Premudryj peskar (The wise gudgeon / Премудрый пескарь)

Soyuzmultfilm

Wise Gudgeon

Based on fairytale by M.E.Salvykov-Shchedrin narrator - A.Zaytsev

Writing credit ... V.Merezhko Director ... V.Karavaev

Art-directors: S.Alimov, G.Arkad'ev

Camera... B.Kotov. Composer... V.Martynov Sound engineer ... V.Kutuzov

Animators: T.Fadeeva, L.Lobanova, A.Gorlenko, Yu.Kuzyurin

Animators: V.Pal'chikov, I.Kuroyan, E.Malashenkova, G.Zolotovskaya

Assistant director ... G.Chikina Assistant cameraman ... M.Popova

Montage: I.Gerasimova Editor: E.Nikitkina

Designers: I.Troyanova, Z.Plekhanova, O.Apanasova, N.Barkovskaya

Associate producer: L.Butyrina Soyuzmultfilm Studio, 1979.

Once upon a time, there lived a gudgeon.

His mother and father were clever,

so he grew up a very clever gudgeon.

He started to think and he realized:

whenever he looked, everywhere he was checkmated.

Big fishes all around him,

and he is the smallest.

Any fish can swallow him,

but he can't swallow anyone.

And he can't understand, why to swallow anyone?

The life all round is amazing and beautiful.

So amazing, that sometimes it's unbelieavable.

Thanks god! It seems I'm alive!

he told to himself, and decided to dig a hole.

So much fear he had suffered when he heard:

Beware, son!

To live a life

is not like to lick a spoon.

Keep your eyes open!

The Gudgeon was satisfied

that he had beated the crafty designs of the enemies, and survived.

And he had a most alluring dream.

The gudgeon took a deep breath, and decided:

by the day he will sit in his hole,

and at night, when everyone's asleep, he will swim.