THE MAGIC SWAN GEESE
Oh, she is so musical!
Alisa Petrova! Is she here?
Yes, we are here!
Come on in!
So, you are going to start school?
Yes, we decided to go to school at six... I have been working with her...
She can read lips.
Can she say anything?
Yes, a few words. Her name.
She can even sing a song. The one she knew before the illness...
OK. Let's listen.
Alisa, please, sing the song.
Two geese lived at granny's And they were very happy.
One was grey, the other white. Those geese were very happy.
Well done, you sing well.
What is your name?
Alisa.
- Do you want to go to school? - Yes
And can you read?
Well, the audiogram does not.
Your medical history reads: "deafness acquired in early childhood".
But it was just the flu...
You missed the time when the experts could help.
What can you do now?
We have a good special school in the city...
She will learn how to read and write.
Girl, stop picking flowers, will you?
Hey, girl, stop picking flowers!
Mother, is she deaf or what?
Please, leave the kid alone. She cannot hear you.
Misha, hasn't your dad sent you the money?
No, Raissa Dmitrievna.
- Has he come to see you? - No…
You may go home, and come to the rehearsal tomorrow morning!
Take it.
So, nothing but a special boarding school?
Can't they offer anything else?
Nothing.
It's good that there is at least a boarding school.
Only… Different children study there.
Yes, good.
There are experts after all.
Only it’s a long way to travel there.
Natasha, I need to collect a certificate.
I have to prepare Alisa’s paper for school.
But I need to pay the rent first. I have a debt.
Could you, please, sit with Alisa? I’ll be back as soon as I can.
Nina, please, not today.
I’ve got an invitation to a ballet for tonight.
I am going with my friend.
Maybe, tomorrow?
But the appointment is for today.
Listen, what if I give you some money and you take her to the theater too?
Take… Whom?
Alisa.
Why! It's a waste of money. She won't hear anything!
But she will see!
When will she have another chance?
All right then.
Ok, let me act like a mother for a night,
since God has not given me kids of my own...
We'll go out with my friend next time.
Oh, Nina, please… Better buy a new doll for Alisa!
Well, I am ready.
Would you like to ask your daughter to sit down?
My partner cannot see anything.
Can’t you understand? The child is watching ballet!
Young men, please, offer a seat to the girl!
Welcome.
Thanks.
Look at her!
She asked for a seat for the girl, and seated herself too.
You say that from envy, because you have no children of your own.
- Hello! - Hello!
Hello my sweetie!
Listen… Yesterday…
- Good afternoon, Raissa Dmitrievna! - Hello.
Alisa was so impressed by the ballet!
She stood up to see it better!
I had never seen such reaction before.
Oh, yeah… She did like it!
Natasha, have you got pointe shoes in a small size?
Yes, of course!
Oh… Alisa…
Nina, will you ask her to give them back.
Alisa, please, give the shoes back…
Stubborn!
Give them to me, I say!
Ok, Nina, never mind…
What a character!
- Natasha, how much are they? - Please, don't…
No, let me pay now. If inspection – you need to have balance.
The pointe run away?
Have you got another pair?
We have ordered them and expect them in a month.
Oh…
We are having an examination concert in June...
Hmm… A girl of character!
Have you seen a girl with pointe shoes?
There! She ran that way...
Thanks!
HAPPINESS IS NOT FAR AWAY
Girly, where's your mom?
Oh, I see! Have you run away from home to become a ballerina?
Мама не хочет чтобы ты стала баллериной
I also ran away from home to become a ballerina.
Do you want to become a ballerina?
You are graceful, but you have to learn.
You know, I can be your fairy!
I'll write you a message now!
Here it is. Take it and come to the ballet school with your mom!
Come to the ballet school with your mom!
Now go home.
These young people…
Shouldn’t they say “Thank You!”
Alisa!
Sweetie, why did you run away?
Please, forgive me.
I paid for the shoes, now they are yours!
Yours!
She is in bed.
She has had too much running.
I feared she was going to drown herself in the Kama…
I rushed to the boat station, and was looking for her in the park...
No wonder… Four hours of looking for her! Where did you find her?
Try to guess!
Near the theater?!
Yes, she was already near the Ballet School!
Вот беда то!
Oh… What are you going to do?
How are you going to explain her that she will not be admitted?
When I told her that I had paid for the pointe shoes, she rushed to hug me!
I thought she would hug me to death!
So, what is going to happen?
I don't know…
They also gave her a note…
Look!
"Please, listen to this young lady. Irina Aleksandrovna.
Room 20, tomorrow, at 10 a.m. Ask for Natalia Viktorovna".
That's another story! Congratulations!
Natasha, what are you congratulating us on?
It is about an audition!
A minute your daughter was going to drown herself, and now you don’t want to give her a chance!
Natasha, she reads our lips!
Alisa.
Let's have dinner, go to bed,
and tomorrow we will go to the school.
Darling, this is an audition…
How will you manage?
I will.
Two geese lived at granny's And they were very happy.
One was grey, the other white. Those geese were very happy.
Come on in, quick! It's time to start the lesson!
Good morning, start stretching!
So, what is your name?
Alisa.
Well, Alisa, what are we going to sing?
Two geese lived at granny's And they were very happy.
One was grey, the other white. Those geese were very happy.
Well done, Alisa.
Now repeat after me: Do-re-mi-fa-a-a sol la si do!
Repeat after me!
Two geese lived at granny's…
You see, my daughter... is… deaf...
She lost her hearing at the age of three…
Why didn't you tell me that right away?
She sings well for a deaf girl.
Well, she used to sing, but then she got sick...
It happened... I am trying to say...
Do you realize that we have the toughest competition in the city?
Twenty candidates for one student position!
We have children from different countries.
And you bring here… a deaf girl, with bandy legs?
Irina Aleksandrovna, apparently, was mistaken!
Sorry, I have to start the lesson.
We are sorry.
As for her legs, they will straighten as she grows…
She is too young.
So, what? Is she still lying? Refusing to eat?
Have you tired offering her candies?
Yes, it's hard...
Do you still keep that note?
Irina Aleksandrovna...
Nina.
Yesterday the Principal of Diaghilev Gymnasium came to my store.
They were buying white ballet tutu skirts for their girls.
Why not try Diaghilev Gymnasium?
They also have ballet classes there.
Natasha, miracles do not happen.
She is deaf!
The only place where she can study is the special school.
But it is too far away to commute every day!
There is a boarding school.
For a child with a living mother. Like an orphan.
Let's try the gymnasium.
I will have a word with Raissa Dmitrievna.
The piano needs tuning...
She seems to have another idea in her head.
So, let's try Diaghilev School!
Natasha, she can read our lips!
I LOVE YOU
We will need a lot of money, she needs a special tutor,
I cannot afford it.
Why don't you resume sewing?
You have a magic touch!
The dress you made for the wedding – everyone envied you!
But I have already forgotten everything!
Forget it!
It is not for you!
Let to read and write first!
Hold your back! Chin up!
Lighter! Lighter!
Good!
Look at her! Why did you climb there?
You are going to fall!
Do come down from the tree! Right now!
Nina, why didn't you lock the door? Something happened?
Alisa ran to Diaghilev Gymnasium again.
And what are you holding in your hands?
Nothing...
No, no, let me have a look!
You started sewing again!
Great!
With that dissertation of yours – you nearly missed the child!
What did it give you?
Your salary is below the lowest!
If you had stayed at home, Alisa would have been healthy!
Natasha, please, stop grumbling.
My heart is bleeding without your comments.
Nina.
Let's go to talk with Raissa Dmitrievna!
! She is the one who can help!
Well, it's up to you!
I must go, it's time to work!
And lock the door!
Did you invite me?
And who are you?
A piano-tuner.
Where is your piano?
Here it is!
Сейчас пыль протру.
Sending your daughter to a musical school?
For myself...
My daughter has problems, she lost hearing after an illness.
Well...
Beethoven, too, became deaf when he was thirty.
He would lie down on the piano
to hear the music he was writing with his body.
And at the concerts, he would turn to the public to see the applause.
He was famous. Don't worry about your daughter.
Well, I’m done! Check the job.
How much?
As agreed.
Thanks.
You are welcome!
- Goodbye! - Bye!
I can’t enroll her.
If I did, it would burden all the teachers.
Each of them is a personality with temper.
But I can recommend a good ballet tutor.
Your girl can attend a special school
and practice dancing with a tutor at the same time.
But the special school is so far away...
Try to see my point.
This way, you will need to pay only a ballet tutor.
In our school, you will have to hire tutors in all the subjects.
If she fails the tests,
I won't be able to issue her a secondary education certificate.
Do you understand?
Yes…
Raissa Dmitrievna, I am guilty...
I delayed the bell by five minutes,
because I was trying to get one girl to come down from a tree...
The ninth grades are writing a test. Just go and tell them.
What class are you from?
Why aren't you in class?
I don’t like your silent game! Let's go to see the Principal.
I nearly passed out chasing her around the school.
I can’t remember which class she is in.
When I ask her she says nothing.
I don't remember her either. What is your name?
Alisa.
Hah…Those pointe shoes, that ran away, found their way to us!
You are very quick! What a character!
And what is your last name, Alisa?
Petrova...
She is the girl from the tree! I did not recognize her!
Well, Alisa Petrova, let's go to find out which class you are in - I cannot remember.
Maria Petrovna, would you like to bring me all the registers.
How long are you going to lie here?
Come out!
Look at her!
A note from Irina Alexandrovna from the ballet school!
Ma'am, you've come very early. Why?
Sorry, did you happen to see a girl, a bit special?
With pointe shoes.
Oh yeah, I did. I saw your troublemaker.
I nearly passed out chasing her.
There she is, at Principals’s office.
Go along the corridor, turn left, ask there.
- Thank You. - Welcome.
Well, Alisa Petrova, you are not on the lists.
No...
So, what are we going to do?
Raissa Dmitrievna, forgive us, for Goodness's sake.
I cannot do anything with her... It is such a nuisance...
A-a-ah, is this your girl?
But you said she was deaf. How could she answer me?
She can read lips.
Yes, you told me...
Please, take a seat…
Your young lady messed things up – it will take me a month to sort them out.
Only the buns that she scattered across the floor cost three thousand rubles!
You are in hurry…
The school needs refurbishing, I have my hands full…
And now one more nuisance: Alisa Petrova.
And it is good of you not to eat sweets.
A ballerina should eat healthy, some soup in the morning...
Where's she?
Alisa!
Oh mine! She is so little, but she's learned everything correctly!
She the one from the tree! Amazing!
Here is a list of documents that you should submit.
And the young lady should go to her class.
There is no excuse to skip classes. It's the first of September.
And don't forget a release letter from the special school.
I do think we will manage. She's got character.
She found a way to enroll herself, so she will study on her own...
Nadezhda Igorevna, take her to your class!
You both, go home! Quick!
Tomorrow you are having a math test!
Well, has the girl left?
Yes. She keeps practicing every day, until late at night.
She will succeed!