The Tree-frog Based on the eponymous tale by Konstantin Paustovskiy
A fisherman, all merry, Sat by the riverside,
While in the wind before him His floats swayed in the tide.
La-la-la. La-la-la.
Oh, it's hot!
A fisherman, all merry, Sat by the riverside,
While in the wind before him His floats swayed in the tide.
La-la-la. La-la-la.
Now, there is no one here at all.
Hey, get out of here!
Thank you, daughter, thank you.
Don't you dare!
Let her go!!
What a villain you are!
Do not be afraid. I won't do you any harm.
Go live in peace now.
A fisherman, all gloomy,
Sat by the riverside...
It's papa!
While in the wind before him
His floats swayed in the tide.
Wow, that is not an ordinary frog.
Oh, what about her is so... well... unusual?
This is a tree-frog.
She is wonderful at predicting rain.
Rain.
Rain!
The heat wave already lasts a whole month.
Another 3 days without rain -
and everything will perish.
Do not worry, papa.
Now everything will be fine.
You said yourself, this is an extraordinary frog.
She will call the rain here.
Do you see...
Do you see this hot weather?
Everything will perish.
The wheat will burn, not yet ripe.
And my apple tree...
It too...
It too, will burn.
Well, why don't you call the rain?
You, after all, are able to do that.
Oh, please,
I beg you:
please help me!
Tree-frog.
Tree-frog! Tree-frog, let's go home!
Tree-frog.
Tree-frog! Tree-frog, come home!
Tree-frog.
Tree-frog, come home!
Hey, swallow!
What do you need?
All day long, slaving and slaving.
My head is ringing from it all.
And now in the middle of the night, too, everyone wakes me up.
Yes, but listen first,
and then you may twitter.
I've never woken you up before.
Okay. Tell me what bothers you.
Do you know Tanya?
The girl from the house?
Of course I know her.
So, listen!
She needs to be helped. But how?
The rain is far away from here.
At least a thousand kilometers!
Yesterday I flew until I was just short of it,
but I did see it.
Heavy rain,
Only it will not come here.
Everything will have poured out on the way here.
So then bring it!
It's easily said: "Bring it".
Do you know how hard it is to fly with rain?
And it's not our swallow business.
You must ask the swifts.
They fly faster.
Well, if you swallows,
aren't able to bring rain...
What do you mean, we aren't we able?!
Who told you that?
We can do anything.
Even dodge lightning and outfly a plane.
Rain for us is child's play.
Okay. Don't cry.
We will bring the rain here.
- But when? - In the morning. Just you wait.
Oh!
It will rain. Rain!
If only it won't miss.
If only this storm would hit us!
Oh, what is that? The birds brought the rain!
It looks like,
all the swallows of the world flew there.
Rain, rain, and even more rain!
A fisherman, all merry,
Sat by the riverside,
While in the wind before him
His floats swayed in the tide.
Thank you for calling the rain!
Script writer Jeanne Vitenson Director Leonid Aristov
art director Yu. Yevmeshkin
camera Leonard Kolvinkovskiy
music Michael Meyerovich sound V. Azarovskiy
Animators:
M. Karpinskaya
V. Kaduhin
O. Pryanishnikova
Voice actors:
L. Ahedzhakova L. Ilyina
P. Vishhyakov O. Gobzyeva
Montage S Simuhina
Script editor Ye. Hodina
Production director: O. Kuznetsov
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