WEBVTT 00:00:00.069 --> 00:00:04.552 Leningrad's Order of Lenin "LENFILM" Studio 00:00:18.126 --> 00:00:24.342 OLD KHOTTABYCH 00:00:24.876 --> 00:00:31.649 Based on the story by L. LAGIN 00:00:32.739 --> 00:00:35.277 Written by L. LAGIN 00:00:35.765 --> 00:00:38.861 Directed by G. KAZANSKY 00:00:39.314 --> 00:00:41.817 Director of Photography M. SHURUKOV 00:00:42.620 --> 00:00:46.166 Production Designers I. KAPLAN, B. MANEVICH 00:00:46.899 --> 00:00:50.339 Music by Nadezhda SIMONYAN Sound by G. ELBERT 00:01:03.738 --> 00:01:07.415 Cast: Khottabych - N. VOLKOV 00:01:08.087 --> 00:01:11.871 Volka - Alyosha LITVINOV Zhenya - Genya KHUDYAKOV 00:01:12.088 --> 00:01:14.484 Gogha - Lyova KOVALCHUK 00:01:14.940 --> 00:01:17.123 Varvara Stepanovna - O. CHERKASSOVA 00:01:17.306 --> 00:01:23.072 Volka's Mother - M. BLINOVA Mukhammedov - Ye. KOPELYAN 00:01:23.813 --> 00:01:27.882 Doctor - A. LARIKOV Gogha's Mother - V. ROMANOVA 00:01:51.542 --> 00:01:54.637 - Volka! I'm going! - Wait for me! 00:02:02.884 --> 00:02:04.936 Come on, Volka! 00:02:05.946 --> 00:02:07.226 Catch up with me! 00:02:07.442 --> 00:02:10.467 Just one more time, Zhenya! 00:02:19.689 --> 00:02:25.703 Zhenya! Look what I've found! Zhenya! 00:02:30.473 --> 00:02:32.869 It's heavy. What if there's a treasure in it? 00:02:33.848 --> 00:02:37.395 Some old jewels of tremendous scientific importance? 00:02:37.600 --> 00:02:41.669 Their eyes will pop out at the History Museum when I bring them there. 00:03:27.497 --> 00:03:32.123 I thank you, O wise and handsome youth! 00:03:32.681 --> 00:03:34.793 Are you... from the amateur talent group? 00:03:35.047 --> 00:03:40.160 I'm from this thrice accursed vessel. 00:03:45.693 --> 00:03:47.674 Doesn't look like it. 00:03:47.885 --> 00:03:52.642 The jug was small, and you're big, comparatively. 00:03:52.999 --> 00:03:55.217 You don't believe me, wretch? 00:03:58.635 --> 00:04:03.048 O forgive me, my young saviour. 00:04:03.959 --> 00:04:08.681 I'm not accustomed to having my word doubted. 00:04:09.456 --> 00:04:13.039 By the command of Jirdis, king of the jinn, 00:04:13.353 --> 00:04:15.891 I was immured in that vessel 00:04:16.379 --> 00:04:20.341 for being a disobedient and stubborn genie. 00:04:20.938 --> 00:04:23.440 Gin... isn't that an American drink of some sort? 00:04:23.859 --> 00:04:27.714 Not a drink am I, O inquiring youth, 00:04:28.557 --> 00:04:32.447 but a powerful and fearless magician, 00:04:33.671 --> 00:04:40.588 Hassan Abdurrahman ibn Khottab, that is the son of Khottab. 00:05:03.035 --> 00:05:06.297 My shorts are not torn! A miracle! 00:05:07.106 --> 00:05:12.741 I don't consider such a trifle a miracle, that's just a child's play. 00:05:15.143 --> 00:05:20.493 Pardon me, but I don't have the honor of knowing your name. 00:05:20.744 --> 00:05:22.239 My name is Volka. 00:05:22.484 --> 00:05:27.691 Volka? And the name of your honored father? 00:05:28.225 --> 00:05:32.009 Tell me the tenderest of his names, 00:05:32.330 --> 00:05:37.104 for the man who gave to the world such a noble offspring 00:05:37.354 --> 00:05:39.860 is indeed worthy of love. 00:05:40.227 --> 00:05:45.055 His name is Alexei. And the tenderest is Alyosha. 00:05:45.550 --> 00:05:47.045 Alyosha... 00:05:47.291 --> 00:05:51.218 Know, then, O esteemed Volka ibn Alyosha, 00:05:51.430 --> 00:05:54.906 that from now on I will obey your every command, 00:05:55.084 --> 00:05:58.630 for you have released me from an imprisonment of a thousand years. 00:05:59.015 --> 00:06:01.755 And my gratitude knows no limit. 00:06:02.216 --> 00:06:05.312 So you are a genie? 00:06:06.217 --> 00:06:10.286 From Arabian Nights? Wow! It's great! 00:06:11.818 --> 00:06:14.629 I'm in a fix! I'm going to be late for my exam! 00:06:14.811 --> 00:06:18.452 You won't be late for your exam, O the most illustrious of all Volkas, 00:06:18.742 --> 00:06:24.578 and your knowledge will astound your teachers and your schoolmates. 00:06:24.796 --> 00:06:27.121 I'm afraid it won't. 00:06:28.553 --> 00:06:32.515 Honestly, I'll be lucky if I pass geography. 00:06:33.285 --> 00:06:38.670 No genie knows more about geography 00:06:38.956 --> 00:06:40.830 than your loyal servant. 00:06:41.844 --> 00:06:44.999 I'll tell you the answers to all the questions. 00:06:45.392 --> 00:06:48.691 Just let your teachers 00:06:48.906 --> 00:06:52.002 not give you the highest praise! 00:06:53.325 --> 00:06:57.453 Why, I'll turn them into scabby jackals, 00:06:57.639 --> 00:07:00.486 into ugly, disgusting toads. 00:07:04.006 --> 00:07:06.852 But, no, it won't come to that, 00:07:07.033 --> 00:07:10.995 for they will surely be impressed by your answers. 00:07:13.574 --> 00:07:18.129 Thank you, but we Young Pioneers are against cheating. 00:07:18.514 --> 00:07:20.910 We fight it in an organized manner. 00:07:21.297 --> 00:07:24.215 Orga... organized... 00:07:25.542 --> 00:07:29.670 But I assure you, no one will hear me. 00:07:29.891 --> 00:07:32.809 Hah! Varvara Stepanovna never misses a thing. 00:07:33.022 --> 00:07:37.400 If I say no one will hear, then no one will hear! 00:07:38.937 --> 00:07:41.225 What I say to you 00:07:41.442 --> 00:07:47.492 will go straight from my respectful lips to your highly respected ears. 00:07:48.156 --> 00:07:50.623 You won't even stop to think. 00:07:50.836 --> 00:07:54.276 Your lips will open by themselves. 00:07:54.733 --> 00:07:57.021 All right then! 00:07:58.142 --> 00:08:03.671 But you'll have to change your clothes. Our fashions are a bit different here. 00:08:07.326 --> 00:08:09.378 Dress up like my grandfather. 00:08:30.777 --> 00:08:32.758 Wow! 00:08:34.882 --> 00:08:36.341 But your shoes? 00:08:37.039 --> 00:08:40.266 Corns, O most solicitous one! 00:08:40.448 --> 00:08:45.691 There's no better footwear for an old man with corns two thousand years old. 00:08:52.278 --> 00:08:55.373 Well, what can you tell us about India, Kostylkov? 00:08:55.722 --> 00:08:59.684 The republic of India is one of the great states of Asia. 00:09:02.054 --> 00:09:04.651 It is located on the Hindustan peninsula. 00:09:06.960 --> 00:09:12.310 India is located almost on the earth's edge. 00:09:12.700 --> 00:09:16.378 India is located almost on the earth's edge. 00:09:16.597 --> 00:09:17.806 Edge? 00:09:18.650 --> 00:09:19.859 Edge! 00:09:20.424 --> 00:09:24.731 On the North and the West India is bounded by a country 00:09:25.017 --> 00:09:29.145 inhabited by bald people. 00:09:29.400 --> 00:09:33.469 On the North and the West India is bounded by a country inhabited 00:09:33.645 --> 00:09:35.697 by bald people. 00:09:44.465 --> 00:09:46.968 What's the matter? Have you got a toothache? 00:09:48.740 --> 00:09:51.626 Then keep your hands where they belong. 00:09:53.128 --> 00:09:56.390 There goes your group, Sveta. All your marks down. 00:09:56.747 --> 00:09:58.799 What are you so happy about, Pill? 00:09:59.000 --> 00:10:02.821 Naturally, whenever someone's in trouble, that makes Pill happy. 00:10:03.183 --> 00:10:08.533 Well, you're giving us the ancients' geographical views correctly. 00:10:08.784 --> 00:10:12.497 But you know, of course, that the Earth is not flat, but round. 00:10:12.959 --> 00:10:16.185 If the Earth were round... 00:10:18.979 --> 00:10:20.782 If the Earth were round... 00:10:20.962 --> 00:10:23.014 the water would flow off it 00:10:23.328 --> 00:10:25.581 and people would die of thirst. 00:10:25.760 --> 00:10:28.784 The water would flow off it and people would die of thirst. 00:10:28.864 --> 00:10:31.360 Actually the Earth is shaped like a flat disk 00:10:31.557 --> 00:10:34.922 and is washed on all sides by a great river called the ocean. 00:10:34.980 --> 00:10:38.624 The Earth rests on six elephants, the elephants stand on a huge turtle. 00:10:38.821 --> 00:10:42.693 That's what the world is like from the point of view of science. 00:10:43.333 --> 00:10:44.922 Ancient science. 00:10:45.140 --> 00:10:47.962 Not ancient science but the only correct science. 00:10:48.197 --> 00:10:51.173 Not ancient science but the only correct science. 00:10:56.588 --> 00:10:58.047 You are not quite well today. 00:10:58.259 --> 00:11:01.354 You'd better come back on Monday. 00:11:11.653 --> 00:11:13.871 What did you say, O esteemed one? 00:11:14.089 --> 00:11:16.342 What did you say, O esteemed one? 00:11:17.533 --> 00:11:19.407 Of course, he's ill. 00:11:22.648 --> 00:11:25.803 Go home, Kostylkov. Come back on Monday. 00:11:30.406 --> 00:11:33.846 May I leave the room for a minute, Varvara Stepanovna? 00:11:42.750 --> 00:11:45.093 What did you mean by that nonsense? 00:11:45.312 --> 00:11:48.757 You almost ruined the showing for the whole group. Are you sick? 00:11:48.965 --> 00:11:51.170 No. I'll explain later. 00:11:52.742 --> 00:11:56.870 If you're not sick, then you're a hoodlum, no less! 00:11:57.057 --> 00:11:58.682 I'm not. 00:11:59.144 --> 00:12:01.814 We'll have you up before the group council. 00:12:02.032 --> 00:12:03.905 Quiet, Zhenya, quiet! 00:12:04.119 --> 00:12:06.966 Why should I be quiet? It wasn't me who... 00:12:07.425 --> 00:12:10.342 - You idiot! - Idiot yourself! 00:12:11.495 --> 00:12:13.298 Zhenya! Zhenya... 00:12:26.282 --> 00:12:29.651 Well, most illustrious of pupils, 00:12:30.596 --> 00:12:35.981 did your answers astound your teachers and your schoolmates? 00:12:36.441 --> 00:12:37.793 They did. 00:12:43.259 --> 00:12:45.311 But it seemed to me that 00:12:45.487 --> 00:12:47.539 that honored lady 00:12:47.740 --> 00:12:50.752 was not satisfied with the breadth of your knowledge. 00:12:50.890 --> 00:12:53.466 Whatever made you think that, Hassan Khottabych? 00:12:53.632 --> 00:12:55.706 I'd as soon turn her into board 00:12:56.020 --> 00:12:58.624 on which butchers cut up the carcasses of sheep 00:12:58.869 --> 00:13:01.701 if I had not seen her pay you the highest tribute 00:13:01.800 --> 00:13:04.880 by accompanying you to the door of the classroom. 00:13:05.066 --> 00:13:07.088 - Peace be with her. - That's right. 00:13:07.822 --> 00:13:11.785 Tell me, O Volka, who is that youth Zhenya 00:13:11.997 --> 00:13:14.429 who spoke to you so insolently? 00:13:14.677 --> 00:13:17.773 Oh, him! Wants to give me a dressing-down. 00:13:28.419 --> 00:13:33.247 Please don't take offence, but I... er... me... 00:13:33.465 --> 00:13:37.593 I understand. No one will see me in your dwelling. 00:13:48.146 --> 00:13:49.640 Hey, looney! 00:13:51.173 --> 00:13:53.913 Who was that old geezer? 00:13:54.166 --> 00:13:57.606 Not geezer, but man. That's a friend of my father's from Tashkent. 00:13:57.784 --> 00:14:00.880 And I will go now to your father 00:14:01.611 --> 00:14:04.872 and tell him about your performance at the exam. 00:14:05.786 --> 00:14:08.703 You'll have a long way to go. My father's out of town. 00:14:09.335 --> 00:14:11.837 Then I'll go to your mother, I'm not too proud. 00:14:12.048 --> 00:14:13.815 You're not proud. You're a rat! 00:14:13.997 --> 00:14:17.093 It's a long time since you've had it from me, Pill, eh? 00:14:17.302 --> 00:14:21.644 Hey, easy there. Can't you take a joke? 00:14:21.860 --> 00:14:26.546 You're a real looney! "Bald people"! 00:14:37.933 --> 00:14:40.638 Ouch! Ouch! Accursed youth! 00:14:49.589 --> 00:14:53.551 - Is that you, Khottabych? - It is I, with your permission. 00:14:53.902 --> 00:14:55.397 Where are you? 00:14:56.164 --> 00:14:58.761 On the bookcase, with your permission. 00:14:59.225 --> 00:15:01.099 What did you get up there for? 00:15:01.313 --> 00:15:03.780 So that no one should step on my corn. 00:15:04.027 --> 00:15:07.502 It still hurts. That base youth... 00:15:07.715 --> 00:15:11.261 - Which youth? - The one you were talking to. 00:15:11.716 --> 00:15:13.210 Oh, Pill. 00:15:13.421 --> 00:15:17.584 That Pill stepped on my corn. Contemptible youth! 00:15:17.804 --> 00:15:21.695 Liar, tell-tale. The whole class is sick of him. 00:15:21.910 --> 00:15:23.962 I don't know what to do about him. 00:15:24.171 --> 00:15:26.709 Leave it to me, O Volka! 00:15:28.833 --> 00:15:30.387 Home already? 00:15:36.418 --> 00:15:38.956 Too much swimming again! 00:15:41.254 --> 00:15:46.604 Mom, let's eat. I'm as hungry as a wolf. 00:15:46.786 --> 00:15:50.428 - Is dinner ready? - Of course it is. Come. 00:15:52.388 --> 00:15:56.350 - Don't go anywhere, you hear? - I hear and I obey. 00:16:06.582 --> 00:16:09.215 O, Gogha, called Pill, 00:16:09.575 --> 00:16:12.077 I cast a small spell on you! 00:16:12.288 --> 00:16:14.755 And Varvara Stepanovna says to him: 00:16:15.663 --> 00:16:18.581 "What nonsense are you talking, fool?" 00:16:19.908 --> 00:16:23.206 And he answers: "From the viewpoint of science." 00:16:23.839 --> 00:16:25.536 What an idiot... 00:16:28.641 --> 00:16:30.064 What an... 00:16:33.461 --> 00:16:35.264 What's the matter with you? 00:16:35.843 --> 00:16:37.681 Oh, mommy! 00:16:38.696 --> 00:16:40.949 What is it, Gogha dear? 00:16:41.583 --> 00:16:46.411 I wanted to say that Volka... 00:16:48.785 --> 00:16:51.181 What's the matter, Gogha? 00:16:58.248 --> 00:16:59.802 Hello? 00:17:00.789 --> 00:17:02.034 Hello? 00:17:05.868 --> 00:17:08.465 She's alright. He hasn't done anything to her yet. 00:17:08.686 --> 00:17:10.240 Stupid! 00:17:21.732 --> 00:17:22.906 Hello! 00:17:23.124 --> 00:17:26.635 - Is that you, Kostylkov? - Yes, Varvara Stepanovna. 00:17:26.847 --> 00:17:28.507 What's wrong with your voice? 00:17:28.726 --> 00:17:34.182 Nothing. There's something wrong with our telephone. 00:17:34.675 --> 00:17:37.273 - How are you feeling? - Fine! 00:17:37.458 --> 00:17:43.508 Zhenya Bogorad hasn't come home. When did you see him last? 00:17:44.208 --> 00:17:48.894 If you find out where he is, inform me or his parents at once. 00:17:49.357 --> 00:17:51.231 Will you? Goodbye. 00:17:51.514 --> 00:17:53.946 Goodbye, Varvara Stepanovna. 00:18:06.266 --> 00:18:10.395 - Are you setting out on a journey? - Yes, Zhenya's lost. 00:18:11.694 --> 00:18:15.549 What if he's drowned? He was going swimming. 00:18:15.729 --> 00:18:18.825 - He's not drowned. - How do you know? 00:18:19.034 --> 00:18:22.154 - Who should know if not I? - Did you do something to him? 00:18:22.374 --> 00:18:26.052 I sent him far, far away in the East. 00:18:26.376 --> 00:18:29.531 They've probably sold him into slavery there. 00:18:29.750 --> 00:18:33.333 Now he may threaten you all he wants, O Volka! 00:18:33.577 --> 00:18:37.326 Oh! What have you done! Bring him back at once, do you understand? 00:18:37.752 --> 00:18:41.014 But then he will give you a dress... a dressing-down. 00:18:41.232 --> 00:18:42.928 Let him! 00:18:43.145 --> 00:18:46.241 What an idea! Sending live people into slavery! 00:18:46.450 --> 00:18:50.649 - Bring him back now! - I hear and I obey. Right away. 00:18:55.670 --> 00:18:58.375 One more minute, O Volka... 00:19:03.986 --> 00:19:06.903 and your friend will be here. 00:19:16.580 --> 00:19:22.346 Oh, woe is me. Oh shame... Disgrace on this poor genie! 00:19:28.374 --> 00:19:33.167 A thousand years of idleness has had a ruinous effect on my powers. 00:19:33.628 --> 00:19:36.723 I cannot return your friend Zhenya. 00:19:37.942 --> 00:19:40.054 I've forgotten how. 00:19:42.048 --> 00:19:44.479 I don't care if you've forgotten! 00:19:45.423 --> 00:19:49.491 You were able to make a slave of him, now bring him back! 00:19:50.119 --> 00:19:54.876 I wanted the best for you, O Volka! 00:20:01.670 --> 00:20:04.932 But there is a way. 00:20:05.358 --> 00:20:07.197 What way? 00:20:07.446 --> 00:20:12.487 We can fly for your friend Zhenya on a magic carpet. 00:20:13.569 --> 00:20:16.938 - Let's fly then. Hurry! - Off we go! 00:20:19.240 --> 00:20:22.501 I've always wanted to fly on a magic carpet. 00:20:25.989 --> 00:20:28.659 I've flown in ordinary airplanes, of course. 00:21:01.129 --> 00:21:05.612 My mother will worry if I go off without telling her. 00:21:05.826 --> 00:21:08.293 But if I tell her, she'll never let me go. 00:21:08.505 --> 00:21:11.838 Don't worry about that, O the most prudent of all Volkas! 00:21:12.089 --> 00:21:16.644 I promise you, no one will give you a thought while we are away. 00:21:16.855 --> 00:21:19.357 No, you don't know my mother. 00:21:19.560 --> 00:21:22.613 And you don't know yet Hassan Abdurrahman ibn Khottab. 00:21:22.821 --> 00:21:24.709 Cursed moths! 00:22:47.627 --> 00:22:48.872 I'm falling! 00:22:49.088 --> 00:22:50.546 Khottabych! 00:22:51.384 --> 00:22:55.512 At your service, O Volka ibn Alyosha. 00:22:55.977 --> 00:22:59.618 I... I'm trying to remember how to lift the spell. 00:23:00.326 --> 00:23:02.651 - Do you want anything? - I'll be killed! 00:23:02.865 --> 00:23:04.454 Oh, woe is me! 00:23:05.266 --> 00:23:07.769 Khottabych dear, please! 00:23:14.590 --> 00:23:17.686 - And poor Zhenya all alone now. - Alone... alone... 00:23:17.895 --> 00:23:20.742 - In a foreign land... - Oh, in a foreign land... 00:23:20.922 --> 00:23:22.974 - Without friends. - Without friends... 00:23:23.636 --> 00:23:27.218 - At hard labour. - At hard labour... 00:23:27.490 --> 00:23:29.210 Moaning and groaning, poor thing. 00:23:29.341 --> 00:23:32.497 Oh, moaning and groaning, poor thing... Oh, groaning, poor thing... 00:23:49.312 --> 00:23:51.293 Gee, I'm tired. 00:24:06.082 --> 00:24:09.178 Are you hungry, boy? Do you like bananas? 00:24:09.839 --> 00:24:10.907 Thanks! 00:24:11.301 --> 00:24:12.855 Thank you, friends. 00:24:18.363 --> 00:24:20.415 What's the matter with you, Khottabych? 00:24:29.392 --> 00:24:33.140 Oh, Khottabych, hold on! Here, this way... Here I am. 00:24:35.133 --> 00:24:38.229 I've remembered how to lift the spell! 00:24:39.204 --> 00:24:42.679 Right away, O Volka, one minute, O illustrious one! 00:24:48.528 --> 00:24:51.197 - Zhenya! - Volka! It's you? 00:24:58.130 --> 00:25:03.302 Phew, it's damp. Khottabych, go up above the clouds. 00:25:08.325 --> 00:25:11.658 Listen, what are we flying on? It looks like a magic carpet. 00:25:11.907 --> 00:25:13.675 It is a magic carpet! 00:25:13.856 --> 00:25:16.952 - But magic carpets don't exist. - Oh yes, they do! 00:25:17.160 --> 00:25:19.765 Khottabych, what are you doing there? 00:25:20.745 --> 00:25:24.529 Oh, woe is me! My beard's wet! 00:25:24.920 --> 00:25:27.032 So what? 00:25:32.052 --> 00:25:36.121 We're in a bad way, Volka. We'll hit the ground any minute now! 00:25:36.296 --> 00:25:39.250 And there'll be nothing left of us! 00:25:39.671 --> 00:25:43.870 My beard is wet and I'm powerless as a newborn baby. 00:25:44.403 --> 00:25:47.914 For magic you need perfectly dry hair. 00:25:48.126 --> 00:25:51.281 Wait, wait! The main thing is not to lose your head. 00:25:51.535 --> 00:25:55.046 In balloons you throw ballast overboard in a case like that. 00:25:55.258 --> 00:25:58.283 Goodbye, Indian bananas! 00:27:12.148 --> 00:27:14.437 It could have been worse. 00:28:08.545 --> 00:28:12.673 Oh, we are ruined! We've landed in the palace of a powerful ruler. 00:28:13.520 --> 00:28:17.482 And my beard is wet and I'm powerless. 00:28:18.356 --> 00:28:21.902 Guards will appear right away and cut off our heads. 00:28:22.741 --> 00:28:25.279 Oh, woe is me! Oh, shame! 00:28:26.776 --> 00:28:27.985 Allah! 00:28:37.492 --> 00:28:40.588 Oh, Allah! It's wet! 00:28:46.329 --> 00:28:48.582 Who is that old crank? 00:28:48.799 --> 00:28:51.681 Is he looney? Talking about rulers? 00:28:51.930 --> 00:28:53.982 That old man is a magician. 00:28:54.157 --> 00:28:56.624 - A real genie! - Ah, come on! 00:28:56.836 --> 00:28:59.576 It was him who spoiled it all for me at the exam. 00:28:59.793 --> 00:29:02.948 - Really? - Only keep quiet. 00:29:03.160 --> 00:29:06.608 He's sworn to enchant the teachers if they fail me. 00:29:25.366 --> 00:29:27.762 Say, friend, isn't that my towel? 00:29:34.654 --> 00:29:38.094 Have mercy on us, O powerful ruler! 00:29:39.873 --> 00:29:45.472 Cut my head off, but pity these poor youths. 00:29:45.684 --> 00:29:47.902 Get up and don't talk nonsense. 00:29:48.119 --> 00:29:50.301 I won't get up 00:29:50.729 --> 00:29:56.079 until this handsome and generous sultan 00:29:56.747 --> 00:30:01.303 promises to preserve your lives, O my young friends! 00:30:01.653 --> 00:30:04.085 Dear citizen, why call me names? 00:30:04.297 --> 00:30:07.737 Sultan! Why, I'm an ordinary Soviet man. 00:30:08.050 --> 00:30:11.648 I'm a drilling technician, Jafar Ali Mukhammedov. Do you know Baku? 00:30:11.792 --> 00:30:14.590 Do you know Bibi Eibat? Don't you read the newspapers? 00:30:15.326 --> 00:30:17.093 Why are you on your knees? 00:30:17.300 --> 00:30:19.818 It's humiliating and uncomfortable, friend. 00:30:19.918 --> 00:30:21.543 Just a minute, comrade! 00:30:28.895 --> 00:30:33.865 Don't pay attention to the old man, he's not quite... 00:30:34.183 --> 00:30:36.853 And we're wet and tired. 00:30:37.100 --> 00:30:39.760 Did you get caught in the rain, too, in the mountains? 00:30:39.957 --> 00:30:44.130 I came back wet through and through. The old man may catch cold. 00:30:46.152 --> 00:30:49.865 Friend, you look very familiar to me. Are you from Baku? 00:30:50.571 --> 00:30:52.373 You look like my father. 00:30:52.588 --> 00:30:56.229 Only my father is older. He is 82. 00:30:57.146 --> 00:31:00.657 Know, then, O powerful ruler, 00:31:00.938 --> 00:31:05.351 that I'm already three thousand seven hundred thirty two years old. 00:31:06.080 --> 00:31:09.786 Certainly, friend, certainly. But you are marvelously well-preserved. 00:31:10.037 --> 00:31:12.440 You don't look a day over 75. 00:31:15.725 --> 00:31:20.280 Come, friend, we'll have something to eat, get warm, rest up. 00:31:22.056 --> 00:31:25.152 We're all sultans here, dear friend. 00:31:26.231 --> 00:31:28.520 Whoever works is a sultan. 00:31:29.258 --> 00:31:31.441 Drink your tea. It'll make you warm. 00:31:32.494 --> 00:31:33.917 I'm a sultan. 00:31:34.755 --> 00:31:39.062 These boys' parents are also sultans. Vassya here is a sultan, too. 00:31:42.201 --> 00:31:44.942 Would you like to know why Vassya is a sultan? 00:31:46.306 --> 00:31:51.419 He's a distinguished miner. Vassya Kazantsev, an innovator. 00:31:52.325 --> 00:31:55.659 - The beat hewer in the coal field. - Oh, cut it out, Jafar! 00:31:57.231 --> 00:32:01.988 Do you mean to say, O Jafar Ali ibn Mukhammed... 00:32:03.668 --> 00:32:05.720 that there are distinguished miners? 00:32:08.434 --> 00:32:10.901 Why do you laugh at me? 00:32:11.490 --> 00:32:15.093 You'll be telling me next that there're distinguished shepherds! 00:32:15.264 --> 00:32:16.704 There are... lots. 00:32:17.008 --> 00:32:22.860 And distinguished shoemakers, tailors and weavers. 00:32:24.264 --> 00:32:28.463 Why do you laugh? Get dry, then you'll see. 00:32:29.831 --> 00:32:32.642 You'll spend the night here. 00:32:40.442 --> 00:32:42.731 Now stick out your tongue. 00:32:44.791 --> 00:32:46.772 Normal. 00:32:47.122 --> 00:32:50.669 Pulse normal. Heart excellent. 00:32:52.654 --> 00:32:56.129 - How are his bowels? - Normal. 00:32:57.212 --> 00:33:01.838 How long has this... barking been going on? 00:33:02.083 --> 00:33:03.851 Since yesterday. 00:33:04.588 --> 00:33:08.894 Well, young man, tell us how it began. 00:33:09.250 --> 00:33:11.361 With nothing at all. 00:33:12.207 --> 00:33:15.848 I was telling Mom how Volka Kostylkov... 00:33:16.069 --> 00:33:18.607 Volka is the neighbors' boy. Nothing much. 00:33:18.922 --> 00:33:20.416 Go on. 00:33:20.661 --> 00:33:24.172 I was telling Mom how that idiot Volka... 00:33:26.994 --> 00:33:31.062 You see, Doctor, it's horrible! 00:33:33.604 --> 00:33:36.415 Could it be... neuralgia? 00:33:37.501 --> 00:33:41.214 Perhaps you would prescribe some powders, or pills? 00:33:42.720 --> 00:33:45.360 Or perhaps he should have his bowels cleansed? 00:33:45.541 --> 00:33:48.830 Give me a little time to think it over, 00:33:49.852 --> 00:33:52.877 to read up a bit. 00:33:54.340 --> 00:33:58.302 A very rare case, very rare indeed. 00:34:00.985 --> 00:34:02.859 And so... 00:34:07.874 --> 00:34:11.729 Let him stay in bed a day or two. 00:34:12.710 --> 00:34:15.142 - Not go outside. - I see. 00:34:15.493 --> 00:34:17.782 Let me see your tongue again. 00:34:22.242 --> 00:34:24.295 A very rare case. 00:34:24.713 --> 00:34:26.765 It's enough to make you cry. 00:34:31.149 --> 00:34:32.952 You see? 00:34:47.467 --> 00:34:49.519 Khottabych, do you remember the book 00:34:49.728 --> 00:34:52.124 I was reading before we flew off? 00:34:52.337 --> 00:34:55.492 Do I remember the book that was worthy of your attention? 00:34:56.860 --> 00:34:59.493 You offend me, O the most precious one! 00:34:59.713 --> 00:35:03.841 - Could we have it here now? - Nothing easier. 00:35:14.604 --> 00:35:17.866 Why are you up at so late an hour? 00:35:18.048 --> 00:35:19.922 I cannot fall asleep. 00:35:21.006 --> 00:35:25.633 How sad... insomnia in so young a lad! 00:35:28.904 --> 00:35:29.972 Asleep. 00:36:10.375 --> 00:36:12.357 O the most precious one! 00:36:18.621 --> 00:36:20.673 O the handsomest one! 00:36:42.523 --> 00:36:44.017 Light. 00:36:55.431 --> 00:36:56.605 Dark. 00:37:11.540 --> 00:37:12.714 Dark! 00:37:53.080 --> 00:37:57.387 - How is your beard, Khottabych? - Dried last night, O Volka! 00:37:58.786 --> 00:38:00.031 You see? 00:38:06.649 --> 00:38:09.354 If we could board that plane and be off to Moscow! 00:38:09.780 --> 00:38:11.203 That would be super! 00:38:23.036 --> 00:38:26.998 And the pajamas? We've taken away the sanatorium pajamas. 00:38:27.734 --> 00:38:29.228 Oh, woe is me! 00:39:12.754 --> 00:39:16.822 Of course, that Mukhammedov 00:39:17.103 --> 00:39:20.543 must have gotten another package from Baku! 00:39:28.306 --> 00:39:29.551 Oh yes, sure... 00:39:41.387 --> 00:39:45.278 No one's paying any attention to us, as if we were here from the start. 00:39:45.490 --> 00:39:48.234 A powerful old man. There's nothing he can't do. 00:39:53.598 --> 00:39:55.651 My uncle made this sea. 00:39:55.826 --> 00:39:57.450 - That sea? - This sea. 00:39:57.669 --> 00:39:59.223 - Your uncle? - My uncle. 00:39:59.410 --> 00:40:02.042 Are you implying that you are Allah's nephew? 00:40:02.262 --> 00:40:05.904 My uncle is chief of a walking excavator. 00:40:06.089 --> 00:40:08.307 He is digging a sea in Kuibyshev now. 00:40:08.977 --> 00:40:10.472 Eh, illustrious one! 00:40:10.717 --> 00:40:15.438 I trusted you implicitly, and you lie to me so shamelessly. 00:40:15.657 --> 00:40:17.211 Volka is telling the truth. 00:40:17.390 --> 00:40:20.826 He even has a newspaper at home with a picture of his uncle in it. 00:40:20.960 --> 00:40:23.050 I'll show you when we get home. 00:40:28.078 --> 00:40:32.835 How swift and convenient is this air chariot. 00:40:33.052 --> 00:40:35.105 Only it makes a little noise. 00:40:35.280 --> 00:40:38.376 Can't help that. It's the hum of the jet engines. 00:40:38.585 --> 00:40:39.866 Can't help it? 00:40:51.240 --> 00:40:53.786 What did Khottabych pull out a hair for? 00:40:53.920 --> 00:40:55.830 What did you pull out a hair for? 00:40:56.050 --> 00:41:00.179 - I only wanted, O precious... - Make it short. 00:41:00.399 --> 00:41:02.830 - I only wanted, O Volka... - Still shorter. 00:41:03.043 --> 00:41:05.095 I wanted the noise to stop. 00:41:05.270 --> 00:41:08.010 Is that short enough? 00:41:08.227 --> 00:41:12.605 Blockhead! Bring everything back as it was, or we'll all be killed! 00:41:16.125 --> 00:41:18.177 - Did I... - Explanations later. 00:41:18.386 --> 00:41:20.984 In three seconds we'll crash! 00:41:21.726 --> 00:41:25.060 You... you... let everything... be as before! 00:41:43.402 --> 00:41:48.574 Tell me, O Volka, what does "blockhead" mean? 00:41:50.917 --> 00:41:54.428 It means something like... wise man. 00:42:05.842 --> 00:42:07.539 Oh, if I could phone now! 00:42:07.755 --> 00:42:10.851 - Why can't you? - Look at that line. 00:42:25.569 --> 00:42:29.152 - Where's the slot? - Not a slot, not a crack in it. 00:42:29.396 --> 00:42:34.366 It is all made out of one piece of fine marble. 00:42:34.615 --> 00:42:36.204 Is it marble inside too? 00:42:36.424 --> 00:42:39.519 Of course. I never spare anything for my friends. 00:42:39.695 --> 00:42:43.657 Come on, Zhenya, everything's clear. Some designer! 00:42:43.870 --> 00:42:48.069 - So there's nothing inside? - Should there be anything? 00:42:48.288 --> 00:42:51.407 Come, Khottabych, let's not disgrace ourselves in public. 00:43:10.312 --> 00:43:14.867 Don't be annoyed with me, O gracious one. Would you like to have a plane? 00:43:15.078 --> 00:43:19.147 Out of one piece of marble? Such plane ought to be hauled by oxen. 00:43:19.323 --> 00:43:21.992 Instead of reproaching me, 00:43:22.210 --> 00:43:24.642 you'd do better to explain how it is built. 00:43:26.211 --> 00:43:30.695 That's not so easy, you have to know many subjects, 00:43:31.256 --> 00:43:33.367 and you don't even know how to read. 00:43:33.587 --> 00:43:37.228 Then teach me all those sciences, O young blockhead! 00:43:37.414 --> 00:43:39.217 Who's a blockhead? 00:43:39.431 --> 00:43:42.278 You, of course, for you're wise beyond your years. 00:43:47.781 --> 00:43:51.744 You know, don't call me blockhead any more, Khottabych. 00:43:52.270 --> 00:43:55.295 I value your modesty, O Volka. 00:43:55.506 --> 00:43:58.661 But will you teach me the sciences 00:43:58.880 --> 00:44:02.521 that give man such magic power over things? 00:44:03.050 --> 00:44:04.938 I don't know everything myself yet. 00:44:05.194 --> 00:44:07.150 Teach me what you already know. 00:44:07.578 --> 00:44:10.116 But you'll have to do your homework properly. 00:44:10.954 --> 00:44:12.377 Agreed. 00:44:17.216 --> 00:44:19.885 Zhenya, hurry, your mother's looking for you. 00:44:20.103 --> 00:44:22.155 All right. Volka, I'll be right back! 00:44:24.869 --> 00:44:28.832 Now I know what present to give you, O Volka! 00:44:29.010 --> 00:44:31.056 What do I want a present for? 00:44:41.118 --> 00:44:42.815 Lo and behold, O Volka! 00:44:47.554 --> 00:44:49.535 Wow! Just look at that! 00:44:49.781 --> 00:44:54.609 That is the finest of Caliph Haroun Al Rashid's palaces. 00:44:54.825 --> 00:44:56.699 And who occupies it now? 00:44:56.913 --> 00:44:59.510 No one yet. It belongs to you, O Volka. 00:44:59.731 --> 00:45:01.605 - To me? - Yes! 00:45:05.054 --> 00:45:07.724 Let no one see this palace. 00:45:08.150 --> 00:45:12.943 - And let no one remember it. - Very well, O capricious one. 00:45:24.294 --> 00:45:25.991 Look, O Volka! 00:45:28.748 --> 00:45:32.188 This palace belongs to the saviour of genies, 00:45:32.540 --> 00:45:36.016 unsurpassed in the knowledge of geography and other sciences, 00:45:36.645 --> 00:45:39.148 unexcelled in diving and swimming, 00:45:39.602 --> 00:45:43.185 the royal and young Pioneer Volka ibn Alyosha. 00:45:44.404 --> 00:45:49.576 Glory to his name and the name of his fortunate parents. 00:45:50.006 --> 00:45:54.489 Not much self-criticism here. But that's not the point. 00:45:54.702 --> 00:45:58.771 - The sign will have to be changed. - Shall I cover it with diamonds? 00:45:59.642 --> 00:46:03.533 You must write: "This palace belongs to RONO" (Board of Education) 00:46:03.747 --> 00:46:05.301 Which RONO? 00:46:05.488 --> 00:46:09.616 Any one. Better make it our Krasnaya Presnya RONO. 00:46:09.837 --> 00:46:14.321 I don't know who RONO is. He may be a worthy man. 00:46:14.812 --> 00:46:18.489 But was it RONO who released me from a thousand years' imprisonment? 00:46:18.674 --> 00:46:23.502 No, it was not RONO. It was you, O the most illustrious of all Volkas! 00:46:23.718 --> 00:46:27.847 The palace will belong to you and to no one else. 00:46:28.068 --> 00:46:31.163 - But don't you see... - To you or to no one. 00:46:31.338 --> 00:46:34.007 What do I want with that palace? 00:46:34.226 --> 00:46:37.524 I'm not a club, or a sanatorium, or an institution. 00:46:37.740 --> 00:46:40.657 So you don't agree, O crystal of my soul? 00:46:41.044 --> 00:46:42.396 No, I don't. 00:46:48.003 --> 00:46:53.175 Shall I give this to your RONO, too, O wealthiest of schoolboys? 00:46:54.057 --> 00:46:56.109 Who's wealthy? Me? 00:47:20.023 --> 00:47:23.736 - Look, O Volka, this is all yours! - What is? 00:47:23.955 --> 00:47:27.501 All these elephants, camels, horses, donkeys, 00:47:27.677 --> 00:47:29.729 and everything in those bags. 00:47:29.939 --> 00:47:34.494 The people with the bags and animals belong to you, too. 00:49:12.539 --> 00:49:14.591 Zhenya, come here! 00:49:15.183 --> 00:49:18.279 Oh, a zoo! What is it? 00:49:19.776 --> 00:49:23.666 Zhenya, only don't get scared. I'm a slave owner! 00:49:23.846 --> 00:49:25.020 Are you off your head? 00:49:25.238 --> 00:49:27.836 And an elephant owner, and a camel owner. 00:49:28.021 --> 00:49:30.939 And the owner of some riches. 00:49:33.623 --> 00:49:35.212 What's in those bags? 00:49:35.572 --> 00:49:38.418 The most precious of goods. 00:49:40.790 --> 00:49:43.044 Pepper, cinnamon. 00:49:43.503 --> 00:49:45.792 Ginger, vanilla. 00:49:46.879 --> 00:49:50.354 So that's why we're all sneezing. 00:49:50.531 --> 00:49:54.838 A bag of pepper must have got torn, and we're sneezing. 00:49:58.430 --> 00:50:01.799 Let the torn bag become whole again. 00:50:02.257 --> 00:50:05.696 And let the spilled goods get back into it. 00:50:06.188 --> 00:50:08.476 Spices are not a palace. 00:50:09.006 --> 00:50:12.719 Spices need not belong to a club or a sanatorium. 00:50:13.007 --> 00:50:15.509 Every household can use spices. 00:50:17.496 --> 00:50:22.217 At last I found something to make you rich and happy. 00:50:23.027 --> 00:50:25.423 What do I want with so much pepper and vanilla? 00:50:25.636 --> 00:50:28.732 I could use 100 grams, say. And Zhenya, too. 00:50:28.942 --> 00:50:32.868 - The rest must be distributed. - Not distributed! Sold! 00:50:33.117 --> 00:50:35.654 You will have money, a great deal of money. 00:50:36.144 --> 00:50:41.150 And money means fame, money means all the friends you want! 00:50:41.641 --> 00:50:43.693 Judge for yourself, Khottabych, 00:50:43.902 --> 00:50:46.440 who wants friends for money? 00:50:46.929 --> 00:50:50.025 Oh no, I'd rather die than become a speculator! 00:50:50.304 --> 00:50:52.177 Yes, better to die. 00:50:53.262 --> 00:50:54.756 Let me try it on. 00:51:00.498 --> 00:51:03.594 You forget that money gives 00:51:03.768 --> 00:51:05.820 the strongest power over men. 00:51:06.030 --> 00:51:09.470 - What do we want with power? - We're not czars, or capitalists. 00:51:12.222 --> 00:51:16.185 So you want me to give this away to your... RONO? 00:51:16.537 --> 00:51:18.340 No, RONO has nothing to do with that. 00:51:18.550 --> 00:51:22.069 The best place to give such stuff to is the Gastronom (food shop). 00:51:22.298 --> 00:51:25.663 Uh-huh, that's where food goes. 00:51:25.687 --> 00:51:26.695 No! 00:51:28.714 --> 00:51:32.842 No, do you hear me? No. 00:51:33.411 --> 00:51:35.463 Neither to RONO, nor to Gastronom, 00:51:35.707 --> 00:51:40.499 nor to any other acquaintance of yours will I give these riches! 00:51:41.726 --> 00:51:43.350 O exalted one! 00:51:43.570 --> 00:51:45.424 And the slaves must be set free. 00:51:45.605 --> 00:51:48.074 Naturally. And the animals can go to the zoo. 00:51:55.573 --> 00:51:58.111 It's all your Varvara Stepanovna's fault! 00:51:58.948 --> 00:52:02.282 It's she that has taught you not to accept my gifts. 00:52:02.983 --> 00:52:05.035 She won't get away with it. 00:52:05.349 --> 00:52:07.366 Why, I'll make her... 00:52:07.541 --> 00:52:09.830 Khottabych, you know what? 00:52:10.117 --> 00:52:13.627 Do us a favour! Let's go to the circus. 00:52:13.804 --> 00:52:16.959 - We want to go there so badly! - Only you can help us! 00:52:17.179 --> 00:52:18.875 You're so powerful! 00:52:19.823 --> 00:52:22.919 The circus? What's that? Something like a sanatorium? 00:52:23.120 --> 00:52:26.192 - It's a thousand times... - A million times more interesting! 00:52:26.368 --> 00:52:28.234 - Well, Khottabych? - Please! 00:52:28.416 --> 00:52:30.041 But what about all this? 00:52:30.817 --> 00:52:33.000 Make it invisible. 00:52:33.288 --> 00:52:35.755 We could use one camel. 00:52:35.966 --> 00:52:38.991 Right, let's ride to the circus on a camel. 00:53:43.393 --> 00:53:45.990 Please, nearer to the sidewalk, citizens! 00:53:46.280 --> 00:53:49.863 You must obey rules. This way, please. 00:53:50.073 --> 00:53:52.504 Comrade militiaman, I won't do it again. 00:53:52.717 --> 00:53:55.457 Let us go, please. It's the first time... 00:53:55.674 --> 00:53:58.521 They all say that. You must obey rules. 00:53:58.805 --> 00:54:02.483 - Your name, please! - Kostylkov. 00:54:03.085 --> 00:54:05.682 He'll speak to him 00:54:05.868 --> 00:54:08.714 like a noble saviour of genies should! 00:54:08.930 --> 00:54:10.947 How dare you, base guard... 00:54:11.122 --> 00:54:13.103 How dare you, base guard, 00:54:13.314 --> 00:54:16.647 detain me in this precious hour of my outing? 00:54:18.393 --> 00:54:22.283 At last we hear words of dignity and courage. 00:54:22.630 --> 00:54:25.333 I am the most distinguished youth in this city! 00:54:25.573 --> 00:54:28.837 I am the most distinguished youth in this city! 00:54:29.874 --> 00:54:33.764 All right, young man, let them figure it out at the station. 00:54:33.945 --> 00:54:35.297 Rules must be obeyed! 00:54:43.130 --> 00:54:45.419 Don't listen to me, dear comrades. 00:54:45.635 --> 00:54:49.075 It's not me talking. He is making me talk. 00:54:49.254 --> 00:54:52.587 Tremble! And don't make me lose my temper... 00:54:52.802 --> 00:54:55.234 Tremble! And don't make me lose my temper... 00:54:55.446 --> 00:54:58.993 For I'm terrible when angered! I swear by my beard! 00:54:59.273 --> 00:55:02.369 For I'm terrible when angered! I swear by my beard! 00:55:02.578 --> 00:55:04.037 That is his beard. 00:55:04.249 --> 00:55:08.875 Folks, this child has fever. Smoke is just coming from him! 00:55:09.360 --> 00:55:11.082 I'm terrible when angered! 00:55:11.694 --> 00:55:13.746 Move on, folks! 00:55:14.268 --> 00:55:17.981 Haven't you seen smoke coming from a boy before? 00:55:18.583 --> 00:55:21.703 Khottabych, let the camel vanish, and let us be in the circus. 00:55:21.957 --> 00:55:24.140 Let everyone forget what happened here. 00:56:25.175 --> 00:56:26.871 Intermission! 00:56:37.107 --> 00:56:40.618 I'll go home and study geography. You stay here with Khottabych. 00:56:40.900 --> 00:56:45.906 All of us should better go. Varvara Stepanovna is here! 00:56:51.615 --> 00:56:55.744 Khottabych, let's go to town. It's not interesting here today. 00:56:55.965 --> 00:56:57.032 Come on, let's go. 00:56:57.252 --> 00:57:01.879 No, I've never seen anything as interesting 00:57:02.088 --> 00:57:04.342 as this wonderful tent. 00:57:05.184 --> 00:57:09.111 You may go. I'll join you when the show is over. 00:57:11.064 --> 00:57:14.398 Not for the world will we part with you. 00:57:15.413 --> 00:57:17.465 O my kind young friends! 00:57:19.937 --> 00:57:24.729 We must use every free minute for our studies. 00:57:25.398 --> 00:57:28.660 We will now learn the alphabet using this program. 00:57:28.878 --> 00:57:31.380 With the greatest pleasure! 00:57:32.948 --> 00:57:37.634 - This is the letter "A", understand? - I understand, O Zhenya! 00:57:38.027 --> 00:57:41.183 - What letter is this? - The letter "A", O Zhenya. 00:57:41.403 --> 00:57:45.709 Correct. Find all the "A" s on this page. 00:57:48.048 --> 00:57:52.639 Eskimo pies! Buy an Eskimo pie! 00:57:52.954 --> 00:57:55.623 Here, Khottabych, taste this. It's good. 00:58:12.507 --> 00:58:15.840 This tastes better than the most delicious sherbet. 00:58:16.925 --> 00:58:19.950 Even at the court of King Suleiman ibn Daud 00:58:20.508 --> 00:58:22.797 I never ate anything so delicious. 00:58:24.301 --> 00:58:26.970 Where are you hurrying, O charming maiden, 00:58:27.502 --> 00:58:29.827 with the face like a slice of the moon? 00:58:31.259 --> 00:58:32.718 I'll take the whole lot. 00:58:37.870 --> 00:58:40.123 I'll come back for the tray. 00:58:54.048 --> 00:58:56.444 Mar... mar-vels... 00:58:57.179 --> 00:59:01.735 of il-lu-sion-ist tech-nique. 00:59:01.980 --> 00:59:04.791 You're awfully smart! 00:59:04.973 --> 00:59:08.448 What did you think? Never has there been a more talented genie! 00:59:09.043 --> 00:59:13.112 Group of jum... jumpers. 00:59:15.306 --> 00:59:18.781 O, my young teachers! I've read the whole program. 00:59:26.369 --> 00:59:29.880 Conjurer Afanasy Sidorelli! 01:00:30.212 --> 01:00:33.853 What is the cause of this noisy hand clapping, O Volka? 01:00:34.074 --> 01:00:37.408 - Don't you see? - Out of an empty box! 01:00:43.364 --> 01:00:45.997 Don't try to detain me, my friends! 01:00:46.668 --> 01:00:48.091 Enough! 01:00:56.654 --> 01:00:58.314 What is this? 01:01:44.875 --> 01:01:46.927 You're being deceived! 01:01:48.980 --> 01:01:53.702 You're being deceived. This is not magic! 01:01:54.617 --> 01:01:57.879 This is ordinary sleight of hand! 01:01:58.444 --> 01:02:00.733 What sort of magic is this? 01:03:02.912 --> 01:03:04.680 What will you say now? 01:03:19.126 --> 01:03:21.557 Khottabych! Khottabych! Khottabych! 01:03:29.076 --> 01:03:31.781 What's the matter with you? You look terrible! 01:03:33.077 --> 01:03:37.205 Well? How was that? Better than Sidorelli, eh? 01:03:41.044 --> 01:03:43.642 What applause there was, eh? 01:03:47.133 --> 01:03:52.305 But you, O Volka, did not clap once. 01:03:52.978 --> 01:03:55.611 Can you bring everybody back? 01:03:56.666 --> 01:04:00.142 Even he cannot do that! 01:04:12.078 --> 01:04:16.906 Er... you know what... I'm from the circus management. 01:04:17.159 --> 01:04:20.528 Will you please come to the office with me? 01:04:21.055 --> 01:04:24.910 We offer you a tour of the Soviet Union. 01:04:25.195 --> 01:04:27.899 You can make your own conditions. 01:04:31.667 --> 01:04:36.009 Can't you see? He's ill. He has high fever! 01:04:36.224 --> 01:04:38.336 I'll send a car for you at once. 01:04:40.295 --> 01:04:42.584 The old man ate too much ice-cream. 01:04:44.643 --> 01:04:46.446 The game starts in an hour. 01:04:47.205 --> 01:04:50.640 Who cares about football now? We've got to make the old man well. 01:04:50.906 --> 01:04:54.381 Khottabych dear, how do you feel? 01:04:56.020 --> 01:04:58.132 Yes, he's a swell old man. 01:04:58.422 --> 01:05:02.170 - I'll say he is! - He's not to blame. 01:05:02.387 --> 01:05:04.012 He tries for the best. 01:05:04.301 --> 01:05:07.148 And if he only knew how much worry he causes us. 01:05:07.327 --> 01:05:09.997 Now what has he got against Varvara Stepanovna? 01:05:10.216 --> 01:05:12.268 She's strict, but she's fair. 01:05:12.616 --> 01:05:14.039 Yes, she's fair. 01:05:16.096 --> 01:05:21.552 - He ought to be re-educated. - Yes, his education's not so good. 01:05:21.767 --> 01:05:24.613 But he's a good man, kind-hearted. 01:05:25.698 --> 01:05:29.446 Listen, Zhenya, what if he dies? 01:05:32.447 --> 01:05:36.338 We must save him, cure him. 01:05:37.840 --> 01:05:44.234 O my noble young friends... 01:05:44.625 --> 01:05:47.721 Close your eyes, Khottabych. Try to sleep. 01:05:48.348 --> 01:05:52.132 You need rest. A sick man needs rest. 01:05:52.592 --> 01:05:54.704 A sick man, yes, 01:05:55.550 --> 01:05:59.096 but not a sick genie. 01:06:00.420 --> 01:06:02.816 If anyone feels sorry for a sick genie, 01:06:03.307 --> 01:06:05.940 he gets well at once. 01:06:06.927 --> 01:06:08.979 Surely, you must know that 01:06:09.431 --> 01:06:11.613 from your scientific books. 01:06:12.250 --> 01:06:15.891 I'm perfectly well. You see? 01:06:23.521 --> 01:06:28.278 Go to the game with Khottabych, and I'll get down to my geography. 01:06:28.497 --> 01:06:29.565 All right. 01:06:33.542 --> 01:06:35.938 Khottabych, let's go to the football game. 01:06:36.290 --> 01:06:39.386 Today is the final match between "Puck" and "Chisel". 01:06:39.804 --> 01:06:41.856 What is the meaning of the word 'match'? 01:06:42.066 --> 01:06:44.604 It's the most interesting thing in the world. 01:06:44.814 --> 01:06:48.598 - More interesting than the circus? - At least as interesting. Come. 01:06:50.242 --> 01:06:53.575 - What about Volka? - I may join you later. 01:06:55.356 --> 01:06:57.124 - Come on. - Come, then. 01:07:15.500 --> 01:07:20.056 Just a minute, O Zhenya. Wait for me downstairs. 01:07:20.267 --> 01:07:21.276 All right. 01:07:37.489 --> 01:07:38.663 Barking? 01:07:38.950 --> 01:07:43.362 Yes, I can't stop. Why do you ask? 01:07:43.577 --> 01:07:49.247 It was I who punished you for not being a friend to your schoolmates. 01:07:49.666 --> 01:07:52.821 I admit my mistakes, I admit my mistakes! 01:07:53.111 --> 01:07:55.507 Remember, every time you open your mouth 01:07:55.720 --> 01:07:58.946 to say something nasty about someone, 01:07:59.129 --> 01:08:02.391 to tattle or gossip, 01:08:03.130 --> 01:08:08.659 nothing but a disgusting bark will come from your lips. 01:08:10.158 --> 01:08:15.164 Don't say nasty things and you won't bark. Understand? 01:08:15.447 --> 01:08:17.499 Oh, I do, I do! 01:08:17.743 --> 01:08:20.838 Now forget that I was here 01:08:21.987 --> 01:08:26.780 but remember your promise all your life. 01:08:49.508 --> 01:08:53.149 "Chisel" is ahead! They'll beat "Puck" to a pulp! 01:08:53.334 --> 01:08:55.102 That remains to be seen. 01:09:03.355 --> 01:09:07.139 Did you see that? Beat them! That's not so easy! 01:09:18.454 --> 01:09:21.372 Do you mean to say these young men 01:09:21.830 --> 01:09:26.207 will have to run about all the time and knock each other around 01:09:26.422 --> 01:09:29.968 just to push that stupid ball for a few seconds? 01:09:53.455 --> 01:09:56.195 - Is that your work, Khottabych? - Mine. 01:09:57.213 --> 01:09:59.324 Surely each one will be pleased 01:09:59.543 --> 01:10:01.761 to have his own ball to play with. 01:10:02.013 --> 01:10:04.825 Don't you understand, you strange man, 01:10:05.215 --> 01:10:08.370 the whole point of football is to... 01:10:16.834 --> 01:10:21.141 Oh, I see. So I deprived the "Puck" team of a sure goal? 01:10:21.358 --> 01:10:22.366 Exactly! 01:10:29.360 --> 01:10:31.992 - What an interesting game! - You telling me! 01:10:32.491 --> 01:10:35.337 And does the esteemed Volka also like football? 01:10:35.553 --> 01:10:39.515 Very much! But he has urgent work to do today. 01:10:39.867 --> 01:10:43.022 There is no work I would not gladly do 01:10:43.242 --> 01:10:45.531 for our good friend Volka. 01:11:05.856 --> 01:11:11.099 I welcome you to the stadium, O peerless schoolboy! 01:11:18.137 --> 01:11:22.064 You cannot imagine, O Volka, how much I am to blame. 01:11:23.426 --> 01:11:25.715 I deprived the "Puck" of a sure goal. 01:11:26.627 --> 01:11:28.501 Shame on my gray hair! 01:11:40.092 --> 01:11:43.532 Khottabych, please widen the "Puck" goal area 01:11:43.744 --> 01:11:45.796 when "Chisel" aims for it. 01:11:45.971 --> 01:11:47.845 What good will that do "Puck"? 01:11:48.059 --> 01:11:50.906 It will do "Chisel" good. 01:11:59.053 --> 01:12:02.564 Hurray! A goal! Hurray! 01:12:06.881 --> 01:12:11.152 Listen, you'll certainly laugh at what I'm going to say. 01:12:11.961 --> 01:12:15.602 - The crossbar plays up to "Puck". - What?! 01:12:16.587 --> 01:12:20.170 The crossbar jumped up and let the ball through. 01:12:20.380 --> 01:12:23.354 - Have you taken your temperature? - Oh, lay off! 01:12:23.685 --> 01:12:25.488 No one will believe it, of course. 01:12:37.358 --> 01:12:40.063 - Did you see that now? - I believe I did. 01:12:40.281 --> 01:12:43.198 - But no one will believe it. - They'll laugh at us. 01:12:43.969 --> 01:12:47.610 You've mixed everything up! I asked you to help "Chisel"! 01:12:47.796 --> 01:12:51.378 I haven't mixed anything up, O stadium of my heart. 01:13:08.288 --> 01:13:09.676 What does that mean? 01:13:09.854 --> 01:13:12.559 Zhenya and I are for "Chisel". 01:13:12.811 --> 01:13:16.394 - Are you for "Puck"? - Yes, I fear this is the case. 01:13:21.753 --> 01:13:24.041 A goal! Mama! 01:13:25.406 --> 01:13:28.288 - I'm coming, coming... - 12-0. 01:13:28.502 --> 01:13:30.127 Coming, Gogha, coming! 01:13:41.654 --> 01:13:43.278 Crazy man! 01:13:51.987 --> 01:13:55.700 - Grind up "Chisel" for soap! - Grind up "Chisel" for soap! 01:14:04.651 --> 01:14:06.275 17-0! 01:14:11.957 --> 01:14:13.131 Oh, mother! 01:14:23.961 --> 01:14:26.072 What treachery! 01:14:50.784 --> 01:14:53.702 Look what a fine team you are disgracing! 01:14:54.472 --> 01:14:56.524 "'Chisel' is an up and coming team." 01:14:56.699 --> 01:15:01.006 "'Chi-sel' be-gan 01:15:01.257 --> 01:15:04.353 the sea-son well." Interesting! 01:15:13.469 --> 01:15:14.537 Great! 01:15:15.139 --> 01:15:16.835 I'll read it later. 01:15:45.477 --> 01:15:47.695 You have to choose: It's me or "Puck". 01:15:48.052 --> 01:15:52.120 But you're a fan yourself, O goalkeeper of my heart! 01:15:52.297 --> 01:15:53.328 Choose! 01:15:56.785 --> 01:15:59.631 I submissively await your command. 01:15:59.812 --> 01:16:03.145 Let everyone realize that "Chisel" is not to blame for its defeat. 01:16:03.360 --> 01:16:06.314 Let everyone forget this crazy match. 01:16:07.118 --> 01:16:09.407 I hear and I obey. 01:16:10.910 --> 01:16:12.120 Attention! 01:16:12.337 --> 01:16:14.874 In view of the fact 01:16:15.085 --> 01:16:19.284 that the entire "Chisel" team has suddenly caught the measles, 01:16:20.130 --> 01:16:23.914 the referees have decided 01:16:24.479 --> 01:16:27.504 to cancel the "Chisel-Puck" match 01:16:27.819 --> 01:16:31.080 until the "Chisel" team recovers. 01:16:32.133 --> 01:16:34.351 The score of the first half 01:16:35.369 --> 01:16:37.421 is invalid. 01:16:38.222 --> 01:16:39.811 See you next time, comrades! 01:17:18.684 --> 01:17:23.796 All the time I try to give you pleasure, O Volka, 01:17:25.329 --> 01:17:28.769 and all I do is make trouble for you. 01:17:30.235 --> 01:17:34.019 I spoiled things for you at the exam. Don't deny it. 01:17:34.236 --> 01:17:37.332 - Nothing of the sort! - Oh yes, I did. I know I did. 01:17:37.541 --> 01:17:38.822 And then... 01:17:39.038 --> 01:17:42.134 Khottabych, let's have it out man to man. 01:17:42.343 --> 01:17:44.395 I'm all attention, O Volka! 01:17:46.344 --> 01:17:49.678 Well, I'm sick and tired of your miracles. 01:17:49.892 --> 01:17:52.218 You are a powerful genie, of course. 01:17:52.606 --> 01:17:55.868 But you know about modern life less than a baby. 01:17:56.051 --> 01:17:59.692 - Is that clear? - Alas, it is clear. 01:17:59.913 --> 01:18:03.803 So when you want to perform a miracle, consult somebody first. 01:18:06.314 --> 01:18:10.027 I'll consult you, O Volka. 01:18:10.663 --> 01:18:14.791 And if you're absent or studying for your re-examination, 01:18:15.359 --> 01:18:16.604 I'll consult Zhenya. 01:18:16.821 --> 01:18:19.917 - Do you swear? - My word of honour as a Pioneer! 01:18:20.509 --> 01:18:21.933 Hello! 01:18:23.641 --> 01:18:27.709 You know what? At last I've found you! 01:18:27.884 --> 01:18:31.953 Please come with me at once to the circus for negotiations, 01:18:32.129 --> 01:18:35.712 or my head will come off. 01:18:36.061 --> 01:18:38.350 Just let anyone try to tear off the head 01:18:38.566 --> 01:18:41.033 of so worthy a person as you! 01:18:41.453 --> 01:18:44.787 Go ahead, Khottabych. You're just right for the circus. 01:18:45.315 --> 01:18:48.791 - I listen and I obey, O Volka! - Fine! 01:18:49.003 --> 01:18:53.630 Only my work in the circus mustn't affect my studies. 01:18:53.944 --> 01:18:57.040 You'll combine work with studies. 01:18:57.249 --> 01:19:00.345 Right, young man. You know what? Come on! 01:19:04.451 --> 01:19:10.051 I present Hassan Abdurrahman ibn Khottab! 01:20:08.851 --> 01:20:11.069 O, most precious one! 01:22:17.962 --> 01:22:21.260 Good, isn't it? My artistic direction! 01:22:22.728 --> 01:22:24.710 - Bravo, Khottabych! - Bravo! 01:22:28.991 --> 01:22:34.341 Age: Years and months. 01:22:36.471 --> 01:22:41.821 3,732 years and 5 months. 01:22:44.821 --> 01:22:48.083 "Orphan" begins with an "O", not an "A". 01:22:59.782 --> 01:23:01.834 Hassan Khottabych, sign here please. 01:23:02.044 --> 01:23:05.626 There's a meeting of the conjurors' and fakirs' section 01:23:06.289 --> 01:23:09.444 tomorrow at four. 01:23:09.663 --> 01:23:11.715 Sorry, I can't come, O esteemed one. 01:23:12.168 --> 01:23:14.422 From four to six I study 01:23:14.639 --> 01:23:19.574 secondary school subjects under the guidance of my young friends. 01:23:19.752 --> 01:23:23.501 I've made especial progress in geography. 01:23:24.171 --> 01:23:28.370 Yesterday my wise teacher, Volka ibn Alyosha, passed 01:23:28.590 --> 01:23:30.986 his geography exam with an excellent mark! 01:23:31.303 --> 01:23:32.963 Way to go, guys! 01:23:36.069 --> 01:23:38.987 Khottabych, it's time for us to start our lesson. 01:23:39.375 --> 01:23:41.356 Yes, it's four o'clock. 01:23:41.567 --> 01:23:46.738 Right away, just one minute, O my strict teachers. 01:23:47.829 --> 01:23:52.871 I dare not detain our highly esteemed audience any longer. 01:23:53.640 --> 01:23:55.692 I must bid them farewell. 01:23:57.084 --> 01:24:00.109 Goodbye, my dear friends! 01:24:00.494 --> 01:24:06.022 We will surely see many more fine miracles! 01:24:09.505 --> 01:24:12.980 The End