The third sage utters the phrase Festina lente ("The slower you go, the further you will "), but when he comes to the place where there are stone slabs with sayings carved on them, he and his students are next to the slab on which is written Quo altior gradus tanto profundior casus ("The higher you go, the deeper you fall").
Icarus flies not only parallel to the screen, but also into the depths, the clouds from which his monument is formed, approach in parallel with the screen, but he cannot escape them, although he had flown deep into the screen before.
1977 - X All-Union Film Festival in Riga - the 2nd prize in the section of animations was awarded the film "Icarus and the Wise Men."
The animated film was repeatedly released on DVD - in collections of cartoons: "The Magic Wings" (Soyuzmultfilm).