A beautifully made film (even though it is, in the end, a sad story) about the importance of respecting the boundaries of those you love. Well, and about the physics of water too, I suppose.

The final film in the "Parasolka" series, made after a 3-year gap. It feels quite different from the rest, and is also probably the best of them. Which is no surprise, considering that the director was none other than Vladimir Dakhno, a master of comedic timing and slapstick who had already become well-known for his "Cossacks" series.

The basic plot is like Charlie Chaplin's "The Circus" (1928), if everything had turned out well.

Like the first two films in the series, this one focuses heavily on slapstick, and not very much on any actual social satire associated with car ownership. Its only "social message" is "drinking excessively is bad".

Music by Nodar Mamisashvili

Major error: the script editor is not Andrey Dmitruk, it could be Taisia Dimtruk instead as i observed T. Dmitruk instead of A. Dmitruk, the name Andrey has no T

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>From what I've seen, Kyїvnaukfilm has many films about elephants
Do they? What are some other ones?

>However, because they were blind, each could only see by touching a different part
I think that story is relatively well-known in Europe and the West, as well. But few are those who take its lesson to heart and internalize it enough to manage to avoid needless conflict with others. Yulian Kalisher adapted it (in a rather joking manner, along with some other Eastern wisdom) in his film The Obedient Pupil (1991).

I have to agree with Georgiy Borodin on this one. The main character spends the whole film being awful, and I was wondering for the whole film when the payoff would come. Then at the end, (spoiler), it just ends with a door falling on him? Uh, what? I really get the sense that by this stage in her career, Strautmane just saw her job as little more than work-for-hire, because I can't see a lot of effort or inspiration from her here, especially compared to some of her earlier films... (not that it's that surprising, because her earlier attempts to do something that inspired her tended to end badly... and also, she had left Soyuzmultfilm on bad terms and was now working at the only alternative studio, and I guess she felt she was on thin ice and trying not to take any artistic risks).

Unlike the first one in the Parasolka series, this one feels more grounded (I mean, it's not a total fantasy) and actually has some sort of point - to remind people that if they want safe neighborhoods, it's also their responsibility to help make them so. Overall, it's not sophisticated, but is a fun and optimistic film. Interesting to compare it to If I Were My Dad 2, a film made by Moscow's central television animation studio, with a very similar premise (two big brutes who bully a man who initially wants nothing more than to avoid a fight), except in that one, they never get their comeuppance anywhere except in a little boy's imagination. Perhaps it's no coincidence that that film was made in a USSR that was disintegrating.

Still very wacky. I think I like this one more than the "hunting" one. Maybe the director is the main difference (I like most of Pruzhanskiy's later films more than Pavlenko's...).

From what I've seen, Kyїvnaukfilm has many films about elephants, an animal that can only live in tropical regions. Their lifespan is usually 50 years, but in colder climates, it's only 10 years. In Vietnamese, elephants are called "voi", and you know what? It means "penis". Perhaps you know which part it refers to? That seemingly ugly name originates from a famous folk tale: The Six Blind Fortune Tellers and An Elephant. It tells the story of six fortune tellers who went to the market to see an elephant being offered for sale. However, because they were blind, each could only see by touching a different part: Ears, trunk, tusks, legs, tail, and back. Each believed they were right, and as a result, no two were alike, leading to a fight. From then on, "Fortune Tellers Looking at An Elephant" became an idiom referring to biased thinking.