Studio Soyuzmultfilm
Return from the Olympus
written by Alexei Simukov directed by Alexandra Snezhko-Blotskaya
art director Alexander Trussov music Vitaly Geviksman
cameraman Boris Kotov sound Boris Filchikov script editor Arcady Snessarev
Assistents E Novoselskaya, Z Kredusjinskaya M Popova Cutter N Mayorova
animators Boris Butakov, Youry Butyrin, Elizabeth Komova, Leonid Kayukov, Victor Shevkov, Nikolai Fedorov, V. Dolgikh, Oleg Safronov
artists Ye. Tannenberg, Alla Goreva, Irina Svetlitsa, V. Maximovich
voice artists Michael Novokhizhin, M. Vassilyev, A. Konsovsky, Alexei Gribov, M. Pogorzhelsky, Natalia Kustinskaya, Erast Garin, S. Zaikova
executive producer Lubov' Butyrina
"Zeus"..................."Hera"
"Apollo"
"Poseidon"
"Ares"......................"Aphrodite"
"Athena"...................."Hercules"
Let me visit the earth, O father of the Gods.
I am bored here.
O my son, why do you want to visit the earth?
I want to recall how it was to be human.
Hercules, you are ranked among gods
Your place is here on Olympus
Just for a very short time
I would like to feel the earth under my feet.
Knead the stem of roadside grass.
Plebian habits!
Until the sunrise!
You are always ready to concede to the son of this bony Alkmene.
I have been suspecting that
Bless you!
Do you see? They remember. They haven't forgotten.
Like alive. Can't say anything, God!
Look.
My labours
All twelve
Good job of the artists!
Very realistic!
Eurystheus, my relative.
Oh, how worthless you were!
How many years I was overstraining myself for you?
God's will. - What is this?
I didn't kneel!
What have you done?
You crossed out your best labour.
This didn't happen!
You are saying it didn't happen. Remember!
The golden apples from the magical garden of the Hesperides
They lived far away and nobody knew the way to them.
Hey, nymphs!!
Little nymphs!
What is the way to the magical garden of the Hesperides?
In the blue ocean
Unstable like a serpent
from ancient times till now
Lives an old man, called Nereus
He can help you
But know one secret
Hold him tight Until you got your answer.
Why don't you let me rest?
You should have told me that you won't be frightened
Oh, you tortured me.
Do you think it is easy in my age?
What do you need from me?
How to find the way to the garden of the Hesperides?
Oh, that's it?
So much trouble because of that?
Listen carefully...
O great Atlas, how can I be useful to you?
Who are you?
You must be sent by the Gods
I am Hercules
Looking for the way to the garden of the Hesperides
In order to bring to my brother, king Eurystheus, three golden apples
Is that all?
I would get them for you in a second
if I weren't supposed to hold the heaven.
You can put your burden on this peak for now
It is not high enough.
But if you stand on the peak and rise you arms
I can see that you are strong enough
Is the heaven very heavy?
You can bear it.
Decide!
Are you afraid?
You have it. Can you hold it?
Hardly.
I'll hurry, don't worry! The apples are yours.
You are giving him too much freedom!
Well, no. He will return and everything will be all right again.
Do you think Hercules, your son, doesn't resemble you?
What ever for did you make him a God?
Because he is as a human more dangerous than as a God
Hurry! Hurry! - I got them
Here are the apples of health and eternal youth!
That's great!
Excellent. I like it when everybody is happy.
So, farewell! - Where are you going!?!!
I will take them to you brother.
What about me?!
Someone must hold the heaven up.
Stop!
You are right. Everybody should be happy.
But it would help if I could cover my shoulders with the lion's hide...
since the heaven is quit heavy.
Have you got the feel of it now?
Alright, make yourself comfortable then.
Thanks for the apples! - Cheater!!!
You started cheating on me first.
Farewell! Your burden is not meant for my shoulders
Bravo! Bravo!
So, it did happen! Why do you want to deny it.
For whom was I doing all this? For whom?
For them!
For them?
Why did they make you a god?
For the obedience to the Gods, of course.
This is your best labour. - You are lying!!
Just look here! This is my best labour!
O Gods,
What's wrong?
It's dishonorable to torture someone who is defenseless.
It's the will of the Gods! Didn't you see the writing?
"It is the will of the Gods to torment this disobedient person forever."
What has he done?
He has stolen the sacred flame from the heaven
and gave it to the humans
Prometheus!
That is why he is tortured?
The Gods know what they are doing
Go away! Don't interrupt me!
Can't you see my task is hard?
Come to your senses, you fool!
Have you stolen the sacred flame from the heaven?
and gave it to mankind?
Where is it now? That flame?
There! - inside me?!
I can't forget that.
I Pecked Prometheus myself. I pecked him myself!
It turned out I was right!
I went against the Gods, and nothing happened
And you just say "Obedience, obedience"
The gods love audacious people!
How do you know that this was against the God's will?
Prometheus' term expired, so the Gods sent you.
That can not be true!
You would know!
You fought me till the last moment! - I could not know.
My task was small.
Oh, you mean, mean bird!
Can it be that the best things I have done in my life
have been done at someone else's bidding?
It's not true!!
The sacred flame is still burning!
A metaphor.
Tell me, who is right?
It's time to go back! It has become morning.
No matter what, life on Olympus is more composed!
Go ahead.
Hurry, hurry! We should be back before sunrise!
Let me for the last time smell the earth.
Enough?
It's still burning; The sacred Flame!
I praise you, oh great Prometheus!
Look, it is still moving! - Who? - The hydra!!
It turns out that I haven't cut all the heads
Where? I can not see anything.
Down there! Right over there!
Didn't you notice?
They look to me like insolent winged birds.
Stymphalian birds* * 6th labour. They plagued Arcadia
They are throwing down their deadly feathers
People are dying!
And there! Look!
Someone is suffering in chains
The ocean is not enough to wash away all the dirt from the earth.
Just look, just look!
I don't see anything!
Is it not enough for you to understand how a mere human can become a god?
Do you want to see how a God becomes a human?
Fly to the Olympus on your own!!
What do you mean, on your own! I will stay on the earth!
I hope that the Gods haven't foreseen this!
Lord, do you see what is happening!? Help me!!!!
Madman! Look what you are loosing!
Turn your mindset! You are a God!
Don't you understand! A GOD!!!
You're a God! A God! - I am a human!
I am joining you, mankind!
The end!