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The NKVD canteen, Minsk. June 20, 1941

Anastasia Zavorotnyuk

What do you need the Crimea for? Go to the Caucasus!

We were in Yalta last year with my wife…

You went there with your own chick, didn’t you?

No, only Sochi! The wine, the girls…

Bring some chacha. We’ll feed the mosquitoes here

for another month.

We got an order to check the army hideouts in the woods.

People are getting mobilized.

Look under your feet, fool!

I’m sorry. I’ll clean it in a moment.

In what villages do they find such no-gooders? Damn it!

I have a meeting now. My entire uniform is spoilt…

Why are you shouting? Shout at your soldiers! Come on.

Let her wash the floors if she can’t work properly!

My head spins.

Come on.

I feel so sorry…

Oh, that was something! You got lucky

that the bosses have already had their dinner.

Otherwise you would have been fired at once.

It hurts.

I feel well but sometimes the world darkens before my eyes.

Tell me about it, friend.

What shall I tell you about?

You’re pregnant, aren’t you?

Lyusya…

What – Lyusya?

Tell me! Don’t be afraid, I won’t tell anybody.

The term is a month or a month and a half.

I’m going to the doctor tomorrow.

I see. Does Sashka know?

Be quiet!

Why be quiet? If I were pregnant

everybody would already know about that. Why be quiet?

This is why! Don’t tell anybody or I’ll get fired.

How will I live then?

You’ll manage. Children are sent by God.

The baby is developing well. You’re a healthy woman.

Go and live calmly. Don’t be afraid of anything.

Come to me in three weeks.

All right.

Is it a deal? Good luck!

Thank you very much! Thank you!

Galya, what?

What? Everything is good.

What is good?

Six weeks.

What six weeks?

I’m six weeks pregnant.

What did I tell you? Look here! Look, look!

Sasha? You must be crazy!

You paid a lot of money for that!

How will we live this month?

This is for the man! What more do we need?

Don’t be afraid, Galka. We’ll be all right.

I’ve already thought it over. We’ll take a vegetable garden.

We’ll produce food for ourselves. Just give me a son!

Sashenka…

When you give birth you’ll stop working.

You’ll be bringing the kid up.

I’ll ask and they’ll let you go. Lavrentiy Fomitch will help.

I’ve told him about you. Everything will be great, Galka.

Be careful there.

Don’t worry. This work is simple.

I’ll be in the garage till the evening.

All right.

We have a community work day too.

Hello. Pomazan.

Pomazan Galina. You’re late.

You were brought here like a queen.

It was my husband.

You’re so dressed-up.

I was at the clinic, I…

All right, go to your place.

Hi.

If something happens, Kolya will die.

What did the doctor say?

Employees of the NKVD, divide by your departments!

Buffet workers, where are you?

Take the buckets and go! Go to the cars!

Galya, get into the cabin.

What about her?

She is not going with us. Get in, I tell you.

My surname is Gordynya. I’m a typist.

I’m pregnant, I can’t carry heavy loads.

This is not for me to decide. Let your colleagues help you.

She won’t let me go. Will you let me have your place?

I’ll feel bad back in the body.

Sure… I’ll go.

Right. You’re a good woman, Galya.

She is not on her own. There are two of them!

Comrades! You shall remember this day, June 21st, 1941, forever!

Today we’ll plant trees in the future street

of our beautiful Minsk, the Capital of Socialistic Belorussia!

These trees will outlive us, comrades!

Our children and grandchildren in the future Communist society

will remember us under the shades of these trees!

They’ll remember and be proud of us!

We’re working for their sake, comrades!

Don’t spare efforts!

Mum, is dad at the community work day too?

Sure.

When will he come?

Tomorrow. Let’s go.

I’m an unlucky girl.

I have a baby but my husband doesn’t want one…

You’re doing well.

I grew up in a village.

Yes. Our neighbors are not in a hurry.

Where are they from?

I don’t know. They must be from the court.

You shall dig deeper, comrades.

Dig deeper, comrades! Very good. You’re good, comrade!

What department are you working for?

We’re from the NKVD, comrade.

I beg your pardon.

Why isn’t the border marked?

We’re doing one common work, aren’t we, comrades?

Yes, comrade.

Galka has come!

Pour the hostess something to drink.

I called some guests.

I decided to celebrate our happiness.

Your sister came too, as if felt it.

Hi.

Come on, come on!

Let’s toast our son!

The man!

Yes. Let me pour you some more.

Sasha, it’s still too early to celebrate.

It’s all right.

I’ll go change.

Yes, and then come to us.

We’re waiting for you.

Let’s toast our happiness!

We have drunk thrice already.

And we’ll drink 30 times more. Galka? Are you coming?

In a moment.

Sashenka?

Sasha?

You’ve come to your senses, didn’t you?

It’s good.

What has happened to me, doctor?

We did a minor surgery. It’s all behind you now.

What surgery?

Be quiet, be quiet.

I feel pain.

This is not good. Let’s measure your temperature.

You lost the baby.

What?

You had a miscarriage.

Be quiet. Lie down calmly. You had internal bleeding.

It’s a miracle that you survived.

Does Sasha know?

Sasha? Your husband? Yes, he came to you.

Everything is fine.

Where is he?

Who? The husband? He left. He came just for one minute.

Where are you going?

I’m going home. I need to go home.

Lie down immediately!

I need to go home!

I asked you not to stand up, didn’t I?

You see, he’ll leave me. He wanted to have a baby.

And I didn’t manage to save him. Let me go!

What is it?

The war. The city was being bombed when I was operating on you.

So don’t think about your sorrow at the moment.

Each one of us will have lots of problems now.

Give me a cigarette, colleague.

They’ll come soon.

How do you know? Maybe our troops won’t let them come.

I’d like to believe you. But that lady tells us on the contrary.

Her case is most interesting. She is recovering so fast!

I’ve been a doctor for 40 years. This is what I’ll tell you.

That lady had no reasons to suffer a miscarriage.

She is just very sensitive.

Her organism somehow felt the danger

and got rid of the baby.

Do you want to say that she felt the beginning of the war?

I don’t believe that. It’s some kind of mystics…

As you wish. But believe me –

she’ll be standing on her two feet by the evening.

Shall we get out of here?

What is going on?

People are registered as volunteers.

Are there any news from the border?

The news are bad. The Germans are pressing on.

But I didn’t tell you anything,

they say we’ll be sent to the Stalin’s Line.

Nicolay Petrovitch?

Maria?

Hello.

What are you doing here?

I came to get to know something about my husband.

And now I think… maybe I shall volunteer…

Come to my office. We need to talk.

The Germans will enter Minsk any day.

The situation in the city will be very difficult

and hard to predict.

We need reliable people in the city.

People we could rely on.

Do you think it’ll be that bad?

I don’t think anything, but I can’t exclude anything.

Are you ready for such responsibility?

What shall I do?

You shall live in occupation. Found reliable people.

Establish contacts. At least at first.

And then we’ll act according to the circumstances.

On Tuesday in a week… or better in two weeks

be at home after six. Our liaison will come to you.

You have children, don’t you?

My son is with me and my daughter is with my mother in the village.

Send him there too. We have little time.

I understand.

You have no news about my husband, don’t you?

Come back as soon as possible.

Maia. Good luck to you.

Good bye.

Last time the bombardment lasted for 12 minutes.

If the Germans are as punctual as they say…

11 minutes sharp.

Sashenka?

Galka! Oh, thanks God that you’re home!

How will we Live now? The house is destroyed.

What house?

Our house, Gal. Our… We ran away,

but we only have our clothes now. Nothing more…

Everything is on fire. We shall escape.

Where to?

We shall leave the city.

The say the city administration is already in Moscow.

Val, did you see my Sasha?

Sasha?

Yes.

He left. He left us the keys.

When?

At night after taking you to the hospital.

Then the bombardment started.

Why are you sitting? Why are you sitting? Pack the things!

We shall leave before they started to bomb again!

Where did he go? Did he tell you?

Are you crazy? Don’t you understand what is going on?

What difference do his words make?

He might be already dead! And we might be dead tomorrow!

I must find him, Valya.

Galka, I came here only for your sake!

I wanted to go to the hospital

but Zhenka got so scared he couldn’t walk.

I won’t go anywhere without him.

He doesn’t need you! He said: “Your sister was a barren fool.

No matter how much you pour in her nothing helps”.

He said that he wouldn’t live with you anymore.

Did he say where he went?

Galka, are you crazy? Come to your senses!

Everybody is running away!

They say the Germans can come any day.

He is at the garage or with the boss.

Valyusha, it’s close by, I’ll be back soon.

He is not bad, Valya. He is a bit mad at first,

but he calms down afterwards. Just help me to get dressed

and do my hair, will you, Valya?

Hello, comrade Kolunets.

Hello, comrade Arkhipova. Where are you going?

This is what I wanted to ask you.

The court was bombed. Everything is on fire.

We shall escape from the city.

Run away?

Yes. I advise you to do the same.

Escape is not the way out. Don’t you believe

that everything will be fine soon?

Don’t you read newspapers? The war can’t happen!

It’ll be over in a week. You shall be ashamed of leaving

your native city! We’ll hold you responsible!

Everybody will answer for that!

Mum, let’s go. Why did dad fail to come?

You told me he will come.

They didn’t let him. They say he’ll come to you

in a week. Or two.

Comrade Lieutenant? Comrade Lieutenant!

I’m looking for my husband Alexander Terletskiy.

He drives the People’s Commissar comrade Tsanava…

Look in the garage.

Thank you.

Let her pass!

Galya, why didn’t you take anything with you?

Galya! And I was trying to talk Petya

into passing the hospital to take you with us!

Where is Sashka?

Let’s go! This is the last car for the employees!

We’re being evacuated to Vitebsk. Come on!

I won’t go without Sasha.

Besides my sister is waiting for me at home.

He went to his boss. Sit down!

We’ll take your sister on our way.

Is everybody here! Come on!

Galya, don’t be a fool, let’s go!

Sasha was saying terrible things about you! Come on!

Who will protect your granny and sister?

Will you take me back when dad comes?

Of course. I’ll wait for him and we’ll come to you together.

Rich people lived in Apartment 12.

It’s hard to open the door there.

Why are you looking? Go where you were going.

Comrades, shame on you! This is looting!

Looting!

And we were thinking of how to name it!

You’re the Soviet people! Enemy attacked your state.

What are you doing?

Who is she?

The propagandist.

I opened Flat number 12. Search there and let’s go.

I won’t let you! Take everything out, be quick!

Mum, let’s go!

Mikhas, let me talk to her.

Shut up. It’s none of your business.

Stop!

Did he hurt you?

Did he hit you?

Where do such brats come from? Shoot them!

Don’t look there, Yura.

Come on! Be careful!

We can’t get it in, Comrade General. What shall we do?

Turn it on its side.

We’ve already tried that. This clock is too big.

I’ll sit on the front seat. I feel dizzy at the back.

Let’s go.

Dad, why is that lady looking at us?

I don’t know.

We can go, Lavrentiy Fomitch.

Is that your wife?

No. It’s some stranger.

Let’s go, dear. Moreover we have no place left

in our car anyway.

Berlin, June 28, 1941

What music! What music!

Only God could have created such music!

It was created by God! It was composed by a German!

We are indeed the God-chosen nation!

I want to confess! I want to confess! Wait!

I want to confess.

The priest is not here.

A church without a priest? Where is he?

Have you swallowed your tongue?

He was arrested.

How untimely! When?

Yesterday.

What is your name?

Richard.

Don’t get upset, Richard. He’ll be cleansed

and return from the camp being a real German.

You’ll hear my confession.

I can’t. I have no right.

A new age is coming! It gives you this right.

The new God-chosen Germany gives you this right.

The Fuehrer was my friend for 25 years.

I knew him when he was still nobody.

What did I get for my loyalty? He threw me to those haughty

Himmler and Bormann like a bone.

They think that they’re the cleverest of all. He humiliated me.

When I got to know that Bormann’s mother-in-law was a Jew

the Fuhrer didn’t say a word.

When I was demoted in position he kept silence.

When I shut the door and left the SS he didn’t notice it…

or pretended not to have noticed.

He knew everything but he didn’t move his finger.

And now he needs me. I don’t remember evil done to me.

I’ll prove to my friend that the Fuehrer and Germany

have real friends that will make it prosper.

I only ask for one thing…

There is nothing to discuss here. That’s it!

Hello.

I’m talking to you in Russian!

We don’t sell the tickets! I have no trains!

Are you the head of the railway station?

You’ll now try to persuade me to get you and the boy

a ticket for the train, won’t you?

This is my son. I need it.

There are mostly women with children here.

Everybody is equal… It is absolute socialism in action!

The boy is only six.

Can you imagine how crowded the train will be?

I need to get on it. I have a special task.

The train will come soon. It’s the last one.

I don’t have any more. Those who will get in it will leave.

We don’t sell tickets and don’t book places.

When will the train come?

It’ll come in its due time. Please go.

Thank you.

I’m sorry. Dear comrade, be so kind to tell me

when the train will come.

Soon.

Soon? Thank you.

Hello, friend.

Hello. What are you doing here?

I sat down but I can’t stand up.

Wait. Are you all alone here? Where is your husband?

He went to the army at once.

Where are you going?

I go where everybody is going. When the baby is born

How will I feed him? Where will I live?

Don’t leave me.

Come on.

Valya?

Did you get to know something?

The train will come soon.

Let me sit down. It’s hard for me to stand.

Who is it?

She worked as a typist in our bureau.

What’s the matter, Valya? She is pregnant.

I couldn’t leave her on her own.

Very good. Gather everybody, our kind one!

You used to gather all homeless dogs in your childhood.

And I had to look after them later.

Do you think I’ll have time?

It’s scary to give birth on the road.

What if something happens? Maybe I shall look for a doctor.

Ask him to be close to me.

And a nurse. You could have been in the same situation now.

Zhenya, come here.

The train is coming!

Zhenya!

Mum! Auntie Galya! I’m holding a place for you!

I’m Eva.

Valya.

Galina.

Nice to meet you.

Why aren’t we moving?

Where are we going? They say the Germans have seized Vitebsk.

Vitebsk?

Yes.

What are we going there for, then?

Maybe we shall stay here.

Maybe it’s a lie. It must be a lie. Don’t worry.

Thanks God!

Run!

Why are you standing? Let’s run!

Help!

Why are you standing? The bombs are falling!

You’re a grown up. You’ll go to granny on your own.

I’ll find somebody to see you there.

I won’t go without you.

I have to meet daddy. If he comes home and see nobody he’ll be very upset.

I’ll go with you.

No, Tamarochka and granny are waiting for you.

I beg your pardon. One minute, please. Will you help me?

I need somebody to see my son to his granny.

It’s your kid. What do we have to do with it?

I need to return to the city urgently.

Look for somebody else.

We have our own kid to look after.

Valya, wait. What is your name?

Yura.

Come on! Come on, I tell you!

Yura. One second. Do you know where your granny lives?

In Smalyavichi. It’s close by.

You’ll get there by the evening. I’ll give you some food.

My mum will let you spend the night and feed you.

What Smalyavichi?

It’s on the way. We’ll spend the night there.

Valya, we won’t get to safety by the evening anyway.

Are you a complete fool? You brought that pregnant woman

at the railway station. Now a stranger’s kid…

Valya!

His granny’s name is Tatyana Martsiyevitch.

Yurka is a good boy. He won’t give you any trouble.

Don’t worry, I’ll see your son off.

Let’s go.

Kiss Tamarochka from me. Tell granny that I’ll come soon.

Just don’t go anywhere. Do you understand? Now go!

Give me your hand.

Thank you. I owe you.

Forget about it.

Great! Bravo!

Good! Children, go to your room.

They are great. And you’re a great mother.

It’s good that you noticed it at last.

Where did you spend the night?

I was somewhere on business, honey.

I can see that. Your business left a visible mark.

Oh, God… It’s good that the Fuehrer didn’t notice it.

The Fuehrer. I’m living with a Fuehrer.

Did he meet with you?

Yes.

Isn’t he mad at your anymore?

No.

From this moment on you are the first lady of Weisrutenia.

I’ll be the Fuehrer’s governor in that country,

the so called Belorussia.

Where is that?

This is the newly occupied very rich land in the East.

The Fuehrer’s governor! Do you understand what it means?

He didn’t forget about my services

and I’ll prove my loyalty to him.

What about me? Will you prove your loyalty to me?

Will you take us there with you?

I’m leaving for Belorussia alone.

It’s quite dangerous there.

Our power is not established everywhere.

Does he want to get rid of you or do you want to get rid of me?

I am leaving tomorrow.

You’ll come with the kids when I’m absolutely sure

that you’re not in danger.

What did you put in there? I have no strength left.

Val, stop grudging. I put what you told me to.

We shall go to mum. We’ll wait it out there.

We shall go to Vitebsk. I shall find Sashka.

Terletskiy left with the People’s Commissar.

Besides I want to eat.

Val, stop whining! Even little Zhenka is walking silently!

I’m sorry. May I put my things in your coach?

Mykola, go faster! Why are you moving so slowly?

Damned money-grubbers!

Mum, I’m not tired. Let me help you.

Let the children sit by your side!

They’ll spoil our furniture. They are spoilt.

No, they are good! They can hardly walk.

They are so weak!

Get off! Then you’ll say

that this or that thing was yours!

I know people like you!

Oh, bitch!

There! My granny lives there!

What?

Granny lives there.

Val?

Look! Smolyavichi.

Will you go there alone?

How can he? We shall hand him over to his granny.

His mother asked us.

His mother asked us! His mum said that this village

was on our way, and it’s so far!

We shall get to the river crossing by the evening.

Everybody says so.

Val, let’s do it tomorrow.

What if they don’t let us cross?

Why not? They will!

They will…

If they don’t we’ll sleep in the haystack.

It’s still better than to spend the night in the fields.

Let’s go, Valya!

Let’s go.

Give me your hand. Come on.

End of Episode One