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In a Certain Kingdom... (1957 cartoon) watch online for free in good quality In a certain kingdom…– a 1957 Soviet animated film directed by Ivan Ivanov-Vano and Mikhail Botov based on a Russian folk tale "By the pike's command"

Production: Soyuz Cartoon Studio, USSR, 1957

Director:I. Ivanov-Vano, M. Botov

Screenplay by:N. Erdman

Voiced by:S. Anikeev, V. Orlova, V. Gulyaev,G. Vitsin, L. Potemkin, G. Shpigel, G. Millar

Duration:28 minutes

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Plot of the cartoon In a certain kingdom…

In a certain kingdom, in a certain state, there lived Emelya, who was nicknamed the Fool because of his excessive laziness. One day, Emelya went to the river for water, lowered a bucket into an ice hole and pulled out a pike. Emelya was happy with his catch, now the granny would cook some fat fish soup, but the pike suddenly turned to Emelya in a human voice. The pike asked Emelya to let her go back into the river, because she had many children, who could now become orphans.

Emelya let the pike go, and the pike, in gratitude, promised him that it would fulfill any of his wishes, all he had to do was say: “By the pike’s command, by my desire...”

First, Emelya, having decided to check how the pike would fulfill his wish, ordered the buckets to go home themselves. And then he ordered the cart to go to the forest for firewood, and the axes and saws to chop and saw the branches themselves. And when the work was done, Emelya wished that Princess Marya would fall in love with him.

At this time, the king decides to marry Marya to an overseas prince in order to strengthen the position of his kingdom in foreign policy. However, Marya flatly refuses to marry the prince, because she loved another. Then the overseas prince declares war on the kingdom and leads his army against it.

The kingdom is in danger, and his army can no longer save either the king or the princess, but then Emelya comes to the rescue, who single-handedly defeats the entire overseas army. In gratitude, the king wants to make Emelya his first minister, but Emelya is too lazy to be a minister, instead he asks the king to give him Marya...