Plot synopsis

One day, the Lion woke up to find a label on his tail bearing the words ‘Donkey’. The Lion was surprised and angry, but he didn’t dare tear off the label – after all, it bore a signature and a seal. He summoned all the animals, but no one dared to challenge the label, and they all decided that the Lion was no longer a Lion, but a Donkey. The Lion grew sad, lost weight, and began to give way to everyone, and one day at dawn, a donkey’s bray rang out from the Lion’s den.

The Fox had her eye on the wealthy Beaver. True, he had a family and children, but it is well known that foxes are cunning. And so the young Fox turned the old Beaver’s head; he forgot both his children and his good old Beaver wife. Soon, however, the old man grew tiresome to the Fox; he went inside, she went out the door. All she wanted was to dress up and eat well. Dinner here, lunch there! Oh, what a life for the Beaver—nothing but trouble. He gave up and went to his Beaver wife. But she wouldn’t let him in—‘Go to your Fox.’ He ran to the Fox, but there was another Beaver there.

Selected in the following festivals or events :

- Contemporary Russian Poets and Russian or Soviet Cinema, (kinoglaz.fr), 2026

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