1 00:00:11,500 --> 00:00:17,500 BELARUSFILM 2 00:00:31,019 --> 00:00:34,300 CENTRAL PARTNERSHIP 3 00:00:43,000 --> 00:00:45,128 Brest Fortress was built in the middle of the 19th century 4 00:00:45,169 --> 00:00:48,089 at the western border of Russian Empire. 5 00:00:48,131 --> 00:00:50,341 Powerful fortifications, fort systems made this citadel impregnable. 6 00:00:50,425 --> 00:00:53,344 New arms minimized the defensive qualities of the fortress... 7 00:00:53,428 --> 00:00:55,471 but not of the people who protected it. 8 00:00:55,555 --> 00:00:58,516 About 20 years after WWII Sergey Smirnov wrote a book 9 00:00:58,558 --> 00:01:00,768 that revealed the truth about defenders of the fortress. 10 00:01:00,893 --> 00:01:04,856 On May 8 1965 Brest Fortress was awarded the honorary title "Hero Fortress". 11 00:01:05,064 --> 00:01:07,984 In memory of the fortress heroes, 12 00:01:08,025 --> 00:01:10,400 in memory of defenders of the motherland. 13 00:01:14,000 --> 00:01:19,500 TV and Broadcasting Company of the Union State presents 14 00:01:22,300 --> 00:01:25,000 With the support of Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation 15 00:01:25,100 --> 00:01:28,200 With the support of Federal Fund for Social and Economic Support for Cinematography 16 00:01:42,560 --> 00:01:46,439 THE BREST FORTRESS 17 00:01:50,300 --> 00:01:53,300 21 June 1941. Brest. City park. 18 00:01:53,700 --> 00:01:54,989 We can have some ice cream. 19 00:01:55,073 --> 00:01:57,158 Tell me about the movie. 20 00:01:58,242 --> 00:02:00,286 Let's have some ice cream! 21 00:02:06,292 --> 00:02:11,506 I remember everything. 22 00:02:11,714 --> 00:02:17,845 At the city park, as always on Saturdays, there was dancing. 23 00:02:25,311 --> 00:02:27,397 This is me. 24 00:02:28,189 --> 00:02:30,358 Alexander Akimov. 25 00:02:30,483 --> 00:02:35,571 A foster student of musical platoon with the 333rd regiment. 26 00:02:36,656 --> 00:02:41,702 My parents were killed in Spain in 1937. 27 00:02:41,828 --> 00:02:44,914 My brother was my only family left. 28 00:02:45,957 --> 00:02:48,084 And this is Anya. 29 00:02:48,167 --> 00:02:50,336 Just Anya. 30 00:02:50,378 --> 00:02:57,635 But for me she was more than "just" Anya. 31 00:02:59,721 --> 00:03:02,849 Hold on a minute. I'll be right back. 32 00:03:20,408 --> 00:03:23,494 Sasha, why are you not with the unit? 33 00:03:25,621 --> 00:03:26,956 Moska asked me to help. 34 00:03:26,998 --> 00:03:30,800 All their musicians left. Last trumpet player left on Wednesday. 35 00:03:30,918 --> 00:03:35,006 - Foster student of musical platoon Akimov! - Yes, sir. 36 00:03:35,200 --> 00:03:38,100 I order you to return to the Fortress immediately! 37 00:03:38,176 --> 00:03:42,200 What are you yelling for? You are neither my father, nor the commander! 38 00:03:42,300 --> 00:03:43,660 Why are you yelling in public? 39 00:03:43,723 --> 00:03:46,559 Tell starshina Kovalenko to punish you. 40 00:03:46,642 --> 00:03:48,450 I'll be back to check on it. 41 00:03:48,561 --> 00:03:50,200 And don't play so out of tune. 42 00:03:50,563 --> 00:03:51,856 About turn! 43 00:03:52,300 --> 00:03:54,300 Forward march! 44 00:04:00,156 --> 00:04:02,400 And he calls himself my brother. 45 00:04:04,285 --> 00:04:07,246 Family of military officer, please get together! 46 00:04:07,288 --> 00:04:09,457 - Anya, come here. - I am here. 47 00:04:11,200 --> 00:04:13,503 Freeze! 48 00:04:13,711 --> 00:04:16,631 It's easier to manage the regiment than you lot. 49 00:04:48,121 --> 00:04:50,206 This is my home. 50 00:04:51,124 --> 00:04:53,292 My fortress. 51 00:04:53,376 --> 00:04:56,295 It's quite big. 52 00:04:56,462 --> 00:05:00,425 Hard to explore all of it. 53 00:05:00,550 --> 00:05:05,763 But I knew some places here that if I wanted to hide... 54 00:05:05,888 --> 00:05:08,891 no one would find me. 55 00:05:44,510 --> 00:05:46,100 Thank you. 56 00:06:01,110 --> 00:06:07,200 Brest city. Railway station. 57 00:06:22,757 --> 00:06:26,010 There are no tickets today! 58 00:06:26,094 --> 00:06:31,265 I'm telling you all, there are no tickets today! 59 00:06:32,392 --> 00:06:35,311 There are no tickets. 60 00:06:35,353 --> 00:06:38,439 No army reservation. Nothing. 61 00:06:38,481 --> 00:06:42,568 I have only three days to go there and come back. 62 00:06:42,652 --> 00:06:44,278 Ask those who told you that to give you tickets. 63 00:06:44,500 --> 00:06:45,947 We don't have any. 64 00:06:46,030 --> 00:06:47,800 There's nothing I can do. 65 00:06:48,000 --> 00:06:51,000 Listen, my wife and my little child are in Daugavpils. 66 00:06:51,200 --> 00:06:53,162 I must bring them to my place of duty. 67 00:06:53,246 --> 00:06:55,900 July 20th. That's all I can do. 68 00:06:56,100 --> 00:06:58,000 Remove the reservation. 69 00:07:00,336 --> 00:07:03,923 Comrade commissar, I'm telling you as I would to my own relative. 70 00:07:04,507 --> 00:07:06,551 I am forbidden to touch the reservation. 71 00:07:06,634 --> 00:07:09,700 That's only for certain orders. 72 00:07:09,971 --> 00:07:11,931 That means no? 73 00:07:12,014 --> 00:07:17,061 Maybe it's for the better. Why bring them here when everyone is leaving? 74 00:07:18,146 --> 00:07:21,232 What exactly do you mean? 75 00:07:23,484 --> 00:07:27,488 So hot. Like in a desert. 76 00:07:27,572 --> 00:07:29,532 What a day! 77 00:08:04,067 --> 00:08:06,110 Hello, comrade commissar. 78 00:08:10,239 --> 00:08:11,532 Hi, Nikolai. 79 00:08:13,326 --> 00:08:15,800 - Bringing a movie? - Yes, I am. 80 00:08:34,430 --> 00:08:38,601 Come on, come on, come on! 81 00:08:50,113 --> 00:08:52,115 Tugushev. 82 00:08:57,245 --> 00:09:00,456 Kolya is fast, but Tugushev is faster. 83 00:09:06,462 --> 00:09:13,136 Dear, I could not come yet. All is quiet at the fortress. There will be no war. 84 00:09:15,012 --> 00:09:20,017 I am just unlucky. Let's play again. 85 00:09:23,312 --> 00:09:25,440 You didn't leave, comrade commissar? 86 00:09:25,523 --> 00:09:29,485 How can I leave you? 87 00:09:39,100 --> 00:09:40,800 Brought a movie? 88 00:09:42,300 --> 00:09:43,700 Yes, I did. 89 00:09:44,292 --> 00:09:47,420 - ...and some beer. - Maybe we can do without beer? 90 00:09:48,212 --> 00:09:51,174 Tomorrow is Sunday. 91 00:09:51,549 --> 00:09:53,593 People rest on Sundays. 92 00:09:53,676 --> 00:09:55,678 So I'll have some rest too. 93 00:09:56,554 --> 00:09:57,889 Three beers. 94 00:10:04,937 --> 00:10:07,023 And mineral water for the children. 95 00:10:07,231 --> 00:10:09,275 He remembered the children! 96 00:10:13,237 --> 00:10:15,323 We didn't forget anything, did we? 97 00:10:15,448 --> 00:10:17,575 Let's go. 98 00:10:44,160 --> 00:10:46,246 Did you bring it? 99 00:10:47,414 --> 00:10:49,416 Yes, I did. 100 00:10:51,459 --> 00:10:53,753 Probably about love again? 101 00:10:55,000 --> 00:10:56,798 About love. 102 00:11:10,186 --> 00:11:12,230 I got in trouble, comrade starshina. 103 00:11:13,398 --> 00:11:16,693 I suppose to punish you? Where did he see you? 104 00:11:17,527 --> 00:11:20,613 I played out of tune. And my brother has a good ear. 105 00:11:20,655 --> 00:11:23,742 - What did you play? - "On the hill." 106 00:11:23,825 --> 00:11:25,827 Learn it by the morning. 107 00:11:25,910 --> 00:11:28,038 You will play it tomorrow. 108 00:11:36,338 --> 00:11:37,589 Stop music! 109 00:11:39,549 --> 00:11:42,635 Hrush, what are you doing? 110 00:11:42,677 --> 00:11:45,638 Comrade lieutenant, this is some kind of "Swan Lake." 111 00:12:13,875 --> 00:12:17,087 So when do you think the war with Germany will start? 112 00:12:20,090 --> 00:12:28,348 I've been assigned to investigate the spread of panic rumors about war with our ally. 113 00:12:28,640 --> 00:12:33,603 I believe and see that you are a communist, an honest man. 114 00:12:33,687 --> 00:12:35,730 How could it happen then, Pyotr Mihailovich, 115 00:12:35,772 --> 00:12:38,300 that you are being called a panic-monger? 116 00:12:39,109 --> 00:12:42,153 Ask those who call me that. 117 00:12:49,536 --> 00:12:51,579 Help me, Pyotr Mihailovich. 118 00:12:52,100 --> 00:12:54,100 My rank is not very high. 119 00:12:54,600 --> 00:12:56,543 But tasks before me are huge. 120 00:12:56,626 --> 00:12:59,713 I clearly see that you are not at fault here. 121 00:13:00,797 --> 00:13:04,009 Who is spreading the panic? 122 00:13:06,011 --> 00:13:10,100 I asked you to come here, so we could talk candidly. 123 00:13:10,390 --> 00:13:13,200 - Who is it, comrade major? - Me. 124 00:13:15,312 --> 00:13:20,775 I blurted it out a couple times without thinking that the Germans are going to attack soon. 125 00:13:22,777 --> 00:13:27,032 Haven't heard anything like this from anyone else. 126 00:13:28,074 --> 00:13:31,000 There is no panic. 127 00:13:33,900 --> 00:13:36,100 Sleep soundly. 128 00:13:42,714 --> 00:13:51,014 Look, lieutenant, if they attack, we'll all be trapped here like in a boiler. 129 00:13:51,848 --> 00:13:54,600 8 thousand soldiers in the Fortress. 130 00:13:54,900 --> 00:13:59,000 This mass of people will not have time to exit through the Northern Gates. 131 00:13:59,147 --> 00:14:01,316 Everyone with their children, women, old ladies. 132 00:14:01,450 --> 00:14:04,500 With all their stuff. 133 00:14:07,100 --> 00:14:10,784 Most of the soldiers should be moved outside fortress walls, 134 00:14:10,825 --> 00:14:12,786 where main army units are positioned. 135 00:14:12,827 --> 00:14:16,600 This is what I, a commander who has been through two wars, have been saying! 136 00:14:16,700 --> 00:14:18,333 And will continue saying! 137 00:14:18,500 --> 00:14:20,168 And what about the fourth army? 138 00:14:20,251 --> 00:14:23,700 They will not abandon us here? Right? 139 00:14:24,100 --> 00:14:30,512 They will not, if everyone is where they are supposed to be! 140 00:14:30,553 --> 00:14:33,723 Here soldiers are in one place, commanders are in another. 141 00:14:33,807 --> 00:14:37,500 Where soldiers are without a commander panic breaks out. 142 00:14:37,769 --> 00:14:40,600 That's common knowledge, comrade lieutenant. 143 00:14:47,237 --> 00:14:49,100 I understood you. 144 00:14:49,500 --> 00:14:52,000 And I find our conversation to have been very useful. 145 00:14:53,618 --> 00:14:56,100 But please keep it secret. 146 00:14:56,663 --> 00:15:00,200 The hearing for your case is scheduled for the 27th. 147 00:15:01,600 --> 00:15:03,600 Allow me to go, comrade lieutenant. 148 00:15:04,200 --> 00:15:07,800 - A movie is starting at the clubhouse. - Yes, sure. 149 00:15:16,474 --> 00:15:19,000 - Hurry up. - We'll be on time. 150 00:15:49,841 --> 00:15:52,500 Sonya. 151 00:15:53,928 --> 00:15:55,800 Will you stay? 152 00:15:55,860 --> 00:15:58,000 Look how some people live. 153 00:16:47,232 --> 00:16:49,100 Thank you, comrade major. 154 00:16:49,800 --> 00:16:52,000 [German speech.] 155 00:17:30,984 --> 00:17:32,700 Petya. 156 00:17:33,900 --> 00:17:35,700 Your tea is cold. 157 00:17:36,700 --> 00:17:38,700 Go to bed, Katya. 158 00:18:05,050 --> 00:18:11,200 This is how German subversaries appeared in Brest dressed in our uniforms. 159 00:18:11,608 --> 00:18:16,300 Loss of power and water in the Fortress was the work of their hands. 160 00:18:23,200 --> 00:18:25,000 What's wrong? 161 00:18:25,622 --> 00:18:28,876 Today another defector from the Poles came to our outpost. 162 00:18:29,710 --> 00:18:32,200 He said war is going to start today at 4am. 163 00:18:34,089 --> 00:18:37,000 - You believe it? - Of course not. 164 00:18:37,176 --> 00:18:39,303 Only this week alone we caught ten of them, 165 00:18:39,344 --> 00:18:43,200 and each one keeps saying that today or tomorrow the war is going to start. 166 00:18:43,307 --> 00:18:45,517 Actually, I'm upset because of Anya. 167 00:18:45,601 --> 00:18:49,400 Our girl has grown up. Before she used to tell me everything. 168 00:18:49,646 --> 00:18:53,500 But now, whatever I ask, she just shrugs her shoulders and that's the end of it. 169 00:18:54,776 --> 00:18:56,862 Maybe she is sick? 170 00:18:57,112 --> 00:19:00,157 This sickness is called Sasha Akimov. 171 00:19:00,600 --> 00:19:03,118 Our Anya fell in love. 172 00:19:06,200 --> 00:19:07,800 That's how it is, daddy. 173 00:19:12,586 --> 00:19:15,100 Remember you said we'd go fishing? 174 00:19:15,714 --> 00:19:17,883 No, your parents won't let you go. 175 00:19:17,966 --> 00:19:20,400 I'll leave quietly, when everyone is asleep. 176 00:19:21,887 --> 00:19:26,900 Alright, Anya, you play for a bit, and I'll go have a smoke. 177 00:19:53,210 --> 00:19:55,254 Let's get married! 178 00:19:56,380 --> 00:19:58,500 Did you ask, if I want to? 179 00:20:00,592 --> 00:20:02,400 You don't believe me? 180 00:20:03,200 --> 00:20:04,800 I'll be right back. 181 00:20:08,600 --> 00:20:10,200 I'll be right back. 182 00:20:53,812 --> 00:20:55,800 Hello. 183 00:20:56,600 --> 00:20:59,300 - Last name? - Kolya. 184 00:20:59,943 --> 00:21:02,196 I brought the movie. 185 00:21:38,732 --> 00:21:44,863 22 June 1941 03:58 186 00:23:54,159 --> 00:23:55,900 Trainings? 187 00:23:56,286 --> 00:23:58,163 Can't we get some sleep. 188 00:24:06,400 --> 00:24:08,400 I'll go see what's going on. 189 00:24:12,245 --> 00:24:13,900 Get down! 190 00:24:15,700 --> 00:24:17,050 What is this? 191 00:24:17,200 --> 00:24:18,700 Trainings. 192 00:24:38,100 --> 00:24:39,313 Run! 193 00:24:39,355 --> 00:24:41,440 - Where? - Home. I'll find you. 194 00:24:41,600 --> 00:24:42,850 And you? 195 00:24:43,568 --> 00:24:46,400 - Where's Anya? - Don't worry, we'll find her. 196 00:24:46,612 --> 00:24:48,300 Where's Anya? 197 00:24:58,400 --> 00:25:00,800 Petya, is this war? 198 00:25:02,620 --> 00:25:05,706 - Katya! Come on! - Did you take everything? 199 00:25:06,300 --> 00:25:07,500 Hold tight. 200 00:25:07,708 --> 00:25:08,918 Run! 201 00:25:26,519 --> 00:25:29,400 Katya, do everything like I taught you. 202 00:25:29,600 --> 00:25:31,500 Go hide in the basement. 203 00:25:31,774 --> 00:25:33,500 - Petya! - Stay calm. 204 00:25:35,000 --> 00:25:36,600 Come on, sonny. 205 00:25:36,904 --> 00:25:40,074 - Your hat. - When it quiets down, I'll come find you. 206 00:25:48,457 --> 00:25:50,700 She will find us, won't she? 207 00:25:51,669 --> 00:25:53,400 Stay here. 208 00:25:53,671 --> 00:25:55,756 - And you? - Don't go outside without me. 209 00:25:58,843 --> 00:26:00,300 I'm leaving. Bye. 210 00:26:00,500 --> 00:26:02,300 Run. Run! 211 00:26:02,972 --> 00:26:06,100 Andrey! 212 00:26:06,183 --> 00:26:07,400 Mom! 213 00:26:11,313 --> 00:26:12,440 Hold her. 214 00:26:21,907 --> 00:26:24,600 Don't fall for provocations! 215 00:26:25,400 --> 00:26:29,039 Go! Go! Go! 216 00:28:46,635 --> 00:28:49,600 I had imagined war. 217 00:28:49,805 --> 00:28:56,000 But I could not have imagined war. Not this war. 218 00:28:56,145 --> 00:28:58,100 Everyone was expecting it. 219 00:28:58,355 --> 00:29:02,485 But nobody expected it to come so suddenly. 220 00:29:04,320 --> 00:29:06,900 Simple and scary. 221 00:29:40,940 --> 00:29:43,000 I was running to that house. 222 00:29:43,109 --> 00:29:45,052 That was the meeting place. 223 00:29:45,194 --> 00:29:46,950 In case of war. 224 00:29:58,833 --> 00:30:02,600 That was written in the instructions manual. 225 00:30:02,878 --> 00:30:05,700 But that manual was probably left there. 226 00:30:05,900 --> 00:30:07,850 In the house that was destroyed. 227 00:30:08,000 --> 00:30:10,000 - You can't go there! - Let me in! 228 00:30:10,400 --> 00:30:12,300 No arms without commander's orders! 229 00:30:20,200 --> 00:30:22,100 I was not allowed to carry arms. 230 00:30:24,817 --> 00:30:28,300 But I had my own weapon. 231 00:30:31,073 --> 00:30:35,035 For which I did not need permission. 232 00:31:11,655 --> 00:31:13,824 Seems to have quieted down. 233 00:32:06,300 --> 00:32:08,100 Mommy... 234 00:32:28,600 --> 00:32:30,700 Sonny... 235 00:32:31,819 --> 00:32:33,900 Crawl to the basement. 236 00:32:46,300 --> 00:32:48,000 Run, sonny... 237 00:32:52,757 --> 00:32:54,842 You can't come in here! 238 00:32:56,051 --> 00:32:58,971 Fortress. Volynsk Fortification. The hospital. 239 00:33:08,481 --> 00:33:10,524 You can't! Surgery is in progress! 240 00:33:21,400 --> 00:33:23,600 Fortress. Kobrinsk Fortification. Northern Gates. 241 00:33:51,400 --> 00:33:53,200 Stop panicking! 242 00:33:55,478 --> 00:33:57,300 Stop panicking! 243 00:33:57,400 --> 00:33:59,550 Fortress. Kobrinsk Fortification. Eastern Fort. 244 00:33:59,657 --> 00:34:01,150 Go back! 245 00:34:01,300 --> 00:34:03,400 Back to the barracks! 246 00:34:03,600 --> 00:34:05,300 Stop panicking! 247 00:34:05,700 --> 00:34:07,600 Back to the barracks! 248 00:34:09,300 --> 00:34:10,500 Lad! 249 00:34:11,100 --> 00:34:12,300 - Play! - What? 250 00:34:12,350 --> 00:34:13,900 Play anything! 251 00:34:14,100 --> 00:34:15,900 Stop! 252 00:34:17,800 --> 00:34:19,000 Stop! 253 00:34:19,200 --> 00:34:21,230 Lad, are you nuts? Run for your life! 254 00:34:21,600 --> 00:34:24,000 - Where's your weapon? - Get lost! 255 00:34:31,897 --> 00:34:34,400 Commanders, come here! 256 00:34:35,109 --> 00:34:37,300 We are lieutenants. 257 00:34:38,300 --> 00:34:40,100 Lieutenants? I don't see it. 258 00:34:40,115 --> 00:34:43,650 Get yourselves in order. And report properly, otherwise I will shoot you as panic-mongers! 259 00:34:43,800 --> 00:34:45,100 Yes, sir. 260 00:34:45,328 --> 00:34:49,541 Everyone return to the barracks. Take weapons and take up defense positions. 261 00:34:51,400 --> 00:34:52,869 At the double! 262 00:34:55,000 --> 00:34:58,400 Fortress. Homsky Gates. 263 00:34:59,300 --> 00:35:02,053 Where are the Russians? Only Germans are on air. 264 00:35:02,095 --> 00:35:03,600 Maybe this is trainings? 265 00:35:04,097 --> 00:35:06,266 What kind of trainings is that? 266 00:35:06,500 --> 00:35:08,200 As you were! 267 00:35:08,693 --> 00:35:10,700 Sorry, comrade regiment commissar. 268 00:35:10,820 --> 00:35:12,906 Stop panicking! 269 00:35:13,823 --> 00:35:16,200 Is the commander here? 270 00:35:19,500 --> 00:35:20,900 I see. 271 00:35:21,900 --> 00:35:23,900 I am taking command. 272 00:35:24,167 --> 00:35:27,420 Starshina, get the regiment together, give out arms. 273 00:35:27,545 --> 00:35:29,500 Disperse at the windows. 274 00:35:29,631 --> 00:35:31,500 Don't let the Germans cross the bridge. 275 00:35:31,674 --> 00:35:33,300 Don't waste ammo. 276 00:35:33,802 --> 00:35:36,400 Continue trying to contact the city. 277 00:35:37,889 --> 00:35:39,800 I am Fortress... 278 00:35:39,891 --> 00:35:41,500 Fortress. The 9th frontier post. 279 00:35:41,600 --> 00:35:43,400 Listen to my orders, to arms! 280 00:35:43,600 --> 00:35:46,100 Not enough arms! They are buried under the rubble. 281 00:35:46,231 --> 00:35:48,274 - Chief polit officer? - Dead. 282 00:35:52,487 --> 00:35:54,572 Everyone, who has weapons, come to me. 283 00:35:54,656 --> 00:35:58,785 The rest - try to get whatever you can from underneath the rubble. 284 00:36:00,400 --> 00:36:01,996 Germans! 285 00:36:47,751 --> 00:36:49,600 Frontier post... 286 00:36:51,921 --> 00:36:53,840 ... to battle! 287 00:36:56,009 --> 00:36:57,800 Follow me! 288 00:38:04,035 --> 00:38:06,300 Need a man on first floor. 289 00:38:26,808 --> 00:38:29,500 I am Fortress. I am Fortress. 290 00:38:29,800 --> 00:38:32,105 We're holding down defense. Battle in progress. 291 00:38:33,064 --> 00:38:34,940 Waiting for reinforcements. 292 00:38:35,200 --> 00:38:38,100 Fortress. Barracks of the 132nd NKVD battalion. 293 00:38:48,580 --> 00:38:51,916 What unit is this? Who is in charge? 294 00:38:52,300 --> 00:38:55,879 I want to see the commander! 295 00:38:56,500 --> 00:38:58,600 NKVD lieutenant Vanshtein! 296 00:38:59,000 --> 00:39:03,400 As your superior officer I order you to leave the barracks and, after breaking up into smaller groups, 297 00:39:03,600 --> 00:39:06,500 make your way out of the Fortress... 298 00:39:07,300 --> 00:39:11,600 If we leave our positions, the Germans will break into the fortress, 299 00:39:11,770 --> 00:39:14,689 and here we can keep holding them off, till reinforcements arrive. 300 00:39:28,411 --> 00:39:30,800 Execute the order, lieutenant! 301 00:39:35,543 --> 00:39:39,200 Two divisions are on their way here. 302 00:39:39,600 --> 00:39:42,200 Further sacrifice of people's lives is senseless. 303 00:39:43,885 --> 00:39:46,300 - And you, sergeant? - Senior sergeant Novikov. 304 00:39:46,650 --> 00:39:49,200 Do you know what happens for disobeying an order? 305 00:39:49,349 --> 00:39:55,000 Comrade major, I'm sorry. I don't know you. Can I see your documents? 306 00:39:57,300 --> 00:39:58,608 Of course. 307 00:39:58,691 --> 00:40:01,300 You are right. I commend you for your vigilance. 308 00:40:02,737 --> 00:40:04,750 And your boots please. 309 00:40:04,906 --> 00:40:07,300 - What about boots? - Show me your boots. 310 00:40:07,500 --> 00:40:12,205 Our boots have nails that are round, the German have square ones. 311 00:40:18,295 --> 00:40:19,900 Look. 312 00:40:23,300 --> 00:40:24,900 Square! 313 00:40:28,847 --> 00:40:31,015 Stop! 314 00:40:42,277 --> 00:40:44,487 The badge is German. 315 00:40:45,200 --> 00:40:47,200 But the nails were round. 316 00:41:56,476 --> 00:41:58,561 Sonya! 317 00:42:20,000 --> 00:42:22,335 Kolya! 318 00:42:26,548 --> 00:42:28,800 - Kolya, I'm here. - Sonya, I'll be right there! 319 00:42:37,183 --> 00:42:40,187 Germans are retreating south. 320 00:43:07,213 --> 00:43:09,466 Sonya! 321 00:43:12,635 --> 00:43:15,513 Kolya! 322 00:43:15,764 --> 00:43:17,807 Quiet! 323 00:43:18,892 --> 00:43:21,200 I can't take this anymore! 324 00:43:21,500 --> 00:43:23,200 I'm so scared! 325 00:43:23,400 --> 00:43:25,800 The Germans are there! 326 00:43:26,066 --> 00:43:30,300 - Please! - Quiet! It's me. 327 00:43:31,321 --> 00:43:34,300 Don't cry. I know that you are strong. 328 00:44:04,771 --> 00:44:07,300 I am Fortress. I am Fortress. Battle in progress. 329 00:44:07,500 --> 00:44:09,800 Holding down defense. Waiting for reinforcements. 330 00:44:17,000 --> 00:44:18,700 Comrade commissar, look! 331 00:44:19,000 --> 00:44:21,300 Our people from the hospital! 332 00:44:33,717 --> 00:44:35,100 Look. 333 00:44:40,223 --> 00:44:43,145 I see a nurse there, who treated me earlier. 334 00:44:48,200 --> 00:44:50,000 What's gonna happen, comrade commissar? 335 00:44:50,608 --> 00:44:53,200 Starshina, you are coming with me. 336 00:44:53,778 --> 00:44:55,656 - Yes, sir. - Leave your weapon. 337 00:44:57,907 --> 00:45:00,200 Everyone else disperse at the windows. 338 00:45:00,700 --> 00:45:02,600 Take aim at chest level. 339 00:45:02,700 --> 00:45:03,900 Follow me. 340 00:45:10,211 --> 00:45:13,000 What a choice of cover. 341 00:46:30,500 --> 00:46:32,300 Down! 342 00:47:25,764 --> 00:47:28,141 Everyone go to the basements! 343 00:48:09,099 --> 00:48:11,200 We need to go to Brest. 344 00:48:11,351 --> 00:48:14,313 Find out what's the situation there. 345 00:48:21,200 --> 00:48:23,300 Is the task clear? 346 00:48:24,781 --> 00:48:26,783 Yes, sir. 347 00:48:28,600 --> 00:48:30,120 Execute. 348 00:48:42,507 --> 00:48:45,677 Look how many people they killed! 349 00:48:50,974 --> 00:48:52,900 Ammunition. 350 00:48:53,936 --> 00:48:55,500 Get in. 351 00:48:56,021 --> 00:48:58,315 Do you have ammunition? 352 00:48:58,700 --> 00:49:02,319 What ammunition? Get in! 353 00:49:10,702 --> 00:49:13,705 Let's go. To the Northern Gates. 354 00:49:28,554 --> 00:49:31,400 Kobrinsk Fortification. Officers housing. 355 00:49:31,473 --> 00:49:33,684 I was looking for my brother. 356 00:49:35,769 --> 00:49:38,000 We lived here. 357 00:49:38,981 --> 00:49:41,300 Our family. 358 00:49:41,942 --> 00:49:44,236 And the Pochernikov family. 359 00:50:06,091 --> 00:50:09,000 - Uncle Vanya! - Crawl to the window. 360 00:50:10,137 --> 00:50:12,222 Have you seen my brother? 361 00:50:15,309 --> 00:50:16,900 Help me. 362 00:50:34,244 --> 00:50:35,700 Shura don't. 363 00:50:36,800 --> 00:50:38,100 Come here. 364 00:50:44,000 --> 00:50:45,600 Sasha, get out of here. 365 00:50:45,756 --> 00:50:47,100 No. 366 00:50:47,300 --> 00:50:49,200 That's an order. 367 00:51:19,700 --> 00:51:22,000 What are we going to do? 368 00:51:24,153 --> 00:51:27,100 I'm not letting them take me captive. 369 00:51:27,464 --> 00:51:29,383 I'm with you. 370 00:51:30,551 --> 00:51:33,000 I understand everything. 371 00:51:35,000 --> 00:51:38,850 Without you and the children I do not want to live and I'm not going to. 372 00:51:48,400 --> 00:51:50,800 Forgive me. 373 00:51:56,300 --> 00:51:58,300 You forgive me. 374 00:52:19,558 --> 00:52:21,604 Go look what they are up to. 375 00:53:24,957 --> 00:53:30,462 Go back. We won't get through here. 376 00:54:09,877 --> 00:54:13,048 We couldn't get through. 377 00:54:20,387 --> 00:54:22,200 We're waiting for reinforcements. 378 00:54:22,556 --> 00:54:25,600 I am Fortress. I am Fortress. 379 00:54:25,800 --> 00:54:27,800 Battle in progress. Holding down defense. 380 00:54:27,900 --> 00:54:30,000 Waiting for reinforcements. 381 00:54:43,452 --> 00:54:46,200 Comrade major! 382 00:54:46,359 --> 00:54:48,700 - Tanks are coming! - Easy, lieutenant. 383 00:54:48,750 --> 00:54:50,450 If only we had an anti-tank weapon! 384 00:54:57,966 --> 00:55:00,600 I told them so. 385 00:55:06,500 --> 00:55:08,000 Third one. 386 00:55:09,269 --> 00:55:10,980 I wish we had an anti-tank gun. 387 00:55:11,105 --> 00:55:13,900 To battle! Get the grenades ready. 388 00:55:17,861 --> 00:55:19,700 Gather arms. 389 00:55:24,000 --> 00:55:25,700 Take positions. 390 00:55:27,120 --> 00:55:28,900 Don't fire without an order. 391 00:55:32,334 --> 00:55:38,200 [From song in movie:] Our iron is burning hot. You will be mine. You're not going anywhere. 392 00:56:16,400 --> 00:56:17,900 Who fired? 393 00:56:31,894 --> 00:56:33,400 Fire. 394 00:56:36,400 --> 00:56:37,700 Our folks. 395 00:56:42,900 --> 00:56:44,400 Aim. 396 00:56:45,449 --> 00:56:46,850 Fire. 397 00:56:57,200 --> 00:56:59,200 Koptun, grab the grenades. 398 00:57:03,900 --> 00:57:05,200 Load. 399 00:57:37,500 --> 00:57:39,000 Attack! 400 00:57:39,600 --> 00:57:41,631 Charge! 401 00:59:14,400 --> 00:59:16,800 What's your name, son? 402 00:59:17,100 --> 00:59:20,200 Lieutenant Akimov. 403 00:59:37,613 --> 00:59:40,400 This is how my brother died. 404 00:59:40,658 --> 00:59:45,200 On the first day. On that first endless day. 405 00:59:46,300 --> 00:59:50,050 The very first order to retreat during the course of the war... 406 00:59:50,209 --> 01:00:00,350 was given by the German commandership on the 22nd of June 1941 at 11:00am... 407 01:00:00,553 --> 01:00:03,765 here at the Brest Fortress. 408 01:00:04,200 --> 01:00:06,900 We have 18 people left who are capable of holding a gun. 409 01:00:06,976 --> 01:00:10,062 There is no medicine, water, or food. 410 01:00:10,980 --> 01:00:14,233 What do you think, where are our people? Why are they not coming? 411 01:00:14,800 --> 01:00:16,277 Or maybe they'll come soon? 412 01:00:16,360 --> 01:00:18,800 What should I tell our soldiers? 413 01:00:28,581 --> 01:00:30,875 By morning they'll be here. 414 01:00:32,835 --> 01:00:35,088 They'll be here for sure. 415 01:00:52,563 --> 01:00:55,100 Has everyone been buried? 416 01:00:55,775 --> 01:00:57,819 Yes, sir. 417 01:01:17,500 --> 01:01:19,500 What's the situation with water? 418 01:01:19,841 --> 01:01:22,900 There's an ice box in the basement. Should be enough for a day. 419 01:01:23,010 --> 01:01:24,300 Then what? 420 01:01:24,887 --> 01:01:29,058 By morning our reinforcements will come and will send them all... 421 01:02:21,319 --> 01:02:23,240 It's dangerous to stay here. 422 01:02:23,404 --> 01:02:25,200 The building is badly damaged. 423 01:02:25,400 --> 01:02:27,300 You will all come with me. 424 01:02:27,575 --> 01:02:30,700 You'll stay in the basements of our barracks till our reinforcements arrive. 425 01:02:55,686 --> 01:02:57,500 Where is Anya? 426 01:02:57,939 --> 01:03:01,000 I thought she was with you. 427 01:03:07,281 --> 01:03:09,200 We must go. 428 01:03:20,670 --> 01:03:24,300 I did not know what was going on. 429 01:03:25,049 --> 01:03:29,053 I did not know what to do, where to go. 430 01:03:30,179 --> 01:03:32,100 One thing I knew for certain. 431 01:03:32,265 --> 01:03:34,350 I must wait till morning. 432 01:03:34,434 --> 01:03:37,000 Because in the morning our soldiers will come. 433 01:03:37,200 --> 01:03:39,647 And everything will be over. 434 01:03:39,800 --> 01:03:41,600 23 June 435 01:04:27,487 --> 01:04:33,660 Soldiers, commanders, you are facing a choice. Decide. 436 01:04:34,869 --> 01:04:38,500 Either you go under fire and die... 437 01:04:38,700 --> 01:04:42,800 or find within you the courage to surrender and live. 438 01:04:43,086 --> 01:04:46,200 Your situation is hopeless. 439 01:04:46,339 --> 01:04:49,600 Your struggle is useless. 440 01:04:50,384 --> 01:04:56,300 We have come here to free your country from the Jews and the Bolsheviks. 441 01:04:56,766 --> 01:04:59,500 We will build a new life. 442 01:04:59,936 --> 01:05:04,800 One without hard labor camps and collective farms. 443 01:05:05,066 --> 01:05:08,000 Surrender and you will live with us. 444 01:05:08,277 --> 01:05:10,600 Shall I shoot them? 445 01:05:17,537 --> 01:05:19,200 As you were. 446 01:05:20,790 --> 01:05:23,500 To each his own. 447 01:05:28,089 --> 01:05:29,800 Give me your hand! 448 01:05:41,400 --> 01:05:44,772 Comrade lieutenant, allow me to report. 449 01:05:45,731 --> 01:05:50,820 Foster student of musical platoon with the 333rd regiment Alexander Akimov. 450 01:05:51,300 --> 01:05:53,000 Take him to the basement. 451 01:05:53,300 --> 01:05:55,700 Comrade lieutenant, where is Anya? 452 01:05:56,600 --> 01:05:57,900 What? 453 01:05:58,100 --> 01:06:00,000 Anya? 454 01:06:05,543 --> 01:06:08,000 I saw her running to you. 455 01:06:11,200 --> 01:06:13,200 Take him to the basement. 456 01:06:13,500 --> 01:06:14,969 Let me go! 457 01:06:15,200 --> 01:06:16,500 Where are you going? 458 01:06:16,800 --> 01:06:19,098 I will find her! 459 01:06:20,099 --> 01:06:21,600 Akimov! 460 01:06:23,394 --> 01:06:24,800 Sasha! 461 01:06:25,438 --> 01:06:27,100 I will find her! 462 01:07:11,234 --> 01:07:13,444 Don't! 463 01:07:21,494 --> 01:07:23,788 Please, don't! 464 01:07:55,111 --> 01:07:58,300 Please, don't kill me! 465 01:07:59,800 --> 01:08:02,368 No! No! 466 01:08:09,600 --> 01:08:12,100 Please, don't! 467 01:09:05,700 --> 01:09:07,900 - Bring him here. - Report this to Fomin. 468 01:09:09,102 --> 01:09:10,600 Faster! 469 01:09:11,187 --> 01:09:12,800 Faster! 470 01:09:16,442 --> 01:09:19,800 I remember Fomin and Zubachev. 471 01:09:20,613 --> 01:09:24,100 They had a small detachment at Holmsky Gates. 472 01:09:26,300 --> 01:09:29,300 They held the enemy back from crossing the bridge. 473 01:09:29,997 --> 01:09:34,400 This was the first time that I saw a captive German. 474 01:09:36,200 --> 01:09:37,600 Maslov! 475 01:09:38,000 --> 01:09:40,000 What is he saying? 476 01:09:44,470 --> 01:09:48,600 He is saying that most likely Minsk has been taken. 477 01:09:53,300 --> 01:09:57,400 He is saying we are far behind in the rear. 478 01:09:57,800 --> 01:10:00,400 Why do you need Minsk? Why are you here? 479 01:10:00,700 --> 01:10:02,500 Why did you come here? 480 01:10:05,200 --> 01:10:07,400 You are lying. 481 01:10:12,000 --> 01:10:14,400 Comrade commissar, come look! 482 01:10:21,900 --> 01:10:23,600 Ours! 483 01:10:34,600 --> 01:10:36,200 Ours! 484 01:11:18,300 --> 01:11:20,300 Behind him! 485 01:12:26,500 --> 01:12:28,000 - Alive? - Yes. 486 01:12:28,400 --> 01:12:29,900 Good job! 487 01:12:34,000 --> 01:12:36,000 Come on! 488 01:12:55,500 --> 01:12:57,100 Lieutenant Karelin. 489 01:12:57,200 --> 01:12:59,100 123rd air force division. 490 01:12:59,300 --> 01:13:01,000 Commissar Fomin. 491 01:13:02,010 --> 01:13:06,100 Tell us. What's happening in Brest? In Kobrin? 492 01:13:07,140 --> 01:13:09,800 Why is our aviation silent? 493 01:13:09,900 --> 01:13:11,353 Where is our army? 494 01:13:11,436 --> 01:13:14,200 There are no air fields left. 495 01:13:14,481 --> 01:13:16,600 They have all been destroyed. 496 01:13:16,900 --> 01:13:22,500 Germans have taken Brest. Our army is retreating towards Minsk. 497 01:14:43,153 --> 01:14:45,456 Comrades. 498 01:14:47,700 --> 01:14:49,700 Fighters. 499 01:14:53,455 --> 01:14:56,600 The Germans are offering us to surrender. 500 01:14:58,710 --> 01:15:02,923 They are offering us a cowardly life in captivity. 501 01:15:05,926 --> 01:15:08,200 They are mistaken. 502 01:15:09,096 --> 01:15:11,306 We are soldiers of the Red Army, 503 01:15:11,600 --> 01:15:16,400 and we will defend our motherland till the last drop of blood. 504 01:15:16,700 --> 01:15:21,525 There is no other choice for us. 505 01:15:28,949 --> 01:15:32,119 24 June 506 01:16:04,443 --> 01:16:07,200 Mister, give me some water. 507 01:16:08,400 --> 01:16:10,000 Don't have any, dear. 508 01:16:10,100 --> 01:16:12,400 Yes, you do. Please, give me some, Mister. 509 01:17:08,282 --> 01:17:10,350 Where is your family, Kostya? 510 01:17:10,534 --> 01:17:12,536 I don't know. 511 01:17:12,900 --> 01:17:16,791 I left them at my house, in the basement. 512 01:17:17,750 --> 01:17:21,003 But now I don't know. 513 01:17:22,922 --> 01:17:28,219 I don't know anything about mine either. 514 01:17:58,332 --> 01:17:59,700 You can't drink this. 515 01:17:59,900 --> 01:18:01,600 It has gasoline. 516 01:18:04,672 --> 01:18:09,000 I remember that morning. Or was it day? 517 01:18:09,500 --> 01:18:12,400 I woke up and saw hands. 518 01:18:12,700 --> 01:18:15,099 They were Kovalenko's hands. 519 01:18:15,182 --> 01:18:19,100 He was carving a whistle for me. 520 01:18:19,395 --> 01:18:24,300 I looked at it and thought to myself, what would I need it for? 521 01:18:24,483 --> 01:18:27,400 We must unite our forces and go for a breakthrough. 522 01:18:27,570 --> 01:18:29,700 Who are we waiting for here? 523 01:18:32,783 --> 01:18:39,050 Breakthrough. Immediately. Tonight. Or we will lose everyone one by one. 524 01:18:39,165 --> 01:18:42,209 What breakthrough? The fortress is surrounded. 525 01:18:42,293 --> 01:18:44,700 Brest has been taken. Breakthrough to where? 526 01:18:44,800 --> 01:18:46,500 To captivity? Death? Where to? 527 01:18:46,547 --> 01:18:49,633 We are dead men already, comrade captain. 528 01:18:50,000 --> 01:18:52,803 Yes, many of us will die. 529 01:18:53,554 --> 01:18:55,639 Maybe everyone. 530 01:18:56,891 --> 01:18:59,800 But while we have strength, we must keep fighting. 531 01:19:00,060 --> 01:19:02,146 We must go for a breakthrough. 532 01:19:04,231 --> 01:19:06,358 Write down the order. 533 01:19:07,100 --> 01:19:09,000 What number? 534 01:19:13,407 --> 01:19:15,200 Order number one. 535 01:19:16,577 --> 01:19:19,789 24th of June 1941. 536 01:19:20,831 --> 01:19:22,700 The Fortress. 537 01:19:22,917 --> 01:19:27,213 The situation in the Fortress requires an immediate exit. 538 01:19:29,700 --> 01:19:32,200 Strike out "an immediate exit." 539 01:19:39,517 --> 01:19:41,900 Write down "organized military action." 540 01:19:43,813 --> 01:19:46,816 For the continued battle with the enemy... 541 01:19:48,025 --> 01:19:53,280 the commanding leadership, commissar Fomin, 542 01:19:55,324 --> 01:20:01,700 captain Zubachev, lieutenant Vinogradov, has decided... 543 01:20:04,200 --> 01:20:09,500 to unite the remaining military units... 544 01:20:10,756 --> 01:20:13,050 into a joint group. 545 01:20:15,177 --> 01:20:17,000 With combined forces... 546 01:20:17,600 --> 01:20:21,000 tonight, on the 24th of June, 547 01:20:22,000 --> 01:20:24,400 we are going for a breakthrough. 548 01:20:27,200 --> 01:20:29,400 ...for a breakthrough. 549 01:20:29,900 --> 01:20:33,900 In order to reconnect with the regular units of the Red Army. 550 01:20:35,948 --> 01:20:39,034 ...of the Red Army. 551 01:20:40,077 --> 01:20:43,205 And to continue fighting the Nazi invaders. 552 01:20:46,250 --> 01:20:48,300 Germans are on the bridge! 553 01:20:48,700 --> 01:20:50,700 Everyone take your positions! 554 01:21:15,000 --> 01:21:16,600 Come here! 555 01:21:17,740 --> 01:21:19,500 Listen carefully. 556 01:21:19,784 --> 01:21:24,800 Judging by the constant exchange of fire at the Terespol Gates and Eastern Fort... 557 01:21:24,914 --> 01:21:27,200 I can tell that our men are still fighting there. 558 01:21:29,210 --> 01:21:32,800 Try to get to them whatever it takes. 559 01:21:33,100 --> 01:21:35,150 Report our situation to them. 560 01:21:35,341 --> 01:21:37,900 And tell them about our decision to go for a breakthrough. 561 01:21:38,100 --> 01:21:42,500 Tonight! Try to get to them before the breakthrough begins 562 01:21:42,581 --> 01:21:44,100 and come back here. 563 01:21:44,200 --> 01:21:45,400 Alive! 564 01:21:45,430 --> 01:21:47,300 Comrade commissar, may I go? 565 01:21:47,400 --> 01:21:48,896 No, you may not. 566 01:21:48,979 --> 01:21:50,800 Drink some water. This is all I have. 567 01:21:50,950 --> 01:21:52,700 Give it to the wounded. 568 01:21:52,900 --> 01:21:54,700 - Execute the order. - Yes, sir. 569 01:21:56,700 --> 01:21:58,400 Take this to the wounded in the basement. 570 01:21:58,500 --> 01:21:59,900 - Execute. - Yes, sir. 571 01:22:16,173 --> 01:22:19,800 Easy, easy. Everything's alright. 572 01:22:20,094 --> 01:22:21,900 Finish it yourself. 573 01:22:40,156 --> 01:22:41,800 Doctor? 574 01:22:44,243 --> 01:22:45,800 Doctor? 575 01:23:38,297 --> 01:23:44,512 On Saturday a whole shipment of cold mineral water was brought to the store. 576 01:24:17,800 --> 01:24:19,600 To the basements! 577 01:26:10,200 --> 01:26:12,868 I couldn't make it! 578 01:26:13,619 --> 01:26:15,700 You go to the Eastern Fort. Our men are there. 579 01:26:15,800 --> 01:26:21,600 Tell them about the order that tonight - breakthrough. 580 01:26:21,900 --> 01:26:23,900 I will tell them. 581 01:26:25,256 --> 01:26:29,385 I knew that nothing would happen to me. 582 01:26:29,510 --> 01:26:37,643 Because I had to deliver this order. 583 01:29:12,700 --> 01:29:14,301 Anya... 584 01:29:16,060 --> 01:29:21,357 It's hard to get out of here right now. Stay here for a bit. 585 01:29:23,317 --> 01:29:25,250 I can't take you with me. 586 01:29:25,486 --> 01:29:27,346 I have an order. 587 01:29:27,530 --> 01:29:29,500 I must deliver it. 588 01:29:34,829 --> 01:29:36,956 Do you hear me? 589 01:31:33,050 --> 01:31:35,250 There was no water. 590 01:31:36,342 --> 01:31:38,700 Actually, it was all around, 591 01:31:40,638 --> 01:31:43,725 but you could not get to it. 592 01:31:43,850 --> 01:31:47,770 All routes to the coast were under constant fire. 593 01:31:50,023 --> 01:31:56,200 For one cup of water, for just one mouthful of it... 594 01:31:56,600 --> 01:31:58,600 people died. 595 01:32:00,450 --> 01:32:05,580 What little water could be obtained was saved. 596 01:32:06,497 --> 01:32:08,500 For the machine guns. 597 01:32:51,334 --> 01:32:54,300 Comrade major, allow me to report. 598 01:32:54,671 --> 01:32:58,883 Foster student of musical platoon with the 333rd regiment Akimov. 599 01:33:00,300 --> 01:33:02,200 An order: 600 01:33:02,600 --> 01:33:05,056 Tonight there will be a joint breakthrough. 601 01:33:05,139 --> 01:33:08,100 The signal - a red rocket. 602 01:33:22,574 --> 01:33:27,600 I am lucky with Akimovs. 603 01:33:32,083 --> 01:33:35,200 I am Fortress. I am Fortress. 604 01:33:35,378 --> 01:33:38,300 Battle in progress. Holding down defense. 605 01:33:38,464 --> 01:33:40,800 Waiting for reinforcements. 606 01:33:51,500 --> 01:33:55,023 25 June 01:55 607 01:34:50,687 --> 01:34:52,000 It's time. 608 01:35:05,285 --> 01:35:06,536 Follow me. 609 01:35:13,100 --> 01:35:14,400 Let's go. 610 01:35:20,000 --> 01:35:21,300 Go! 611 01:36:18,233 --> 01:36:20,527 Follow me! 612 01:37:05,280 --> 01:37:07,100 Tereshenko, where did it hit? 613 01:37:07,282 --> 01:37:08,600 My shoulder. 614 01:37:09,451 --> 01:37:11,495 Vereshenko, help him! 615 01:37:12,400 --> 01:37:13,600 Yes, sir! 616 01:38:24,526 --> 01:38:27,654 Retreat everyone! 617 01:38:30,657 --> 01:38:32,100 Retreat! 618 01:38:35,871 --> 01:38:37,164 Retreat! 619 01:39:50,300 --> 01:39:53,156 Comrade military physician. 620 01:40:01,373 --> 01:40:02,583 Yes. 621 01:40:05,627 --> 01:40:07,921 I did everything I could. 622 01:43:13,000 --> 01:43:17,600 Show compassion for yourselves and your loved ones. 623 01:43:18,500 --> 01:43:21,200 Spare your children. 624 01:43:21,782 --> 01:43:30,165 Spare your children. 625 01:43:50,936 --> 01:43:54,400 Do something, commander. 626 01:44:18,005 --> 01:44:19,600 Anya! 627 01:44:33,645 --> 01:44:35,300 Anya! 628 01:44:38,334 --> 01:44:40,300 I'm not going anywhere. 629 01:44:40,502 --> 01:44:42,360 I'm not just asking you, Katya. 630 01:44:42,588 --> 01:44:44,757 You cannot order me. 631 01:44:47,718 --> 01:44:49,200 I won't go. 632 01:44:49,845 --> 01:44:51,900 Then no one will go. 633 01:44:52,200 --> 01:44:54,050 You are my wife. 634 01:44:54,500 --> 01:44:56,300 The wife of a commander. 635 01:44:57,269 --> 01:44:59,700 People will follow you. 636 01:45:19,166 --> 01:45:21,700 We have lost Anya already. 637 01:45:22,211 --> 01:45:24,200 I don't want to lose you all too. 638 01:45:25,381 --> 01:45:27,300 I want you to go. 639 01:45:27,508 --> 01:45:29,718 This is your last and only chance. 640 01:45:30,511 --> 01:45:33,848 You must bring up the children. 641 01:45:34,640 --> 01:45:36,700 You can do it. You are strong. 642 01:45:36,976 --> 01:45:38,900 You are very strong. 643 01:45:39,019 --> 01:45:41,800 You are the strongest. 644 01:45:51,532 --> 01:45:53,200 Anya. 645 01:46:01,400 --> 01:46:04,879 Anya, do you hear me? 646 01:46:05,921 --> 01:46:07,300 You have to go. 647 01:46:07,800 --> 01:46:09,175 Your father is looking for you. 648 01:46:09,258 --> 01:46:12,000 He's there. He's waiting for you. 649 01:46:12,100 --> 01:46:13,400 He's in the barracks. 650 01:46:13,512 --> 01:46:15,300 You have to go. 651 01:46:16,390 --> 01:46:18,200 You have to go. 652 01:46:25,500 --> 01:46:29,000 You have 15 minutes left. 653 01:47:25,334 --> 01:47:28,420 Sonny, go! 654 01:48:41,000 --> 01:48:44,300 You have 10 minutes left. 655 01:49:06,519 --> 01:49:10,481 Daddy. 656 01:49:17,800 --> 01:49:19,100 Anya! 657 01:49:19,990 --> 01:49:21,992 Alive! 658 01:49:27,900 --> 01:49:29,300 Sasha! 659 01:49:34,200 --> 01:49:38,717 You must go! You will go together. 660 01:49:40,928 --> 01:49:43,600 I am serving in the military. I'm not going anywhere. 661 01:49:43,700 --> 01:49:46,000 Akimov, this is an order. 662 01:49:46,183 --> 01:49:48,100 Do you hear me? 663 01:49:50,396 --> 01:49:52,439 She will not go without you. 664 01:49:52,700 --> 01:49:54,400 Do you hear me? 665 01:49:54,483 --> 01:49:56,100 She will not go. 666 01:49:56,300 --> 01:49:57,800 Yes, comrade lieutenant. 667 01:49:58,600 --> 01:50:00,000 Execute. 668 01:51:00,700 --> 01:51:03,200 You have 5 minutes left. 669 01:51:09,642 --> 01:51:14,772 26 June 15:58 670 01:51:19,500 --> 01:51:25,500 [Inscription reads: "I die, but I do not surrender."] 671 01:51:32,031 --> 01:51:34,960 Having exhausted all other options... 672 01:51:35,201 --> 01:51:42,200 the Germans decided to drop a two-ton-kilogram bomb on the Brest Fortress. 673 01:52:14,782 --> 01:52:17,034 I am Fortress. 674 01:52:17,868 --> 01:52:22,081 Battle in progress. Holding down defense. 675 01:52:23,165 --> 01:52:25,376 Waiting for reinforcements. 676 02:00:00,500 --> 02:00:03,042 Dance! Dance, bastard! 677 02:01:23,300 --> 02:01:25,600 Commissars! 678 02:01:27,200 --> 02:01:30,200 Jews! Communists! 679 02:01:35,000 --> 02:01:36,800 Stand to the side. 680 02:01:44,544 --> 02:01:46,300 I am a commissar. 681 02:01:53,011 --> 02:01:55,600 A communist and a Jew. 682 02:02:25,168 --> 02:02:29,381 Commissar Efim Moiseevich Fomin... 683 02:02:29,800 --> 02:02:33,593 was executed by a firing squad at Holmsky Gates... 684 02:02:33,677 --> 02:02:38,700 at the end of June 1941. 685 02:02:38,974 --> 02:02:47,273 In 1957 he was awarded with the Order of Lenin. 686 02:02:48,108 --> 02:02:50,235 Posthumously. 687 02:02:58,576 --> 02:02:59,950 An order: 688 02:03:02,747 --> 02:03:05,900 Exit the Fortress one by one. 689 02:03:06,042 --> 02:03:10,046 Stay alive. 690 02:03:12,173 --> 02:03:14,301 As long as possible. 691 02:03:18,900 --> 02:03:22,726 Thank you, comrades. 692 02:03:26,700 --> 02:03:28,500 Goodbye. 693 02:03:30,300 --> 02:03:31,900 Goodbye. 694 02:03:32,068 --> 02:03:33,800 Thank you. 695 02:03:35,113 --> 02:03:37,282 Goodbye. Thank you. 696 02:03:39,284 --> 02:03:41,100 Goodbye. 697 02:03:42,800 --> 02:03:44,500 Goodbye. 698 02:03:45,665 --> 02:03:47,600 Thank you. 699 02:03:57,093 --> 02:04:00,263 Major Pyotr Mihailovich Gavrilov... 700 02:04:00,450 --> 02:04:06,200 was taken captive, while seriously wounded, on the 32nd day of war. 701 02:04:06,353 --> 02:04:11,600 Like most who survived Nazi captivity, he later fell victim to Stalin's repressions... 702 02:04:11,733 --> 02:04:14,553 was expelled from the communist party. 703 02:04:14,694 --> 02:04:22,202 And only in 1957 he was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. 704 02:04:52,399 --> 02:04:54,700 - Is this all of us? - Yes, sir. 705 02:05:35,500 --> 02:05:37,300 I ran away. 706 02:05:40,322 --> 02:05:45,410 While they were taking the captives through the forest, I ran away. 707 02:05:50,790 --> 02:05:56,004 While I was on my way here, a bomb went off near me. 708 02:05:58,131 --> 02:06:05,221 I am deaf now. My ears can't hear anything. 709 02:06:11,603 --> 02:06:16,942 While we still have strength I order you to go for a breakthrough... 710 02:06:17,400 --> 02:06:18,902 through the encirclement area. 711 02:06:19,945 --> 02:06:25,700 Nikolaev, you will take charge. I will stay here. I will cover you. 712 02:06:25,900 --> 02:06:27,700 - But... - Execute! 713 02:06:30,200 --> 02:06:32,250 - Don't be difficult. - Yes, sir. 714 02:06:38,713 --> 02:06:40,400 Come here. 715 02:06:49,600 --> 02:06:51,300 Help me. 716 02:07:04,200 --> 02:07:05,965 Keep this safe. 717 02:07:06,300 --> 02:07:09,500 You are lucky. I know you will get out of the Fortress. 718 02:07:13,164 --> 02:07:15,400 And one more thing... 719 02:07:16,376 --> 02:07:18,500 Tell them everything you saw. 720 02:07:18,630 --> 02:07:20,380 Tell the whole truth. 721 02:07:20,505 --> 02:07:22,250 Tell them about us. 722 02:07:22,632 --> 02:07:25,500 Do you hear me, trumpet player? 723 02:07:27,100 --> 02:07:29,300 You don't hear me. 724 02:07:34,200 --> 02:07:35,700 Go. 725 02:07:36,273 --> 02:07:38,000 Go, Sasha. 726 02:07:38,573 --> 02:07:39,800 Go. 727 02:08:59,604 --> 02:09:09,864 In 1965 the commander of the 9th frontier post, lieutenant Andrey Mitrofanovich Kizhevatov, 728 02:09:11,300 --> 02:09:18,123 was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. 729 02:09:18,800 --> 02:09:20,500 Posthumously. 730 02:11:44,545 --> 02:11:53,971 My Anya and the whole Kizhevatov family, as well as the families of other defenders of the Brest Fortress, 731 02:11:54,150 --> 02:11:59,226 were executed by the Germans in autumn of 1942. 732 02:12:43,637 --> 02:12:49,894 The banner that Kizhevatov had given me I have kept to this very day. 733 02:12:50,586 --> 02:12:53,464 Just as I have kept my memories. 734 02:12:53,505 --> 02:12:55,507 And faith. 735 02:12:56,633 --> 02:12:59,720 I believe to this day. 736 02:13:02,700 --> 02:13:07,978 And you believe too. They are all alive. 737 02:13:09,000 --> 02:13:13,100 Everyone who I told you about, 738 02:13:14,300 --> 02:13:17,488 and those who we don't know much about. 739 02:13:19,656 --> 02:13:21,700 They are all alive. 740 02:13:21,867 --> 02:13:23,827 Somewhere. 741 02:13:27,039 --> 02:13:31,700 And at that time I was just about the same age as you are now. 742 02:13:45,000 --> 02:13:49,700 The sky of blue beyond the river is dark, 743 02:13:51,300 --> 02:13:56,300 Wait a little, and you will hear a cricket sing, 744 02:13:56,900 --> 02:14:01,600 And a silly bird will suddenly 745 02:14:02,600 --> 02:14:08,000 frighten the disturbed peace and quiet. 746 02:14:08,700 --> 02:14:13,900 I can hear the crack of a paddle nearby, 747 02:14:14,700 --> 02:14:19,500 The new day has come a little too early 748 02:14:20,800 --> 02:14:25,900 I only feel warm when you are by my side, 749 02:14:26,700 --> 02:14:31,900 Everything will be all right from now on. 750 02:14:34,400 --> 02:14:39,500 It’s calm now The night is fading out slowly, 751 02:14:40,100 --> 02:14:45,200 It appears each of us knows something 752 02:14:45,800 --> 02:14:57,200 But unable to hide the tears, The inevitable payment for the communion. 753 02:14:57,800 --> 02:15:05,000 Don’t let me die before I get to know How it feels to be happy... 754 02:15:17,700 --> 02:15:22,900 The blue sky has hidden itself, as if waiting for something, 755 02:15:23,700 --> 02:15:28,900 Winking to those who are not sleeping, 756 02:15:29,700 --> 02:15:34,800 Happiness will suddenly squeeze your heart 757 02:15:35,800 --> 02:15:42,400 And will not say anything Though it may be something very important 758 02:15:53,800 --> 02:15:58,800 The dawn will get wet again, embarrassed, 759 02:15:59,600 --> 02:16:04,800 Pretending to be a haze in a grey rain-coat, 760 02:16:06,000 --> 02:16:11,200 There's nothing here what there used to be before you, 761 02:16:11,800 --> 02:16:16,600 or, maybe, there is something, but very different. 762 02:16:19,000 --> 02:16:24,200 It’s calm now The night is fading out slowly, 763 02:16:24,800 --> 02:16:30,000 It appears each of us knows something 764 02:16:30,800 --> 02:16:41,400 But unable to hide the tears, The inevitable payment for the communion. 765 02:16:43,000 --> 02:16:50,000 Don’t let me die before I get to know How it feels to be happy... 766 02:16:55,600 --> 02:17:01,000 Don’t let me die before I get to know How it feels to be happy... 767 02:17:02,000 --> 02:17:08,000 SUBTITLES WRITTEN BY: Katia Kutyavina (Seattle, WA, USA) E-mail: djkatish@gmail.com 768 02:17:09,000 --> 02:17:14,000 For all other English subtitles to Russian movies made by Katia see: http://www.podnapisi.net/en/ppodnapisi/search/sA/264490 769 02:17:15,000 --> 02:17:20,000 Closing song by Leonid Agutin "Ne pozvol mne pogibnut" was translated into English by Alik Bagapov.