All language subtitles for The Man Who Saved the World_en

[tense orchestral music]

[glass tinkling]

[loud booming]

[Stanislav coughing]

[phone ringing]

[doorbell buzzing]

[singing in foreign language]

- Look at this, it's
poignant to see all of this.

- Look at that--
- Don't touch it.

That's flypaper, I haven't
seen that for years.

Look at it.

[glass clinking]

[muttering]

In the chaos here.

- [Journalist] His wife
is beautiful, look at her.

The glory days.

- [Interpreter] Yep.

- Oh, Stanislav, thank you.

Tell him we were looking

how young he looks in
some of the pictures.

- So you must've wanted
to go into the military?

- Did you ever indicate
that you would like

to get out of the army,

or that you'd like
to do something else?

- He wants to stop
talking about that.

- [Journalist] Why?

- He just doesn't want
to talk about his family.

It's too much for him.

- That's what he just said?

- Yeah.

- [Journalist] Why?

- Let me just ask
one more question,

how did his mother
react to what happened

and what has happened since?

- [Interpreter] He doesn't
want to talk about his mother.

- But surely they must realize,

his parents must've
realized that--

- [Interpreter] You're
starting to piss him off.

- [Journalist] Um,
can we apologize?

- [Interpreter] He
said, "Fuck off."

[tense music]

- [TV Host] There are people
who think that you a hero,

that you saved 100 million lives

because of what
you did that night.

Where were you on
September 25th, 1983,

when the superpowers
came within an inch

of falling into
the nuclear abyss?

The Baltimore Orioles
were on their way

to winning the pennant,
but who would know

that there might not be
a world series that year?

That an hour from then,
there might not be a world?

- [TV Host] I know you
don't regard yourself

as a hero, Colonel,
but belatedly,

on behalf of the
people in Washington,

New York, Philadelphia,
and Chicago,

thank you for being
on duty that night.

[energetic rock music]

- [Galya] Come on,
he's not my dad.

I'm his interpreter.

- His interpreter, is that
a new word for that now?

[laughing]

And you see that place there,

look over there,
with them lights?

- [Galya] Yeah?

- [Driver] That's the UN.

- [Galya] He's giving a
speech there tomorrow.

- [Driver] For real?

- Yeah.
- A speech?

- Thank you very much.

I apologize for the crowd being

not what it was supposed to be.

We still have 25
people out there

that somehow didn't
pick up their passes.

Big mix-up, happens all
the time here, I'm told.

I'd like to give a
little background though

on the event today.

Back in September 26,
1983, Stanislav Petrov,

then Lieutenant Colonel
Stanislav Petrov,

was the command officer

of Russia's main
nuclear command post.

[beeping]

- I'm not a hero.

I was just in the right
place at the right time.

I was just in the right
place at the right time.

[dramatic music]

- It was one of the most
dramatic acts of the Cold War,

and one that needs to be known
to people all over the world.

So, Mr. Petrov, it's
my great pleasure

to present this award to you.

[audience applauding]

- Dear ladies and gentlemen.

[audience laughing
and applauding]

I am not a hero.

I was just at the right
place at the right time.

At the right place,
at the right time.

- [Announcer] By US estimates,

Iran is one to five years away

from having a nuclear
weapons capability.

- [Announcer] North Korea says
it successfully carried out

yet another underground
nuclear test.

[loud booming]

[screaming]

[loud booming]

[screaming]

- [Woman] You are a hero.

- Petrov, what a privilege
to meet you, sir.

The man who saved the world.

Good to see you indeed.

- What's your name?

- Matt Damon.

- Mike?
- Matt.

- Matt Damon?

- Yes, exactly.

- Matt Damon.

- Exactly, very
nice to meet you.

- It's a great
honor to meet you.

[lively guitar music]

- I would rather see
my little girls die now

than have them grow
up under communism

and one day die no
longer believing in God.

- Let there be no
misunderstanding,

we are going to begin
to act beginning today.

- [Reporter] This
calculated attack

on a civilian airliner
has shocked the world.

- My fellow Americans, I'm
coming before you tonight

about the Korean
airline massacre,

the attack by the Soviet Union

against 269 innocent
men, women, and children.

- [Ronald] This crime
against humanity

must never be forgotten.

[tense music]

[peaceful guitar music]

♪ You've been talking
about something great ♪

♪ But you don't really
know what they're saying ♪

♪ I guess that goes
without to say ♪

♪ That you don't really know
what they're paying for ♪

- You don't look
like a bodyguard.

[laughing]

- [Salesman] That's a .44.

- [Instructor] Left thumb
over the right thumb.

Line up your sight,
pull the trigger.

You can do it, it's fun.

There you go.

Wobbling, wait up.

There you go.

- [Galya] Did you just see that?

- [Instructor] I like that one.

- [Galya] He shot him
right in the face.

- [Instructor] Rock and roll.

- [Instructor] Nice job, man.

Good shot.

Outstanding, outstanding job.

[hinges squealing]

- [Tour Guide] This is the
only place in the world

where you can see a former
Minuteman II missile

in its once operational state.

- [Tour Guide] Let's
go have a look.

Mr. Petrov.

- [Galya] This looks
pretty terrible.

- We have about 500 Minuteman
IIIs out there today.

The Minuteman's America's first
hair-trigger launch response

as far intercontinental
ballistic missiles go.

- Yeah, oh yeah.

Yeah, it's pretty amazing.

- Now, if the missile
ever had been launched,

here is what
would've taken place.

Through the help of an
explosive gas discharge,

this 90-ton door which
once covered the silo

would be blown to the
south over 400 feet.

[glass tinkling]

The missile would come out of
there a second or two later

and soon be rocketing at speeds

of over 15,000 miles an hour.

The missile would be headed
to a target half a world away,

maximum range about
8,500 kilometers.

A warhead with 1.2 megatons
of destructive power.

[dramatic violin music]

I often get questions
from visitors here,

how does that compare
to the atomic bombs

dropped upon Hiroshima
and Nagasaki?

I say it is beyond
those comparisons.

A better comparison is compare
it to every bomb exploded

in the six years
of World War II.

If you combine all the
explosive power used

during the six years
of World War II,

you get 60% of one
Minuteman missile.

- 150 of these across
Western South Dakota,

1,000 across the Upper Great
Plains during the Cold War.

But if the Minuteman
ever had been launched,

it was stated American military
policy during the Cold War

to launch it only in response

to a Soviet nuclear
first strike.

And if a nuclear detonation
had occurred in this area,

it would have rearranged--

That the Soviet Union
would attack you first

and destroy your whole country?

- That was the way of
thinking of the Cold War.

- I don't know if we have,
at least our governments.

- [Galya] Um, he just said only
stupid politicians want war.

Russian people also
dreamt of peace.

- Yeah, I agree with that.

So y'all also thought for us

in the same way that
we thought for you.

Tell Mr. Petrov I'm very
glad he could come out.

- [Tour Guide] Thank you.

- [Tour Guide] Ask him if he
ever believes a day will come

when atomic bombs will
be used in a war again.

- [Galya] I think so, yes.

[dramatic orchestral music]

[alarm buzzing]

[panicked retching]

[despondent violin music]

[sobbing]

[muffled yelling]

- [Driver] Here we are.

- [Galya] Thank you.

- You're welcome.

This is Mr. Costner's
trailer right here.

- Hello.

[laughing]

- How are you?

- [Kevin] Welcome.

- Yes.

- He's just a little shy.

- [Kevin] Okay. [laughs]

- [Galya] I had not hope
that I would be able

to come and personally
meet with you.

That's what he says.

- I was surprised that you
would want to come meet me.

- [Galya] What you
do is very different

from what other people--

- It's easy in my country to
be famous for the wrong thing.

Sometimes we're famous
for our popularity,

and it's kind of hollow.

- Right.

Well, here, sit down.

- He tried to send this
present to your house

and they wouldn't
give it to you.

- [Galya] I wondered why
it didn't get to you.

- A person who works
for you explained to me

that I shouldn't have sent
anything to your house

because it's--
- Right.

What does [speaking in
foreign language] mean?

My Moscow.

- It's Moscow,
capital of Russia.

- Oh, I see, okay.

[laughing]

I want one question.

- When people estimate the
damage that would've been done

had this not been stopped,

how many people
did they talk about

on both sides
potential being lost?

- After the first strike,

half of the population of the
United States would be killed.

- [Galya] All the communication,

all the roads,
everything, destroyed.

- So we're talking
200 million people?

- [Galya] Yes, on
the first strike.

[missiles roaring]

- [Galya] Thousands
of nuclear missiles

screaming through space.

[dramatic orchestral music]

[loud booming]

- Everybody would be dead and--

- There wouldn't
be a planet Earth

in the way we have it today.

Nothing would be left
except for desert.

- Anybody who would like to
be over here for a moment.

- [Director] Crew
members, come around here.

We've got a special event here.

- I have a special guest.

I'm lucky enough to
get to play heroes.

You know, I've often
said I get to play people

smarter than me,
braver than myself,

and oftentimes what
we're portraying

are men like Stanislav, who
stands before you right now.

[eagle crying]

He's a man among men,

and I think that we're
all linked together.

We're all connected to
his decision in some way.

- So please join us.

This is all we have to offer.

Except just maybe a hear, hear.

- [All] Hear, hear!

[crew applauding]

[camera flash whining]

- Turn around, Davy.

You pay a little bit
of tribute to some guy

who didn't listen to the noise,
he listened to his heart.

And that seemed

was good.

You're now the
king of the world.

So he gets to decide
how do we fix all this,

how do we make it safe?

And tell him to remember
he's king of the world,

so he should talk like a king.

[laughing]

- [Kevin] Remember,
talk like a king.

- [Galya] If I were
the czar of the world

- [Kevin] Right.

- I'm sick and tired
of all this old hatred.

- So we'd better learn to
live together as brothers,

or perish as dinosaurs.

- Yeah.

I understand, it's like it's
just choices we make, you know?

[thoughtful orchestral music]

[mechanical whirring]

[jet engines roaring]

[soft piano music]

[dramatic orchestral music]

[bells ringing]

[rapid knocking]

- Stanislav?

I hear you're a big, big hero
all over the world, Stanislav.

That's very good because

♪ Men grow cold as
girls grow old ♪

♪ And we all lose our
charms in the end ♪

♪ But no matter what
you save me from ♪

♪ Stanislav, you're
my favorite one ♪

♪ Heroes are a
girl's best friend ♪

Thank you, Stanislav.

[peaceful guitar music]

- How is it to walk the world

and know that it would
not be here almost

if it hadn't been
for your decision?

- One day there'll
be no wars, right?

One day there'll be no
wars, and you can come here

and we'll go shoot
guns all day long.

[laughs] Good job,
man, nice to meet you.

- I just wanted
to say thank you.

Thank you for thinking
with your heart.

- Kevin Costner
sent him a letter?

- Oh yeah.

- And why did he
send him a letter?

- Well, he's the man
who saved the world,

apparently, by acting smart.

- That's cool.

- Stanislav had a chance
to come to this country.

He had three wishes.

He wanted to see
the United Nations,

he wanted meet Robert De Niro,
and he wanted to meet me.

[laughing]

[laughing]

- I believe every
person on the planet

should know what happened

because every person was
affected by your decision.

[tense orchestral music]