back that will bend.
Find a feather in the field
and throw it to the wind.
lf you follow that feather,
you will find your destiny.
You will find your destiny...
You keep cooing, my dear cuckoo.
A long life you promise me,
silly one.
But you don't know how hard it is
For an orphan to have no mother.
As a birch can't grow without sun,
So a girl can't live all alone.
So why d'you coo, my dear cuckoo?
A long life you promise me,
silly one?
How do you do, fair maid?
How do you do, lovely girl!
Don't be afraid of me.
Look at me, my darling.
-Am l not nice?
- l've got no time.
-What are you doing?
-Watering this old stump.
How long will you water it?
Until flowers bloom on it.
- Flowers?
- My stepmother told me to.
- She must be very wicked.
- No, she's just a stepmother.
-What's your name?
- My name is Nastya.
But they call me different names:
My father calls me Nastenka.
My sister calls me Nastka.
My stepmother calls me a witch
and a wicked viper.
Nastenka...
-Will you marry me?
-You're too quick!
Why not?
l'm not crippled, nor cross-eyed.
Right, but we don't make
a good couple.
-Why?
- l'm not a braggart.
You think l'm bragging?
l can do anything!
With a plough l'm a pro,
in a fight l'm a knight.
l'm a dancer, l'm a worker,
l'm a hunter, l'm a stalker.
- l'll fell it with one arrow.
- No, it's got cubs!
Big deal!
Tiapa! Tiapa!
What's the matter, Nastya?
She's alive!
What have you done to me,
the witch?
lvanushka!
l haven't done anything to you!
Damn you!
Wicked viper!
l killed you with an arrow,
and you ruined me with a feather.
lf you hadn't acted like a bear,
you wouldn't look like a bear.
Oh, lvan, the bear head!
Forgive me, Granddad Mushroom.
lt is just the way you said:
The bear bows to me,
but it's your back that bends.
You taught me a good lesson.
Please, tell me what l should do
to be a man again?
All right, the bear head.
Look at the way you lived.
You just boasted
and admired yourself.
Loved yourself and hurt others.
- Nastenka, for one.
- Nastenka?
Nobody saw any good from you.
That's my answer and my advice.
To take it you have to be wise.
What's so wise about it?
l'll go and do a good deed.
And through a good deed
l'll get myformer self, indeed.
You haven't understood anything.
What good deed can l do foryou?
Wait, you fools!
Don't run away!
l want to do good foryou!
Wait!
A bear!
Awerewolf!
Hello, dearflowers
on the dry stump.
l come here every day,
l charm you in every little way.
Am l bothering you?
No, l am not.
Tell me, flowers,
is lvanushka still alive?
He is.
ls he still angrywith me?
No, he is not.
Shall we ever meet again?
Have mercy,
brothers and sisters.
Give alms
for my subsistence.
Whateveryou can,
For an orphan
who is hungry and wan.
- How much is in your cup?
- Not a half copeck.
lf that's so, here's a copeck.
lt seems a copeck
is not enough for a good deed.
Where are you going?
Awere wolf!
Run for your life!
What good deed shall l do?
Nastya, give us the braid!
Mom, whiten her brows!
Oh, my lovely darling!
Nastka's braid is nicerthan mine.
For yours we paid at the fair.
Cut her braid off!
What shall l drag her by, then?
We'll hide her braid under a rag.
All right.
Love to munch
when the stove's all smudged?
Go like that, you viper!
You'll do betterwiping.
Trythat...
Oh, you're a princess!
- Really?
-You are
A princess...
- l'm tired, l'm hot.
- Shut up and bearthe lot.
No, you're not a princess.
-Who, then?
-A queen!
What good deed could l do?
- Granny, let me help you.
- Please, be so good.
With pleasure.
l need badlyto do good.
- Then do it.
- Climb on.
-Where to?
- On my hump.
- Do you live farfrom here?
-Veryfar, my dear.
Up the hill, then down the hill,
then up the hill again.
That's great!
lt's great, but don't get sweaty.
Come on, let's go!
My daughter is so right.
She works day and night.
She sweeps, she sews, she knits,
She won't