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We've received a new assignment.

Can it be rearranged

so that I go to Byelorussia and Velichko works with someone else?

It can't.

Let's be honest.

I'm repulsed by you, even without an operation.

Harder! Harder!

Do you really want me with you on an operation?

I don't want any company.

Father Veniamin

offered our country his help in fighting the enemy.

Germans don't have weapons like this yet.

So under no circumstances these documents

can fall into their hands.

Germans are reopening churches on the occupied territory.

Two priests, two novice nuns...

You are with Father Veniamin.

You — with Shapkin.

Each group has its own search area.

Valeriy Shapkin,

your military engineer.

Please tell me you are Velichko.

Yes, I am Velichko.

Such a beauty in my service...

A friendly advise.

Think about the operation, Comrade Engineer.

(service in Church Slavonic)

This priest...

He said 'aggel' instead of 'angel'.

If they are undergrounders,

they have a stash close to the village.

No need to walk far

but still concealed.

What

an interesting

map.

If you dream about someone all the time,

how does the church interpret that?

Does this dream make you uneasy?

This girl... She...

...died.

Did you..?

No.

Could you have saved her?

I'm glad to see you.

Do you know Bekhteevka?

Run there! Find another one like me but older — Veniamin.

He's with a girl.

Say that we found the plane.

I burned the papers.

They should run.

Come!

Come here!

SVETLANA IVANOVA

SVETLANA USTINOVA

VLADIMIR VDOVICHENKOV

IRINA ALEKSIMOVA

EVGENIY PRONIN

ANATOLIY RUDENKO

Camera Director KIRILL SPERANSKIY

Art Director ANDREY ROZIN

Composer DARIN SYSOYEV

Sound Producer IVAN RIPS

Picture Editor KONSTANTIN MAZUR

Screenwriter ALEXEY ONISHCHENKO

Executive Producers SVETLANA SLITYUK VLADIMIR KHABALOV

Producers ALEXEY MOISEEV DAVID DISHDISHYAN OLEG PIGANOV

Director Producer PHELIKS GHERCHIKOV

SPIES

I need a priest.

An old one.

Out of the car!

Enter the church! Search everything!

Go! Go! Go!

Hands up! On your feet!

Shit!

Take my hand!

After you, Herr Obersturmbannführer!

Do you...

...want to live?

Who on earth doesn't?!

We

will forget that you were shooting

at our soldiers.

if you tell us everything.

It's better

to start

talking now.

How is it

that you speak our language

but don't know our traditions?

What traditions?

Heard of our fairy tales?

Give a drink,

give a meal

and prepare a steam bath.

Then you can ask questions.

Could you at least pour me a glass of vodka?

Will you start talking then?

I'll tell you

since you treat me in a humane way.

Keller!

Schnapps

of my Auntie.

Personal

stock.

Well, this is

a whole other story.

Could you untie my hands?

Keller!

(in German) Gut?

Gut. Gut.

Sweet mother of...

So?

So they send me over here

saying there's a church in Kiev.

It had a priest until one of your bombs got him...

No priest anymore.

But a nun survived.

They said,

be a new priest,

conduct services,

have a look around.

Germans will give a permit,

and you just travel around

with "hallowed be your name."

So I was traveling around.

Actually,

I was supposed

to go by myself.

But this silly goose started following me.

As nun as it gets...

But got a crush on me — you wouldn't believe!

Hey, me — I'm all for it when a petticoat is close by.

So she...

...is not an agent?

An agent? Come on! But in bed...

You better

talk about the airplane!

Comrade Lieutenant, permission to report?

Report, Savchenko!

Doing a recon,

we've discovered a priest,

a nun and a boy with them,

all sleeping in the forest.

They are in possession of Germans documents

but say they are in the Red Army.

Comrade, we are friends. Intel agents.

Such a good luck we've met you.

We really need your help.

Help?

We've been encircled for two weeks.

Who would help us?

At ease, Savchenko!

— Feed the boy. — Yes, sir!

Come with me!

Go ahead!

Comrades Red Army men,

I don't know you!

State your names and military ranks!

Archimandrite Veniamin.

I'm not in the Red Army.

I'm acting at the request of the Intelligence Agency.

Sergeant Arina Prozorovskaya.

Lieutenant Gavrilov.

State the objective of your operation, Prozorovskaya.

What objective?!

We need to leave.

Comrade Major,

I make decisions here.

Sasha, listen!

Use the form of address according to Regulations!

Check the minister of religion for infectious diseases

that might pose a threat to the personnel.

Follow me, Sergeant!

Follow me!

Give him Solution №2

and hot water to drink.

Sorry, we ran out of tea a week ago.

Thank you!

The minister of religion has been checked.

He has recurrent bronchitis.

There's no risk for the personnel to get infected.

Okay.

What did she say?

There's a Sosnovka village five klicks from here.

Two Soviet agents might be held prisoners by Germans there.

One of them has secret information.

They need rescue.

Even if it's true,

our ammo supplies are next to nothing.

And I'm sure Germans in Sosnovka outnumber us.

Absolutely right, Comrade Major.

The balance of forces is unknown.

That's why we need to check the information from Prozorovskaya,

to perform a recon.

Savchenko!

Sergeev! Ryazantsev! Prikhod'ko!

Take the road to Sosnovka village.

Make an ambush.

Your objective is to take a prisoner.

When you do,

bring the prisoner to our camp immediately.

Yes, sir! Will take a prisoner and bring him to our positions.

Comrade Lieutenant,

permission to come with the group?

A prisoner should be taken quietly, without shooting.

It's easier to do with my help.

Join the group, Comrade Sergeant.

Yes, sir! Will join the group.

When is my Mommy coming?

Soon.

In a blink of an eye.

Will Germans let her through?

They will.

How can they not, these Germans..?

How will she know where to find me?

Katya,

don't you worry!

Mommy is coming back soon.

In the meantime you settle in,

make some new friends, okay?

Trust me, it's all going to be fine.

Let's go. Stay close.

FASCISM IS THE WORST ENEMY OF WOMEN.

EVERYONE TO FIGHT FASCISM!

Do you know where they are sent?

To the South-West, I guess.

To Kiev?

To Mommy...

Maybe Kiev.

No, not to Kiev.

They are taken to Leningrad.

Oh, God!

May they burn in hell!

Katya?

Katya!

Sorry, have you seen a little girl here?

Katya!

Katya!

Katya!

Katya!

Katya!

Katya!

Excuse me!

Sorry. Have you seen a little girl with a teddy bear?

Take me!

— Katya! — Take me with you!

Take me!

My Mommy is there!

Take me with you! My Mommy is there!

Hey!

Where did you run off to?

To Mommy. She's waiting for me.

Mommy is working for our country's good, understand?

She'll come back to you soon.

It's war. It's dangerous. Where did you run off to?

I would've went to a church

and sent Mommy a note.

She would've come to get me.

What note?

Good morning!

Hi!

You are beautiful.

From a nobleman's family?

Nah, we are simple villagers.

Do you want to smoke?

Can't say no to that.

Sorry,

I won't untie your hands.

I did it for your commander,

and he made such a mess...

So you can thank him!

What commander..?

Nobody is my commander.

Let's save some time.

You will say that you are a nun.

Yes.

That you met Shapkin

in Kiev,

fell in love with him,

as you say, 'head over heels'.

Guilty.

Right. We are all humans.

Then you followed your darling,

enjoyed your happiness...

You didn't know that he's an intel agent.

What airplane he's looking for — you didn't know either.

Herr Officer,

Yes?

Where do you see an intel agent?

We are simply in love.

We'd open a church,

people would bring us some food,

I'd set the table,

we'd have a drink, spend time together...

What's about this airplane..?

So why would he shoot at our soldiers then?

He was drunk.

Our men drink a lot.

It's their vice. What can you do..?

Did you sleep well last night?

No complaints.

Did you hear the crying?

That was my assistant

working with your

commander.

Let's go.

He didn't talk.

You see,

what happened to him?

What kind of monsters are you?

My assistant is tired.

Sleeping.

After he has his rest,

he'll start with you.

If you don't tell everything, you will be very

miserable.

Hands up!

Comrade Lieutenant, permission to report?

Report, Savchenko!

Mission accomplished!

We've taken two prisoners and a truck.

The truck is hidden in a forest.

Good.

Take them over there.

Comrade Major,

I think one of your nurses speaks German.

Eggers!

Yes?

Come over here.

We will interrogate prisoners.

Comrade Lieutenant, I speak German too.

— I could... — No, just us.

You wait over there.

Let's go, Eggers!

Wow, that's a lot!

Yeah, it's all Yurka.

True mushroom-hunter.

Dad taught me.

He was really good.

Knew all the best places.

We used to start picking them in August.

Yura, is all your family in Sosnovka?

No, some live in Dergachi.

You should go there. It's dangerous here.

I want to stay with you, to fight Germans.

Yura,

you'll have time.

I won't go.

You need to protect your own family

while your father is on the lines.

It's not much here

but...

...it will come in handy.

Hide it.

Thank you.

You are a true friend.

Guardian angel, save and protect the God's servant, Yurka!

Go.

They don't know why Gestapo holds the priest and the nun

but they did see them.

Well, it's all clear.

— Savchenko! — Yes?

— Assemble everyone! — Yes, sir!

Might I know what you are going to do?

Info from Prozorovskaya checked out.

We need to free our agents.

We are small in number.

That village has about fifty Germans.

We'll be fighting not by number but by skills.

This is stupid! It's crazy!

Some random girl...

She might be working for Germans.

It might be a trap.

Comrade Major,

as officer to officer:

please stop freaking out and think logically.

Fifteen people left of the regiment.

We don't pose a strategic threat to Germans.

Why would they do something this complicated?

To lure us out?

To sacrifice their men?

We are not worth the trouble.

People barely stand on their feet.

A fight will lead to casualties.

Maybe.

War always comes with casualties.

Sasha, I won't let you lead our men to death.

Address according to Regulations!

It's a pure gamble! You don't have the right to risk...

Regulations!

Lieutenant Gavrilov,

according to Regulations, I hold a higher rank, so I order you...

— You don't have the right to give orders. — I do.

I am the only officer of the 24th Regiment still standing in duty.

I keep the regimental colour!

I'm superior in rank.

You and your medical staff are not part of the regiment.

No written order from superior officers,

appointing you the regiment's commander,

came to me.

You don't have the right to give me orders and take over the command.

You will face court-martial!

I'm willing to answer to court-martial and explain my position.

But first

we need to complete a military operation

and get out of the encirclement.

Nobody assigned you that operation!

A military operation

is assigned by a senior officer of a combat formation.

That is me.

It's good the lieutenant is in command.

This Major is very hesitant.

It has nothing to do with hesitance.

Didn't they tell you?

What did they have to tell me?

Morozov! Shimanskiy!

Never mind. Later.

Break ranks!

— Unfold the regimen colour! — Yes, sir!

Comrades Red Army men!

We've been through a lot.

We are tired.

We are surrounded.

But I want to remind you

that all of us took an oath

and we have to protect our Soviet land till the last drop of blood.

Our country's interests

demand that we free our agents.

They were captured by Germans.

The number of Germans in Sosnovka village

is about fifty people.

Yes, it's a lot.

But it's a reserve force.

Fifty more Germans guard the bridge

five klicks from Sosnovka.

If we hit the bridge,

the reserve forces

would immediately leave the village

to help their own.

We will take advantage of that.

Savchenko!

Ryazantsev! Sergeev! Nechiporenko! One step forward!

Together with Sergeant Prozorovskaya

you make an assault team.

Back in line!

The rest

under my command

takes the truck, stolen from Germans,

and goes to the bridge.

The start of the attack will be marked

with a single red flare.

As soon as

German reserve forces leave Sosnovka,

assault team will enter the village

and set the agents free.

Sergeant Prozorovskaya knows them by face.

Comrade Major,

his staff,

the wounded

and the minister of religion

will stay at this spot,

protect the regimental colour

and wait for the assault team to come back here.

Forty minutes after attack

the main group comes back here.

Upon rendesvous, the unit starts fast relocation.

It's possible,

Germans would be following us.

We cannot let them overtake us.

In case of my death,

the command of the unit

passes over to Comrade Major.

Questions,

Comrades Red Army men?

Permission to take part in the operation?

Honourable jesture.

But the battle

is for trained people.

Father Veniamin used to be an active officer.

Okay.

— Savchenko! — Yes, sir!

Give Father Veniamin a spare rifle

— and two munition packages. — Yes, sir!

Any more questions,

Comrades Red Army men?

I go to the bridge

and you stay here.

With all due respect, Comrade Major,

you are a medic.

You don't have enough skills to conduct military actions.

We set off in five minutes.

Dismissed.

Hello!

Are you going to talk?

Sure.

I'm... With great pleasure.

Only please don't torture Valera!

I told your officer,

we are in love.

Your Commander

was also telling lies.

Then he started crying and...

...behaving like a dog.

He's not my commander.

He's my lover.

Your lover?

My Grandpa

is a clockmaker.

He taught me

that people are like clocks.

They don't work

but you know where to push

so they'd work.

I found this clock yesterday.

I fixed them

only today.

Everything

has its time.

Your Commander will start talking.

You will too.

If not today,

then tomorrow.

If not tomorrow,

then the day after tomorrow.

Everything

has

its time.

Attack on the bridge.

Everyone has been alerted.

We can wait for fifteen minutes

but if it turns out

that a big number of Reds is pulled there,

we'll have to leave.

What's with the captives?

We take the nun with us.

She saw the work you've done on her commander.

She'll start talking quickly.

Without a doubt, Herr Obersturmbannführer.

We

continue talking later.

Go.

He won't say anything else.

Kill him.

Let's go to the cellar! Quickly!

Damn!

Don't shoot! Or I'll kill her!

Shit!

Bastard!

Careful!

How is he?

Bad. Very bad.

Does he have chances?

If we get him to a hospital — probably.

Take the axe and get some sticks to make a stretcher.

Yes, sir! Will get sticks for a stretcher.

Do you know if he kept quiet?

Doesn't it show?

Thank you for having our back.

Right, everyone always has your back...

What do you mean?

Nothing.

If Germans caught only me, you wouldn't move a finger, right?

Comrade Major!

Get Comrade Major! Now!

Comrade Major!

Comrade Major!

Careful! Give me room!

Sasha!

Sashka, it's okay.

It's okay.

It's okay.

It's nothing, Sasha.

It's nothing, Sashka.

It's okay.

Lieutenant is Major's son is what you wanted to tell me.

Yes.

It's nothing, Sasha. It's nothing.

It's okay.

What's up, Sasha?

Sasha, what's...?

What's up, Sasha?

You... We need...

...to do something...

If I knew...

What would it change?

Sashka, come on!

Sashen'ka!

Stop!

Rest five minutes.

Savchenko!

I told you I'm lucky.

You are safe if you are with me.

Stupid of me not to believe you, huh?

Water!

Have you seen

if that German...

their boss...

the thin one...

stayed alive?

You two stay here.

Otto, follow me!

They lured us out on purpose

to fight off their agents.

I'm very sorry, Herr Obersturmbannführer.

I have...

written here what was in the blueprints.

Not many details but...

...the gist.

If Germans overtake us,

destroy it.

Specialists will figure it out.

What do you think you are doing?

Nothing.

I want to give you an advise.

What advise?

This lieutenant...

Petrov. Have a closer look at him.

He'll break anyone's neck for you.

I saw it in his eyes.

How are you?

You have...

promised me an affair...

I give girls promises a lot...

this and...

...that.

It's my nature.

— Commander? — Yes?

Germans are on our tail.

We have about three klicks headstart.

If you keep on carrying me, they'll overtake you.

We can change hands more often.

I can carry the stretcher. Velichko can too.

Right, Velichko?

I can.

They can't overtake you.

I'll stay.

What you mean, 'stay'?

You

are the group leader.

Take care of Zoyka.

I gave her an important paper.

Comrade Shapkin,

you can't...

We have to think of something.

Comrades?

Commander, assemble the people.

You need to leave.

The rest is over. On your feet!

How can we leave?

Go!

Comrades, you...

How can you do this?

Father, you too.

Go!

No, I won't... I won't allow this. Comrades!

How can you do this?

What are you doing, Comrades?

Run!

SOVIET TERRITORY 30 September 1941

Operation completed.

Congratulations!

Yeah.

It's weird.

What?

Second operation.

I did everything as ordered

but I have a heavy heart.

Because of him?

Because of him.

Because of Shapkin.

I guess my dreams would be more diverse now.

Remember what I told you?

Sometimes there's only one solution.

You have to do

what you are supposed to.

And keep on living.

It's hard.

Yes.

Will you ask to go on another operation?

I will.

You are a good person.

Good luck!

You too!

Savchenko,

do you feel better when you smoke?

When I don't smoke for a while — yes.

But you get used to it.

But is it better for some time?

Yeah.

Can I have a cigarette?

Sure.

Why would you inhale all at once, Comrade Sergeant?

Go slowly.

MOSCOW 2 October 1941

Well?

Good job!

Thanks.

Did you pass over the tech info?

Yes. When we landed, a messenger came.

From the Agency.

Well done. Well done.

Have a look, that's where we live now.

The ground floor is storage.

Take your suitcases,

get yourselves cleaned up.

Let me show you around.

This housing is better.

Everyone has his own room.

Yours is number six. Yours is seven.

Comrade Vorotynnikov is coming in two hours to debrief you.

Good afternoon, Comrade Instructor!

Katya is all right.

I didn't have any doubts.

Orphanage number four. Visiting as scheduled.

Okay. Thank you.

What happened?

It's clear, something happened.

We trusted you,

gave you a chance and you...

Me what?

Wanted to run away?

— Me? — You!

What? Where is this coming from?

Here's the address. Kiev Pechersk Lavra.

Nun Zinaida.

Your child is at the following place...

Your handwriting?

— It is but... — Katya told me everything.

What did she tell you?

Your plan.

Katya runs away from us,

comes to a church, waits till...

Germans take over the city,

fills in the address and send the cable to Kiev.

Then you come to get her.

Comrade Petrov,

— ...there was no plan. — Quiet!

— Do I seem completely... — I said, quiet!

Yes, sir! Will be quiet.

She didn't manage to run away.

That's why this will stay between us but...

if I have the smallest suspicion,

you'll face all the consequences.

And this will not be forgotten.

Clear?

Yes, sir!

Dismissed.

Well...

the nun idea was really good.

To be honest, it was Veniamin who gave me this idea.

When I learned that Germans are reopening churches,

I remembered about him.

I think it's a great cover.

Does he want to return?

He does.

He asked for a new assignment.

Great.

And you said, 'a trap'. It's not about trapping.

Only love for your country

can drive a person to real heroism.

If there's no love, no trap will hold him.

True heroism is,

first of all, about rejecting the personal.

Well, not every person in intelligence is a patriot.

Agree.

But not all of them are good agents.

Like this...

— Prozorovskaya? — Prozorovskaya.

She had a perfect opportunity for revenge

but she didn't take it.

Why?

Not to interfere with the operation.

That's right.

Still... I think we shouldn't put her in this position again.

I think these two should be separated.

Maybe you are right.