"MOSFlLM" "THE STONE FLOWER The Ural tale" "Screenplay by P. BAZHOV, I." "KELLER" "Directed by A. PTUSHKO" "Cinematography by F. PROVOROV" "Production Designers M. BOGDANOV, G. MYASNlKOV" "Costume Designer O. KRUCHlNlNA" "Music by L. SHVARTS" "Cast:" "Danila-Craftsman" " V. DRUZHNlKOV" "The Mistress of Copper Mountain - Tamara MAKAROVA" "Prokopyich" " M. TROYANOVSKY" "Katya" " Ye." "DEREVSHCHlKOVA" "Granddad Slyshko" " A. KELBERER Severyan" " M. YANSHlN" "Landowner" " N. TEMYAKOV Landowner's Wife" " A. PETUKHOVA" "Old Craftsman" " N. ORLOV" "Vikhorikha" " L. DElKUN Yefimka" " S. ZAlTSEV" "Danila-Boy" " V. KRAVCHENKO" "About sixty years ago, at one of the Urals factories there was living out his days an old man named Slyshko." "Hey, who's there?" "Who's loafing about the public bridge at such an untimely hour?" "By whose permission?" "That's us, kids form the factory." "Don't you "us" me." "Say it clearly who is coming." "Sorry, granddad." "We've come for fairy tales, grandpa." "For fairy tales?" "What an idea!" "The fairy tales are only about the Speckled Hen and the golden egg, an all such stuff." "Old women tell them to little babies." "I guess you're too big to listen to them." "And I cannot tell them." "Those I knew I already forgot." "I only remember ones about old times." "And them are called not fairy tales, but folklore and narratives." "And one cannot tell them to just anybody." "One should be wary." "You little starlings." "Running about all day, shouting and waving your hands." "Feel like making your ears work now?" "All right." "I'll tell you one, about Danila the stone-carver, his bride Katya and the Mistress of Copper Mountain." " ls it a new fairy tale, granddad?" " But don't you interrupt me!" "Those who listen carefully, will see everything as though with their own eyes." "Well, listen now." "There lived at our factory a craftsman named Prokopyich." "He was the foremost about malachite things." "No one knew the soul of stones better than he." "But as he was getting old," "Prokopyich felt sick more and more often." "You know about stones, Prokopyich." "And I know about herbs, which has what power." "Some help from rheumatic pain, others from strain." "Drink this, Prokopyich, it's from fever." "There he is." "I guess you've got a guest." "Severyan Kondratyich himself!" "What a cruel man you are!" "Just you wait, we'll find a way to stop you." "Shut up, old witch!" "The Mistress of Copper Mountain has long had her eye on you." "I'll have you banished to Siberia for your witchery!" "Siberia is far away, and death is near, it won't overlook anybody." "And she'll get to you, too." "When will you finish the candlestick?" "You're getting me in a fix." "The landowner isn't one of us, he won't listen to excuses." "When he orders something, he wants it right away." "I'll get stronger and finish it." "Yes, you sure got old, Prokopyich." "Any day now we may have to bury you." "And who will work on malachite then?" "I think I'd better tell Yefimka to send some smart boys to you." "Teach them your malachite profession." "Let them learn every little secret." "Yet Prokopyich... either he was reluctant to part with his craft, or for some other reason, but he taught them very badly." "Doing everything by spurt and prod." "The stone, like man, has a soul." "Not everybody can understand it." "And here I got some little rascals to teach." "What can they understand about stones?" "Why are you staring at me?" "You blockhead!" "Look at the stone, not me!" "At the stone!" "Learn to understand it!" "Who am I to teach now, Severyan Kondratyich?" "I guess, only myself." "What good can come out of you, Danila?" "You're going to ruin your life." "And will get me, the old man, into trouble, too." "You know Severyan Kondratyich, if something happens, he'll have no mercy." "What are you thinking about, anyway?" "I don't know myself, granddad." "About nothing." "Couldn't take my eyes off the flower." "A bug was crawling over the leaf, itself all blue, and with something yellow showing under its wings." "You are a fool, aren't you, Danila?" "Are you supposed to observe bugs?" "You must look after the cows, for them not to get lost and be eaten by wolves." "And you busy yourself with some bugs." "Here, drive the cows and I'll go have a nap in the shed." "And don't look at what you shouldn't." "Play your flute, Danila dear." "Come on, play for me, Danila." "Maybe it's the Mistress of Copper Mountain playing jokes on me?" "I've already brought all the boys to Prokopyich." "Just with the same result - he boxes their ears and throws them out." "And only says:" "not good, not good." "If I could have my way, I would've knocked the hell out of the old man!" "You can't." "He's a first-rate master." "They need him, and you might kill him." "Just at first blow, isn't it so?" "Maybe not at first blow..." "But after a dozen blows, he'll never get up." "It seems Prokopyich doesn't want to leave his secret to people." "Have mercy, master!" "It's our fault!" "It's our fault!" " What is it now?" " We didn't look after them properly." "Wolves have eaten some of your cows, Severyan Kondratyich." "What?" "!" "Yefimka!" "Flog him!" "Don't touch the granddad!" "It's my fault, I didn't take care of them." "You'll get it in your turn." "Have mercy, master!" "I'm to blame, I didn't keep an eye on them." "Just look at that defender!" "I'll show you how to protect your master's property!" "Yefimka, the boy!" "That vicious tyrant." "He's going to kill the boy." "I'll make you, the mute, open your mouth!" "You will!" "You will!" "Some more?" "Or enough?" "is the boy still alive?" "Alive." "What can happen to him?" "Just look at him, being so patient." "Now I know what I shall put him to, if he survives." "Never mind, kid, don't cry." "I'll take you to the old Vokhorikha, she'll put you on your feet in no time." "What are you doing?" "Who asked you to touch that article?" "What are you looking for here?" "As I see it, grandfather, the edge should be whetted not from this side." "See, there's a pattern here, and it'll get cut off." "Who are you?" "A craftsman?" "How can you judge if you never laid hands on it?" "What can you know?" "I know that this thing's been spoiled." "And who spoiled it?" "You, snot, dare to say it to me, the first Urals master?" "I'll kill you!" "I'll show you such spoilage that you won't be able to breathe!" "I don't want to see hide nor hair of you in my house!" "Hey, you weakling!" "You hear me?" "Get down." "Are you deaf or what?" "I'm not going down." "You threatened to kill me." " l won't touch you." " For sure, grandfather?" "For sure." "Come on, you newly-born master, show me how you'd make a pattern." "We'd better make it narrower here." "What can you know!" " Narrower, grandfather." " Narrower!" "Stop harping on it!" "I can see myself that we need it narrower." "Some adviser!" "Everyone can work with tongue, try to work with hands." " And here, on a clear plane..." " All right, enough, let's go to bed." "You sleep here, on the bench." "Here's some weakling for you!" "He's still nobody, but he already taught the old master." "What a keen eye he's got!" "He'll make a good craftsman." "Sleep, you keen eye." "Sleep." "Prokopyich had no children of his own." "And Danila had found a place in his heart." "As a matter of fact, he was like son to him." "But for a while Prokopyich didn't let him in for his craft." "He pitied the boy." "And to tell the truth... it was an unhealthy craft, that malachite business." "Dust and poison..." "Meanwhile, time was passing." "One day the landowner came to the factory." "Did you sleep well, darling?" "No, I didn't." "I want to go to St. Petersburg." "When are we going there?" "As soon as we execute the commission." "Then tell the men to make it sooner." "Darling, our furnaces cannot smelt more than they can." "Are we supposed to stay here till winter because of some furnaces?" "Let them stoke them better and not be lazy." "My darling, the factory furnaces are made in such a way that you can't get from them more than they're supposed to give." "They're made in a very stupid way." "Those peasants don't take a good enough care of their masters." "Ah, Prokopchik, come closer." "Well, Prokopchik, how can I explain it to you in simple words... ln Paris I visited one of their marquises." "And he showed to me a box of a very rare workmanship." "Then I bragged that I got one even better at home." "Offended, the marquis wagered half a million francs that there was no better casket than his." "And I gave him my word to bring him mine by the fall." "So, Prokopchik, make a box for me that will be better than the marquis's." "A box that you couldn't take your eyes off." "If you make such, you'll be rewarded with your master's favor." "If you don't, you'll have to answer for it." "Do you understand?" "Yes, sir, I understand." "That's all, now out of here!" "I feel so tired, my darling." "You should spare yourself, my friend." "Or you'll get your health ruined by this factory business of yours." "Prokopyich worked day and night." "He forgot about eating and sleeping." "He could think of nothing else except how to make that box for his master." "But his work wasn't going well." "Either because he got old and lost the keenness of his eye, or his hands became weaker, but the intricate ornament just didn't work out." "Prokopyich had already spoiled many a block of malachite, yet everything was no good." "The master is coming on Sunday." "Will you finish it?" "I will." "You better do, or you'll be in trouble." "Whose boy is this?" "Mine." "Can it be Danila the weakling?" " Where have you been?" " ln the woods." "In the woods?" "What for?" "Catching goldfinches." "What?" "That's how you're learning the craft, you scoundrel?" "It was I who sent him there, Severyan Kondratyich, to catch goldfinches." "They make work go better and the house look more cheerful." "You're spoiling the boy." "And you watch out!" "I'll show you such goldfinches you'll never forget them!" " l got it, Severyan Kondratyich." " There now." "So don't forget, the master's coming on Sunday." "Only two days left." "And so much work!" "Oh, God!" "Grandfather." "Granddad." "Two days left." "And the box..." "The box..." "Don't punish me, master!" "Have mercy, pity the old man!" "Why, granddad?" "It's me, Danila." "I just can't wait to see the box." "We're going, darling. ln a minute." "I'll be one up on that Marquise de Chamfort!" " Where're you going, granddad?" " Let's run, Danila." "The master." "Don't worry, granddad, the master won't touch you." "And where's my craftsman?" "He's sick." "Sick?" "Why sick?" "is the box ready?" "Have mercy, master, I can't do that work now." "I'm too old." "And what am I going to do in Paris in the fall?" "The marquis will be mocking at me." "Flog him to death!" "Master, the granddad can't remember himself, that's why he's saying that." " The box is ready." " Ready?" "It's over there, on the workbench by the window." "What's the matter with you, old man?" "It's not my work, master." "This is not my handiwork." "Another craftsman worked on it." "Not you?" "Who, then?" "I don't know." "There was no lizard on the box." "Shut up, old man." "You may do anything you want with me." "This is not my work." "Whose is it then?" "His." "I want him to make a vase for me." "With a carved edging and leaves at its base." "And so that this vase... looked like a flower." "He'll certainly make it, darling." "He'll certainly make it, darling." "Did you hear what vase you have to make?" " l heard." " Well?" "I'll make it." "And here's something for you for the box." "Buy yourself some treats." "The marquis will have to pay me half a million now." "Wind, tempestuous wind," "Come and blow hard," "Carry all my love" "To my dear sweetheart." "Whisper to my beloved" "How I live, what I'm into ln the full-green spring" "And in the white winter." "Danilushka." "Katenka." "Give me one of your flowers." "Choose the one you like." "Look, you've chosen the best one!" "Where did you find it?" "By Serpent Hill." "Don't lose it." "I won't." "Danila, was it you who made the box for Prokopyich?" "Yes, me." "Are you now carving a vase for the mistress?" " Yes, I am." " How about something for me?" "I won't forget about you." " Won't you?" " l won't." "Danilushka." "Katenka." "Will you come to the dam on Sunday?" "To listen to robins singing?" "To see the sunset off and greet the sunrise?" "Bring the flower safe and sound." "I will." "Oh, Danilushka, you're working yourself to death." "That vase won't give me any peace." "Why are you trying so hard?" "I want to make it so that I could see the full power of stone myself and show it to people." "Who will be able to see it in the master's mansion?" "Only the masters themselves and their servants, that's all." "The stone lives a long life." "If those who live now don't see, those who come later will." "You're looking too far ahead, boy." "It's more fun this way." "Man will blossom for a while, and then will wither." "But his thought may live for good in the thing he's made." "Oh, Danila, you're trying to be too clever." "Watch out, or your bride will marry someone else." "Katenka?" "She won't." "She's like me." "She likes to listen to robins." "And loves to watch the dawns." "My dear flower my beautifully patterned flower." "Just look at him, he didn't even put out the candle." "The boy spares nothing." "Nothing." "But he's a real artist." "A good cut above us." "Doing honor to our whole region." "Oh, you green, green grass of mine," "Oh, you leafy green groves of mine..." "Just look what he's cut out." "What a fine work." "I've been pottering about with stone for 40 years now, having carved about a hundred vases of all sorts." "But I've never made something like that, nor have I seen others make it." " You can find no fault with it." " Good boy, Danila!" "He's got a great eye and a hand that makes no mistake." "If you go on working like this, we'll never catch up with you." " What do you say, granddad?" " l say the same." "This is a thing of high workmanship." "Please, dear guests, come to the table." "The pie is ready." "Welcome." "Please, come." "How did you manage it, Danila, to make such a fine carving and never break the stone?" "That's why you haven't showed up the whole summer." "It seems you have forgotten me." "Forgotten you?" "Don't you see?" "It's your flower that I was carving." "Right, it is my flower!" "Danilushka, it means you've remembered me day and night?" "And I thought you've forgotten." "I did remember, Katenka, I did!" "But the flower isn't quite what it should be." "Katya, Danila, come to the table!" "To the completed work!" "May he work as well in the future." " Help him God!" " To Danila-Craftsman!" "Get a load of us!" "There're not only founders and rollers at the factory." "Stone-carvers are not extinct yet." "Where else can you find such masters?" "The flower looks like it's alive." "That's it, it only looks like alive, but there's no living beauty in it." "The stone is just stone." "You can't make it live." "And I dream of making it better than a living thing." "To gather all the beauty of a living flower and show it in the stone." "So that it should never wither." "Oh, son, don't even think that way." "Otherwise you could end up a worker of the Mistress of Copper Mountain." "What worker?" "The workers that live in her mountain." "They understand the beauty of the stone because they've seen the Stone Flower." "The Stone Flower?" "What is it like?" "I don't know, son." "It's not for us to ever see it." "One who sees it will forget all about the earthly life." "I would like to see it." "Come on, Danilushka, are you tired of the earthly life?" "You're telling tall tales, granddad." "Don't try to lead the boy astray." "He's getting ideas as it is, and here you talk some gibberish." "There's no Stone Flower." "There ls the Stone Flower!" "There is!" "I looked for it myself when young, but they'd clipped my wings." "The granddad is getting senile." "Start a song, Ignat Savelyich, you're so good at it." "It's not for nothing that your Katya is called a songstress at the factory." "Like father like daughter." "Nowadays like a rooster sings a hen!" "Oh, lyuli-lyuli sings a hen!" "Nowadays the wives own their men!" "Oh, lyuli-lyuli, own their men!" "You're so cunning, Danilushka." "You carved a vase for the mistress, but it was a memento of me." " lt's even more precious for that." " But you didn't recognize it." "I didn't because I was thinking of something else." " Now I see it clearly." " After I told you." "This is your first work." "With time you'll get a step higher." "That second step is too high." "I won't be able to master it without the Stone Flower." "Come on, Danilushka, the old man has lost his mind and got a bit tipsy." "And you're taking up his word." "Your work must have muddled your mind." "Even your eyes got dull." "My dear keen-eyed master." "Wait till we get married, then I'll nurse you back to health." "Your cattle-shed stays empty." "We'll get a cow." "I guess the mistress will reward you for the vase, and we'll buy one." "A cow?" "Sure." "We'll buy it." "Katya, come to the house and sing." "Your father calls you." "Will you come along, Danilushka?" "Or you want to sit here for a while?" "You may have had too much to drink too, thinking of the Stone Flower now." "Why are you staring at a girl's beauty for free, Danilushka?" "One has to pay for looking." "Come closer, let's talk." "Don't be afraid." "I'm not afraid." "Well, Danila-Craftsman, so your vase after Katya's flower didn't work out?" "It didn't." "Come with me, Danilushka, I'll show you my Stone Flower." "Where is it, your flower?" "When the first snow falls, come to Serpent Hill." "What's the matter, Danilushka?" "You look like it's funeral." "Oh, Katya..." "My head feels like split in two." "I'm seeing a pattern before my eyes, but cannot make it out." "Let's go and take a walk." "The wind will blow you over, and you'll feel better." "For I begin seeing things, too." "Must be because it was stuffy in the house." "In the field, in the deep valley, ln the wide and spacious meadow," "Over the fresh azure grass" "Fair maidens were strolling," "Making wreaths from flowers." "Why don't you give him some herb broth to drink?" "All this nonsense will get knocked out of his head as soon as he marries." "Our craftsmen are wondering what else does the boy want?" "He made the vase no one has ever seen like, but he isn't pleased." "Why do you shame the girl?" "How long is she supposed to remain a bride?" "Wait." "I may break the vase with a hammer any minute, and he talks of the wedding." "She and I have agreed that she will wait." "The vase was ready long ago, it's time to deliver it." "You can't make it any better." "Yes, I guess I can't rise any higher." "I can't catch the power of the stone." "Right, it's time to get married." "I've worn my poor Katenka out." "And myself, too." "Here we are, your guests, known to you, but uninvited." "Please receive us well, don't disdain us." "The deed is done and fixed with bread and salt now and forever." "Amen." "Bride, before who you stand, young maiden?" "Bride, before who you stand, your heart pining?" "Before who you stand, at whom you look, young maiden?" "Bride, at whom you look, your heart pining?" "Treat yourselves, dear matchmakers." "Treat yourselves, our dear guests." "Please, eat, dears, for the glory of God, for eternal and endless love." "And who is our hero?" "And who is our leader?" "Oh, rose, my rose." "A green grape vine." "Danila is our hero." "Danila is our leader." "Oh, rose, my rose." "A green grape vine." "Why do girls love you?" "Why do girls honor you?" "For your bows low, For tender words you know." "You cooks-chatterboxes, everything you got, put on the table, the whole lot!" "If you haven't got it, cross your heart!" "Oh, my dear, dearest mother, why did you have me in a blizzard?" "Kalinka, the berry of mine, ln the garden there's Kalinka of mine!" ".." "Good for old Vikhorikha!" "The betrothal fell on a fine day." "Right on the Feast of the Mistress of Copper Mountain." "The Stone Flower will blossom today at midnight." "Come to Serpent Hill." "I'll be waiting for you, Danilushka." "Father and mother." "Give your blessing to the young prince and the young princess." "Danila!" "Danila!" "Danila!" "Danila!" "Come, Danilushka, to Serpent Hill, I'll show you the Stone Flower." "You've come after all." "Did you break the vase made after Katya's flower?" "I did." "Show me your Stone Flower." "It's easy to show it to you." "But afterwards you will regret it." "You won't let me leave the mountain?" "Why not let?" "The road is open." "You won't wish to leave yourself." "Show it to me all the same." "And what about your bride, Katerina?" "There is no life for me without seeing the flower." "If so, let's go, Danila-Craftsman." "Look, Danila, these are all my treasures." "Let's go on." "This is my most precious place." "Let's sit down here and have a talk." "Perhaps, we'll come to agreement." "Have you seen my dowry?" "What do you say now about our marriage?" "It's not what I came here for." "Show me the Stone Flower." "If I show it to you, will you love me?" "I can't." "I've promised to another girl." "is that so?" "Let's go then, Danila-Craftsman." "Now I'm going to make a vase the like of which no one has ever seen." "So Katya remained unmarried." "She'd never been a wife, but became a widow." "Danilushka is alive!" "Alive!" "Has he gone to her?" "I'll never find them now." "is there any word from Danilushka?" "Oh, I feel, daughter... I feel something bad has happened." "A drowned man was washed ashore." "The raftsmen buried him." "They say it's our Danilushka." "It's just gossip, some nonsense." "I asked everybody, but nobody saw it." "I'll come and live with you, father." "I'll be taking care of you." "Why, daughter?" "What about your own father and mother?" "You're no stranger to me, either." "You're my Danila's foster father." "Thank you, Katenka." "You didn't forget me, the old man." "My eyes can't see the difference between stones anymore." "Why don't you teach me some simple things about your craft?" "No!" "It's not fitting for a girl to work with malachite!" "I've never heard of such thing." "Look, they're here again." "Enticing you with songs." "Why don't you go with them?" "Why should I go?" "Are you waiting for Danila?" "Whom else?" "The man has been long gone, and she's waiting for him." "No one has seen him dead." "To me, he'll always be alive." "No joy from this work." "People will never see it." "Ready, father." "Look at you so deft." "Carve another brooch." "And I'll lie down and have a rest." "I wish Danilushka could see a new master working here." "Who sits in his and Prokopyich place now." "Get up, father, the cakes are ready" "Father." "Get up, father." "I feel sick, Katya." "I'll go to grandma Vikhorikha for some herbs." "It looks like I'll die soon." "No, father!" "How are you going to live then?" "Now you'll have... to marry not for love." "Danilushka will come back." "No, Katenka." "He won't come." "Only you, Danilushka, understand the beauty of my stones." "Your work makes me happy." "I've finished the vase." "Let me go." "I will never forget your kindness." "Are you thinking of your Katya again?" "I'm thinking of her day and night." "You will never see your Katya!" "Never!" "Do you need malachite brooches?" "Don't you see I got plenty of that stuff?" "You took up a man's profession, didn't you?" "Well, show me what you got." "Where did you steal it?" "What right do you have to say such things about a person you don't know?" "Look, if you're not blind!" "Where could I steal so many brooches with the same pattern?" "It's a rare pattern." "Here's the money, beautiful." "If you make more, bring them to me, I'll take them unfailingly." "So much money he's paid me!" "And said he'd be taking them unfailingly." "It's just what I was thinking about!" "I'll cut it and make so many brooches from it!" "Maybe Danilushka sent it to me?" "Wind, tempestuous wind," "Come and blow hard," "Carry all my love" "To Danila, my sweetheart..." "Why did you come to my woods?" "What do you want?" "Are you looking for good stones?" "Take any you like and go away." "I don't need your dead stones!" "Give me my live Danilushka back!" "You don't have the right to take another's fiance!" "Do you know whom you're speaking to?" "I am not blind, I know who you are." "And I'm not afraid of you, you who stole my man." "Not at all!" "Whatever magic you nay have here, Danila wants to come back to me." "Then try and find your Danilushka." "You will stay here forever as my craftsman." "You have great power." "But love is stronger than you." "I shall leave anyway!" "Try to." "I'll never marry you." "I love you, Danilushka." "Don't you like me at all?" "I can't say anything bad about you." "Only Katya is dearer to my heart." "Katya has long forgotten you." "I'll never believe it." "So that's what you're like?" "Danilushka!" "Danilushka!" "Danilushka!" "Danilushka!" " Katenka!" " Danilushka!" "Good for you, Danilushka!" "You refused to trade your Katya for the stone girl." "You didn't hanker for my treasures." "I was just testing you." "Take your craftsman, Katerina." "For your loyalty, here's my present to you." "This is my favorite box." "And you, Danilushka, for your firmness, you will never lose your knowledge that you have learned here." "Forgive me for being rude to you." "What can a stone girl feel?" "But do not tell anybody, Danila, where you have been." "And do not tell people about my treasures." "No one is to get them until the time comes." "Go now." "And Danila and Katerina began living in their little house." "People say they lived happily, in good harmony." "Danila became known far and wide as the greatest stone-carver." "No one could make such beautiful things as he did." "This tale is not so simple." "You have to use your brains to see what it's all about." "And now run home, it's time to go to bed." "Your mother may scold you, the sharp-eyed, for coming so late." "No, granddad, I asked her permission." "Oh, you the sharp kid." "When I grow up, granddad, I'm going to learn the craft, just like Danila." "You're little but smart!" "You got the tale right." "The most powerful thing is one's skill and human thought." "It's them that lead man in life." "The End"