The Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish
Channel: Miklouho-Maclay Foundation
Date: 2021-01-31

The Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish – is a 1950 Soviet hand-drawn animated feature film directed by Mikhail Tsekhanovsky and produced at the Soyuzmultfilm studio. It is an adaptation of the 1833 fairy tale of the same name by Aleksandr Pushkin.

For 33 years an old fisherman and his wife led a very poor life in a cottage on the seaside.
One day the fisherman caught a gold fish. When he saw it in his net it talked in human voice. She begged him to let her go and in return she promised to grant him wishes. The old man was kind and modest so he had mercy upon the fish and let her go without making a single wish. But when his wife found out about it, she demanded that he goes back to the sea, finds the fish and asks her to fulfil her wishes. The greedy woman got her wishes fulfilled… but not every one of them.

00:57 – Beginning of the story.
04:38 – The old fisherman catches the golden fish for the first time. He let her go.
08:58 – The old fisherman goes to the sea to ask the fish to fulfil his wife’s wish for a new washtub.
10:48 – The old fisherman goes to the sea to ask the fish to fulfil his wife’s wish for a new house built of wood.
14:09 – The old fisherman goes to the sea to ask the fish to fulfil his wife’s wish to become a noble lady.
20:48 – The old fisherman goes to the sea to ask the fish to fulfil his wife’s wish to become a mighty tsaritsa.
27:47 – The old fisherman goes to the sea to ask the fish to fulfil his wife’s wish to become a sea empress.

The subtitles made by the Miklouho-Maclay Foundation using the translation of the original made by Irina Zheleznova and Robert Chandler.