Podkidysh

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THE FOUNDLING:

Screen Play by:

Agniya BARTO, Rina ZELYONAYA

Directed by:

Tatyana LUKASHEVICH

Photographed by

Semyon SCHEININ

Art Direction by

Vasili KAMARDENKOV

Music by

Nikolai KRYUKOV

Cast:

Natasha - Veronika LEBEDEVA

Lyolya - Faina RANEVSKAYA

["Lala" below, for readability]

Mulya - Pyotr REPNIN

Bachelor - Rostislav PLYAT Arisha - Rina ZELYONAYA

Natasha's mother - Olga ZHIZNEVA

Nina's father - Victor GROMOV

Dentist - Tatyana BARYSHEVA

Nina - Elya BYKOVSKAYA

Yura - Dima GLUKHOV

Alyosha - Vitya BOYKO

MOSFILM, 1939

I'm no girls' nanny!

I only ask you to feed Natasha

when she wakes up

and stay with her till 2 o'clock.

I've got things

of greater importance to do.

My class leader is coming over.

We'll hold a meeting.

All right, then.

I'm not going to rent a dacha,

and we'll spend

the whole summer in the city.

But Mum! Why should I stay

with her all day long?

No, I'm telling you,

Arisha'll be back by 2 pm.

- Nelia Valeryanovna, you call me?

- Why, I thought you went out already...

Yes I did, as you can see,

I'm out already!

- ...though I had to get dressed first...

- Arisha, I pleaded you to hurry up...

- You know, I'm but always in a hurry...

- Arisha, please, don't be too long.

I won't be long, why should I be long?!

I'll pay for gas on banking account,

besides, I have to buy

some cream at the grocer's...

Yura! I got to go now.

All right. But remember,

river is a must!

Not like it was the last summer.

That's fine! Yura, darling,

Kissel is on the table.

Natasha! Natasha!

Natasha, listen hard to what I say.

Natasha! Sleep till 2 o'clock, right away!

Mum's out, Dad's gone,

and Arisha's on leave today.

One squeak out of you till two,

and I'll tear your head off!

All right!

Masha, sleep till 2 o'clock!

Sleep tight, my pal,

I'll buy you a little flag,

Bayu-bayu, bayu-bye,

I'll buy you a little flag!

- Here I am!

- It's about time!

You know, I was going

to bring my dog,

but it's resting now.

- And where's Nina?

- Nina? There she goes.

Nina! Nina, come in quickly.

Yura! You badly explained

your address.

But for Alyosha,

I would still be looking for it.

Sure thing.

- Well, hello!

- Hello.

Which way? Here?

- Oh, no, no!

- Then, where to?

Come in here, come!

I've got a clockie, with leggies.

Take your seats, guys.

Yura, waste no time in telling us

why you brought us here.

What is your matter of great urgency?

Daddy takes us to Crimea today,

and I still have to do my packing.

I'll tell you in a moment.

Alyoshka, leave

my collection alone.

I've got new stamps

not stuck in there as yet.

I'm no longer into this rubbish!

Dog training takes

enormous amount of time.

An excellent dog!

An amazing sense of smell!

And what tricks he played today!

I guffawed just like an infant!

Oh, save it!

I've heard this ten times already!

Take no notice of it.

That's how our door creaks.

The thing is, guys -

while the 5-B class

enjoys primacy in diving,

I propose to form a lifeguard team!

To guard whom?

Why, the drowning swimmers!

Mum's out, Arisha's on leave,

if I squeak Yurka'll tear my head off.

But why...?!

Yura! Who is crying over there?

Ah, that's the neighbour girl.

What a fractious cry-baby!

She's but whining all day long!

Oh, Mama!

I'm quietly!

Can I have a balloon?

Come here, quickly!

Oh what beautiful balloons!

Coming up soon:

Dance Music programme!

That one.

Oh, how I want a balloon!

One, two, three!

Have you got a red one,

with cockerel?

All right, I'll take two!

- Daddy, buy me a balloon!

- Come on, you choose! Which one?

- That?

- This one.

Here you go.

Fine! Now, it's flown away!

There, there, Dimochka, stop crying!

Don't cry, boy, it'll fly for a while

and then come back.

Let's fasten it.

There!

- And here's a red one for you, ducky.

- Thank you!

"PRAVDA" ["Pravda" and "Izvestiya" -

two major Soviet newspapers]

P-R-A-V-D-A ["Pravda" and "Izvestiya" -

two major Soviet newspapers]

And what comes out?

"IZVESTIYA"

Oh what a wonderful balloon!

Let me hold it, please.

I love these balloons very much!

No, let's run and

"glide it" instead!

Starting today, the weather

in Moscow and Moscow region

will stay clean and sunny,

with no precipitations anticipated.

Come, run along with us,

or else the balloon will get wet!

Nanny, let's serve the tea upstairs.

Oh, watch out!

And what's this?

Oh, I clean forgot.

I'm on duty on hands today.

Guys, show me your hands.

And why are your hands dirty?

And yours?

So what? I'm Sanitary Commission here.

See this tank?

I've drawn it myself!

I shall be a tank driver, a doctor,

and on weekends

I shall be a fire engine!

I'll be a tank driver, too.

You're still small.

You'd be turned down.

Then I'll be a policeman!

A policeman?

Neither!

You're still small, that's why.

Can I be a border scout dog, then?

A border scout dog? Yes, you can.

And what is it here, a dog-horse?

Dog-horses don't exist.

Yes, they do! This is a dog-cart,

and this is a dog-horse!

- No, they don't!

- Yes, they do!

Hush, kiddies, hush! Quiet, you lot!

We're going to change now.

And where did you come from?

Whose girl is she?

She's got the balloon,

and she's ours.

We brought her in.

I'm yours!

- Where's your mum?

- Mum's out, Dad's gone.

- And where do you live?

- Flat 6.

- And what street?

- Ring twice.

"Ring twice". A fancy kind of address!

Well, kiddies, run along to change,

and take the girl with you.

We'll figure it out...

Is this a search group

for missing children?

This is nursery

school number 20.

Look, we've got a strange girl here.

Children brought her in.

About five, on the face of it.

Mother's out, father's gone.

No, she doesn't.

She says, "Ring twice".

You'll send your man?

Good.

Good! I'll be waiting.

I don't want to sleep.

I just got up.

I'd better go home.

- Would you come again?

- I would.

Come and bring your balloon.

Lift me up!

I'll tell Yurka,

and he'd tear your head off!

What's the matter?

You're... whose?

I'm yours.

Mine?!

Listen, this must be a mistake.

And... where are your...

father and mother?

Daddy's gone... Mummy's left...

That's strange...

- What've you got there?

- There?

- A cat?

- Yes.

- Can I look at it?

- Why, please...

Kitty, kitty!

Show me your little paws.

What's the idea of all this?

Did you have enough sleep?

- I'll bathe you now.

- Unfathomable...

Good afternoon!

Tell me, where's your head?

- She's upstairs.

- Thank you!

- Are you from the search group?

- Right.

Hello! Imagine, while I was calling you

on telephone, the girl disappeared!

But how? Where could she go?

Maybe she's still on the stairs?

- So, we'll be working together, right?

- Certainly!

Let's go, Alyosha.

Goodbye, Yura!

Natashka!

Natasha, you come out right away!

Natashka!

Alyoshka! Listen,

my sister's missing, Natashka!

Missing?

That's great!

A chance to try my dog in action!

Can you provide her scent samples?

What samples?

Why, her things,

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