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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 Lieutenant.

Do you see Dziubin? Yes I do.

And now, huh? No I can't.

There is Arkady.

Where? There he is!

Arkady!

Forward!

Hooray!

Andrey, give me more.

My mate is an alright guy.

Sasha, tell the dudes a story.

Come on, stop it...

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

Again this nonsense...

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

That's a great story! Interested...

Alright!

Sasha found a Mauser somewhere during the battle.

He grabbed a gun and held it high.

A Mauser of this size, like a cannon.

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

But you need to shoot it.

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

He doesn't need it, he's punching the 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 the boy do? What?

He goes to the alley, picks a camomile.

Quiet, quiet.

Hooks it to a tree, like a target,

and opens the shooting gallery.

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

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

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

Mortar...

It 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 then the German regimental artillery thought that Sasha's cannon

was our artillery preparation.

And they started firing on Sasha and the camomile, on Sasha and the camomile...

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

and immediately swapped his jewel for tobacco.

He did the right thing.

I ask you, how was it possible to handle that cannon

when it was missing the main part?

What main part was missing?

What? What part?

The main part of every weapon is the head of his owner.

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

Gunner, may I have a moment of your time?

Listen gunner, 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 about 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...

What's happened, Arkady?

Nothing, Sashenka, just a little geography lesson.

Smoke up, gunner.

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

And you boys get the word around, we're staying with the 3rd company.

What about you, Arkady?

I have one friend who I could write to

and he is together with me in this room.

Who are you writing to?

To mama.

♪ 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 love ♪

♪ 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 sets us apart, my love ♪

♪ And severe, black steppe ♪ ♪ lays between you and I. ♪

♪ 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 happen to me ♪

♪ The death isn't 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 dropped a bomb in the middle of the 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?

He'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, it's everywhere...

Why am I so unlucky? Normally people have second cousins,

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.

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

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

Sasha?

Yes.

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

Are you mad at me?

Why should I? Oh, man! Go to sleep.

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

By the way, you are wrong to think that.

If I'm joking, you spit and ignore it.

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 true!

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 had you done?

I put down several Germans in hand-to-hand combats.

How many?

Seven of them.

You aren't joking?

No, it's true.

Wow, that's Sasha from Uralmash...

Keep it down, boys.

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 comradery is the truest of friendship Arkady.

Why would 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 to be 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.

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

For example, how to say "Good day, Sasha" in French?

Bonjour, Sasha.

And in English. How do you do, Sasha?

And, for example, in Greek?

In Greek...

In Greek?

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 mate here, I should give him a call.

Mate?

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

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

Well...

Well, it's clear. What if we paid her 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.

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

You and I met in a line for lemonade in September.

I asked about your name 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, since you're already here, come in.

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

Aye aye aye, an 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 Patagonia

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, Odessan.

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 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" ♪

♪ "I see you for the first time" ♪

♪ In response, opening a pack of Kazbecks ♪

♪ Kostya said to her coldly: ♪

♪ "You are an interesting odd girl" ♪

♪ "But you see, the thing is that" ♪

♪ "I won't tell you 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 ♪

♪ The French Boulevard was in bloom ♪

♪ "Our Kostya seems to ♪ ♪ have fallen in love" ♪

♪ The stevedores in the harbour shouted ♪

♪ "This news was reported for a week" ♪

♪ Fishermen everywhere were clamouring. ♪

♪ "For the wedding the stevedores wore" ♪

♪ "the creaky squeaky shoes" ♪

♪ I won't tell you all of Odessa ♪

♪ All of Odessa is very big ♪

♪ But whole Peresip was celebrating ♪ ♪ Day and night ♪

♪ At a sailor's merry wedding. ♪

AIR ALARM, AIR ALARM...

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

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

It's the safest floor!

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

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

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

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

I'll say, we have to go to the bomb shelter.

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

He is a math professor and he has calculated the size of Leningrad to be about 100 square kilometres.

Then he calculated what area is occupied by his body.

He goes by the theory of probability and claims

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

So 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 the 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 mum must be looking for you. Go on, girl

Children...

Take a sit, comrade soldier.

No, thank you. I'll go now.

The plane dives, fires machine gun!

That's not a machine gun, he threw fires 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. Good-bye, Sasha.

Bye. Good-bye.

The front line was at the end of the tramway.

Did you like her?

Who, your Taisa?

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 man, Sasha.

How am I handsome? 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.

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 her 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.

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

I won't tell her.

I can only tell it to you: I loved her from the first sight,

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

Do you know how much 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 that 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?

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 moment

all soldiers remember all their lives and their loved ones.

And don't let her believe that when called upon 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 ask you Yashka to 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.

Thank you.

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.

Yes...

Misha.

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

♪ Scows full of mullet ♪

♪ Kostya brought to Odessa ♪

♪ And the drayman stood up ♪

♪ When he entered the pub ♪

♪ The deep blue sea ♪ ♪ beyond the boulevard ♪

♪ The chestnuts in bloom over the city ♪

♪ Konstantin takes his guitar ♪

♪ And sings in a low voice: ♪

♪ I won't tell you 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" ♪

♪ "I see you for the first time." ♪

Was it hot?

Yes, 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".

We came to her, and she asks who we are; she doesn't remember him.

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

It's not interesting.

After he buzzed about the 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 thanked him for the tram ticket.

Then what happened?

The young lady was confused but 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.

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

You know him, he was like that against the 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 recognise him and doesn't want to.

And secondly, to whom does such beautiful impulses go? 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? When in the tram or here in the dugout?

Sasha, you've seen the boys, they needed to relax after the battle...

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, Comrade Major Sit down! - Yes.

They say you Saratov boys 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 one another 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.

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 coming from?

Bombing... two planes down.

Aye aye, observe.

Apparently they sniffed out where our battery was.

Fourth raid today.

Svintsov!

Comrade Svintsov!

Yes, Comrade Major. Where did you go?

I was ordered to return to my position.

There was no such order. You are assigned as a second number to machine 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 will 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 gunner.

Are you? Yes.

What happened to Sasha? He assigned as a second to Okulita.

By the way by personal request.

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

as 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.

I wouldn't trust you with that either.

What happen with you two? You were such good 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, life will tell who this man is. 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 it, Comrade Major.

Are you new? Scared?

No, not really, Comrade Major.

It turns out you can get used to it.

No time to get used to it. In twenty minutes the artillery preparations 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!

38 pieces, Comrade Major! Scared?

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

Like now, enemy tanks were coming at our unit.

We were in a trench.

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

but we could easily set the tanks on fire.

A brave fighter is always stronger than a tank.

The boys prepared Molotov cocktails and were 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 positions.

Rubtsov!

Yes.

Help the boys get settled in. Yes, Comrade Major.

Don't open fire on the tanks, wait for my orders.

I know that, 300 metres. I order you to wait!

Hmm! What does this strange manoeuvrer mean?

I don't like this Nürnberg parade.

These toads have already thought us something.

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

Apparently they wanted us to open fire to reveal our firing points.

What if not, 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, Comrade Major, my second is Galanin.

Right. It is what I am saying.

Together with Galanin, go to the place where the tanks turned and carefully observe the enemy.

Aye to observe the enemy!

Do you know, Student, the smallest tank weights 10 tons.

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, Comrade Major.

I am here Comrade Major. Allow me to go with Oculita.

Allow us, Comrade Major. Allow.

Right. Take action! Aye!

Return to the position. Aye, return to the position.

How's that?

Some friend takes the fire. After the fight, I would drink hard with that boy.

He gave us a trifle, a life.

Wait, let me tie it.

Eh! To die with music!

Fire!

Fire on a tank landing party!

Boys.

Do you have some water, boys?

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, water is coming. Where are you going?

Where are you going?

Here. Give it.

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

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? In the trash bin.

And a letter? The letter too.

The free bed next to the window to the right. Aye.

He won't take them. One minute.

Maybe you gave them to the wrong person?

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

So, to throw it away? Yes, in the trash bin.

In the trash bin? 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?

It's normal, even children knows that. 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 with?

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

That's what I thought.

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, have a sit".

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

Funny thing...

Yes, Tasia, you have a letter.

A letter? From the front again.

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 faculty at the university.

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

You should ask Alexei Ivanovich.

He leads the literature faculty. 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 was released from 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 recognise me? I recognise 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?

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.

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.

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?

Keep these letters Tasia, all what is written in them is correct.

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 a pillbox is surrounded by the 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?

Yes, now they won't come.

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

What?

Here they are.

Okulita, to the machine gun!

No more bullets!

Volga is listening!

Hold on for another hour, the 6th 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!

All 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 that?

I got it!

Dziubin is speaking!

Yes, Dziubin, Comrade Major!

Running out of ammunition!

Running out of ammunition, I said.

Yes yes.

Now we are...

How are you? It's hot!

Arkady, do you hear it? Aeroplanes...

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 soldiers ran out of ammunition, they sang a fighting song,

and the enemies got scared and retreated.

It's unthinkable. I know it that.

What else can we do? Let's sing.

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

♪ The words of its valour 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.

Hallo, hallo, Dziubin, Volga...

I'll bring ammunition to the pillbox.

I've sent four already, they didn't get 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 the 6th Company, why is it delayed? Where is the 6th Company?

The 6th Company successfully outflanked the Germans and advanced rapidly.

Dead...

Who is dead?

Arkady, are you alive?

These toads won't see the death of Arkady Dziubin.

The End