Original subtitles

Tashkent Film Studio Production, 1943

Two Soldiers

Screenplay by Yevgeni Gabrilovich Based on story by Lev Slavin

Director Leonid Lukov

Mark Bernes Boris Andreyev Vera Shershnyova

There were no significant changes on the Leningrad front. There were local battles...

I don't like that statue.

You know, Okulita, all the figures here are placed according to the plan of famous architects.

That one, though, doesn't look right to me. Check it out

Can you see now?

That's right, there's toads with mortars behind that stone weirdo.

What are you talking about, it's a statue!

Statue, but toads are still there.

I can't hear you!

Speak louder!

Aye, aye, to get ahead of the enemy's attack

Aye, aye, after the signal.

Yes, I got it.

Aye, aye, to break through

Stop!

Let me go, comrade senior lieutenant

Grenades! Aye, aye!

Go!

Where to?! We are always together, comrade senior lieutenaunt

Do you see Dziubin? Yes I do

And now, huh? No I can't

There's Arkady.

Where? There he is!

Arkady!

Forward!

Hooray!

Andrey, give me more

My buddy is a right guy.

Sasha, tell the dudes a story.

Come on, stop it...

Tell us how you once raised an entire German SS division on their feet

Again this nonsense...

Do you guys know how Sasha from Uralmash once shot the gun?

That's a great story! Interested...

Allright!

Sasha found a mauser somewhere in the battle.

He grabbed a gun to his height.

Mauser of this size, cannon.

Right! It's a fabulous machine, the real thing.

But you need to shoot it.

And Sasha is not used to it, because he runs to the attack without weapons.

He dont need it, he's punching fascists with his bare hands.

We all wish we had fists like his.

Sasha, show the audience your musical fingers.

In a word, the boy is not rickety.

Surely you all remember that beautiful moment of quiet at our station

So Sasha decided to try his mortar cannon.

And what does this boy do? What?

He goes to the alley, picks a camomille

Quiet, quiet.

Hooks it on a tree like a target

and opens the shooting gallery.

Well, you still have to hit the camomille...

When such a child starts shooting, stopping is out of the question.

We won't talk about the sound of this gun either.

Mortar...

The thought for a while. And then the mortars hit from the left flank,

After the mortars - machine guns.

And the German artillery...

Stay calm...

And the German regimental artillery thought to Sasha's cannon

that it was our artillery preparation

And they start riveting on Sasha and camomille, on Sasha and camomille...

In a word, Sasha barely made it out of that alley alive

and immediately exchanged his jewel for tobacco.

And he did the right thing.

I ask you, how was it possible to work with that cannon

when it was missing the main part?

What was the main part that was missing?

What? What part?

Main part of every weapon is a head of his owner.

Sasha, transfer to our division, you will entertain the guys like a circus clown...

Artilleryman, may I have a moment of your time?

Listen Artilleryman, don't pick on Sasha, he's a billion times smarter than you, okay?

Drop it, Dziubin, we know your Odessans.

What Odessans? Sailors in combat or women and children under German bombs?

We know your Odessa.

Listen, don't touch Odessa, there's grief and blood.

I won't say a bad word for your beautiful city of Smolensk.

Come on, Dziubin.

Listen, if I hear anything like that again, I'll grind you to a pulp. Is it clear? Clear...

Whats happened, Arkady?

Nothing, Sashenka, just a little geography lesson.

Smoke up, artilleryman.

To the lookout: Kogtev, Kulachenko, Valtsov, Karavayev.

And you guys get the word home, we're staying with the third company.

What about you, Arkady?

I have one friend which I could write to

and he is together with me in this room.

And who are you writing to?

To mom

The night is dark, only bullets are whizzing over the steppe

Only wind rumbles in the wires, and faded stars twinkle.

I know that you don't sleep in this dark night, my lovely,

And you secretly wipe your tears by the cradle.

I love the depth of your gentle eyes so much,

I want to touch them now with my lips!

The dark night divides us, my lovely,

And severe, black steppe lays between me and you.

I do believe in you, my dear friend,

This faith protected me from the bullets in the dark night...

I am glad and calm in this deadly fight,

Because I know that you will love me, no matter what could happend to me.

The death is not scary, we have faced it many times on the steppe.

And even now it circles around me.

You are waiting for me and you cannot sleep by the cradle.

That's why I know: nothing wrong will happen to me!

Is Arkady Dziubin here? Yes

Arkady, a letter!

What happened, Arkady?

They threw a bomb in the middle of Deribasovskaya Street.

Its the most gorgeous street in the entire Soviet Union.

Destroy such beauty! It's a pity.

They smashed the Duke Richelieu monument.

Who's Duke Richelieu? What do you mean Who?

It's an honorary citizen of Odessa made of pure bronze on a pedestal.

Statue...

What have these bogeymen done!

Well, they made a mess everywhere, not only at your place

Everywhere? White acacia trees and fields of grand pianos everywhere?

Incredible spar rocks everywhere?

For the great Russian classicist Alexander Pushkin, Odessa was Odessa.

And for you Alexander Svintsov, its Everywhere...

And why am I so unlucky? People have normal second numbers,

and I have Svintsov, a giant flounder.

Well, stay with your pianos then.

Sasha?

What are you worried about, Arkady? Sasha won't be lost.

Who is worried? I'm not worried about him, I'm worried about him cleaning the machine gun.

Pass? Murmansk. Have you seen Sasha? No I haven't.

Pass? Murmansk. Did Sasha pass? He did, and so will you.

Sasha?

I'am.

Where did you go? I've been busy...

Are you mad at me?

Why is that? Oh, man! Go to sleep.

- Don't be offended. You know I'd sell my daddy for a good word. - I know.

By the way, you are wrong to think that.

And if I'm joking, you spit and ignore it.

And I am spitting.

You shouldn't do that either, because I love you like one of my own.

How much we have suffered, how many Germans we have put down. Just think.

That's the truth!

You won't find friendship like ours in the whole world. Where have you been?

They took me to the commander...

Guys, it's good to get some sleep, huh?

Yes...

Which commander? Can't you speak faster?

To the regiment commander.

What for?

He wanted to see me.

Why? Do you understand Russian?

He said to me: "Well done, Comrade Svintsov, you fought well,

competently."

And what you have done?

put down several Germans in hand-to-hand combat

How many?

Seven of them.

You're not kidding?

No, it's true.

Wow, that's Sasha from Uralmash...

Keep it down, guys.

Now you have supported the mark of our machine-gun crew.

Sleep, Arkady.

Good night

It was an ordinary Leningrad day in October 1941

Nothing can brake us Sasha - not a bullet, not a mine, not a shell.

Just don't jinx it

You know what I'm thinking of?

I will be sorry to part with you after the war.

Military friendship is the truest friendship Arkady

Why do we need to part?

Can't a sailor from Odessa and a blacksmith from the Urals live together?

Will you take me with you to Odessa after the war?

You can consider your ticket to Odessa is in your pocket.

I made a machine gunner out of you, I'll make a great sailor out of you.

You're not a sailor, Arkady, you're a welder.

That's right! What did I weld? I welded motor ships and then sailed on them.

And I've seen something, I've seen the world.

For example, how to say "be well Sasha" in French?

Bonjour, Sasha.

And in English - How do you do, Sasha?

And, for example, in Greek?

In Greek...

In Greek?

And when were we promised ammunition?

At midnight. Right, at midnight...

Let's go! Let's go.

So we have five more hours. What can we do Sasha?

I don't know.

I have a buddy here, I should give him a call.

Buddy?

Well, not a buddy, but a fellow countryman. A student.

Excuse me, Sasha, but is your fellow countryman wearing a skirt?

Well...

Well, it's clear. And what if we paid him a visit?

I don't know. She invited me when we met.

Look at him! He has a girlfriend, she's madly in love with him, and he's hiding it.

Just tell me where to go.

Freak!

Please, here.

Thank you!

It's that way for you.

It's her.

Who do you want? Hello, Tasia.

Hello. I am sorry, who are you?

Could you be wrong?

No

Are you Tasia? Tasia.

And He is Sasha. Sasha from Uralmash, you know him.

You and I met in line for lemonade in September.

I asked what your name was, and you said Tasia.

You remember, don't you? He kept buzzing my ears about you, and I see it was worth the buzzing.

Yes, we came especially from the front to see you, and you keep us at the door.

Well, come in, since you're already here.

You know, today a landmine fell in the zoo, they say it killed an elephant.

Ow ow ow, Elephant?

You hear what's going on in the rear, Sasha?

So I ask you, did that elephant have to leave his native and beloved patogonia

to lose his trunk here. Looser...

Well, it's a royal treat.

Eat, you came from the front, you need to eat.

Yes, thank you.

Sasha, the ration.

Aye aye, the ration.

Intelligent girl.

Ah, decent family, just look at her father.

Oh my God, what a beauty! A common front snack.

Eat up, Tasia.

But what about you?

Tss!

Are you an artist? No, Odessian.

When I hear a good music, I see a port, blue sea and I remember...

Scows full of mullet,

Kostya brought to Odessa,

And all the drayman stood up,

When he entered the pub.

The deep blue sea beyond the boulevard,

The chestnuts in bloom over the city,

And Konstantin takes the guitar,

And sings in a low voice:

I won't tell you for all of Odessa,

all of Odessa is very big.

But both Moldavanka and Peresip

Adored Kostya the sailor.

The fisherwoman Sonya once in May,

Sending a longboat ashore,

Was saying: Everybody know you,

And I see you for the first time!

In response, opening a pack of Kazbecks,

Kostya said to her coldly:

"You are an interesting oddgirl,

But you see, the thing is that

I won't tell you for all of Odessa,

all of Odessa is very big.

But both Moldavanka and Peresip

Adored Kostya the sailor.

The fountain was covered with bird cherries,

French Boulevard was in bloom.

"Our Kostya seems to have fallen in love,"

The longshoremen in the harbor shouted.

"This news was reported for a week

Fishermen everywhere were clamoring.

"For the wedding the longshoremen wore

the creaky squeaky shoes.

I won't tell you for all of Odessa,

all of Odessa is very big.

But whole Peresip was selebrating Day and night

At a sailor's merry wedding.

AIR ALERT, AIR ALERT...

My god, it is tenth time today! We should go to shelter.

What the point? You've forgotten that we are on a sixth floor.

It's a safest floor!

Jokes aside... I'm telling you seriously, the bomb goes off underneath

and the top five floors it pierces through like ice cream.

Believe me, I know a thing about bombs. Take a seat.

Sasha, why are you seating like a groom? Say something.

I'll tell. We have to go to the bomb shelter.

Do you know? We have one old man on this floor. He never goes to the shelter.

He is a math professor and he had calculated that Leningrad occupies about 100 square kilometers.

Then he calculated what area is occupied by his body.

he got by the theory of probability

that there is only one ten-millionth of a chance that the bomb would hit him.

and he never goes to the shelter.

So he's a fighting old man.

Oh!

I can't... We'll walk you out. Sasha, come on.

Anatoliy, Anatoliy...

Professor, are you here?

You said that according to the theory of probability...

I said a lot of things.

There was one elephant in all of Leningrad, and it was bombed.

What is the theory of probability here?

You're an engineer, aren't you? Yes.

Mechanical? No, civil engineer.

Well, I'm a construction engineer, too.

Have you seen a ship Temiriazev? Yes

It was built with these hands.

Did you build it?

Not only me, there were 500 welders.

What about your friend?

Blacksmith from Ural

And now you are machine gunners?

He is number one, I am the second. Sasha, where are you going?

To smoke outside.

A man of rare heart. And with a golden hands.

What do you want, girl?

Are you from the front?

Yes, from the front. Why?

How it is like there on the front?

It is hard on the front today

Today. And how will it be tomorrow?

It will be good tomorrow. What is your name?

Nastya.

Nastya, your mom must be looking for you. Go on, girl

Children...

Take a sit, comrade soldier.

No, thank you. I'll go now.

Plane dives, fires machine gun!

That's not a machine gun, he threw lighters on your roof.

Fire, ladies, fire!

May I have your last name?

Why do you need it?

We want to give you a commendation in the order

Arkady, we have to go.

Where did you disappear to? I took a walk.

Leaving already? Yes, it's time.

Bye, Tasia Bye, Sasha

Bye Bye

The front line was at the end of the tramway.

Did you like her?

Who, your Taisa?

And she liked you. Me? Come on.

She kept asking me about you.

Who you are and what you are, I got tired of this.

Come on, don't bullshit me.

What's the matter? You're a handsome guy, Sasha.

How handsome am I? You have a representative figure.

With a figure like yours... What?

Sasha, you're the handsomest guy in our whole platoon, for sure.

It's unthinkable to have success next to you.

And you're good too, you've got the girl and left...

Very nice, yes!

What am I saying?

I can see it myself, there's only one or two girls like that in the world.

Think about it, Arkady, if it wasn't for the war, I wouldn't have met her.

It's true - to whom is war, and to whom is mother.

And how much I love her, I won't tell anyone.

I won't tell her

Only can tell only to you: I love her from the first sight

I loved her as much as probably nobody love these days.

Do you know how I love her?

Almost as much as I love you.

I just don't understand why she fell in love with me.

She must have told you, if she liked me so much.

why don't you tell me?

Are we there already, Sasha?

Not yet, go back to sleep.

Aliosha, Aliosha.

Aliosha, do you hear me? M

Don't sleep, you can't sleep.

Aliosha, you can't sleep.

Write her the whole truth, how the commander called four men,

maybe to certain death.

Let her know that at this second

all the fighters remember all their lives and their loved ones.

And let her not believe that when called by the commander, the whole line always steps forward.

This is where the first one is needed.

And her Alexey was the first one.

And write to his son:

You father asked, Yashka listen to your mother.

Wash your hands before the lunch.

Wash, listen and take care of yourself.

Also write...

Alanin, take the razor. The death of stubble or a man's beautiful dream.

Thanks.

Kochevnikov, blue envelope.

Killed yesterday

And also write...

Degtiarev, Degtiarev

Write that people like Alexei don't live long in the world.

And the world forever relies on such people.

Shapiro

I am..

Misha

Thank you, Arkady You will return like new one, Misha

Scows full of mullet,

Kostya brought to Odessa,

And all the drayman stood up,

When he entered the pub.

The deep blue sea beyond the boulevard,

The chestnuts in bloom over the city,

And Konstantin takes the guitar,

And sings in a low voice:

I won't tell you for all of Odessa,

all of Odessa is very big.

But both Moldavanka and Peresip

Adored Kostya the sailor.

The fisherwoman Sonya once in May,

Sending a longboat ashore,

Was saying: Everybody know you,

And I see you for the first time!

Was it hot?

Yeah, it hasn't been like that yet.

So people were sweating here, and you and I, Sasha, were chilling in the shelter with the girl.

Have you got girls, Arkady?

No, Sasha's fiancée is in Leningrad.

Good girl?

It's nothing special, ordinary comrade.

But I have to tell you that even I didn't know what a braggart Sasha is.

I have a fiancée in Leningrad, he says.

She is madly in love with me.

They came to her, and she asks who we are, she doesn't know him.

And he starts yelling: it's me, your Sasha from Uralmash, I treated you with Selters water!

It's not interesting.

After he buzzed about Selters water for one and a half hour,

he also started remembering about the creamy toffees that they'd bought somewhere.

And that she had told him thanks for the streetcar ticket.

And then what happened?

The young lady was confused and let us in.

Then I notice that the bride keeps her eyes on me, but she doesn't pay any attention to Sasha.

Come on, Arkady.

And the groom's eyes are like this, and his hands are like this.

You know him, he was like against germans.

Well, I think it's okay, now he's going to blow this recreation room to pieces.

It makes me laugh.

First of all, she didn't recognize him and doesn't want to.

And secondly, to whom such beautiful impulses - to an ordinary civil engineer with a primitive face.

Who has seen the opera "Laugh, Pagliacci"? I've seen it.

So, she is not Colombina,

Sasha!

Sasha!

What do you need?

I know I'm cheap, but I'm friend as well.

And you tell my friend, when did you tell the truth? Then in the streetcar or here in the dugout?

Sasha, you've seen the guys, they needed to relax after the fight...

What I trusted to you alone, you had shamelessly blabbed out in a tap dancing.

It was for a joke. I will cut the throat of anyone who hurts you.

She is the one you have offended.

There are thousands of girls like her with all her blueprints.

Well, enough!!!

So that's it, we parted like ships at sea.

So, you argued, you broke up, and now you're enemies for life.

Why enemies? I love him, Comrade Major. And I think he loves you.

No, comrade major. No? And I think you're wrong.

Anyway, sit down, let's have some tea.

Thank you, comrad major Sit down! - Yes.

They say you Saratov guys drink tea till seventh sweat.

I am from Urals, comrade Major, but I will drink a tea.

I'm just asking you to understand that it's going to be hard for me now with Arkady.

I'm not offering you tea for trickery.

Drink it in peace, I won't let you down. Yes.

I just wanted to tell you that I had a friend, Fedya. We never told each other that we loved each other.

But we loved each other until the day he died.

He was killed in Finland. Here he is.

You, comrade Svintsov, are saying that it will be difficult for you and Dziubin.

And when I'm having a hard time, I always feel that Fedya is there for me.

I see

Ladoga, Ladoga!

Ladoga, I am Peter. Where's the fire from?

Bombing... Two planes down.

Aye aye, to observe.

Apparently they sniffed out where our battery was.

Fourth raid today.

Svintsov!

Comrade Svintsov!

Yes, comrade major. Where did you go?

was ordered to return to my place.

There was no such order. You are assigned as a second number to mashine gunner Okulita.

Aye, second number to machine gunner Okulita. Right, Dziubin needs to be punished.

Let him suffer separation. Go. Aye

It's okay, they'll make up.

I do believe in you, my dear friend,

This faith protected me from the bullets in the dark night...

I am glad ... Hello! Hi!

What do you think? I am assigned to you as a second number.

Are you? Yes.

And what happened to Sasha? And he assigned as a second to Okulita.

By the way by personal request.

By the way, Student, take a primus and check it,

Since Provisor Svintsov may have left it dirty.

I look at both of you, you shouldn't be working on a machine gun, you should be pushing strollers.

And I wouldn't trust you with that either.

What happen with you two? You were such a friends.

You don't have enough lye.

Tomorrow we go into battle, and the machine gun is not in order.

Why? Look here.

What do you say about Sasha? Not only did he show off, but he also told about me to Major Rudom.

Well, OK, life will show who is the man. You both should reconcile.

No, I'll wait a little bit. Let his conscience speak.

The day passed quietly. But it was clear to everyone that the enemy was preparing for another onslaught.

Our troops took up defensive positions.

By the evening it started...

Hello, Yanikov. Are you breathing? That's right, Comrade Major.

Tigrov, hello! Hello, comrade major.

Hello, comrade major Hi

How was it near that village, easier? Looks like, comrade major.

Are you new? Scaried?

No, not really, Comrade Major.

It turns out you can get used to it.

No time to get used to it. In twenty minutes artillery preparation will be over.

And then what? Their tanks will come at us.

Right, their tanks will come at you.

Tanks...

Tanks, Stepan, tanks... Stop panicking!

Thirty eight pieces, comrade major! Scaried?

Not very Scary. I don't believe you, it is scary.

Like now, enemy tanks were coming at our unit.

We were in a ditch.

The tanks came so close that they couldn't fire on us anymore,

but we could easily set the tank on fire.

A brave fighter is always stronger than a tank.

The boys prepared Molotov cocktails, waiting.

I didn't do well in that fight. What happened, comrade major?

I rushed, I couldn't stand it, I got up and ran. I got shot.

That didn't happen. Of course not.

If I had run, they would have shot me. Everybody to the places.

Rubtsov!

Yes

Help the guys get settled in. Yes, comrade major.

Do not open fire on the tanks, wait for my orders.

I know that, three hundred meters. I order you to wait!

Hmm! What does this strange maneuver mean?

I don't like this Nürnberg parade

These toads have already thought of something

Why didn't they shoot, why did they leave?

Apparently they wanted us to open fire and show our firing points.

And what if no, then what?

Then I don't understand. Let's see.

When you stop understanding the enemy, you can consider yourself defeated. And you are calm.

Dziubin! Aye!

Aye, comrade major!

You and your second, Svintsov, are going to...

I am Sorry, comrad major, my second is Galanin.

Right. It is what I am saying.

together with Galanin go to the place where the tanks turn and carefully observe the enemy.

Aye to observe the enemy!

Do you know, student, the smallest tank weight 10 tonns.

well

What is well? What kind of a loader would pick that up?

But who can stand our temper? Iron logic!

Look at that, That's just cheeky!

That's right, that's the clue. We have to help Dziubin.

Digemonkin to me with a machine gun. Aye Digemonkin, comrad major.

I am here Comrade Major, allow me to go with Oculita.

Allow us, comrade major. Allow.

Right. Take action! Aye!

Return to the place. Aye return to the place.

How's that?

Some friend takes the fire. With this boy I would drink hard after the fight.

He gave us a trifle, a life.

Wait, let me tie it.

Eh! To die with music!

Fire!!!

Fire on a tank landing party!

Guys

Have a water, guys?

I'll pour you a drink after the fight...

Do you have any water? Are you injured?

Not me, but my second. Sasha?! Heavily injured, ask for a water.

Wait, the water is coming. Where are you going?

Where are you going?

Here, give it

Don't let him be offended if he finds out about this flask later.

You're both too proud, you damn devils.

Svintsov, Svintsov, Sasha! Hm?

A bouquet for you.

Bouquet? From whom?

Not from the girl, of course. From a soldier.

So noticeable, quick, funny, just like in the movies.

Throw the bouquet away.

Where? To the trash

And a letter? And the letter too.

Free bed next to the window to the right. Aye

He won't take them One minute

Maybe you gave it to the wrong person?

No mistake, I gave it to Alexander Svintsov, like you've asked.

So, to throw it away? Yes, to the trash

To the trash?! Yes it's him. And a letter? And letter too.

Well, let him keep on showing off, he's a punk. How's his temperature?

Thirty seven. Is this a lot?

Its normal, even children knows. Yes

You may think that I am interested in this.

Comrades... And a letter?

so it will end up in the trash? It's about bouquet, and about a letter, I don't remember.

Sister Yes.

Tell me, What?

I am interested, what do you use to clean the hospital?

What you mean what? with a broom, of course.

That's what I thought.

And I think that this medical palace can be swept only with a flowers.

Funny thing..

I used to come to you and you'd tell me, "Here's a chair, take a sit".

Now you say, "Here's a chair, chop it up for firewood".

Funny thing..

Yes, Tasia, you have a letter.

A letter? Again from the front.

I had a dream today that he was badly wounded or killed, I don't remember.

I think I even cried in my sleep.

You know, this is a deeply wrong opinion. What?

That in our current situation the most important thing is calm.

Only movement, I assure you.

Aristarkh Pavlovich, have you ever been in love?

Yes, I am passionate about what I do.

No, that's not what I mean. Have you ever had a passion for a woman?

Of course not, honey. I'm a loner.

Professor, you're a serious man, you have a department at the university.

Tell me, is it possible to fall in love by letters?

You should ask Alexei Ivanovich.

He leads the literature department. He knows all about that.

I miscalculated. I chopped and chopped, but the stick wouldn't fit in.

Is it possible to fall in love at first sight, Aristarkh Pavlovich?

Here he writes: -It may seem strange to you Tasya, but I fell in love with you at first sight.

Yes? Yes.

Well, it depends on the impressionability of the subject

the heat, the source of life, so to speak, will be gone.

We have to run to the dungeon again, to the shelter.

I opened my soul to you, and you're rushing to a shelter.

After all, you yourself said that according to the theory of probability...

You know what? We had only one specialist on Egyptian writing in Leningrad,

and he was bombed as well.

You know, he's in the hospital. Who?

Sasha, Sasha Svintsov Ah, probably.

without fuel, electricity, and almost no bread, Leningrad residents lived through the entire harsh winter.

Spring came.

The city lived and fought

Sasha came out of the hospital.

Sasha!

Sasha!

Hello Sasha! Hello

You were coming to me, weren't you?

Why are you looking at me like that?

Don't you recognize me? I recognize you, Tasia.

You must have come straight from the hospital? No, I got out of the hospital a long time ago, four days ago.

Four whole days,

which means you've already been to my place.

You came, you knocked, no one opened and you left.

No, I didn't come.

You didn't?

And I've been waiting for you.

Are you offended?

Please don't think that I needed your packages.

This groceries was eaten by the whole apartment, by Aristarkh Pavlovich and my comrades.

What packages? Yours.

I was waiting for them not because of the groceries, but because of your letters.

My letters? Yes.

And I'm saving them, I carry all fourteen of them with me.

Here, take them.

Wait, Tasia

We need to get to the bottom of this

Take a seat, Tasia.

And you also wrote poetry.

When I'm in trouble in a hot, dashing fight, I remember you, my friend, I remember your love.

Arkady! What?

Arkady, I'm saying. It's my friend, you know him

We haven't seen each other for almost three months.

Do you know how hard it is there.

I need to see him, now, immediately. Good bye, Tasia!

Wait, where are you going?

And keep these letters Tasia, all what written in them is right

It may not be as beautiful, of course, but it's true and accurate.

Excuse me!

I'll be back soon, Tasia!

Volga, Volga, Volga, pillbox. Dziubin, Dziubin!

commander Dziubin in pillbox is surrounded by Germans

I know

Give a command, Arkady Calm

Command, Arkady

Arkady, why aren't they shooting?

Somehow it's calmer when they shoot.

They are not fools.

They built this pillbox and they know you can't take it with a bullet.

Come on...

More...

Go, Okulita!!!

So what do you say, student, to this landscape?

Yeah, now they won't come.

Relax, boys, it's just a lunch break.

What?

Here they are.

Okulita, to machinegun!!!

no more bullets!

Volga is listening!

Hold on for another hour, the Sixth Company should be here soon.

Comrade major! Private Seregin arrived! Wait

Do your best. Hold out for one more hour.

They ask if we could hold out for another hour.

In a cabin like this, comrade major, we can hold out even until new year.

Come on!

And all the comrades think so, too

Well, if not until the new year, then we'll last half an hour.

What is the day today?

Wednesday, 15th of April.

Remember this day, man. It's the happiest day of my life, did you get it?

I got it!

Dziubin speaking!

Yes, Dziubin, comrade major!

Running out of ammo!

Running out of ammo, I said.

Yes

Now we are...

How are you? It's hot!

Arkady, do you hear it? Planes...

He hadn't hold out. If only he could hold out for 15 minutes more...

Call Dziubin, call pillbox all the time. Aye

Arkady, I saw in a movie when the fighters ran out of ammunition, they sang a fight song,

and the enemies got scared and retreated.

It's unthinkable I know it is

What else can we do? Let's sing.

Let us sing of the glory of Leningrad, comrade in arms,

The words of its valor resound throughout the world.

Fathers stood up for him, the cannonade thundered.

And forever defended the immortal Leningrad

Live the holy city

Live the immortal city

Great warrior city,

our beloved Leningrad.

Flags on the Neva are swaying in the autumn night breeze

The night clear as daylight floats over the city

The city of Lenin is the only one in the whole world.

Those who trespass on its honour will find no mercy

Live the holy city

Live the immortal city

Great warrior city,

our beloved Leningrad.

Why aren't you singing, Okulita?

This is not helping...

Yes, we're out of ammunition and our song's over.

Toads, toads! Take the primus, Okulita, we'll give them a hand-to-hand fight.

I'm still breathing, Comrade Major.

Dziubin, honey, can you hold out for another ten minutes?

I'll try. Isn't that guy Sasha Svintsov there?

I'd say goodbye to him just in case.

Allo, Allo, Dziubin, Volga...

I'll bring ammo to pillbox.

I've sent four already, they didn't go through. I'll pass, Comrade Major.

The road is strewn with the bursts of mines and shells It is possible to pass

Is possible to pass, comrade major. Is it?

Possible. Bless you, go ahead.

Aye!

Where is sixths company, why it is delayed? Where is sixths company?

The sixth company successfully outflanked the Germans and rapidly advancing.

Dead...

Who's dead?

Arkady, are you alive?

These toads won't see death of Arkady Dziubin.

The End