The Tale of the Priest and his Worker Balda

(1940)

★ 6.7 IMDb · 26 votes

Genres: Animation

Year: 1940

Runtime: 22 мин

Country: Soviet Union

Director: Пантелеймон Сазонов

Cast: Леонид Пирогов, Елена Тяпкина, Андрей Тутышкин, Юлия Юльская, Ivan Zalesskiy

Plot

A self-loving and arrogant priest, strolling through the market square, is looking for a "cook, stable boy and carpenter" who would work for him diligently and a lot, and take only a little money for it. He meets a brave young man, Balda, who is hired as a servant by the popes for a purely symbolic payment - "a year for three cheeks on the forehead". Soon the Pope will have to learn the power of Balda's slap.