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KAZAKH FILM

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WHY IS THE SWALLOW'S TAIL FORKED?
(based on a Kazakh folk tale)

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Direction and Art Direction - A. Haydarov

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Composer - N. Tlendiev

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cameraman S. Artemov
sound U. Davletgaliev, Yevangelina Dodonova

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animators B. Kalistratov, Galina Dussenko, 
Ye. Sultanbekov, F. Mukanov, 
Victor Chugunov, E. Beiseitov

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Background art: E. Beiseitov, V. Shchukin

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voice artist Z. Sharipova
text writer Galina Dussenko

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Once there lived a Dragon,
who had beheaded all padishahs,

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Carving a den high in the mountains.
He lived for many years as padishah.

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But after these years had gone,
old age suddenly arrived,

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His powers of old were lost,
and the dragon fell sick.

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In the last days of his life,
The Dragon remembered,

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the days he was powerful and strong;
the heads he could smash all day long;

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The times he could gulp in one swallow;
The ages he would crush and destroy.

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The dragon got thinner and thinner,
And became short of breath.

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His servants were taken aback,
discussing, without knowing what to do.

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In an abyss beyond the cliff,
a cunning fox lived.

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He had some skills
at curing illnesses.

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He came to the patient,
and took his pulse.

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"If you find innocent blood,
your padishah will recover." He said.

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Just try everything, and
test it on the bones of this fish.

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If the fish is revived by the blood,
the Padishah will also recover by it.

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There was a mosquito having a needle beak,
Blood was the only thing he drank,

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He got to work immediately,
And set off with the bottle.

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Is it hard for a mosquito
to do evil for a cursed oppressor?

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Isn't a baby laying in cradle,
The purest living being?

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Then he stuck the baby,
and the baby started to cry.

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He filled the bottle with the baby's blood,
and see, the fish revived.

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If he would deliver it to the Dragon,
the Dragon would recover,

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Again he would drown the country in blood,
And turn the world Topsy turvy.

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But there now was this swallow bird
who couldn't bare the cruelty it heard.

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When hearing the misfortune done,
it really shook his heart and he was gone

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... out in search for the mosquito's trail.
Took long ways through wilderness and gale.

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Before arriving at the dragon's den
Before delivering the bottle then,

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he would scratch out the eye of the bad,
And swallow the mean little gnat.

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There is no fight free from danger.
The dragon,

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had ripped off the swallows tail,
Since then it was forked, without fail

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Thus the delicate swallow,
weak and exhausted fellow,

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proved his bravery, tall,
and saved the lives of all.

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THE END