-
This film was comissioned by the USSR
State Committee of TV and Radio.
-
A production of "Armenfilm" named
in tribute to Amo Bekhnazaryan
-
If I tell anyone, they won't believe me.
-
Once I caught a talking fish
-
this...no, this big!
-
Atchoo!
-
Hear me out, kind man
-
Let me go back home to sea.
-
Wow, a talking fish!
-
inspired by Toomanyan's fairy-tale
-
Ha! Our whole family can talk
-
My father can talk, my mother can talk
-
And my grandpa says:
-
"Do a Good deed and throw it in the water.
-
It will not vanish.
-
It will return to you with goodness."
-
So, do a good deed -
-
throw me in the water.
-
Your deed will not vanish with me
-
One day I'll be of use to you.
-
Sure you will! How exactly?
-
Anyone can talk.
-
But if you could, let's say, bark
-
I would put you on a chain to guard my house.
-
As it is, I can make nothing of you.
-
Off you swim!
-
And now I have nothing to eat, ek-ho.
-
Here I am! Why did you call for me?
-
Me?
-
You said "Ekh". Ekh is my name
-
I'm the great, powerful and kind wizard.
-
Ekh! Ek-ho! Ek-ho! ...
-
And that was my ek ... echo!
-
Now, tell me, what do you wish for?
-
I'll do anything, I can do everything!
-
What can a poor man wish for?
-
Got you!
-
You've got nothing to eat, right?
-
Here's a magic table for you
-
Whenever you're hungry,
knock on it three times
-
One, two, three.
-
You like it?
-
When you are done eating and drinking
-
Knock three times again. Three, two, one
-
Thank you, kind Ekh.
-
I'll always remember you
-
Sure you will!
-
I wouldn't be Ekh if you don't remember
-
Wife!
-
My darling wife!
-
Oo, I forgot to tell you.
There's one little condition
-
On the stroke of midnight I'll come to visit you
-
And will ask you riddles till dawn.
-
If you manage to answer them - the table is yours.
-
And if you can't, blame only yourselves!
-
You'll remember me until your dying day.
-
Kind people, let me stay with you tonight.
-
Oh, young man. You'd better look
for shelter in a different place.
-
At midnight will come a beast.
-
He'll destroy us and you
-
That's true, youn man.
-
Well, there's still time before
the clock strikes midnight.
-
We'll see what happens then.
-
Who's there?
-
It's me, the kind Ekh.
-
I'm here.
-
And I'm here too.
-
Who are you? Where did you come from?
-
From the other side of the sea.
-
How did you come here?
-
I straddled a lame flea and rode it here.
-
The sea is what? A puddle?
-
Might be a puddle, but an eagle couldn't fly over it.
-
Then it was a baby-eagle.
-
Could be, but the shadow of his wings covers a city
-
So that night descends on that city.
-
Well, the city must be tiny.
-
A hare wasn't able to run across that city.
-
It must have been a wee hare.
-
It was an ordinary hare.
A coat came from that hare.
-
Where did it come from?
-
It came from the city, which the hare ran across
and the shadow of the eagle fell across
-
and followed its nose.
-
Whose nose?
-
The nose of the coat which
came from the hare in the city
-
which night descends on when
the baby-eagle flies over it
-
sitting astride the lame flea.
-
What?!
-
What, what?
-
Astride on the lame flea,
from the other side of the sea
-
which the hare can't fly over and
the eagle can't run across
-
maybe not a sea, just a puddle
in the middle of the city,
-
where the shadow of the flea fell
across the hare and killed it.
-
The coat came from that hare
and followed his nose.
-
Then the hare jumped back ...
-
Which hare?
-
The dead one. It jumped across the sea
which you can't fly over or run across,
-
which the coat came from,
which the shadow of the flea
-
fell across and killed the hare.
-
Not simply a hare, but an eagle!
-
Which hare, which eagle, which flea?!
-
Shall I repeat? So the flea from
the other side of the puddle ...
-
Enough!!!
-
Hey wait! We still have plenty of
time before dawn!
-
Son, you saved us from death!
-
Who are you? At least give us your name
-
My grandpa says: "Do a good deed
and throw it in the water."
-
See, I turned out to be useful to you.
-
Script, Director, Animator, Producer:
R. Sahakyants
