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— Volod'ka! — I love you too!

Very much!

It's time.

No matter what, just stay alive, okay?

I promise.

In real life, a mistress of a right officer

can learn the plans of a whole army.

What if an agent has a fiance?

He should understand that you'll get killed.

But I have a fiance and I'd like to...

I don't care what you'd like to.

I know you don't really like each other.

But we've received a very important assignment.

A German reserve division in quartered in Polotsk.

It's one of the most trained and capable formations.

This division has an advanced weapon at their disposal.

Your objective is

to collect all the information you can about these weapon.

You are an ethnic German from Danzig,

Irma Steiner.

You sell groceries.

You are a married couple

from the Western Ukraine,

Pyotr and Angelina Rusnak.

You are both a maid and a secretary.

Comrade Instructor, you are a driver.

Half a year ago one of our agents was put behind enemy lines.

He studied in the 3rd Kiev Infantry School

at the same time

you studied there.

Upon meeting, Comrade Petrov will recognize his schoolmate.

Clear.

What's important is to get more information about the weapon.

So your contacts with German officers

have to be very...

...productive.

Is that clear?

We are not kids.

Excuse me, is this what you told us in the very beginning?

We have to sleep with Germans?

Yes.

Stop the car.

Volod'ka!

Arina!

Arina!

Frau Steiner!

What's wrong?

Frau Steiner!

What is it?

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

Frau Steiner! What's wrong?

What is it?

Excuse me! This won't happen again!

Frau Steiner!

Please!

Please! Forgive me!

Is everything okay?

Do you need help?

No.

Thank you, Friedrich!

Excuse me!

See, boy?

Finally, we have a stroke of luck.

I thought it's Volodya.

What if it was him? Would you hug him?

He's my husband.

You would've given us all away. You understand that?

Go to your room.

You don't go out today.

She nearly got us all burned!

She loves her husband.

Are you defending her?

I would slap her face myself.

Only...

Have you ever loved someone,

Comrade Petrov?

What does it..?

If we complete the operation,

we save people's lives.

— But if we fail... — So you haven't.

TAILOR SHOP

Easy! Don't move! You are coming with me. Got it?

Quiet! Not a twitch.

So tell me...

What brought you here?

Eh?

There's this German dame here...

She's moving grain.

I am her helper.

Right... I saw you two...

And it came back to me... Isn't that the Kiev girl?

It was her place where you hit me with a rifle, right?

And then did a runner with bag and baggage.

So how did she... become a German?

Eh?

I know everything about you.

Kovalchik told me.

Slaving for the Red-finned...

Intel agent...

Should I rat you out to Fritzes?

They'll be happy.

So why haven't you already?

Sharp.

I'm good. I don't hold grudges.

I just need some dough.

And you busy yourself with whatever you want.

We don't have dough.

Dealers that don't have dough?

What do you pay with then?

Body?

Fine, we'll pay.

That's much better.

There's a square in the city center.

Be there at four.

Bring...

We don't have so much.

You'll find it.

Okay.

Center at four.

Lower the chiv.

Nah... The dough is only...

...for keeping silent.

How will you compensate for double-crossing me?

All right...

Today, I'm soft.

Stay put!

No!

I said, no!

If you want dough, let me go!

Or finish me!

I won't do it with you! Love is over.

Fine...

City square at four.

Don't even think about standing me up.

Shit!

He chose the place wisely.

Public spot, a lot of Germans...

If anything, he goes to them.

He'll go to them anyway after he gets his money.

They pay for information.

What if we give him money and then follow him?

He'll catch it. He's sharp with these things.

For you.

Okay.

This jailbird has to be dealt with.

We can't do it without Zoya.

Go down. Say your assistant got ill.

She won't go with him.

Is everything okay?

I sent him away.

Keep thinking.

Is Raven greedy?

Yes.

Then he won't go to Germans until we cough up money.

That's a plus.

— And if... — Kugel said the pilot had a duel.

Because of me.

Wonderful.

It means he's into you.

Remember the operation?

We have a date tonight.

I'll say that I admire his nobleness.

Wait, I'm not allowed to go out...

This is a special case. Go.

And we'll mull over Raven.

Irma?

Günter!

Kugel told me about the duel.

What a big mouth!

I should scold you.

Bot no one has ever done that because of me...

What happened?

We are being sent to the front.

The day after tomorrow.

Pity.

I mean, it's your element but...

I would like to show you something.

Will you go with me?

Yes, Günter.

I was thinking... about your Raven.

He's not mine.

So he caught you,

demanded money,

arranged a meeting and let you go...

And? Just sitting somewhere waiting?

I doubt it.

What if we leave?

He gets no money from us and has nothing to show Germans.

You think he's around somewhere?

Watching?

Look out of the window.

See a boy?

Yes.

We need to check.

Tasty?

Let me go, schmuck! I said, let me go!

Go on! Don't yap!

My king's a heavy. He's gonna kill ya!

I said, sit down!

A heavy, you say?

All right, let's talk heavy.

May I?

Are you hungry?

So?

What's your name?

Vas'ka!

He's not a mobster.

He says his name instead of his moniker.

Calls kingpin a king.

He hasn't been with Raven for long.

Why aren't you eating?

Caring for someone?

My sister. Mashka.

How old is she?

Five short of a month.

What about your parents?

Dad is somewhere in the army.

Mom was killed by a bomb... In '41.

You are left alone...

He's beating him.

He used to beat me too.

Kidney-punch is just for discipline...

But when he's angry, he aims for the stomach.

What do we do next?

You'll show us your place.

Why?

I want to see this Raven.

We have an old score to settle.

Amazing!

This is my squadron.

My life.

Was up until recently.

I haven't seen anything like this.

Are they under repairs?

Where's the propeller?

No, they are not under repairs.

These are completely new airplanes.

They don't have an airscrew.

They have a different working principle.

But I don't think it's interesting for you, Irma.

Rickert, you are testing new planes.

It's a great honor.

Isn't it dangerous?

No.

I'm an experienced pilot

as is everyone under my command.

I've been flying ever since I can remember.

Airplanes are the most important thing in my life.

But when the war started

and I had to get behind the controls of a military aircraft,

something changed.

What changed?

Last year we attacked a Russian train.

We thought it was carrying soldiers.

But we made a mistake.

The train was destroyed,

and people started running out of it.

Women...

Children...

Even from the sky we could see there were very few men.

A pilot from my wing said,

"Brothers! Oh my God! What have we done?"

And a soldier

who pities his enemy

is a bad soldier.

I ordered to attack everyone who was running from that train.

At first, my guys were having doubts.

One of them even asked to repeat the order.

I did.

And we started the hunt.

And then I saw my guys becoming ferocious again.

They turned back into good soldiers.

Have I shocked you?

Morality of an overman

is different from morality of priests and merchants.

I can't.

Excuse me, Irma.

I didn't want to offend you.

Everything's okay.

I just got light-headed.

Irma, I wanted you to see what I used to live for.

You are the best girl in the world.

Thank you.

Irma,

we don't know each other well.

But I'm an officer so I'm used to making fast decisions.

Will you marry me?

What?

I love you

and ask you to be my wife.

This is so... unexpected.

I understand.

You need time to think it over but...

I don't have time.

We are being sent to the most difficult part of the front.

First test in battle.

We don't have to rush.

I could write to you if you give me the address of your base.

We're flying in the hell itself.

It's possible I'll get killed.

I'm not afraid of that.

I just want so much to have an heir.

You... You're leaving tomorrow.

If you say yes, I will talk to my superiors.

They will give us a day or two.

Do you accept me?

Second floor. Apartment twenty three.

Our room is on the right, the last but one.

— Is there anyone except for Raven? — Mashka.

Other neighbors?

No. Auntie Zina is working in a German canteen.

Auntie Dasha — in a laundry.

You will be asked later.

Say that a man came. Offered you money for a bed.

You let him stay.

Who he is, what he does — you know nothing. Got it?

Give me the keys.

Stop!

There.

On you feet! Hands up!

My wife is there.

She's wounded.

Help her.

The kids don't know anything about the deceased.

They simply took in a tenant

who was giving them money

and didn't care about anything else.

Christian, what do you have?

The suitcase of the deceased has

a pair of underwear and several decks of playing cards.

No documents.

Some cigarettes.

It's really weird they believed him and brought him money.

It's doesn't prove anything.

Maybe they are just idiots.

Look at this.

Well, this is more serious.

Understand, Waltzer?

Not completely, Obersturmführer.

The driver Steiner says that the deceased attacked them with a gun.

The driver started to defend himself.

then both of them fell down the stairs.

As long as there was only one gun,

the story was valid.

Excuse me, Obersturmführer,

what if the deceased was a professional thief?

This type might own two guns.

Unlikely.

It's true. But coincidences do happen.

If we arrest the driver of Frau Steiner,

and cannot prove anything...

He's just a dirty Slav...

Yes, but Frau Steiner... I mean, Frau Rickert

takes care of him.

We would get into trouble.

I had enough of this Rickert.

I cannot miss such an opportunity.

Arina, open the door please.

You think it's easy for me to watch as you...

Like a pimp, honest to God!

I'd kill him with my bare hands.

He was executing our people! Women... Children...

Calm down!

Calm down, Arina!

Let's see... Will you have a reception?

Yes.

He lives in the officer's estate, right?

Is there a phone?

Should be. Commander used to live there.

Here.

Wipe your tears.

You won't have to sleep with him. You won't.

You hear me?

Okay.

Here's the plan.

You sit at the reception, smile at everyone.

It's a wedding after all.

When the guests leave,

you call here.

Say you are worried about Angelina

and want to know how she is doing.

After your call I'd need fifteen minutes.

While you will be palavering the pilot,

I will enter the house.

Then I'll deal with him myself.

I'll make him talk.

Okay.

Afterwards

we take the car and drive to the city.

We'll think of a reason.

I will hide at the backseat.

We'll get Velichko from the hospital,

with the excuse of taking her to Germany

for treatment.

And off to partisans in the forest.

All clear?

Yes. Thank you.

When will they pick you up?

In about two hours.

Wash your face.

And back into character.

You are a bride, after all.

Start the phonograph.

Phonograph?

Music.

Congratulations!

Congratulations!

Our congratulations!

Congratulations from all my heart!

Thank you very much!

How nice!

Where's everyone?

Who do you need?

I thought there will be a ceremony.

No.

We don't want to waste time on formalities.

I arranged everything with the Command.

These documents are legally binding.

You need to sign them here and here.

And then you'll be my wife.

I'm going to open a champagne.

Should I sign the maps too?

No-no-no!

These are secret documents.

Do you know already where you are being sent?

I am afraid for you.

Don't worry.

Russians won't have any chance.

My plane is

the most advanced piece of technology.

But now let's forget everything except for us.

Do you need help?

No.

Congratulations, Baroness von Rickert.

The table is set for several people.

Are we going to have guests, after all?

Yes.

The whole estate wants to congratulate us.

Good.

Shall we maybe invite them already?

They will come later.

Later?

Of course.

Guys know what is the first desire of a happy husband.

Open the door!

Open the door!

Secret police.

Where is your wife?

She's not here.

Where is she?

Excuse me, gentlemen,

why are you looking for Angelina?

You are too impudent!

You answer when you are asked.

She is in a hospital,

the one where you soldiers stay.

Great.

We should send Christian there.

He will take her fingerprints.

In half an hour we'll know the whole truth.

And have someone to keep watch at her room!

Excuse me, sir.

What does he need?

Hello there,

Vadim.

Hello Kolya!

Thank you!

It was a nice evening.

Have a good night!

See you soon!

Good night!

Finally, the night is all ours.

Can I call my employees?

I want to know how Angelina is doing.

Of course, my love.

I will go to the cellar then and bring some champagne.

I informed them where I've been sent to

but nobody made contact with me.

Your handlers were bombed.

Your file has burned.

I see.

Are you here for me or...

...is it Staff's business?

Both.

Actually, we thought that you are in the Staff.

No.

I have nothing to do with the Staff.

I'm in the secret police so I can be really useful.

If we make me look good.

The expert knows that the two of us went here.

I can't say that I was somewhere else.

Mmm... Okay.

Say that I attacked you.

Killed him and you... I knocked you out.

Yeah, something like this.

Is is in line with what you are doing?

You can't be knocked out for a long time, right?

No more than an hour.

More time will raise suspicions.

One hour is not enough.

You see, I need to make one person talk

and only then leave.

Can't you make him talk in one hour?

I can, but if somebody raises an alarm,

I won't have time to get Zoya from the hospital.

What if we don't invent any stories?

I can just leave with you.

But then you planted me here for nothing...

You could've killed him without my help.

No-no. We can't blow your cover.

Out of the question.

The guests have left.

Okay.

Listen, we have...

...new circumstances.

What happened?

Too long to explain.

You have to do everything yourself.

Myself?

— But I... — You have one hour.

Then we have to leave.

In his car.

Rendezvous is on the road. 8th kilometer.

I understand, It's difficult.

But I'm asking you...

Everything okay?

Yeah.

For us!

For us!

I couldn't wait for the guys to leave.

I kept thinking

of what was happening in the bedroom

before they came.

I kept imagining

what we would do when left by ourselves again.

Come!

Will she handle it?

She?

She will.

You can't get Zoya from the hospital, right?

Will they allow me?

No. You need documents.

What should we do..?

What if I put on your uniform?

And say that I need her urgently.

Important investigation.

Eh?

We could try that, Kolya, but you...

...have a thick accent.

Yeah, you are right.

Why don't you punch me in the teeth?

What?

I'll say that I had a surgery.

Fell down when chasing partisans.

Can't talk right.

Okay.

And then you

punch me.

Like in the school, in a ring.

Sorry. Sorry.

Sorry, I just wanted it...

...to be realistic. Sorry.

Yeah.

You did right.

That's...

...to make it look real.

I guess, it's not what you were dreaming about.

I need the combination to your safe.

And you will say it to me.

The gag?

I can take it out.

But I think you won't tell me the combination anyway.

And I will have to gag you again.

I was taught something special.

I even know what will be happening in your head.

First, you will be... very brave.

Then you will try to trick me.

You'll be saying with your eyes, "Take out the gag."

But I won't take it out.

Then you'll be in pain.

And scared.

Like people from our train.

But I still won't take out the gag.

I will wait until you turn into an animal,

howling and crying for me to stop.

Then I'll take the gag out.

You will tell me the code.

Herr Rickert put a lot of effort in checking her in here.

And now you are taking her away?

Special operation.

What about the papers?

Later.

I need to call your superior.

Be my guest!

Partisans killed three of our people.

He's angry like hell.

You'll get a feel of that.

Okay.

Send me the papers tomorrow.

I'll call an aide now.

No need.

I'll handle it. Thank you!

Everything will be okay.

Careful.

That one...

— Is he a deserter? — No.

And this one?

Quiet.

Trust me.

Aides!

Officer down.

What's happened?

I don't know.

Help him.

What is it?

Frau Rickert?

Where are you going?

No more champagne left in the cellar.

I want to make Günter a surprise.

Don't worry.

I'll send my soldiers to a restaurant.

No need.

I want to cool down a bit.

And Günter needs his rest too.

Please.

I want to cool down a bit...

MOSCOW 27 September 1942

Here. Arrived.

— Car sick? — No.

Let's go to Mommy.

Mommy!

I picked some flowers for you.

That's for cleaning the wound. Three times a day.

Herbs?

Herbs.

His Grandma was a herb doctor.

He knows.

He promised to teach me too.

At least she got to know why you are so herb-savvy.

Katya,

go find a nurse,

ask her for an empty jar

and pour some water inside.

We will put the flowers in it. Okay?

Go on.

Matilda came yesterday.

And?

She told me

what happened in Polotsk.

I don't remember anything.

Of course.

You were wounded.

You could leave me there

and go for the pilot...

It's the operation.

Nobody would say a word against you.

How can I leave my people?

Arina did well. She handled everything.

And I went to get you.

Yeah, Arina...

...did well.

Thank her for me.

As she cannot stand me.

Okay.

One more thing...

Easy-easy...

—What? — I wanted to tell you...

Thank you,

my darling!

Time to take the temperature.

Yeah, I have errands to run in the city.

I'll come in an hour to get Katya.

Get better, Sergeant!

You'll take some vitamins now and get completely healthy.

Hold this.

That's all.

Thank you.

Want some tea?

No, I'll go to sleep.

It's nice sleeping to the sound of rain.

Good night.