"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 (C) 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." "And suddenly he wanted to strut around the whole river." " Thank God!" "It seems I'm alive." " Ah, what's gonna happen tomorrow..." "The Gudgeon never married, and never had kids." "Although his father had a big family." "The Gudgeon explained this in his own way." "At that time, you could easily live a life." "The pikes were kinder, and perches were not hungry for us fries." "But now, when fish in the rivers become extinct, even gudgeons are in demand." "No time to think about a family, just to keep yourself alive." "This little gudgeon was very patient." "But here he grew bold, and shouted to his offender:" " When will at last gudgeons recieve enough feed?" " Because this way we can degenerate to a smelt." "Now, if everybody was living like this wise gudgeon, it would be so peaceful in the river." "And the wise gudgeon now clearly realized, that you need to spend your life so that noone ever notices you." "This way he lived 100 years and more." "No friends, no relatives." "He visited nobody, nobody visited him." "The gudgeon was pondering, though he was wise, and he thought:" " Thank god I'm dying a natural death, like my mother and father." "And he had a very last dream." " This is for your senseless wise life said the pike." "And long time these words were ringing in gudgeon's ears." "What pleasures did he have?" "Did he comfort anyone?" "Did he give a good advice to anyone?" "Did he tell a kind word to anyone?" "Who will remember his existence?" "subs by Eus, found at karagarga"