Federal agency for culture and cinematography
Pilot animation studio
in co production with the "Aeroplan" company
Present:
We live in Russia
The coat of arms of our country is the double headed eagle
On the breast of the eagle is Saint George
defeating the evil dragon.
Our flag has three colours: white, blue and red.
Our capital is Moscow: The biggest city in Russia.
and Russia is the biggest country of the world
It is part of two continents: Europe and Asia.
Where the continents border, the Ural mountains,
lies the old town Zlatoust, the famous city of teachers.
Archaeologists have found an ancient city called Arkaim here.
It was here where for the first time horses were bred,
where the war wagon was invented
and where the first ovens to melt copper were build.
The later teachers weren't less masterful then their ancestors
They forged great swords with decorative engravings
with melted copper they decorated all kind of things.
and of course here also are folk stories remembered
each of them a precious juwel, a gem.
Mountain of Gems
Zhiharka
Once upon a time there were two blacksmiths,
A Cat and a Sparrow
They forged a variety of useful things and sold them at the fair.
With them lived a lively little girl.
Her name was Zhiharka.
Zhiharka loved to play.
She played from morning till night.
...And suddenly out of the oven jumped Babayka,
She began to catch the naughty kids and drag them to the oven.
Go away, Babayka. I am obedient...
...and since then they lived happily ever after.
One day Cat and Sparrow planned to go to the fair.
I am Babayka! I am Babayka!
Stop fooling around. You'll be watching the house.
We'll bring gifts from the fair.
.... between heaven and earth a pig is digging,
and accidentally got stuck with his tail to the sky!
Hare, Hare, let's play!
Hey, Fox, let's play!
What a delicious little girl lives with the cat and the sparrow!
Perhaps I should eat her!
The main thing that she does not escape into the house like the hare!
Oh, it tickles! Let me go, Fox!
Was that your child? She was playing pranks on the bridge.
Well ..
Zhiharka! Lock the door and do not open it for the fox!
This area is full of mischievous types!
The fox,cunning as she is, waited till Cat and Sparrow were gone again,
and then ran back to Zhiharka
The fox walks back and forth in front of the house thinking how to lure Zhiharka out.
Cat and Sparrow forbade me to open the door for you!
And I just wanted to play with you.
Really? What kind of a game?
Hmm...
Let's play catch! Like the way you played with the hare.
I am the hare, and you're the fox. Catch me!
Hey, Fox! My carrot has fallen!
My carrot has fallen! Let me go, Fox! I tell You!!
Turn back!
My carrot!
Fox, we'll cut off your tail!
We'll cut it off!
I did not open the door
We were just playing.
Zhiharka! With the fox you just cannot play!
She will deceive you, abduct you and then eat you!
If you will not obey, Babayka will come!
You hear?! - Yeah ...
The fox does won't come.
Probably we scared her of with our sabres
Let's go or we miss the fair.
This time the fox waited till cat and sparrow got very far away from the house.
So that they don't hear this... damn girl.
- Who's there? - It's me, the bunny!
- But why? - To play with you. You asked me yourself
Do you see the fox anywhere nearby?
Doesn't seem so. No.
Let's play the game you were playing with the fox. I'll be the fox, and you run away from me!
Run, hare!
Hey hare! I caught you! I caught you!
- Oh! - I'm not the hare! Not the hare!
Cat! Sparrow! Help me! The fox abducted me!
She stole, stole, the fox stole me again!
Stop yelling!
I do not want you to eat me!
I'm not going to eat you!
- You will not? - We'll just play "pretzel".
You mean sand pie?
No, pretzel. You just wait a minute.
How does one play pretzel?
You're the pretzel. You must sit on the shovel,
Wow!
Then we shove you into the oven!
What is next?
Next?
We close the oven door and then...
...wait 5 minutes until fully cooked!
Get you hands off the shovel and make a pretzel.
How? I can't curl up like that.
You're a silly girl! I'll show you how!
You must lie down on the shovel, then curl up,
Then, use the tail to cover your muzzle!
Got it?
Yes, I understood.
You are already lying on the shovel,
I'll put you in the oven,
Then close the oven door,
Now we need to wait 5 minutes until fully cooked!
Oh! The Cat and the Sparrow will be back soon! They bring gifts!
Various cakes and breads!
Fox, I must go home! Let's finish the game tomorrow!
Oh! I burn! Oh, sand pie! oh, pretzel!
Oh! I do not remember the way home...
Oh, Babayka is coming!
That's because I didn't obey Cat and Sparrow!
I was playing with the fox! Babayka will take me!
Hare, Hare! Babayka is here! Hare, let's run!
Oh! That is my house!
Wait, Hare stop!
Now, Hare run! run!
Oh! ...
Is that the fox?
Perhaps perhaps not ...
You are at it again, Fox!
Let us beat the soot out of you.
Oh! Cat and sparrow returned.
Aaah! Babayka!
I'm so unhappy and hungry.
What a miserable life I have.
Woe is me, woe!
Babayka went home. He lives in the fox's house. In the stove
unlucky me!
A poor orphan I am.
What a horrible, unfair life I have!
We brought pretzels for you Zhiharka.
Yay, pretzels! Let's all go eat pretzels.
Yay, pretzels!
Babayka came because I played with the fox.
Me and the hare were running so fast, very fast.
The fox didn't intend to eat me. She was a pretzel.
But we couldn't play till the end.
Babayka wanted to drag me and the hare into his oven.
The oven of the fox is really dirty,
there are huge cockroaches running around!
Since then, the fox is no longer trying to abduct Zhiharka.
way too much trouble these Zhiharka's* * (naughty girls.)
The End