1 00:00:00,763 --> 00:00:03,478 Studio ANIMOS presents 2 00:00:28,528 --> 00:00:32,964 Yellowbeak Based on a story by Aleksey Tolstoy 3 00:00:40,714 --> 00:00:43,592 When Nikita was very little 4 00:00:43,892 --> 00:00:48,796 he once found a baby starling fallen out of the nest in the garden. 5 00:00:48,996 --> 00:00:53,316 It was very small, smaller than Nikita himself. 6 00:00:56,116 --> 00:00:58,046 "Oh," the birdy thought, 7 00:00:58,346 --> 00:01:02,018 "I won't even have time to sigh before getting gobbled up." 8 00:01:02,118 --> 00:01:03,138 Who are you? 9 00:01:44,638 --> 00:01:47,442 Look, Sashenka, Nikita's running in. 10 00:01:54,642 --> 00:01:58,594 It's still very little, poor dear. 11 00:01:59,944 --> 00:02:01,842 Its beak is so yellow... 12 00:02:02,243 --> 00:02:04,443 Yellowbeak! 13 00:02:04,592 --> 00:02:07,604 They put the starling on the sill of a window 14 00:02:07,705 --> 00:02:11,505 which was half-veiled with cheesecloth on the inner side. 15 00:02:16,104 --> 00:02:18,709 Yellowbeak immediately hid in a corner, 16 00:02:18,809 --> 00:02:23,222 trying to show them that he was determined to fight for his life. 17 00:02:25,072 --> 00:02:29,103 "I'm done for! I'm done for!" Yellowbeak thought. 18 00:02:30,003 --> 00:02:36,400 "The one who called me 'Yellowbeak' may perhaps have pity on me, but this one... 19 00:02:37,000 --> 00:02:39,325 ...will eat me for sure." 20 00:02:45,075 --> 00:02:49,537 "They're fattening me," Yellowbeak thought, 21 00:02:49,838 --> 00:02:53,138 "A trick, it's all a trick!" 22 00:02:53,237 --> 00:02:55,303 "And this worm is not real." 23 00:03:36,353 --> 00:03:40,934 Nikita knew that it could be scary at night. 24 00:03:41,035 --> 00:03:42,135 And he thought: 25 00:03:42,234 --> 00:03:46,718 If I try, I could be unafraid of the dark, 26 00:03:47,018 --> 00:03:51,561 but Yellowbeak probably won't be able to do the same. 27 00:06:08,511 --> 00:06:12,809 When Nikita had gone, Yellowbeak started thinking: 28 00:06:12,909 --> 00:06:15,788 "So he didn't eat me, but he could have. 29 00:06:15,888 --> 00:06:18,864 So he doesn't eat birds. 30 00:06:19,315 --> 00:06:21,965 Then I've got a future after all!" 31 00:06:49,564 --> 00:06:55,714 "Wow, there is no beast stronger than Nikita!" 32 00:06:55,815 --> 00:06:59,365 Yellowbeak thought after that, 33 00:06:59,614 --> 00:07:02,262 and when Nikita came by once more, 34 00:07:02,412 --> 00:07:05,851 he allowed him to stroke his head, 35 00:07:06,102 --> 00:07:10,002 although he sat back on his tail from fear all the same. 36 00:08:20,101 --> 00:08:22,153 Yellowbeak! 37 00:08:39,553 --> 00:08:43,044 Listen, so starlings can talk! 38 00:08:43,244 --> 00:08:47,862 No, they cannot. But they can imitate. 39 00:08:48,012 --> 00:08:51,328 I think that our Yellowbeak really can talk. 40 00:08:54,178 --> 00:08:58,558 What are you saying, Sasha? Nikita will believe it. 41 00:08:58,658 --> 00:09:01,101 I will believe it, I will. 42 00:09:15,101 --> 00:09:16,753 Well.... 43 00:09:17,603 --> 00:09:21,924 You just watch yourself! You can't eat visitors. 44 00:09:22,024 --> 00:09:27,364 And if someone eats a talking bird, do you know what will happen to them? 45 00:09:57,313 --> 00:09:58,863 Sasha! 46 00:09:59,664 --> 00:10:03,713 Oh, Yellowbeak, you took a good shot... 47 00:10:03,914 --> 00:10:06,714 ...but, just look, Nikita is waiting for you. 48 00:10:11,063 --> 00:10:15,102 Now, when the grownups went to the theater or to a concert, 49 00:10:15,202 --> 00:10:18,047 Nikita wasn't lonely at all. 50 00:10:18,297 --> 00:10:21,100 He sat beside the little house 51 00:10:22,000 --> 00:10:25,613 and talked with Yellowbeak. 52 00:11:08,013 --> 00:11:11,604 He lived thus till autumn came. 53 00:11:12,004 --> 00:11:16,724 He grew up, and learned to speak Russian quite well. 54 00:11:17,574 --> 00:11:19,756 He spent nearly all day in the garden, 55 00:11:19,857 --> 00:11:24,657 but when dusk fell, he always returned to his little house. 56 00:11:26,606 --> 00:11:30,717 In August wild starlings invited him to join their flock, 57 00:11:31,067 --> 00:11:34,364 and when the leaves in the garden began falling, 58 00:11:35,214 --> 00:11:38,831 Yellowbeak flew away together with the migrating birds 59 00:11:39,081 --> 00:11:43,192 across the sea, to Africa. 60 00:11:44,792 --> 00:11:47,787 But they return in the spring. 61 00:11:47,888 --> 00:11:50,338 I know. I read all about it. 62 00:12:09,387 --> 00:12:12,056 screenwriter Vladimir Golovanov 63 00:12:12,606 --> 00:12:15,076 director Mariya Muat 64 00:12:15,726 --> 00:12:18,214 art director Marina Kurchevskaya 65 00:12:19,014 --> 00:12:21,512 composer Igor Nazaruk 66 00:12:22,062 --> 00:12:24,549 camera Aleksandr Betev, Andrey Puchnin 67 00:12:25,099 --> 00:12:28,800 animators Milana Fedoseyeva, Tatyana Molodova, Alla Solovyova 68 00:12:29,000 --> 00:12:31,755 sound Vladimir Oryol 69 00:12:32,305 --> 00:12:37,047 voices Oleg Tabakov, Nikita Tabakov, Yekaterina Semyonova, Anton Tabakov 70 00:12:37,597 --> 00:12:40,232 assistant art director Olga Usacheva assistant camera Aleksandr Chehovskiy 71 00:12:40,433 --> 00:12:42,133 puppets & decor Gennadiy Bogachyov, Yelena Pokrovskaya, 72 00:12:42,234 --> 00:12:44,584 Vladimir Shafranyuk, Nina Vinogradova, Viktor Piunov, Mihail Koltunov, 73 00:12:44,685 --> 00:12:46,185 Nikolay Zaklyakov, Galina Kruglova 74 00:12:46,782 --> 00:12:50,121 montage Anton Malvinov, Lyudmila Kopteva, Sergey Krotenko 75 00:12:50,722 --> 00:12:54,222 production director Vladimir Gassiyev script editor Mariya Ryabova executive producer Anna Dzhioyeva 76 00:12:54,923 --> 00:12:57,423 artistic supervisor of studio Natalya Orlova 77 00:12:57,924 --> 00:13:00,624 producer Tengiz Semyonov 78 00:13:01,125 --> 00:13:04,825 Filmed with financial support from the Cinematography Division of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation 79 00:13:05,021 --> 00:13:07,499 The End (c) Animos, Moscow 2002 80 00:13:07,600 --> 00:13:10,600 subs by Eus, revised by Niffiwan (partly using translation of Vladimir Korotky) Dec 2023 @ animatsiya.net