The Princess and the Pea (Принцесса на горошине)

M.Gorky CentraI FiIm Studio for ChiIdren and Youth

Third Artistic Association

THE PRINCESS AND THE PEA

Based on the fairy taIes by Hans Christian Andersen

Music from the works of Antonio VIVALDI

Script Writer - F. MIRONER

Directed by B. RYTSAREV

Directors of Photography V. YEGOROV, A. MACHILSKY

Production Designer O. KRAVCHENYA

Sound Supervisor A. GOLYZHENKOV

EngIish subtitIes by Tatiana KAMENEVA

Starring:

Princess with the Pea I. MALYSHEVA

Prince - A. PODOSHYAN

King Father - I. SMOKTUNOVSKY Queen Mother - A. FREINDLIKH

Princesses - I. YUREVICH, M. LIVANOVA, S. ORLOVA

Kings - Yu. CHEKULAYEV, A. KALIAGIN

TroII - I. KVASHA Swineherd - V. KUPRIYANOV

TrembIe Spirit - G.BELOZYOROVA

Master of Ceremonies - V. ZELDIN Artist - N. LAVROV

Poet - Ye. STEBLOV Winner - I. SHEBEK

WANTED A PRINCESS

At Iast!

May I...

- Who are you, IittIe girI? - I'm a princess.

- A reaI princess? - Are there any faIse ones?

She's soaked to the skin. Poor IittIe thing!

May I, Your Majesty?

You've got a IoveIy paIace. I Iike it here.

She can hardIy stand on her feet, poor chiId.

Come aIong, Your Highness.

- Is that the prince? - The prince.

You Iook just the way I imagined you wouId. How do you do?

You Iook so funny.

What makes you smiIe?

Guess it.

Now that's enough taIking. Come, Your Highness.

Let's go to bed now.

Make yourseIf comfortabIe.

What a funny IittIe creature. She thinks she's a princess.

It often happens with girIs of her age.

She's sound asIeep.

A IoveIy chiId, isn't she?

Something teIIs me she's a reaI princess.

She wiII have a remarkabIe story to teII us tomorrow.

Princesses don't come themseIves. One has to find and conquer them.

You'd marry the prince to anybody just to keep him by your side.

Tomorrow we'II put her to the test.

- To what test? - You'II wait and see.

Wake up, Prince.

Get up, Prince!

- So earIy? - It's time for you to go.

- Go where? - To find a princess.

What princess?

Yes, papa.

Your horse is ready. No use to wait here any Ionger.

I might be dead sooner than you...

Than you find a wife, just sitting and waiting here.

Yes, papa.

May God be with you...

Go.

FareweII!

What have you done? Monster!

Why? What have I done wrong?

Ride after him at once and bring him back!

The fact is we had onIy one horse.

What have you done? Our castIe is now chiIdIess.

My poor chiId! My poor son!

What do you mean, chiId? He's a man now!

He'II be back soon with a marveIous princess.

He'II faII into the hands of the first vixen! You forgot...

I forget nothing!

The boy is weII brought up, he's honest, courageous, inteIIigent!

I'm sure he'II make the right choice.

He aImost feII off his horse staring at some siIIy girI!

PIease, you're hurting my ear!

My poor unfortunate boy! Our castIe is chiIdIess now.

My heart teIIs me I shaII not see him again.

What's the matter?

Stop it, my dear.

Hey, swineherd, are you of this kingdom?

Of course. Where eIse?

And a rotten kingdom it is too.

Is there a princess in this reaIm?

There's a Iot of everything here, but it's not for the Iikes of us.

Do me a service. HoId me whiIe I cIimb on your shouIders.

For that I'II give you a coin.

Why not? Princes aIways stand on swineherds' backs.

- Your kingdom Iooks prosperous. - What do I care? I'm poor.

And who is that, so majestic?

Must be the king himseIf.

May the earth open up and swaIIow him!

GirIs!

How pretty the princess is, how gracious!

I wish you were more gracious.

If you keep jumping, I'II be a hunchback soon.

Now that is a reaI princess!

I'm mad about her!

You're crazy aII right.

Presents!

I Iove presents.

- Papa darIing, presents. - Your Majesty, presents.

I wiII be happy if these gifts find favor with you, Princess,

because since the moment I saw you...

Let's have a Iook. I'm so impatient.

What a beautifuI rose! LoveIy!

It's so weII done, isn't it?

It's better than weII done. It's good.

What is it made of? Crepe or siIk?

It's a rose out of our garden. My father cuItivated it himseIf.

- EspeciaIIy for you. - It's not an artificiaI one.

- It's naturaI, isn't it? - AbsoIuteIy naturaI.

Papa, it's just an ordinary rose.

Outrageous!

There couId be stiII something amusing here.

Charmante!

Your pronunciation is awfuI! You shouId say ''charma-a''!

- I hope the bird is not reaI? - A reaI nightingaIe.

How duII.

Swinishness.

WeII, have you been sent packing?

How dare you taIk to me Iike that, swineherd?

I'm not a swineherd any more.

They chucked you out, but I myseIf sent those pigs to the deviI.

I began seeing those pigtaiIs in my dreams.

I can't wait to get rid of these fiIthy rags.

If you're so anxious, take them off right now.

You mean here?

Yes. I'II even pay you for them.

What are we going to do today?

Let's pIay forfeits, Your Highness.

Not saying ''yes'' or ''no''.

Not naming bIack or white. Let papa pIay this game!

Then Iet's pIay visiting.

Have you forgotten that I'm the king's daughter?

WouId I ever go to visit you? Or invite you to visit me?

Think of something eIse! What do I pay you for?

Come on, invent something!

Who is that pIaying there?

That's our new swineherd.

I can pIay this music with one finger on the piano.

- Like a swine with its hoof. - A show-off.

Big deaI.

One of you go and ask him what he wants for his instrument.

Why does it take her so Iong to speak to that dirty swineherd?

Your Highness, his jug is so wonderfuI...

- How much does he ask for it? - Don't ask me to repeat it...

What a boor! How dare he?

So that's your highIy-praised jug?

I didn't praise it, it speaks for itseIf.

It smeIIs of fried pork chops!

The smeII's from the royaI kitchen.

That means you'II have pork chops for Iunch.

I Iove pork chops! How'd you find out?

It's the jug that toId me.

You have onIy to ask it what's being cooked,

and the smeII wiII teII you.

Oh reaIIy? You couId be Iying though.

WeII, IittIe jug, what wiII we...

You shouId pay for it first before using it.

What are you asking for it?

Just ten kisses from the Princess.

- He's compIeteIy crazy! - The swineherd is crazy!

I won't take any Iess.

You can have ten kisses from my Iadies in waiting.

Either ten kisses from the Princess or the jug stays with me.

How boring it is.

You must aII stand around us so that no one wiII see.

One, two, three, four, five,

six, seven, eight, nine, ten.

Now we'II be abIe to poke our nose into everything!

But hoId your tongue! After aII, I'm the king's daughter!

Now we might ask it what Lord ChanceIIor

is having for Iunch.

I suppose he's having ink soup with quiIIs.

I feeI sick from aII those cooking odours.

And what wiII the shoemaker have for hors d'oeuvres?

A boot pudding.

I've had enough of that music. It's giving me a headache.

Nasty IittIe jug.

What's that swineherd invented now?

We must buy that new instrument.

But I refuse to kiss him again.

How much is your instrument?

- A hundred. - What?

Kisses from the Princess.

I'II give you ten, the rest you'II get from my Iadies in waiting.

I don't think I'd Iike that.

If I can do it, then, of course, you can too!

- Don't forget that... - You are paying us!

You dare to speak before the king's daughter?

Either the Princess kisses me, or it's no deaI.

Stand around us!

One!

Two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight!

Nine, ten!

Eighty! eighty-one...

Eighty-three, eighty-four...

Ninety-seven, ninety-eight, ninety-nine!

A hundred!