162 Renault, 48 00:02:51,212 --> 00:02:51,905 Peugeot! 49 00:02:51,999 --> 00:02:54,631 "Fresh smoked sturgeon, please!" 50 00:02:54,731 --> 00:02:56,767 "Ginger Beer!" 51 00:02:56,867 --> 00:02:58,809 "Luxuries you can't afford to be without! 52 00:02:58,909 --> 00:03:00,896 Our prices can't be beat!" 53 00:03:02,283 --> 00:03:05,583 "Spend the winter in St. Tropez!" 54 00:03:05,927 --> 00:03:15,443 WE NEED BREAD 55 00:03:17,452 --> 00:03:21,998 "Some need glory in a silver spoon, 56 00:03:21,999 --> 00:03:24,921 though a flood of tears this begets, 57 00:03:25,221 --> 00:03:28,558 But a wee bit of lovin's all I need-- 58 00:03:28,658 --> 00:03:31,407 --plus two packs of cigarettes!" (Shershenevich) 59 00:03:36,856 --> 00:03:41,583 How hot! 60 00:04:01,523 --> 00:04:04,137 How wonderful it is! 61 00:04:04,237 --> 00:04:06,023 How wonderful it is! (January 1905) 62 00:04:06,059 --> 00:04:08,275 How wonderful it is for me 63 00:04:08,376 --> 00:04:10,726 to be alone with you! 64 00:04:10,864 --> 00:04:13,668 "I'm a genius -- Igor Severyanin! 65 00:04:13,981 --> 00:04:16,196 I'm thrilled by my own victory. 66 00:04:16,296 --> 00:04:19,123 I'm on all film screens, in all fashion, 67 00:04:19,124 --> 00:04:21,824 And everyone's in love with me! 68 00:04:22,023 --> 00:04:23,613 I'm a genius! I'm a genius!" 69 00:04:25,199 --> 00:04:32,342 "I'm a genius!" 70 00:04:32,988 --> 00:04:35,450 I will mock at your daydreams, 71 00:04:35,550 --> 00:04:38,327 Dawdling on soft-boiled brains, 72 00:04:38,427 --> 00:04:42,357 Like a fat lackey layabout, in a dirty divan lazing! 73 00:04:43,163 --> 00:04:47,437 I will glut my fill, gloat o'er the last bloody scraps of the heart, 74 00:04:47,537 --> 00:04:51,675 In arrogant bitterness raging! 75 00:04:55,663 --> 00:04:56,824 GENERAL PROCLAMATION 76 00:04:56,925 --> 00:05:02,401 "By Grace of God, We, Nicholas II, Emperor and Tsar of all the Russias... 77 00:05:02,501 --> 00:05:03,952 Hereby declare..." 78 00:05:04,152 --> 00:05:06,824 There've been lands that are richer, indeed, 79 00:05:07,224 --> 00:05:09,998 Finer, smarter lands, too, I believe, 80 00:05:10,748 --> 00:05:14,618 But a land with a grief that is bigger, 81 00:05:15,118 --> 00:05:17,866 I have not had occasion to see. 82 00:05:19,608 --> 00:05:21,843 "By Grace of God, We, Nicholas II, 83 00:05:21,944 --> 00:05:25,294 Emperor and Tsar of all the Russias, 84 00:05:25,393 --> 00:05:30,879 King of Poland, Grand Duke of Finland, etc, etc, etc..." 85 00:05:31,420 --> 00:05:34,170 Look at Russia from its flanks, 86 00:05:34,270 --> 00:05:36,009 And as far as the eye can see 87 00:05:36,109 --> 00:05:38,406 Heaped up to the sky in steel ranks, 88 00:05:38,707 --> 00:05:42,057 Mountains, jails, mines, and misery! 89 00:05:43,652 --> 00:05:47,912 "We hereby affirm to our loyal subjects... [In Moscow, Prince Volkonsky & co. founded the UNION OF THE RUSSIAN PEOPLE] 90 00:05:47,913 --> 00:05:50,506 the inviolable foundations of... [In Moscow, Prince Volkonsky & co. founded the UNION OF THE RUSSIAN PEOPLE] 91 00:05:50,507 --> 00:05:53,706 the inviolability of the person, [In Moscow, Prince Volkonsky & co. founded the UNION OF THE RUSSIAN PEOPLE] 92 00:05:53,707 --> 00:05:56,818 freedom of conscience... [In Moscow, Prince Volkonsky & co. founded the UNION OF THE RUSSIAN PEOPLE] 93 00:05:56,819 --> 00:05:59,819 and freedom of speech!" [In Moscow, Prince Volkonsky & co. founded the UNION OF THE RUSSIAN PEOPLE] 94 00:06:01,373 --> 00:06:04,077 Look straight down at Russia from the heavens' rain-clouds passing. 95 00:06:04,177 --> 00:06:06,942 Bruised blue, with rivers our homeland thrashing, 96 00:06:06,943 --> 00:06:09,793 As if over our backs strolled a thousand canes, 97 00:06:09,892 --> 00:06:12,752 As if whips this land were lashing! 98 00:06:14,430 --> 00:06:21,272 "...Wherefore We, personally, have set forth our most august and majestic Imperial hand..." 99 00:06:21,643 --> 00:06:24,732 WE, NICHOLAS II 100 00:06:25,036 --> 00:06:27,048 How wonderful it is! UNION OF THE RUSSIAN PEOPLE 101 00:06:27,249 --> 00:06:28,679 How wonderful it is! 102 00:06:28,779 --> 00:06:34,270 How wonderful it is! How wonderful it is... 103 00:06:36,471 --> 00:06:38,371 How wonderful it is... 104 00:06:38,421 --> 00:06:41,487 All! All! All! 105 00:06:41,804 --> 00:06:43,885 All who can take it no more! 106 00:06:44,485 --> 00:06:47,034 Arise, let us march out together! 107 00:06:47,534 --> 00:06:50,178 Revenge! Be out master of ceremonies! 108 00:06:50,379 --> 00:06:52,079 Hunger - our director! 109 00:06:52,379 --> 00:06:54,784 Bayonet! Browning! Bomb! 110 00:06:56,140 --> 00:06:58,497 FILES: TOP SECRET. POLICE: CASE NUMBER. 111 00:07:05,451 --> 00:07:09,289 When I sum up and think 112 00:07:09,290 --> 00:07:11,390 Of the days I have lived, 113 00:07:11,889 --> 00:07:14,418 Dig up memories, brilliant, great, small, 114 00:07:14,419 --> 00:07:17,519 I always return to remembering this: 115 00:07:18,043 --> 00:07:20,580 25 October (1917) 116 00:07:20,881 --> 00:07:22,581 was the first day of all! 117 00:07:22,636 --> 00:07:25,317 TO THE CITIZENS OF RUSSIA. THE PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT IS OVERTHROWN... 118 00:07:25,518 --> 00:07:27,837 LONG LIVE THE REVOLUTION OF WORKERS, SOLDIERS, AND PEASANTS. 119 00:07:27,938 --> 00:07:29,487 PEACE DECREED 120 00:07:29,587 --> 00:07:32,028 LAND NATIONALIZED 121 00:07:36,597 --> 00:07:38,791 May long, for those geniuses gone, 122 00:07:39,191 --> 00:07:41,701 Inconsolable widows wail 123 00:07:42,195 --> 00:07:45,836 Weaving glory in funeral-march shrouds! 124 00:07:46,615 --> 00:07:48,739 Die, my verse! 125 00:07:48,839 --> 00:07:51,711 Like a private anonymous, perish! 126 00:07:51,961 --> 00:07:56,951 As our thousands, anonymous, perished, in nameless heroic crowds! 127 00:08:12,696 --> 00:08:18,139 Whose mere bones and whose mere ashes 128 00:08:18,290 --> 00:08:20,440 Beneath our walls do lie? 129 00:08:20,550 --> 00:08:22,961 For some not even ash you'll find! 130 00:08:24,037 --> 00:08:29,248 Who from toil, jails, bullets' hails did die? 131 00:08:29,826 --> 00:08:34,520 But almost none from long, long life! 132 00:08:52,711 --> 00:08:56,154 The proletariat climbs to Communism 133 00:08:56,554 --> 00:09:00,774 From the depths of its mines, scythes, pitchforks, 134 00:09:01,174 --> 00:09:03,737 Yet I from the heights of Poetry 135 00:09:03,837 --> 00:09:05,914 Plunge to Communism, 136 00:09:06,065 --> 00:09:07,615 -Because! 137 00:09:10,352 --> 00:09:12,354 Because, without it, for me, 138 00:09:12,455 --> 00:09:14,305 There simply is no love. 139 00:09:29,543 --> 00:09:30,545 Forward, 140 00:09:31,236 --> 00:09:32,305 my land, 141 00:09:33,082 --> 00:09:35,279 Faster, my land, 142 00:09:35,889 --> 00:09:39,759 May things worn out be erased! 143 00:09:42,699 --> 00:09:44,237 Forward march, Time! 144 00:09:45,100 --> 00:09:46,742 Forward march, Time! 145 00:09:48,212 --> 00:09:49,365 Forward march, Time! 146 00:09:50,458 --> 00:09:52,499 Time, march on, race! 147 00:10:28,591 --> 00:10:32,346 Blood in our veins - not mere tap water - flows. 148 00:10:32,846 --> 00:10:36,567 We march through shrill bullets' barking 149 00:10:37,067 --> 00:10:40,203 And we die so one day we'll be reborn 150 00:10:40,639 --> 00:10:42,674 As steamships, 151 00:10:42,774 --> 00:10:44,846 headlines, 152 00:10:44,946 --> 00:10:47,718 and other lasting deeds! 153 00:11:13,857 --> 00:11:15,816 THE MOTHERLAND CALLS! 154 00:11:32,970 --> 00:11:36,128 It is Time, crackling on the telegraph lines! (THE FASCISTS SHALL NOT PASS) 155 00:11:37,318 --> 00:11:40,438 It's my heart, all alone with the truth! 156 00:11:40,804 --> 00:11:44,653 It's what fell to our men, as they fell in this time, 157 00:11:45,128 --> 00:11:49,526 And what fell to my heart, when I look. 158 00:11:50,091 --> 00:11:52,275 TO BERLIN 159 00:12:04,914 --> 00:12:09,391 Don't care, really, how long you must stretch your expectation! 160 00:12:10,263 --> 00:12:14,886 I see clearly, clearly till hallucination, 161 00:12:15,797 --> 00:12:20,379 So it seems that all we need to do is find this rhyme, 162 00:12:20,479 --> 00:12:22,987 And then we will sprint over my line, 163 00:12:23,087 --> 00:12:26,223 Into an unbelievable life! 164 00:12:29,104 --> 00:12:32,279 Hey, my land. 165 00:12:32,353 --> 00:12:34,856 Move on, my land. 166 00:12:35,541 --> 00:12:39,293 May things worn out be erased! 167 00:12:42,163 --> 00:12:43,544 Forward march, Time! 168 00:12:43,844 --> 00:12:45,085 Forward march, Time! 169 00:12:45,385 --> 00:12:46,684 Forward march, Time! 170 00:12:46,784 --> 00:12:48,228 Time, march on, race! 171 00:13:14,500 --> 00:13:18,065 ALARM 172 00:13:18,266 --> 00:13:21,396 OVERDRIVE 173 00:13:24,853 --> 00:13:26,942 ALARM 174 00:13:32,790 --> 00:13:33,746 ALARM 175 00:13:35,050 --> 00:13:35,150 ALARM 176 00:13:36,736 --> 00:13:36,936 ALARM 177 00:13:38,635 --> 00:13:38,835 ALARM 178 00:13:42,530 --> 00:13:43,276 STOP 179 00:14:13,087 --> 00:14:13,924 TARASOV, SON & CO. 180 00:14:29,171 --> 00:14:34,819 How wonderful it is! 181 00:14:35,020 --> 00:14:40,287 How wonderful it is! 182 00:14:40,338 --> 00:14:45,388 How wonderful it is for me... 183 00:14:45,401 --> 00:14:49,407 ...to be alone with you! 184 00:14:50,286 --> 00:14:53,893 How wonderful! How wonderful! 185 00:14:54,083 --> 00:14:57,740 How wonderful it is for me... 186 00:15:04,946 --> 00:15:10,520 ...to spend time with you! 187 00:15:59,913 --> 00:16:02,560 Hey, my land. 188 00:16:02,660 --> 00:16:05,217 Move on, my land. 189 00:16:05,517 --> 00:16:06,398 VLADIMIR MAYAKOVSKY 190 00:16:06,498 --> 00:16:10,236 May things worn out be erased! 191 00:16:13,034 --> 00:16:14,410 Forward march, time! 192 00:16:14,610 --> 00:16:15,853 Forward march, time! 193 00:16:16,153 --> 00:16:17,707 Forward march, time! 194 00:16:17,808 --> 00:16:19,508 Time, Forward march! 195 00:16:21,711 --> 00:16:23,029 Forward march, time! 196 00:16:23,329 --> 00:16:24,575 Forward march, time! 197 00:16:24,875 --> 00:16:26,174 Forward march, time! 198 00:16:26,374 --> 00:16:27,862 Time, march on, race! 199 00:16:40,558 --> 00:16:43,135 Listen, dear Comrades-descendants, 200 00:16:43,570 --> 00:16:46,834 to a hellraiser's bellows, quivering, 201 00:16:47,234 --> 00:16:50,086 Damming Poetry's floods in myself, 202 00:16:50,212 --> 00:16:53,307 I stride through thin volumes of lyrics, 203 00:16:53,507 --> 00:16:56,785 Alive, and I speak to those living! 204 00:16:57,809 --> 00:17:01,747 Alive, and I speak to those living! 205 00:17:17,021 --> 00:17:19,050 Screenplay: V. Larin 206 00:17:19,701 --> 00:17:21,525 Director: V. Tarasov Art director: N. Koshkin 207 00:17:21,826 --> 00:17:24,444 Camera: K. Rasulov Sound: V. Kutuzov 208 00:17:24,445 --> 00:17:25,945 Assistant director: T. Mititello Assistant artists: O. Bogomolova, 209 00:17:26,096 --> 00:17:27,596 D. Kulikov, S. Gviniashvili, V. Gilyarova, A. Dubenskiy, I. Isayeva 210 00:17:27,647 --> 00:17:29,147 Camera assistant: L. Krutovskaya Animators: A. Davydov, A. Mazayev, 211 00:17:29,148 --> 00:17:31,148 A. Bukin, Yu. Kuzyurin, T. Fadeyeva Editor: M. Miheyeva 212 00:17:31,249 --> 00:17:33,249 Script editor: A. Snesarev Literary consultant: A. Turkov 213 00:17:33,342 --> 00:17:35,198 Musical consultant: V. Shnaper 214 00:17:35,399 --> 00:17:38,133 The song "Forward March, Time!" composed by A. Gorin, performed by the musical group "The Tin Soldiers" 215 00:17:38,218 --> 00:17:41,705 Contains excerpts from Gustav Mahler's 5th Symphony 216 00:17:41,897 --> 00:17:45,135 Verses by V. Mayakovsky read by Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy 217 00:17:45,186 --> 00:17:46,536 Production director: F. Ivanov 218 00:17:48,718 --> 00:17:50,805 The End