"The adults ruined my brilliant career as an artist." "When I was six years old I was dreaming of travelling, adventures of the jungle..." "And then I drew my first drawing." "I showed my drawing to the grown-ups and asked them:" ""Is this scary to you?"" ""Why would a hat be scary?" they objected." "But that was not a hat." "It was a boa constrictor who had swallowed an elephant." "Then I drew the inside of the boa constrictor." "So that the grown-ups could understand it." "The grown-ups advised me to forget about drawing boa constrictors, whether from the outside or the inside." "Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always explaining things to them." "So, I was forced to chose another profession." "And I've become an airplane pilot." "I have flown all over the world and I've met a lot of different sensible people." "I have seen them at close quarters." "But that hasn't much improved my opinion of them." "Whenever I met one of them who seemed to me at all clear-sighted," "I showed him my first drawing, which I have always kept with me." "I would try to find out, so, if this was a person of true understanding." "But, they would always say:" ""That is a hat."" "So I would never talk to that person about boa constrictors, or jungles, or stars." "I would talk to them about bridge, and golf, and politics, and neckties." "And the grown-ups would be quite pleased to have met such a sensible man." "So I lived my life alone, without anyone that I could really talk to." "But then, six years ago, when I was flying over that desert, something broke in the engine of my airplane." "Antoine de Saint-Exupéry" "The Little Prince" "Boy" " Evaldas Mikaliunas" "Adult" " Donatas Banionis (A. Demyanenko)" "Pilot" " Otar Koberidze (I. Smoktunovsky)" "Please, draw me a sheep!" "Draw me a sheep!" "But I don't know how to draw." "That doesn't matter." "Draw it..." "No, no!" "I don't want an elephant inside a boa." "Boa is very dangerous and the elephant is very large." "Draw me a sheep!" "See..." "And you say that you don't know how to draw." "But this sheep is very sad." "Draw me a merry sheep." "You see yourself, this is not a sheep." "This is a ram." "It has horns." "This one is too old." "I want a sheep that will live a long time." "You know..." "I'm going to draw a box for you." "The sheep you asked for, sits inside it." "Here." "That is exactly the way I wanted it!" "Do you think that this sheep will have enough of grass?" "My world is so small..." "Enough." "I've given you a very small sheep." "So small." "Look!" "He's fallen asleep." "This kid thinks that I am like him." "Unfortunately, I cannot see the sheep in the box." "Maybe I'm just like other grown-ups." "I'm much older than he is." "I cannot think as a boy any more." "What's that thing?" "No, it's not a thing." "It's my plane." "I fly with it." "So you fell out of the sky!" "What planet are you from?" "No, you can't have come from very far away in that thing." "Probably..." "Where do you want to take my lamb?" "The good thing about the box is that at night it can sleep in it." "I'll give you a rope to tie him up." "Tie him up?" "What for?" "If you don't tie him up, he'll wander off and get lost." "But where would he go?" "Anywhere." "Straight ahead of him." "It wouldn't matter, my place is so tiny!" "Straight ahead of him, nobody can go very far." "Tell me, is it true that sheep eat little bushes?" "Yes." "If sheep eats little bushes, does it eat flowers, too?" "They eat anything they can find." "Even flowers that have thorns?" "Yes, even those that have thorns." "Then the thorns - what use are they?" "What use are they?" "Flowers have thorns just for spite!" "So you think that flowers are evil?" " Of course, they're evil." "You talk just like the grown-ups!" "Flowers are weak creatures, but good." "You confuse everything." "You don't understand anything." "One flower, unique in the world, grows on my planet." "And the sheep could eat it, just like that." "Just look at the stars!" "Somewhere, my rose is there." "But if the sheep eats it, in one moment all those stars will be darkened." "But you think that is not important." "She was born at the same moment as the sun." "Ah!" "I am scarcely awake." "Please, excuse me." "My petals are still disarranged." "How beautiful you are!" "Am I not?" "I was born at the same moment as the sun." "Seems that it is time for breakfast." "If you would have the kindness to think of my needs." "Careful!" "I have thorns!" "I'm not afraid even of a tiger." "There are no tigers on my planet." "Besides, they do not eat weeds." "I am not a weed!" " Please excuse me." "No, I'm not afraid of tigers, but I have a horror of draughts." "I suppose you wouldn't have a screen to cover me?" "It is very cold where you live." "Very unpleasant planet." "Where is the screen?" "I was just going to look for it when you spoke to me." "Warm me up again." "I'm cold." "The wind calmed down." "It's quite now." "Why did the wind calm down?" "I cannot make warm wind any more." "I'm tired." "Stay tired then!" "You don't understand anything!" "Goodbye." "Take your scarf." "I don't need it." "But the wind..." " My cold is not so bad as all that." "The cool night air will do me good." "I am a flower." "And the tiger?" "Don't linger like this." "You have decided to go away." "Now go!" "I shouldn't listen to her." "We should never listen what flowers are saying." "We should just look at them." "I didn't understand anything then." "I was very little." "And I didn't know how to love." "I want to drink, as well." "Let's go and find some well." "When I parted with my rose, I was very sad." "I set out to search for happiness on other planets." "But even there, people do not find what they are looking for." "It is contrary to etiquette to yawn in the presence of a king." "I forbid you to do it." " I can't help it." "I have come on a long journey, and I have had no sleep." "Then, I order you to yawn." "It is years since I have seen anyone yawing." "Come, now!" "Yawn again!" "That frightens me." "I cannot, any more." "Then I order you sometimes to yawn and sometimes to..." "May I sit down?" "I order you to sit." " Excuse me, please." "Your Highness, allow me to ask you a question." "I order you to ask me a question." "Your Highness, what do you rule?" "Over everything." "All this is mine." " Over everything?" "And the sun obey you?" " Certainly it does." "I do not permit insubordination." " I would like to see a sunset." "Do me that kindness..." "Order the sun to set." "Good." "It will be a sunset." "I shall command it." "But, I shall wait until conditions are favourable." "When will that be?" "That will be today." "Today... in 7 hours and 15 minutes." "And then you will see how well I am obeyed!" "I have to go now." " No." "Stay here." "I will make you a Minister!" " Minister of what?" "Minister of Justice." "But there is nobody here to judge!" " We don't know that." "I have not yet made a complete tour of my kingdom." "I am old." "There is no room here for a carriage." "And it tires me to walk." "But I have looked around already." "No one is here, except us!" "Then you shall judge yourself." "That is the most difficult thing." "If you succeed in judging yourself rightly, then you are a man of true wisdom." "Your Highness..." "Your Highness, if Your Majesty wishes to be promptly obeyed, you should be able to give me a reasonable order." "For example, to order me to be gone by the end of one minute." "It seems to me that conditions are favourable." "I make you my Ambassador!" "Ah!" "I have a visit from an admirer." "Good morning." "What kind of a hat is that?" "A hat for salutes." "It is to raise in salute when people acclaim me." "Unfortunately, nobody at all ever passes this way." "Why?" "Clap your hands, please." "I cannot." "Once more." "Clap it once more." "Once more, if you please." "Again, please." "Once more." "Once more." "And what should one do to make the hat come down?" "Do you admire me very much?" "What does it mean - "admire"?" "To admire means that you regard me as the handsomest, the best-dressed and the most intelligent man on this planet." "But you are the only man on your planet!" "Do me a favor." "Admire me just the same." "I admire you, but why are you so happy about it?" "Three and two make five, plus seven make twelve, plus three make fifteen." "Good morning!" " Hello!" "Fifteen and..." " Your cigarette has gone out." "...twenty-six..." "I don't have time to lit a match." "...twenty-six and... thirty-one." "That makes five-hundred- and-two million, six-hundred-twenty-five thousand, eight- hundred-thirty-one." " Five hundred million what?" "Eh?" "Are you still there?" "Five-hundred-and-one million..." "I don't know what..." "I have so much to do!" "I don't amuse myself with balderdash." "...five..." " Five of what?" "During 54 years that I've lived here, I've been disturbed only three times." "The first time was 25 years ago, when some giddy goose fell here." "He made the most frightful noise." "And I made four mistakes in my addition." "The second time..." "It's five-hundred-and-two millions." " Millions of what?" "Those little objects, which one sometimes sees in the sky." "What objects?" "Flies?" " Nah!" "Little glittering objects." "Ah, bees?" " No, not bees." "Golden things." "Little objects that set lazy people to idle dreaming." "But I don't have time for dreaming." "I'm too busy." "Ah!" "The stars?" " Yes, the stars." "Five-hundred millions of stars..." "What do you do with them?" "502 million, 622 thousand, eight-hundred-thirty-one." "What do you do with them?" "What do I do?" "Yes." "Nothing." "I own them." "You own the stars?" " Yes." "But I've already seen a king." "Kings do not own." "They reign over." "It is a very different matter." "And why do you need to own the stars?" " That makes me rich." "And what good does it do you to be rich?" "To buy more stars, if any are discovered." "How is it possible for one to own the stars?" "To whom do they belong?" " I don't know." "To nobody." "So they are mine, because I was the first one to think of it." "And what do you do with them?" "I administer them." "I count them and recount them." "It's difficult." "But I am a businessman." "But you cannot pluck the stars from heaven." "No." "But I can put them in the bank." " What bank?" "You don't even have a planet!" "I write the number of my stars on a paper, put this paper in a drawer and lock it." "And that's all?" "All." "I own a rose, which I water every day." "It is of some use to her." "But you are of no use to the stars." "The grown-ups are very strange people." "But we should not be angry at them." "We should understand their weakness." "What is it?" "Look!" "An explorer!" "It's so quite here." "What is that big book?" "What are you doing here?" "I am a geographer." " What is a geographer?" "He's a scholar who knows the location of all the seas, rivers, towns, mountains, deserts..." "Your planet is very beautiful." "Has it any oceans?" "I couldn't tell you." "And mountains?" "I couldn't tell you." "Deserts?" "I couldn't tell you." "But you are a geographer!" "Yes, but I am not an explorer." "I cannot leave my desk to search for the seas, rivers, towns, mountains and oceans." "I can't." "The geographer receives explorers and he notes down their reports." "But you come from far away!" "You're an explorer!" "Describe your planet to me!" "My planet is not very interesting." "But it has a flower." "We do not record flowers." "Why?" "The flower is the most beautiful thing!" "Because the flowers are ephemeral." "What does that mean - "ephemeral"?" "Geographies are the most precious books in the world." "They never become obsolete." "Mountain does not change its position, an ocean rarely runs dry." "We write of eternal things." "Explain to me the meaning of "ephemeral"?" "It means, "which is in danger of speedy disappearance"." "So my flower is in danger of disappearance?" "Certainly it is." "My rose is so weak and has nothing for her protection." "She has only four thorns to defend herself." "Good morning!" "Why have you just put out your lamp?" "Those are the orders." "Good morning." "What are the orders?" "The orders are that I put out my lamp." "Good evening." "But why have you just lighted it again?" "Those are the orders." "I do not understand." "There is nothing to understand." "Orders are orders." "Good morning." "I don't have time to relax a bit." "Good evening." "Good morning." "I like your work very much." "When you lit a lamp, is like you lit a star." "And when you put it out, it's like a star falls asleep." "Good evening." "In the old days, I put the lamp out in the morning, and in the evening I lighted it again." "I had the night for sleep..." "The orders have not been changed?" " No, and that is my misfortune." "Every year the planet has turned more rapidly, and the orders have not been changed!" "Good morning." "The planet now makes a complete turn every minute, and I no longer have a single second for repose." "That is very funny!" "A day lasts only one minute." "It is not funny at all!" "Good evening." "Good morning." "Good evening." " Listen..." "I can tell you a way you can rest whenever you want to." "I always want to rest." "Good morning." "To be always in the sunshine, you need only walk along rather slowly." "So, you walk and rest." "It won't do me much good, I like to sleep." "Good evening." "Then you're unlucky." " I'm unlucky." "Excuse me, may I ask you..." "Why I always meet you as the king, the geographer, the lamplighter...?" "I am a grown-up man." "Grown-up people do not know what they want." "Only kids know that." "A simple rag-doll can be a precious thing for kids." "And they cry if someone take it away." "Good for them." "Good morning." "I would like you to be my friend." "But your planet is too small." "What place would you advise me to visit next?" "The planet Earth." "It has a good reputation." "Good evening." "Good evening." "Good evening." "Good evening." "Tell me, please..." "What planet is this on which I have landed?" "Planet Earth." "Then there are no people on the Earth?" "This is the desert." "People do not live in the desert." "The Earth is large." "I wonder why all those stars shine in the sky?" "I wouldn't know, kid." "Probably because each one of us may find his own again." "There it is - my planet." "Look!" "It is beautiful!" "Wonderful planet." "But what are you doing here at Earth?" "I've been having some trouble with my flower." "Oh!" "It is a little lonely in the desert." "And where are the people?" "It is also lonely among people." "You are a funny animal, so thin." "But I am more powerful than the finger of a king." "You're not very powerful." "You haven't even any feet." "You cannot travel." "I can carry you farther than any ship could take you." "Whomever I touch, I send back to the earth from whence they came." "But you are a pure soul from a star." "I pitty you." "You are so weak on this Earth made of granite." "Some day, if you grow too homesick for your own planet," "I can help you." "I can." "I understand you very well, but why do you always speak in riddles?" "I solve them all." "Good morning." "Good morning." "Where are the people?" "Ah, I see them." "Where?" "Six or seven." " Seven?" "I saw them, many years ago." " Where can I find them?" "The wind blows them away." "They have no roots." "Which is very awkward." "Farewell, then." "Farewell." "Farewell." "Good morning." "Good morning." "Who are you?" "You look very much like my rose." "My rose told me that she was the only one of her kind." "There are many of you and you sing beautifully." "But you haven't tamed anyone, and no one has tamed you." "My rose is dearest to me." "Because she has tamed me." "You are beautiful, but empty." "One could not die for you." "I feel very sad." "Play with me." "Come and play with me, huh?" "Please, tame me." "You will be a little prince, and I'll be a fox." "How can I tame you?" "To me, you are nothing more than a little prince, and I am just a fox to you." "But if you tame me, then we shall need each other." "I am beginning to understand." "One special rose has tamed me." "It is possible." "On Earth one sees all sorts of things." "But this is not on Earth!" "On another planet?" " Yes." "Are there hunters on that planet?" "No." "How interesting!" "Are there any chickens?" "No." "Ay-Ay-Ay..." "Nothing is perfect." "And now - tame me!" "How should I do that?" "You must be very patient." "First, sit right there." "No, no... sit farther... farther." "That's right." "I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing." "Words are the source of misunderstandings." "But every day, you will sit a little closer to me." "Why don't you want to play?" "Come closer." "Come towards me." "I cannot play." "If I don't find any water, I'll die soon." "Wait for me." "Where are you going?" "I'm thirsty, too." "Me too, cannot be without water." "Water may also be good for the heart." "The souls of grown-ups are exhausted." "They are dying of thirst." "And my rose can disappear..." "I must return to her." "She has tamed me." "I knew that you would come to me." "You are pure, and you are responsible for your rose." "Do you have a good poison?" "Will it make me suffer too long?" "It is good." "When?" "Follow my tracks tonight." "You'll find me there." "And now, allow me to go." "Go." "This well is at the crossroad." "Do you hear?" "It's singing." "I want some of that water." "People on your planet have 6000 roses and still cannot find what they are looking for." "They cannot find it." "But they could find it in one unique rose and in a little water." "They cannot find it." "You promised to keep your word." " What word?" "You promised me a muzzle for my sheep." "Remember?" "I am responsible for my flower." "I don't know how to draw." "Except... boa constrictors." "It doesn't matter, children understand." "You know, today is an anniversary of my arrival to Earth." "I came down very near here." "I'll be very sad without you." "Don't be sad." "I have your sheep, the sheep's box and the muzzle." "When you return home..." " No." "I will not forget you, kid." "Here, in the desert it is so calm and quiet." "Amazing springs exist here, invisible to us." "And the stars are very beautiful because my flower lives on one of them." "But you cannot see it." "My little star is so small that I cannot show it to you." "But it's better, like that." "You will love to watch the stars and they will all be your friends." "And, besides, I am going to make you a present!" "It's nice to hear you laughing." "That is my present." "When you look at them, you will know that I live on one of them." "And when I shall be laughing, it will be as if all the stars were laughing." "You will have stars than can laugh!" "I have to go now." "No, no, do not come with me." "I shall look as if I am dying, but that will not be true." "The eyes are blind." "One must look with the heart." "It seems like you've come here from my childhood." "And that you are returning there." "To that most beautiful world." "And now six years have already gone by." "I have never yet told this story to anyone." "But I know that he returned to his planet." "Only one thing is annoying..." "When I drew the muzzle for the sheep, I forgot a leather strap." "Little prince hasn't been able to fasten it on his sheep." "If the sheep would eat a rose, all little bells would cry." "You, who also love the little prince, like me..." "We cannot be indifferent to that." "The whole world is concerned about the fact that somewhere in the universe, we don't know where, a sheep, that we've never seen... could eat an unknown rose." "And no grown-up will ever understand how important this is." "Directed by:" "Arunas Zebriunas" "Music composed by:" "T. Makachinas" "Produced by:" "Lithuanian kino-studio" "Audio dubbed in Lenfilm kino-studio" "English subtitles made for KG by Quigley (07.2016)"