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STAR MEDIA

Aleksandr Domogarov

Mikhail Porechenkov

Yekaterina Vilkova

Pavel Trubiner

Written by Igor Ter-Karapetov

Production director: Sergei Ginzburg

Scory by Gleb Matveichuk and Andrei Komissarov

First cameraman: Vasya Sikachinskiy

Art director: Yuri Konstantinov

Costume designers: Zhanna Lanina, Kseniya Mavrina

Make-up by Anastasiya Ramlya

Casting by Yekaterina Struchkova, Anastasiya Lenova

Edited by Olga Proshkina, Irina Michurina

Sound producer: Leonid Shushakov

Post-production producer: Artyom Yeliseev

Produced by Andrei Anokhin, Vlad Ryashin

Kill Stalin

Comrade People’s Commissar, can I come in?

Come in.

What the hell are you thinking, Captain?

You’ve been given power, so use it carefully!

Who do you think you are, a little Napoleon?

I sent some people to terminate Hess personally,

do you understand? The Internal Affairs Commissar!

And you got in the way. Why?

We don’t know where the other saboteurs are hiding,

Comrade People’s Commissar.

You got in the way of my orders.

Which contradict your other order: to find the saboteur group

that is planning an assassination attempt on comrade Stalin.

The group is supposedly lead by Hess, but it is very possible

that it might continue its work even without him,

so I think it is still too early to terminate Hess.

Korenev.

Yes, sir.

May I, Comrade People’s Commissar?

Come in. You think.

Who are you to think?

I signed the order to send those five idiots to the front lines,

the ones who couldn’t handle the two of you.

They’re not cut out for covert work, don’t you think?

I don’t understand, Comrade People’s Commissar.

Yes you do, you understand me perfectly.

You schemer.

Let them defend the Motherland in the dugouts.

And that Novitsky,

he’s bold, just like you are.

Comrade People’s Commissar, Novitsky didn’t know anything,

he was just following my order.

He didn’t know.

He didn’t and he doesn’t.

I kept him in the dark. Just like the rest.

Dismissed.

Am I free to go?

Go.

Yes, sir.

Glad to see you.

Me too. I was almost late to the meet.

Get a grip. I knew you’d get mad.

That’s why I didn’t wait for you in the office.

Me, get mad? Come on.

Tell me, what are you doing? We had a deal.

‒ Are we friends or not? ‒ We are.

We are.

But we’re not in a sandbox or behind a school desk.

Know your limits, but don’t fall down, get it?

No, I don’t get it. We had a deal that you wouldn’t report,

and you went and told Beria that I found Hess.

Yes, I did. If it wasn’t for me, the aide would report it,

or someone else would.

Are you sure my office isn’t bugged?

Because I’m not.

Why do keep playing those games?

There’s a war going on, and you’re trying to catch each other,

aren’t you tired of it?

And you want to be a saint, don’t you?

You think I don’t know what you need Hess for?

You don’t have to say that to me.

I talked to Comrade Beria to convince him not to

order your arrest right away, and with Comrade Vlasik

to make him play his part, to give you an opportunity

to talk to Beria, so that you takethe conversation

where you want it to go. I wasn’t wrong.

So he controls us completely?

Yeah.

And there must be his people in your squad.

And you thought you’d have your back covered, free of charge?

And at the same you’d be able to do whatever you want?

Well, I’m a private entrepreneur, I’m my own boss.

And what am I, then? Who is my boss, then?

What did you two decide?

Comrade Beria asked me not to tell you personally.

Stop it! Quit screwing around!

Hess makes the group, I terminate him during the arrest.

That’s not right.

Arresting him would be right, questioning him,

taking down his statement would be right,

but not pinning it to the case.

That would allow us to negotiate with Comrade Beria.

Got it.

God, I’m so sick of all this, Comrade Senior Major.

As soon as this case is done, I’m writing a report

and going to the front lines.

Go work, Comrade Captain.

‒ Permission to leave? ‒ Leave.

Getting in is easiest from here.

There’s a fence of around three hundred meters.

How are you doing?

They gave me six soldiers, I placed them in the wing

in the center of the courtyard.

They have a panoramic view, so even if someone gets there,

they’re not getting through.

We could get some employees to volunteer,

we’ll have more people inside that way. They’re working triple shifts already.

It’s all right, they’ll manage.

Why are you so edgy?

I’m all right. I left Dronov in command,

so make a report about object control actions taken for him.

Yeah, Dronov doesn’t seem to like you too much.

That’s his problem.

Hello, Lilya!

Hello, Comrade Senior Lieutenant, how are you?

I’m all right, thanks. Going home?

Yeah.

Wait, an employee that valuable going home unguarded?

Are you serious?

Yes, very. Comrade Second Lieutenant, walk the comrade home.

I’ll keep watch for you. This is an order.

Yes, sir.

Get to it. Goodbye, Lilya.

Goodbye. You could have given me a better bodyguard.

He’s the best. Goodbye.

Goodbye.

I’m the best.

Thank you for the dinner.

You call that dinner? Just potatoes and some canned food.

Didn’t even have to cook.

It’s not that, it’s that I haven’t had dinner at home for a long time.

Do you have any family?

Not anymore.

What about friends?

I thought I had some until today.

There’s a guy in our group, Zhenya Novitsky,

and he often says that it’s much easier on the front lines.

Out there you have a clear enemy, and here, as it turns out,

you can’t trust anyone.

Your friends will betray you

because it’s impossible not to, those are the rules.

And if you don’t play by the rules, you get destroyed.

Maybe you should just learn some forgiveness?

You can’t ask too much from people.

You might be right.

One, one, one two three.

One, one, one two three.

One, one, one two three.

Ten-hut.

Right, march.

He’s going to put his boot on, stomp his heels,

and go on walking.

Wow! His boots are made for walkin’.

Report it.

Go sit down, the food is almost ready.

You know, I almost forgot how it was.

You’ll get used to it again.

What are we going to do today?

We’ll go to my work.

What for?

We’ll watch a movie.

What movie?

Something about spies.

Wait a second, it’s all going to burn!

It already has.

Look carefully, Comrade Serebryakova,

if you see someone you recognize, let us now.

You haven’t slept?

I was at the objects.

Reporting in, Comrade Captain.

Report.

Ponomarenko has broken the schedule and deviated from the plan.

Do we have the film?

Sapater is working, we’ll have it soon.

‒ Get a move on. ‒ Yes, sir.

And you, keep looking.

Danke.

Great shot, Colonel, sir.

Thank you.

Colonel Seliger, urgent message.

We got a ciphered message from Major Hess’s group last night.

He’s gone mad, he thinks he can do whatever he wants. Let’s go.

Call Admiral Canaris’s office. I need five minutes of his time.

Sir, yes, sir, Colonel.

A copy of Hess’s report has been sent to the Admiral.

Who gave the order?

The Admiral himself.

And what?

We got a phonogram this morning.

Do everything you can to support Agent Ros.

Good.

I need to contact the Third Air Army Command.

A communication session has been scheduled for 15:00 hours, sir.

Do you know what we’re going to have to do?

No, I don’t.

An air raid on Moscow.

What?

God damn it.

Did you track him to the alley?

He didn’t meet with anyone, turned towards the street,

and went back to his usual route.

And what are we to make of all this?

‒ Captain, sir. ‒ Come on, spill it.

He was in a big ol’ hurry to go back.

I’m thinkin’ he was pressed for time.

Could be.

Someone notices that he went off his route and the back.

It could be a sign. But to who?

And where do we look for that someone?

Where he went off the route or where he got back on it?

We need to watch the moment where he goes off the route,

and where he gets back.

There, he looks to his right twice.

Yeah, first time when he was crossing the street,

once more after that.

It’s too far away, we can’t see faces or license plates.

Was there anyone filming it up close?

No one.

What could it all mean?

That they’re going active pretty soon.

The gate. We need to leave the car here.

Well, let’s go.

So, your target is in this area.

Whoever makes it to the object is to drop a high-explosive bomb.

So our target will be highlighted?

Yes, yes. You have to find a triangle of light.

The fires will be here, here and here.

How much time will we have?

Not more than half an hour,

before the Russians start putting out the fires.

The fires will be there right after the air raid alert is sounded,

so you’ll have plenty of time to fly up there.

After the bomb hits, you are to end the raid. Clear?

Yes, sir.

Good luck.

I’ll be back soon.

You know that you can’t walk around at night without a pass, right?

Of course I do, but I’m on the job, back me up in case anything happens.

Of course.

Don’t quarrel without me.

Right, I’m gone.

It’s very quiet here.

Yeah.

There’s a radio here.

Let’s dance.

It’s scary. Everyone goes to the shelter, and we’re staying here.

It’s scarier down in the basement for me. I think that if the entrance caves in,

we’d be dying in there slowly, like in a grave.

I never thought about it.

Don’t worry, maybe it won’t reach us.

Good evening.

How can I help you?

What was that?

I don’t know.

Prepare for a bombing run.

Hands up!

Down on the ground!

Hit the deck, team, alert! Alert!

What happened, Captain?

Sechin’s squad’s been attacked.

All personnel, form up in five minutes.

There, you don’t have to worry about bombings down here.

I’m a coward.

A bit, a Young Communist shouldn’t be so timid.

I’m not a Young Communist, I wasn’t accepted.

Then it’s okay, Lilya, calm down.

What about the doctor? He was supposed to come back.

But we have to hope that he hasn’t had the time.

All right, Lilya, calm down.

Doctor.

Lilya!

Ready?

No.

Do you know Captain Berezhnoy?

I don’t know any Berezhnoy.

Tell him Hess sends his regards.

Take the catalyst, we don’t have much time.

I have a favor to ask.

Halt! I’m listening, comrade.

We need to bury a girl. Lilya Chashina.

She didn’t have a father, or a mother, or any relatives.

She was like a granddaughter to me.

We’ll help, don’t worry.

I’m sorry it turned out like that.

Be strong, guy.

Come on.

Novitsky, Sechin, we need to check the houses

that were on fire last night, determine the reason of the fires.

Yes, sir.

‒ Yes, sir. ‒ Get to work.

Well, what do you think we should do? They’ve already nicked the bomb part.

Do we wait for an explosion?

I’m going to arrest Hess, interrogate him and shoot him.

And I thought I’d propose to her after the war.

I wanted to marry her.

They set an apartment in this building on fire,

there was a fire on that roof,

and they burned a truck behind the institute.

It was to highlight it.

Yeah, an air strike was hard to prepare.

They had time.

Ponomarenko gave them the message.

Could be, the radio transmission signal active last night.

And it wasn’t reported why?

Why would we report it?

It was so short we couldn’t even triangulate it.

Yeah, the scale of it is impressive.

Those people defy any kind of casualties at all.

What’s interesting, Lieutenant, is that they’d leave you alive.

What’s so weird about it?

Ponomarenko asked me to say hi to Captain from some guy named Hess.

So I’m like a living letter.

I see.

My people are in place, the building is surrounded, he’s home.

All right, get in, let’s go.

Did he ask for leave?

Yeah, we walked him to the apartment, we didn’t touch him in the street.

Good job, he could have been watched.

Why did he ask for leave? How did he explain it?

He said he was going on temporary duty leave,

he had to get ready.

Something’s funny. Okay, who is Hess?

No idea.

Don’t worry, Comrade Captain, we got him surrounded good.

He’s not here, he left.

How could he leave?

You sure you were watching him?

He never left the house!

Where is he, then?

Quiet. How much time has passed since he entered the apartment?

Ain’t much, Comrade Captain, 47 minutes.

All right, attics, neighboring houses, courtyards, search them.

Now!

Captain, sir, he couldn’t have left.

Even a fly ain’t going to get past me without a pass.

‒ Carry out the order! ‒ Yes, sir.

Well, what are you thinking?

We have to look here.

Can you smell something unpleasant?

Yeah, it smells of something rotting.

I thought I was the only one who smelled that, because of the wound.

What do you think, he crawled inside the oven?

Right.

See, last time I notice that smoke wasn’t only

coming out of the windows.

Hold this, give me a knife.

Give me a flashlight.

You should have reported it right there.

‒ My fault. ‒ Yes it is. Come on.

What a bastard.

Told you he didn’t have no place to go!

Sorry.

Quiet!

The smell! And they say the Germans are a clean people.

Yeah, apparently they only went to the surface from time to time.

This is why we never found anyone among the fly-ins.

How did they manage to live in the dark?

Here, hold the candles.

Zhenya, look what I found.

The catalyst from the institute.

Yeah, they made a powerful bomb.

What do you think they were going to blow up?

Good question. They could blow up anything.

The only thing they need to do is to distribute the charge

underground correctly. You could level half a block with it.

There’s an exit to the basement of the neighboring building,

and from there to the other one.

You can come out a couple blocks from here without anyone noticing.

Zhenya, come here. See, there’s a map of some kind.

Molotov’s print works, scale one to twenty five.

Give me some light. See these holes? Markings of some kind.

Give me a candle.

Senior Lieutenant is pretty sharp.

Wait a second.

Yeah, but he didn’t realize about the smoke on time.

On time or not, you wouldn’t have realized it at all.

All right, quiet.

On the map, the metro stations in downtown Moscow are marked.

If there is an explosion, a disaster is imminent.

Yes, all the downtown buildings will collapse, maybe even the Kremlin.

What I don’t understand is how they are going to plant

so many explosives underground.

It’s already planted, and not by them.

There’s a top secret map of mines in the Moscow Metro

in case we are forced to surrender the city.

Now you understand what kind of information

Letyagin gave to the saboteurs.

Why were they trying to get the explosives, then?

I don’t know, but they’re not getting through there,

it’s under special protection.

They’re going to blow up the charge here,

the rest is going to detonate.

How do they get there?

Do you have a map of underground structures?

Can you imagine what will happen if they get there in time?

Here’s the place, you can get there through three tunnels

and come down from three buildings:

the savings bank, the public baths, and the police precinct.

We’re a small squad, just five people.

Come on, then.

Right.

Check in your coats, check in your coats.

Comrades, where are you going? Comrades!

Will you look at that!

There are three tunnels from here.

We’re splitting up into three groups and fan out.

Someone will have to see them.

Yeah, or we get ambushed.

It’s very possible. You know, you can get killed during a war,

Senior Lieutenant.

What are you trying to say, smartass?

All right, don’t. Let’s split up.

Yes, sir. Anokhin, Ryabov, Leonov, come here.

Make a line, come on. We’ll see who the coward is.

Ready your arms.

Everyone out, come on.

One of the saboteurs is carrying the explosive.

Yes, it’s probably a big bag.

Pay special attention to that man, if you can,

get him away from the group and don’t let him blow it up.

Clear?

So, shall we go?

Kill the lights, follow me.

Kill the lights.

Citizens! Air raid alert!

Air raid alert!

Get back!

Grisha, check on him.

Anton. Grisha, what is it?

Follow me, Grisha.

Sechin, go right.

Got it.

Breakthrough! You are surrounded, lay down your weapons!

Lay down your weapons! I said lay down your weapons!

Resistance is futile.

Oh come on.

Run, it’s going to blow!

Hello, Lavrentiy Pavlovich,

Comrade Stalin is going to receive you presently.

Why don’t you lay down a carpet?

You’re stomping around like a horse.

Comrade Stalin doesn’t like it when he can’t hear footsteps. Please.

Please, Lavrentiy Pavlovich.

Beg to report, Comrade Stalin.

Report.

Saboteurs who were planning to assassinate you have been taken out,

Comrade Stalin.

According to our data, they were preparing an explosion

that could have lead to a massive destruction of buildings

in downtown Moscow. The Kremlin could have been blown up.

So they were going to assassinate the entire government

of this country, not only Comrade Stalin.

They’ve gone too far, the bastards.

Sit down.

Come on, sit down.

What about that explosion in the city?

It was the saboteurs.

We got them into a corner and they blew themselves up.

Unfortunately, a lot of our people died, too.

List of deceased.

Berezhnoy was killed.

Too bad.

Was that the captain who saved me at the station?

That’s right, Comrade Stalin.

Senior Major Prokhorov?

He was present at the arrest?

It was a top priority mission.

Give them an award. And the rest, too.

Of course, Comrade Stalin.

End of Episode Five.