1 00:00:00,253 --> 00:00:01,466 Kievnauchfilm 2 00:00:01,617 --> 00:00:04,067 Artistic Collective for Fiction Animation 3 00:00:47,868 --> 00:00:50,168 There lived in this world 4 00:00:50,569 --> 00:00:54,269 a man named Yerik. 5 00:00:55,370 --> 00:00:57,270 YERIK based on the story by A. Platonov 6 00:01:05,871 --> 00:01:06,771 Atchee! 7 00:01:06,872 --> 00:01:10,072 There was no-one more cheerful than Yerik in the world: 8 00:01:10,623 --> 00:01:16,673 never did his soul lament inside him, nor his heart grieve. 9 00:01:17,774 --> 00:01:22,074 For this world, Yerik was a perfect fit. 10 00:01:23,375 --> 00:01:26,575 Yerik was engaged in many things - 11 00:01:26,876 --> 00:01:29,076 he plowed, walked the field, 12 00:01:29,177 --> 00:01:33,177 counted the clouds and thought about everything - 13 00:01:33,428 --> 00:01:36,578 "Why is it so good in the world 14 00:01:36,829 --> 00:01:39,979 when there is nothing good in it 15 00:01:39,980 --> 00:01:42,480 and everything in it is understood?" 16 00:01:44,381 --> 00:01:47,581 Everything elicited joy in him 17 00:01:47,832 --> 00:01:50,182 and he responded to everything. 18 00:01:50,633 --> 00:01:55,083 Yerik did not believe either in God nor in the enemy. 19 00:01:55,484 --> 00:02:00,984 "Everything is human," he thought, "and the Earth has no ends." 20 00:02:02,035 --> 00:02:05,985 Yerik treated the other men like brothers. 21 00:02:06,136 --> 00:02:10,486 They sensed humanity in each other and were not embarrassed 22 00:02:10,587 --> 00:02:15,187 that they lived as if they were alone in their village, away from the world. 23 00:02:15,538 --> 00:02:17,688 From each house one could see the sky, 24 00:02:17,889 --> 00:02:20,589 and from the sky, the entire world. 25 00:03:32,489 --> 00:03:38,489 Once, the enemy of humankind came to Yerik 26 00:03:38,590 --> 00:03:40,390 and said: 27 00:03:40,541 --> 00:03:45,091 "Would you like me to teach you how to mold people from clay?" 28 00:03:45,192 --> 00:03:47,292 "Sure," said Yerik. 29 00:03:47,393 --> 00:03:49,493 "And what'll you give me?" 30 00:03:50,844 --> 00:03:52,744 "I guess... a bast shoe." 31 00:03:53,895 --> 00:03:55,695 "And what else?" 32 00:03:57,046 --> 00:04:00,096 "Hmm, what else... felt boots, 33 00:04:00,397 --> 00:04:02,697 a skirt, a clay jar... 34 00:04:02,798 --> 00:04:05,298 I won't leave you feeling cheated, don't worry." 35 00:04:05,899 --> 00:04:09,649 The enemy taught Yerik to sculpt people 36 00:04:09,650 --> 00:04:13,500 out of clay, earth and all manner of filth, 37 00:04:13,700 --> 00:04:15,900 when mixed with spit. 38 00:04:34,051 --> 00:04:38,301 Yerik molded a whole regiment of people 39 00:04:38,802 --> 00:04:46,102 and released them all over the belly of the Earth to find its four corners. 40 00:04:47,803 --> 00:04:50,503 And one day, a rumour came: 41 00:04:50,654 --> 00:04:53,854 the enemy's children had showed up somewhere 42 00:04:54,055 --> 00:04:57,805 and were turning the belly of the Earth inside out, 43 00:04:58,206 --> 00:05:00,906 displaying its guts and livers. 44 00:05:01,306 --> 00:05:06,306 All the filth inside was shown to all for free, 45 00:05:06,407 --> 00:05:09,407 to give them fun and comfort. 46 00:05:46,358 --> 00:05:47,908 Five days later, 47 00:05:48,409 --> 00:05:53,209 the sky broke apart and the Earth turned inside out. 48 00:05:54,210 --> 00:05:57,510 Filth poured in from everywhere, 49 00:05:57,511 --> 00:06:00,011 and corruption. 50 00:06:00,012 --> 00:06:06,812 Everyone saw what the good world had been made of and laughed at it. 51 00:06:10,563 --> 00:06:17,313 The enemy's and Yerik's children renounced God and the enemy of humankind; 52 00:06:17,764 --> 00:06:19,614 they progressed ahead of them, 53 00:06:20,015 --> 00:06:23,615 and decided to turn the world upside down... 54 00:06:23,616 --> 00:06:29,216 "We must," they said, "make a different Earth ourselves, to start with." 55 00:08:01,967 --> 00:08:06,417 The world ended with amusement and joy. 56 00:08:06,968 --> 00:08:11,718 The Earth and the sky were discovered to be filth, a hen-house, 57 00:08:12,069 --> 00:08:14,819 and no one needed them anymore. 58 00:08:15,320 --> 00:08:19,920 Yerik's regiment had done its work. 59 00:08:32,421 --> 00:08:35,321 At night, everything disappeared, 60 00:08:35,872 --> 00:08:40,722 and people found themselves close to each other 61 00:08:41,123 --> 00:08:45,023 and forever alone. 62 00:08:58,424 --> 00:09:05,424 One undertaking was ended, and another begun. 63 00:09:23,625 --> 00:09:26,325 Screenplay and director Mihail Titov 64 00:09:26,576 --> 00:09:28,726 Art director Mariya Cherkasskaya 65 00:09:28,977 --> 00:09:30,727 Camera S. Maksimovich 66 00:09:30,978 --> 00:09:32,578 Composer Vladimir Bystryakov 67 00:09:32,779 --> 00:09:34,579 Sound V. Shchigol 68 00:09:34,680 --> 00:09:37,580 Animators M. Korolyova, M. Yaremko, Mihail Titov 69 00:09:37,681 --> 00:09:40,081 Assistants: L. Vrublevskaya, O. Yankovskaya, O. Perekladova, O. Rayenok 70 00:09:40,082 --> 00:09:42,082 Artists L. Slyusarenko, Ya. Rudenko 71 00:09:42,183 --> 00:09:44,083 Montage O. Deryazhnaya 72 00:09:44,084 --> 00:09:46,084 Narrator O. Komarov 73 00:09:46,235 --> 00:09:47,685 Script editor S. Kutsenko 74 00:09:47,786 --> 00:09:49,286 Production director Ivan Mazepa 75 00:09:49,487 --> 00:09:50,787 The End 76 00:09:50,888 --> 00:09:54,888 Kiev Order of the Red Banner of Labour Studio of Scientific-Popular Films, 1989 77 00:09:54,889 --> 00:09:55,889 Subtitles by Niffiwan (2021)