Original subtitles

(tension music)

[Virgil] Beware. You will meet Radagast.

You will tell him about the orbital bomb.

Your presentation was fascinating.

[Yuri, in Russian] He interests me, this Frenchman.

Go talk to him.

Are you watching my father because of him?

These abortions are performed in deplorable conditions.

- [Anne] Who are you? - Friends.

[man] We're taking you to the hospital.

This bomb isn't just a project.

She's in orbit.

You have access to it.

[Boris] He's a spy.

He asks me to spy on my homeland.

[Francis] A nuclear war threatens us.

- [Lyudmila] I want to help you. - [Charles] What does she want?

Go west.

- [Charles] He needs a code name. - [Francis] Luna.

(distant music)

(dull crackles)

(pressure jets)

[Pavel, in Russian] Successful engine block separation.

Phase 2 engaged.

The trajectory of the probe is correct.

(communication beeps)

(alert beeps)

(interference)

(intriguing music)

(alert beeps)

[Boris, in Russian] What is this interference?

[Pavel] Something is interfering with communications.

I lost control.

[Boris] It's impossible.

[Pavel] The interference messed things up.

(warning signs)

[Pavel] She's spinning!

Turn off.

[Boris] Power off and reset!

[Boris] It's no longer responding. The probe leaves its trajectory.

(aerodynamic turbulence)

- [in Russian] Shall we blow it up? - Never !

- We have to destroy it. - It's not protocol.

These are Bakharin's orders.

It was Bakharin who ordered this launch.

He pushed it back to coincide with Army plans.

I will not sacrifice 3 years of work.

- Pavel, destroy it. - No.

[scientist] Boris!

- You're not the boss. - Leave me.

- Paul! - [Boris] Stop!

(electronic beep)

We lost it in the atmosphere.

(dramatic music)

The signal will return in 2 minutes.

- Why do you want to destroy it? - [Bakharin] Boris!

Lock the door.

(the music intensifies)

[Bakharin] Boris, destroy it!

Open the door !

Boris !

Open the door immediately. Golubev!

The probe must be destroyed.

The parachute.

[Bakharin] Boris, can you hear me?

Open that damn door!

Golubev, open the door!

Boris, open!

Break down the door.

(fire)

(slow, suspenseful music)

[in Russian] Where is she?

Where did the probe fall?

(indistinct murmurs)

(eerie music)

[Bakharin, in Russian] Enough, Boris. Tell me where the probe fell.

[Boris] No, I won't let your soldiers get it before me.

[Bakharin] I swear they'll bring her back intact.

[Boris] I want to recover the data myself.

It represents months of work.

Give me the coordinates.

I want to go there myself!

Boris !

Do not say stupid things.

You disobeyed.

- Then Pavel ira. - No.

- Send one of my assistants. - No.

Agreed. So a scientist who ignores your secret project

orbital bomb!

(intriguing music)

Now I understand why you delayed the launch.

You wanted it to cross the path of your orbital bomb.

Which caused interference.

The orbital bomb sent him a message.

Hence the loss of control of the probe.

You installed a transmitter

and you hid it from me.

What is this message

that you don't want me to find out?

Dania, let's talk straight.

You wanted to destroy the probe

so that the message does not fall into the wrong hands.

(Bakharin sighs)

You're retiring after the Voshkod project, right?

Yes.

It might happen sooner than expected.

Tomorrow, I want the coordinates of the fall.

And that's an order!

(dramatic music)

[Bakharin] Major !

Watch him.

[major] At your command!

(soft music)

[Lyudmila] If I gave you important information,

would you pass me west immediately?

Really important information.

Francis ?

You don't promise her anything, okay?

[Lyudmila] Allô ?

Francis ?

Your information gives us food for thought, but nothing is decided.

You talked about walks in Gorky Park.

(she sighs nervously)

That's enough, I'm tired of spying on my dad for you.

For weeks, we have been talking about his habits and his movements.

I have nothing

in exchange.

Listen, calm down, Lyudmila.

Be patient.

[Francis] What is this important information?

(eerie music)

[Francis] Lyudmila ?

(Lyudmila breathes nervously) I...

[Lyudmila] I don't know if I should...

(the music intensifies)

[Lyudmila] You promise me...

What are you doing ?

A regular noise... The line is no longer secure.

Hello ?

Hello ?

Hello ?

She won't understand anything.

- Let's call her back. - Not on this line.

- She had a tip! - [Charles] Exactly.

If the KGB is listening, she's in danger.

- We have to warn her. - [Charles] We'll find a way.

What does the protocol say?

It's not a rocket launch with clear guidelines.

[Virgile] It could be a bluff.

You must not use it to reach Radagast.

If it's tapped, we're screwed.

(Virgil sighs)

(slow music)

[Charles] She's burned out. We can't go on with it anymore.

[Virgile] It takes another strategy to approach Radagast.

(sigh)

[in Russian] They won't call back.

[Martine] Was it necessary to remove my appendicitis?

I don't know who came up with the idea, but you can say thank you.

No one will come to ask you questions.

Above all, take your medications well.

The 2 men, who was it?

I called.

Nobody knows.

It's as if they never existed.

Maybe a coincidence.

He knew my name and yours.

[Martine] What are you planning to do?

(soft music)

[Lyudmila] If I gave you important information,

would you pass me west immediately?

[Francis] Be patient.

[Charles] If the KGB listens, it would put her in danger.

(the phone is ringing)

[man, in Russian] Have you seen the time? What do you want ?

[en russe] Lyudmila.

Lyudmila Golubeva. Please.

What ?

Lyudmila.

(the man hangs up)

Hello ? Hello !

(he hangs up)

Hello ?

Hello ?

[Lyudmila] Allô ?

It's me.

What happened ?

[Francis] Wait a moment.

(soft music)

I wanted to warn you.

Earlier, you were tapped.

The SDECE has decided to interrupt our communications.

Are you letting me down?

[Francis] Not me.

Tell me about the information you wanted to give.

My father wants to go to Algeria.

How so ?

Yesterday, a probe was launched.

She communicated with the orbital bomb.

Due to a problem, it crashed in Algeria.

The army refuses to allow my father to go there.

(she breathes nervously)

May

to go there?

I do not know.

If he goes, would you go with him?

[Lyudmila] Maybe.

[Francis] Lyudmila...

This would be an opportunity to bring you back to France.

(a door opens)

[Boris, in Russian] Hang up

or I'll report you to the police.

I'll try.

(nervous breathing)

(tones)

(strong breathing)

(soft music)

(she sighs)

I don't understand how you made your account.

Engineering is a dangerous profession.

[Anne] He was a doctor, the one who sewed you up?

Yes.

(eerie music)

[in Russian] Today she spoils us.

The lady needs something?

My father is under house arrest.

General Bakharin refused to send him to search for a probe

which communicated with the orbital bomb.

Does your father know the tenor of the communication?

No, but General Bakharin wants to destroy all traces of this exchange.

(suspense music)

Radagast sent a probe.

She took off the day before yesterday and did not land in the USSR.

It crashed here, in Algeria.

I have no contact details. It's in this desert area.

They will do anything to get her back.

Radagast will surely go there.

How did you get this information?

At CNES.

And you know where to look?

Well no, but...

I go through the radar readings regularly .

All CNES radar readings?

Even at the SDECE,

with a department devoted to radar listening,

it would take weeks.

[Francis] Yes...

It's true that I was lucky.

[Charles] Lucky...

You called her back.

Damn, Francis, do you realize?

- We couldn't leave him. - We could !

We even had to!

(He blows)

[Charles] Well, did she tell you something else?

(we touch)

(fracas)

(eerie music)

(cris)

(he is out of breath)

[en russe] Yuri?

Did you tell them everything?

[in Russian] What should I have done?

They're gonna take us to your probe, just like you wanted.

"We" ?

[in Russian] Your daughter is coming with us, it's safer.

Is the military really hiding something in the probe?

For sure.

Is it related to the orbital bomb?

[Yuri] Only you know where the probe fell.

You must tell us.

Otherwise, we will force you to do so.

(dramatic music)

[Yemeline] If Bakharin wants to make disappear

any trace of this transmission,

it is that it is likely to compromise him.

Your goal: find the probe

and the message she picked up, then blow it all up.

It will help us bring down Bakharin and all his supporters in the army.

And for them?

Do the housework.

[Bakharin] I prefer to see Golubev dead in the East

than living in the west.

[housekeeper] Paul, finish your plate.

Your mom will be proud of you.

- Mom ! - [Anne] Good evening.

[housekeeper] Good evening.

[Anne] Francis isn't here?

Mr. Mareuil has left. He had an emergency.

And he left a note. Look, mom.

(slow music)

[housekeeper] Mr. Mareuil has canceled your table at the restaurant.

Sit down, darling. Eat.

(the music intensifies)

[operator] Takeoff in 10 min.

[Virgil] Thank you.

[Virgile] Takeoff in 10 min.

First time ?

Good listening.

You returned to East Berlin under your own identity, protected.

There, we enter illegally.

Espionage over there is either the death penalty or life imprisonment.

And believe me,

you would prefer the death penalty.

If I tell you "jump", you jump. "Run", you run.

- [Virgile] And "don't move"... - I don't move.

You don't move.

[Virgil] It's going to be fine.

Good. The Russian plane lands in an hour.

Someone will follow them and connect you with Radagast and Luna.

Obtain the coordinates of the probe to find it before the KGB.

Find the link to the Orbital Bomb.

But the Algerian army collaborates with the Russians.

They will have great freedom of movement.

Understood ?

(dramatic music)

Your shoulder, okay?

[Charles] It's the button of the heart.

Where the soul resides.

If something should happen,

it will be able to escape more easily.

It's just a tradition

to bring you luck.

(roar of the plane)

(action music)

As soon as you jump, the parachute opens.

You let yourself be carried.

As soon as you hit the ground, bend your knees. Agreed ?

Come on, carabiners.

[Virgil] Come on, go!

[Virgile] Go !

(a car arrives)

And the Russians?

They landed in Laghouat.

A single track goes southwest.

They will stop at El Khoussouf.

- [Virgil] El Khoussouf? - A Bedouin camp.

The gates of the desert.

Virgil.

(suspense music)

Algerian army.

They must have seen our parachutes.

[Algerian ally] Let's get off the track so they don't see our tracks.

- Good day Mrs. - Hello.

[patient] We have an appointment in 10 months, right?

[Mrs. Duchamp] Yes?

- Madame Duchamp? - Hello.

I called about Martine Archambault.

Appendicitis?

Yes. The bill has been paid, but by whom?

Are you his mother?

No, I'm his aunt.

You have to see that with the parents, then. Sorry.

- Good day. - Good day.

- Good day. - Bye.

(slow music)

(panting breath)

(a door closes in the distance)

[in English] Hello, Emily Wolf speaking.

Hello do you speak French ?

[Emily] Yes. Good day Mrs.

Forgive me, I'm confused.

May I know where I am?

[Emily] You're at the US Embassy.

(nervous breathing)

(camp hubbub)

(slow music)

[Boris] Are you coming to spy on me again?

They are the ones who did this to me.

Yuri ?

It was in Berlin that they started asking you to watch me.

You are suspected of treason. They want to trap you.

You don't realize the consequences of your actions.

I had no choice.

The space program,

the army,

me,

we were supported by Khrushchev.

He's not here anymore.

This orbital bomb gives Brezhnev and the KGB the opportunity to clean up.

Starting with General Bakharin.

If we go back to Moscow,

nothing will be like before.

(cricket songs)

(dramatic music)

(men discuss)

[Virgile] Algerian soldiers.

Shit.

They were faster than us.

We give up. We go back to the car.

What ?

They saw us land. They must have followed us.

Radagast and Luna are here!

When I tell you "we give up", we give up!

Go on.

(low music)

(panting breath)

- (a man shouts) - [Virgile] Stop.

[soldier, in Arabic] Whose parachute is this?

[soldier] Where are they?

- Where are they ? - [ally] I don't know!

[soldier] Traitor!

[soldier] You will speak.

[Virgil] Shit!

(intriguing music)

[Virgil] Francis!

(soft music)

[Francis] Lyudmila.

Francis.

Yes.

I want to go with you.

[Francis] That's what I'm here for.

Do you have the exact coordinates of the probe?

[Lyudmila] My father has them.

Take me.

It's too early.

[Francis] Your father would come with us?

[Lyudmila] He will never leave his homeland.

[Yuri, in Russian] Are you okay?

[Lyudmila, in Russian] Yes, thank you.

(eerie music)

[soldier] We're looking for French people.

(distant talks)

Contignet told you to go no matter what?

Next bullshit, I'll leave you there. Understood ?

(panting breath)

[in Russian] Vasily will sleep here tonight.

I will be in your father's tent.

(she sighs)

(panting breath)

(tension music)

(exclamation d'effort)

[Francis] And Radagast and Luna?

[Virgile] We'll follow them. Go up!

(low music)

[Yuri, in Russian] Is it here?

Somewhere within 500 yards.

From up there, we will see better.

You stay here and watch.

(mysterious music)

[in Russian] There!

(he sighs)

(dark music)

(slow music)

- Is the destruction system intact? - Yes.

Just plug in the detonator.

(mysterious music)

(exclamation d'effort)

(suspense music)

(nervous breathing)

[Virgile] We don't know where the 4th is, we're not moving.

[in Russian] So?

[in Russian] I don't know what I'm looking for.

I will proceed by elimination,

inspect everything, item by item,

and note the scientific data.

Do that after, you'll have time before I blow it up.

[Yuri] First find the communication module.

(dramatic music)

(low music)

[Yuri, en russe] Boris.

- Did you find anything? - No nothing.

They're going to blow it all up.

(suspense music)

Give your watch. That's what he's looking for.

You see that ?

This radio module received information from the orbital bomb.

The result is these numbers.

[Lyudmila] What do they mean?

Those numbers in my watch...

The KGB wants them.

It's our life insurance.

If I had retained some semblance of a bond with you...

They couldn't have turned you against me.

I know how to put machines in orbit around the Earth,

take pictures of the dark side of the moon,

but not take care of a child.

(sad music)

(eerie music)

Photos need to be recovered.

Attends.

[Francis] We don't know where the other Russian is, it's too dangerous.

Luna will get us the pictures. She wants to help us.

[in Russian] There is a hidden car.

We are not alone.

(the music intensifies)

[in Russian] We can't wait any longer.

[en english] Lyudmila !

[Yuri] Come see.

Did your dad find something?

Non.

He inspected everything?

Yes, he does not understand, everything seems normal.

Agreed. Go help him.

(the music intensifies)

Dad, go away, quickly!

- The army is coming. - He's bleeding.

We can't move it.

[Lyudmila] The bomb communicated something to the probe.

The Russian army is hiding something.

- Think about the consequences. - What do you want ?

Numbers, what are they for?

The coordinates of a target.

(she shouts)

They will torture them.

Don't screw it up.

(gunshots) Let's get out.

I got trapped.

(screams of fear)

(gunshot) (muffled cry)

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