"Alexander DOVZHENKO Film Studio" "VREMYA Artistic Association" "Ilya Ivanovich, I've been asking you not to carry heavy things." "It's bad for you." " It's all right." " Do we have no one to go shopping?" "I'm taking it easy." "Making frequent stops." "Konstantin!" "It's for you." "Dear friend, our fathers died in the same battle." "If you wish to honor their memory, come on March 18, the battle's anniversary to the station" "...Podbednya." "Wear this star, Kostya, with honor, and as the saying goes, may it be not your last one, Lieutenant Colonel." "Thank you, Comrade Commander." "To the colonel!" "To the general!" "Service is above all, because I'm the son of a soldier of the great war." "My father died without ever having seen me." "My mother died 3 years later, I grew up in a children's home." "I had it more hard than many others." "But I saw my goal very clearly." "Excuse my using the pronoun "l" too often today, but we're officers and our army orders don't know any other form except "I decided"." "Therefore, to the decisions we're making." "Good, Kostya." "Your father, Kostya, in what year did he die?" "In 1944." "And mine in '43." "Actually, we were so close to each other." "I was on the 1st Ukrainian Front, he on the 2nd." "Lyubasha, where've you been?" "Come on, sit down." "Have a drink." "I may now." "Yes, in '44." "By the way, I was reminded of that today." "Lyubasha!" "Do you remember where I've put it?" "Sit, sit." "Ah, here it is." "At ease!" "Oh, it caught on." "Unsigned." "Strange message." "Where's this Podbednya?" "It's somewhere in the country..." "Lyubasha, by the way, the handwriting is that of a woman." "Perhaps it's just a prank, guys?" "No, it is not." "I remember when I was given father's decoration in the children's home, there was some talk about the station of Podbednya." " What decoration?" " Order of the Patriotic War." "Lyubasha, do you remember where it is?" " Maybe in your father's box?" " In a wooden one?" "Lyubasha, the onions!" "Oh, Ilya Ivanovich!" "Why are you neglecting our company?" "It's not good!" "Please join us!" "Come sit here, Ilya Ivanovich!" "Let's drink to the star!" "To his new title, so that the star not wear out!" "Only some wine, he can't drink vodka." "Just one small glass." "Don't worry." "Ilya Ivanovich, you speak, as a representative of the older generation." "Pass it, please." "Please." "Well, of course I can speak." "It calls, of course, for congratulations and good wishes, that's right." "You're rising to them high ranks, Konstantin." "And with each rank you get more soldiers." "Your team is getting bigger." "Let's drink, I mean to you being good to them..." "To your pitying them, soldiers, I mean." "They have no ranks, and, so to speak," "it's harder for them." "I mean, let's drink to them..." "To soldiers." "ONE-TWO, SOLDIERS WERE GOING..." "Written by Boris VASSILYEV Kirill RAPOPORT" "Directed by Leonid BYKOV" "Director of Photography Vladimir VOITENKO" "Production Designer Georgy PROKOPETS" "Music by Georgy DMITRIYEV" "Song by B. OKUDZHAVA and V. LEVASHOV" "Starring:" "Leonid BYKOV as Svyatkin" "Vladimir KONKIN as Suslin Yelena SHANINA as Kima" "Leonid BAKSHTAYEV as Konstantin Yevgeniya URALOVA as Anna" "May I?" "Oh!" " Thank you." " You're welcome." "It's snowing again." "Yeah..." "The rooks are here already, and now all of a sudden it's a snowstorm." "Yeah..." "Blizzard's at full swing," "Whirling snow, whirling snow." "You can't see a thing at a closest throw." "Alexander Blok." "And you thought an officer only can do "one-two, one"?" "I'm sorry." "Colonel, you asked to warn you about the station of Podbednya?" "Yes." " It's next station, in 40 minutes." " All right." "Stopping for 3 minutes." " You get off at Podbednya?" " Yes." "Are you from Beryozovsk?" "That's right." "Are you Kostya?" "That's right." "Good to meet you." "My name is Anya." "It was I who sent you the postcard." "Our fathers died in the same battle." "They all died in that battle." "All eighteen." "That's what Fyodor Ivanovich told me." "Who is Fyodor Ivanovich?" "Garbuzenko." "He was... mate... plat..." "Platoon mate." "I see." "Yes." "When I kick the bucket, write up my name on the monument." "That's where I belong." "Where my platoon lies." "That's what he said." "Well, how about some more tea?" " No, thank you." " Thank you." "You got even prettier." "Yes, yes, very pretty." "Why did your mother not come?" "She couldn't, we can't leave him alone." " Your man is still flying?" " Yes, flying." "Flying..." "Lyusia!" "I'll be right back." "What about Garbuzenko?" "He didn't live to see this day." "As though he knew it." "When we last met, he said:" "Valyukha, Anna, girls, if I die, invite everybody here." "All the relatives of all our eighteen boys." "So we - our collective farm chairman, me and Valyukha..." "She's the girl who saw the soldiers before the battle." "She was Valyukha then, now she's Valentina Ivanovna." "We brought them all together." "Well..." "the real men are lying there." "They put out 18 Tigers." "Eighteen?" "Are you sure?" "I'm not local, but people from Ilyinka told me about how they were blowing those tanks up." "They had no cannons." "Only grenades." "That's how it was." "Yes." "They tied grenades round themselves... and went right under a tank." "18 Tigers..." "18 boys..." "Simple arithmetic." "From here we'll have to walk." "Here it is, the common grave..." "Let's go and look." "There're their names there." "Let's go." "Life is notjust crossing a field." "What do you mean?" "Crossing a field was harder for them than living a life for many of us." "Or rather, not crossing, but not letting others cross it." "Not surrender... that field." "Let's go to them, Kostya." "Let me finish the cigarette." "Never mind, they won't get offended." "They put no crosses on common graves, and wives are not sobbing there." "Hello, dad!" "Hello, father!" " Private Averin!" " Here!" " Private Antipov!" " Here!" " Private Antonov!" " Here!" " Private Boldyrev!" " Here!" " Private Lepov!" " Here!" " Private Gusev!" " Here!" "Pat without Patashon." " Private Koderidze!" " Here!" "Knight without tiger skin." " Junior Sergeant Myatnikov!" " Here!" "Philosopher." " Private Lavkin!" " Here!" "Kaluga." " Sergeant Saiko!" " Here!" "Baltic." " Corporal Svyatkin!" " Here!" "Just 'Suave'." "Private Habaner..." "Habarbekov!" "Here!" "Habanera." " No talking!" "Svyatkin!" " Here!" " Step forward!" " Yes!" "Soldiers!" "Today I've taken 3rd platoon under my command." "The battery commander set me a goal:" "To train in the shortest time a platoon of tank fighters." "And what am I seeing?" "An utter sloppiness and lack of discipline at the very first line-up!" "I thought you'd be interested to know the nicknames, comrade Lieutenant." "Corporal Svyatkin, two extra duties!" "What for?" "I just wanted to acquaint you with the men of your platoon." " Three duties!" " Yes, 3 extra duties!" "If possible, in the kitchen, please." "Four duties!" "Not a chance!" "Only three." "Four are against the regulations, comrade Lieutenant." "No laughing!" "The battery commander set us a task:" "To make 3rd Platoon an example for our battalion." "An example in everything:" "In combat training, in discipline, in the way you wear your uniform." "Sergeant Baltic..." "Sorry, Saiko!" "Why do you look like this?" "I'm temporary here, comrade Lieutenant." "I'm from the fleet, and we sailors..." " Where he'd been 3.5 days." " 90 days." "But for life." "No talking!" "Tidy yourself up!" "Svyatkin, go back in line!" "I want you to remember it from the first day!" "In combat training, there'll be no allowances for anybody." "On the contrary, you'll have it the hard way, very hard way." "There will be nighttime marches, alerts." " Hard in training, easy in battle." " The battery commander is here." "Platoon, attention!" "Left dress!" "Comrade Captain, 3rd Platoon, 1st Company is lined up for shooting." "Platoon commander, Junior Lieutenant Suslin!" "Good morning, comrades!" "Good morning!" " At ease." " Platoon, at ease!" "The training is cancelled, the platoon goes to unload cabbages." "Yes, to unload cabbages!" " Sergeant Garbuzenko, command!" " Yes!" "Platoon, right dress!" "Comrade Captain, may I address you?" " Did you come right from school?" " Right, after high school." "My son got enlisted after high school, too." " Report what you got." " It's about Svyatkin." "He's arrogant and undisciplined." "He may demoralize the platoon." " Please transfer him from my platoon." " Yes, he may." "By the way, in the last battle Svyatkin destroyed 3 tanks." "He got his decoration while he was in hospital." "I understand he's no prize package." "He was a homeless child, had a difficult life." "Let's help him to become a good man." "The subject is closed." "I got you, Comrade Captain." "By the way, did you have a nickname at school?" "I beg you pardon..." "Oh... no." "You'll get it now." "Svyatkin will take care of it." "Right..." "This is a cabbage, not a football." " Vano, where're you going?" " I'm cold, I can't do it anymore." "Natasha..." "Sounds beautiful." " Haven't you had anything to eat?" " Catch it." "Junior Sergeant Myatnikov, why are you squandering provisions?" "Come on!" "I'm not squandering." "I just gave two heads." "Gave to whom?" "Wait, girl!" " Why are outsiders here?" " She's not an outsider." "She's an orphan." "Her father was killed." "Her mother died." "Go, Natasha, don't be scared." "This man is good." "Our lieutenant is not such a bad man." "He's a suslik, not a lieutenant." "No, Suave, he doesn't look like a suslik." "He does." "There's something gnawing about him, like of a rodent." "What?" "TO THOSE WHO FOUGHT TO DEATH IN THE NAME OF LIFE" "Everything's all right in the tank troops." "Sergey, in what troops did you serve?" "In the landing force, Lieutenant Colonel." "Platoon, get ready for action!" "The tanks on the right!" "Anti-tank men, take the height!" "Machine-gunners, cut off the motorcyclists!" "Vano, why the hell are you in a snow- drift?" "Motorcycles don't ride there!" "Forward, Cossacks!" "Where are you dragging it, you fool?" "Where're you going, rookie?" "That's not the way he showed." "The tanks are on the right!" " He pointed that way." " Follow me, at a distance!" " Look, where are the tanks?" " Habanera, follow me!" "First section, dig in!" "Second section, dig in!" "First crew, 10 meters left." "Private Kolesnikov, to the right!" "Move!" "Good boys!" "Sergeant Myatnikov, you've been killed." " May I get up now?" " No, you've been killed." " But it's awful!" " Yes!" "Because you stick out and expose yourself to the enemy fire." "Where's the second anti-tank section?" "Where's Svyatkin?" "Suave, to the commander!" "I'm here!" "Do you have a light?" "My "Katyusha" won't smoke at all." "Corporal Svyatkin, why are you here?" "What about the battle?" "What battle?" "What do you mean?" "I said, the tanks are on the right!" " They attack, your comrades are dying!" " Oh, the tanks..." " Those on the right?" " Yes." "Those tanks you were telling about, Lieutenant, I've beaten them off." " How did you beat them off?" " Bravely." " Report according to form." " Everything's fine, the mongrel's dead." " What mongrel?" " Fritz's mongrel." "I personally pierced 37 tanks with one bullet, the rest ran away." "Kaluga, my number two, is finishing them off with his butt." "Corporal Svyatkin, you're a grownup man, stop playing the fool." "Aren't you ashamed of yourself?" "Playing those kids' games." "One-two, soldiers were going." " May I ask you a personal question?" " You may." "Look, Lieutenant, have you ever seen a German tank up close?" "About 10 meters away, when it is barging upon you?" "About 10 meters?" "No, I haven't." "But these are no games." "These are exercises." "I see." "Why are your cap's flaps not lowered?" "To hear your commands better." "In case you say "all clear"." "Well... that's it." "All clear!" "Corporal Svyatkin has destroyed all the tanks." "That's what having fighting experience means." "No talking!" "Line up by sections!" "Quick march after me!" "First and second sections, don't lag behind!" "My dear Byelorussia, my golden Ukraine..." "Well, company commander, it's a good platoon." "Good for Suslin, he'll make a fine commander." " But he got little fighting experience." " That's right." "On the other hand, he got education." "Education is a useful thing." "But sometimes the overeducated are worse than the undereducated." "Have you heard that saying, Captain?" "I have." "Corporal Svyatkin!" "I'm not going to punish you." "But you must give your word to me, your commander, and to your comrades-in-arms that you'll never again frustrate our platoon's tactical exercises." "Nope..." "What do you mean, 'nope'?" "What 'nope'?" "Nope means you won't?" "Nope means I'm no dope." "Take them to the barracks, Lieutenant, or the boys will freeze for nothing, to hell with it all." "It's time to take a grub anyway, that's why they're cackling." " You command." " Svyatkin, get back in line." "Platoon, attention!" "Right dress!" "No laughing!" "Forward march!" "How good it is in your village here, Valentina Ivanovna!" "Those devils, they gave me a real battle!" "I played snowballs with the boys." "One redhead hit me right in the eye." "That must be Ivanenko." "Little devil!" " It's slow." " It works whenever it likes." "We'll fix it." " Has Anya come?" " Not yet." "She's indefatigable." "Bustling about all the time." "A man avoids worries, a woman seeks them." "That must be a woman's fate." "And Anya's fate is special." "Her life is not as easy as it seems." "Didn't her life work out?" "It did." "She worked it out for herself, the one she wanted, she has no one to blame." "What do you mean?" "You know, there're hospitals where the wounded are still taken care of." "The wounded?" "Since the war." "Those who can't eat on their own, or who lost their memory." "Thirty years have passed, and they still go to attack." ""Follow me!" they cry." ""Forward!"" "After medical college, Anya went to work in one of those hospitals." "She nursed a pilot there." "She nursed him back to life and got married to him." "But he lasted only a year." " Did he die?" " No." "He went to fight again, to his last ram." "Neither seeing anything, nor hearing anything." "Cover me!" "I attack!" "Has been flying for 30 years, never landing." " Is he back in hospital?" " No." "Anya wouldn't let him." "She says she can't, because he's still fighting for us." "And you say she's indefatigable!" "Here I am!" "Why are you sitting here, guys?" "I got a car, let's go!" "You're so impatient, Koderidze!" "Stop rubbing it, you'll make a hole!" " You should pat this doll." " The metal likes to be caressed, Vano." "Don't prompt!" "Have you ever patted a broad?" "Why you say that about women?" "A broad..." " I got a wife." "You offend me." " A wife?" "Don't make me laugh, Vano." "Maybe you've bred kids, too?" "You're offending me again!" "Just say it in Russian: " Do you have children?"" "And I shall answer:" "I have a son." "And I have a girl." "You know what a sunny name I've found for her?" "You'd better find the spring." "You're all great masters at talking rubbish." "So I'm interested:" "Where's our spring?" " I guess I dropped it." " Dropped it?" "You dropped it, you look for it, rookie." "Or your girl may become an orphan after our first battle." "Come on." "And I have two." "Twins." "Yaroslav and Mikhail." "You lucky man!" "Where's Garbuzenko?" "Garbuzenko went to Sergeant "Cerberus" to beg for soap." "He's already given us soap." "Someone has fixed feet to our soap." "And it walked away." "Habarbekov, why are you under the table?" "Are you staying there?" "Lieutenant, I wanted to ask you." "Go on, ask." "Are we getting millet for dinner?" "Yes, millet." "Comrade Lieutenant!" "Millet for breakfast." "Millet for lunch." "Millet for dinner." "You think an Uzbek is a bird?" "Stop your witticisms." "Or 'ha-ha's, as Gusev calls them." "Let Gusev peck millet then." "Why Gusev?" "If something goes wrong, it's Gusev." "Lavkin, why do you clean the gun alone?" "Where's your No.1, Svyatkin?" "Well... it's..." "What?" "The corporal said everything must shine." " And he himself..." " Where's he himself?" "Himself is sleeping, he's on a regimen." "A regimen..." "I see." "Get up!" "Svyatkin, get up!" "Greetings!" "My wounds..." "What aching?" "Must have exposed them to cold." "While heroically repulsing the tank attack." "Exposed to cold?" "That's it, goodbye, Lieutenant." "Don't think ill of me." "Basically, I'm good." "My wounds are aching..." " Where did he go?" " Perhaps, for the doctor." "Come on..." "He ran to complain to the company commander." "Damn suslik." "All right." "I'm a bad commander." "I can't cope with Svyatkin." "I cannot command, cannot be a leader." "You're Komsomol members." "The war is going on around us." "Hundreds of boys like us die now." "Die and give us an opportunity to learn something." "And you..." "Justjoke and laugh like idiots." "You think it's honest?" "Is this the way Komsomol members should behave?" "It's not my fault that I'm your commander." "I'm ready to join you as a private." "Ready to take your place, and not because I'm afraid of responsibility." "But because..." "You're comrades..." "my comrades..." "You're my comrades." "Only yesterday we all were schoolmates." "And you..." "You're betraying me." "I feel ashamed of you." "I feel ashamed of you, guys!" "And..." "Suave, may we talk to you a minute?" " Comrade Captain!" " As you were." "What's up?" "The lieutenant acts on his own initiative." "Such guys as he should be used in the canteen, not in infantry." "He has a hang-up about quick marches." "It's freezing at 30º below zero, and we're having 3rd march, and at night." " The platoon got used to it." " Thank God it didn't get fused." "What if you get them frost-bitten?" "It's a running march, Comrade Captain, not a walking march." "Right, running is not walking." "How is the drill going?" "We're training..." "An inspector is coming." "From up there." " We ought to paint the ceiling." " Yes, we ought to." "I got you." "And all inspectors have a weakness." " What weakness?" " What weakness?" "He doesn't know anything about army life." "All inspectors like to see a march with a song." "You must learn a good march song right away." "Like..." "You'll be defending the honor of the battalion." " Is it understood?" " Understood." " What about the march?" " Leave it to the company commander." " The night march?" " Yes." " I'm against it." " What?" " I'm against it." " Understood." " May I go?" " Go." "Yes..." "Check the barracks now, get rid of unnecessary stuff." " Make it clean and empty." "Is it clear?" " Yes, Comrade Captain!" " Go!" " Yes!" "The platoon is working according to schedule." "Orderly Glebov." "Glebov, check all the bedside tables." "All unnecessary things, on the table." "Unnecessary?" "Everything except cups, spoons and books." " Is it clear?" " Yes." " What about tobacco?" " You can leave it." "And what is this?" "We want to assemble a gramophone, Comrade Lieutenant." "Take it." "But the least you need for it is a gramophone itself." "We'll get it." " Take it away." " Yes." "What do they write you from home, Glebov?" "There's no one to write to me." "My mother and sister driven to Germany, father, if alive, is with partisans." "Only grandmother is left, but she's blind." "Why didn't you go with the partisans?" "Me?" "I was ploughing." "Working for Germans?" "Yes, we got our rations from Germans." "It's strange..." " Were there many ploughmen like you?" " There were some." "Comrade Lieutenant..." "The soap!" "Which was stolen." "He hid it behind the plywood." " Whose end table?" "Svyatkin's?" " No." "Krynkin's." " Bring him here, quick!" " Yes!" "Private Krynkin is here, on your orders..." "Tell me, Krynkin, how did this soap get into your end table?" "Why don't you say anything?" "Do you hear me, Krynkin?" "I... well..." " I'm sorry..." " A very profound observation." "You, a Komsomol member." "I hope, only until the first meeting." "Please forgive me, Comrade Lieutenant." "Take the soap." "Let's go and join the platoon." "You'll explain everything to you comrades." "I wanted to send it to my ma." "My ma is starving." "And my sisters are starving." "Our father's been killed." "And my brother, too." "And when we got the notice of my middle brother's death, my ma lost the use of her legs." "She can move around the house, but otherwise..." "I thought I'd send them the soap, to exchange for bread." "They got nothing to eat, Comrade Lieutenant." "I..." "I feel sorry for you, Krynkin." "And I feel sorry for your family." "But you..." "stole it." "You stole it from your comrades." "I stole it." "That's right." "I wanted to send it to my ma." "I thought they'd buy some bread." "Please forgive him, Comrade Lieutenant." "I know about hunger." "When your ma is hungry, you might steal not only soap..." " Forgive Krynkin." " Keep your advice to yourself." "Then I'll say it was me who stole it." "Let them put me in a penal battalion, anywhere, but I want to fight." "You haven't been under the Germans, and I have, ploughing under them." "Ploughing!" "I'll say it was me who stole the soap, not Krynkin." "Don't you see?" "He's weak." "And I'm very angry." "I'm not afraid of anything." " So either it's me, or..." " Or what?" "Or what?" "!" "Shall we put that soap back, under the plywood?" "Come on, say it, Glebov." "Take this soap to the post office and send it to Krynkin's mother, from our entire platoon." " No, don't." " Yes, we should." "We should!" "So that you remember how to steal from your comrades!" "All right." "Go, Krynkin." "Yes." "Don't tell anyone yet." "I don't understand you, Glebov." "I don't understand." "Well, actually..." "On the other hand..." "But it's unpedagogical." "Do you understand?" "Unpedagogical." "Comrade Lieutenant..." "You don't know what it means to starve." "You don't know it." "Is this a reading room or what?" "Guys, did you meet each other?" "Well, we seem to have..." "I'm Myatnikov." " He's a singer, a People's Artist." " We know, we watch television." "Yuri Saiko." "Professor, Doctor of Sciences." " Lyonya Lavkin, engineer." " Myatnikov." " Yuri Ivanovich." " Konstantin." "Lyonya Lavkin." "No academic degrees." "Yet." "How about a drink, guys?" "Lyonya, everything in its own good time." "Ines Habarbekova." " A soldier's daughter, mother of 3 kids." " Nice to meet you." "And these are the Krynkin sisters." "Hello." "Glebov." "A nephew." "The chief engineer opens up cans, and you're chewing the fat." "Get to work!" " Guys, I can run for a bottle..." " As you were." "Don't rush things." "We were told:" "Everything in its own good time." "No, no, wait." "I don't understand." "Time for us, or we are for time?" "That's the problem." "You see, for those who drift with the tide, the water doesn't change." "For those who swim against the tide, it's always new." "If you drift with time, you become its slave." " But if you overcome time..." " Everything flows, everything changes." "Or as my mate says when he's asked to fix a faucet, if it leaks, let it leak." "No problems." "Folklore." "That's how it is." "And we had been sent soap." "Right after our mother died." "We received a parcel that very day." "You know..." "We wanted to have a piece, a tiny remnant of it as a keepsake." "But we lost that soap when moving into a new house." "Yes..." "Those were the men..." "It was war..." "Hunger and death." "But they remembered everybody." "They were thinking of everybody." "What great men they were." "You're going to the front line." "Remember." "Most important in battle is the soldier." "He's having it the hardest way." "He'll be the first to go to death." "If he outsmarts it, he's lucky." "If not, eternal glory to him." "If the soldier doesn't know anything, it's not his fault." "It's the commander's." "You'll be answerable for all, lieutenants." "For all." "We entrusted the soldier with our land, and you with the soldiers, the most precious thing we have." "Nothing can be more precious." "Who is the commander of the platoon where a corporal destroyed a model of the tank with his first grenade?" "Junior Lieutenant Suslin." "3rd Komsomol Platoon of anti-tank fighters." "Komsomol Platoon?" "Great." "What's the name of that hero?" "Corporal Svyatkin, Comrade General." "Leader of the platoon choir." "Then he's a twice hero." "Has your platoon been appointed to march past?" " Yes, Comrade General." " Command, Lieutenant." "Tell your corporal to make good with a song." "As he made good with his marksmanship." " Go." " Yes." " Suslik is running." " Trying to gain favor." "Listen, Philosopher." "Why do people fuss so much?" "It's called subordination, Suave." "I'm a philologist, not a philosopher." "No difference." "You're educated." "Subor... what?" "Quiet." "Svyatkin!" " It's the general's personal request." " We'll comply." "When I wave my hand, start singing." "And march..." "Make the earth reverberate." " Don't worry." " All right." "Forward march!" "ONE-TWO, SOLDIERS WERE GOING." "ONE-TWO, GOING TO WAR." "SEND US A BEAUTY, SEND US A BEAUTY," "AT LEAST ONE, NO MORE." "SEND US A BEAUTY, SEND US A BEAUTY," "AT LEAST ONE, NO MORE." "OUR DEAR BYELORUSSIA, OUR GOLDEN UKRAINE!" "OUR HAPPINESS SO YOUNG" "WITH THE BAYONETS OF STEEL..." "What are they singing?" "Across the plains and the hills." "I think." "WITH THE BAYONETS OF STEEL WE'LL DEFEND." "Companies, line up!" "Now we're at the Podbednya station." "So start from here." "Find Ilyinka." "Why do you go to the adjacent sector?" " Your destination is Ilyinka." " Got you." "Spend the night there." "Then you head for Rumyantsevo, report to the commander and do as he say." "And you?" "Petrov, where are you going?" "Don't be afraid, there will always be someone to command." "But what shall I feed them with?" "And where will we sleep?" "You'll get rations for two days." "As for sleeping, you got enough imagination to sing stupid songs, but when it comes to providing soldiers with quarters..." "Well, about that song, Comrade Lieutenant..." "We finished unloading." "The battery commander said to move the train off." " Give the signal." " Yes!" "Go!" "Shall I take that choir leader from you?" "You mean Suave?" "No!" "No way!" "Why, Comrade Senior Lieutenant?" "How much longer, Comrade Lieutenant?" "Where's that damn Ilyinka?" "The boys are hungry." "According to the map, another 40 or 50 minutes." "They'll have to hold on." "They will for a while." "Move in, boys!" "We should send a quartermaster ahead." "Right." "So you go..." "Maybe you'd better send Svyatkin?" " Suave can get anything no matter what." " And he's got a special reason." "What reason?" "You'll know this evening." " So I'll tell him." " Do it." "Don't lag behind, boys!" "Move in!" "Don't raise dust, infantry." "Greetings, Slavs!" "The table is laid, guys!" "Give me your spade, Kostya." "Let's go." "Petrovich!" "Yes?" "Listen." "Maybe we shouldn't have that mass meeting tomorrow?" "Don't fuss about, Chairman." "These things shouldn't be orchestrated." "Of course not." "But I'll give people a day off tomorrow anyway." "You must understand." "We would like to be alone." "Only us." "Petrovich." "They are our fathers." "Our fathers' grave." "Your fathers..." "In my village every house has either an old woman who'd lost her son or fatherless children." "I can't forbid them to come." "My father died somewhere in Prussia, too." "If I come tomorrow..." "will you drive me away?" "So, what?" "Professor!" "Misha, our dear man!" "People's Artist." "No, you won't get away with it." "Come to the house." "Let's sit and talk." "And then we'll see." "Valentina Ivanovna!" "Valentina!" "Welcome the guests." "Are you Tengiz?" "Comrades, please meet Tengiz Koderidze." "Good to meet you." " Sergey, join us." " I'm driving." "Everybody come to the table!" " Gusev, get out of here!" " Gusev." "Gusev." "Why is it always Gusev?" "Gusev." "Gusev, Gusev." "Guys, did you come from the barren country or what?" "We can't wait anymore." "The village is full of the wounded." "I hardly managed to find us a shelter." "With the help of the local population." "Valentina Ivanovna." "Valyukha, come here." "Don't be shy, come here." "Here she is." "Thank you, Valyukha." " Hello." " Hello." "Each house here has a hospital ward." "The wounded men and the nurses." "Something like an evacuation station." "Have there been big battles?" "Yes, they've taken the Fritzes in a circle." "Did you hear the long-range guns today?" "They were working on the Germans." "So, Lieutenant, we are deep in the rear again." "All right, I'm off to see my grandma in Nekrasovka." "Nekrasovka?" "The Germans are there." "No, the Germans have been driven out." "My grandma is there." "Well, say hello to your grandma." " Goodbye, Valyukha." " Goodbye." "Goodbye." " Usmanov, escort her to her house." " Yes!" "Take care, Valyukha." "Comrade Lieutenant!" " Yes?" " Look here... 365 days are notjust one year." "In wartime, 365 days are eternity." "An era." "And he managed to hold on, he lives." "A whole year, boys, it's nothing to sneeze at." "So how about it?" "I don't get you, Myatnikov." "You speak so incoherently." "Who is he?" "Who held on?" "What year?" "What eternity?" "Everything is clear here." "Today Svyatkin's son turned one year old." "So how about it?" "Hardly had we left our company's disposition, as anniversaries began pouring down." "May I be blown up with a mine in my first battle." "May I never see freedom." "No, I mean..." "congratulations!" "And what next?" "What next?" "Next will be the war, next will come bang-bang!" "If not today, then tomorrow." "So, I have a right to celebrate my son's birthday, for I've never had my own." "I was a homeless kid." "To make it short, there's moonshine, but that character wants sugar for it." "So I'm asking you, Lieutenant, for the first and last time." "Let the boys take a shot today..." "To my son." "I wrote to the boy to be a real man." "I wished him to never experience what I had to never be cheap." "My friend!" "I got nothing to give you on that special day." "Take my bread." "Take my sugar." "The herring." "Take everything that's due to me." "I'm sorry, my dear." "I got nothing more." " We'll comply." " So how about it?" "Comrade Lieutenant, why don't you say anything?" "You can do it, can't you?" "The sugar belongs to the platoon." "Hurray, guys!" "We'll drink tea without sugar." "To the health of Suave Junior." "Hurray!" "All the sugar goes to the corporal." "Today's sugar, and tomorrow's sugar." "Am I right?" " Hurray!" " Hurray!" "Hurray!" "Hurray!" "Why 'hurray'?" "Am I right?" "There's no celebration without women." "It's not translatable." "You know what 'woman' means?" "What?" "Woman is... a mother, she is... a sister, a beloved." "I'm not asking it for myself, but for my friend." "He's a great comrade, a great friend!" "You can meet such a friend only in the war." "Come, please, we got a celebration today." "Let's congratulate him together." "But don't tell him I've asked you." "Please, come." "All right, we'll have to drop by." "Or he may burst into tears." "A man never cries." "A man just gets distressed." "Lavkin, sit down." "Yes!" "The father wants to speak." "Good evening!" "Welcome dear guests." "Holy Mother!" "Congratulations!" "Hello." "Kima!" "Kima!" "Comrades!" "My dear friends!" "Sons..." "Daughters..." "Relatives of our dear men." "Over 30 years ago, exactly on this day, here in Ilyinka, a man's birthday was celebrated." "This man is here." "But his father, who could be alive today too and be with us here, he didn't live to see this day." "He died." "Died as a hero." "Died the very next day." "But we're not going to grieve today." "We will be joyous." "Joyous about that there was such a man." "That he gave his life so valiantly." "We will drink, we will drink to him." "To his son," "Lieutenant Colonel" "Konstantin Svyatkin." "I..." "Excuse me." "The man may feel like crying." "Men don't cry." "Men just get distressed." "Gypsy dance with an entrance." "Performed by the hero of the day." "Music!" "Platoon commander, give a ruble." "I'll dance on my belly." "Grease my palm, dear!" "Kima!" "I've been looking for you." "Don't make it up, Igor." "It's true, I've looked for you." "I wanted to write to you, but I didn't know where to." "How did you happen to be on the front?" "Just like you." " But I'm a man." " And I'm a woman." "Someone is supposed to bandage you, wash your uniforms." "Oh, Kima!" "Kima Vilentovich." " I'm so happy to have found you." " Please don't." "Happy will be those who survive this war." " Kima!" " What?" "Nothing." "I just enjoy saying your name." "Stop making it up, Igor." "I'm not making it up." "Remember when we were admitting you to Komsomol, we wanted to know why you had a foreign name, Kima." "You said that your dad named you for the Youth International." " Only feminine..." " Only feminine gender." "You're my..." "Communist Youth International, feminine gender..." "Boris Yatsenko was killed a month ago." "Boris?" "Burned down in his tank." "Katya wrote me about it." "Boris has burned down." "The first one from our class to die." "The third one." "The third one, Igor." "Grisha Chugun and Volodya Samokhvalov died, too." "Who'll be the next?" "I didn't know anything." "I got out of touch with them even before the military school." "I didn't write to anybody." "Soon we'll be left alone." "Just girls." "Oh, boys!" "What are you doing to us?" "Don't worry..." "They won't kill everybody." "Yes." "They won't kill everybody." "Kima!" "Come on, Kima!" "What's the matter, Kima?" "Stop it, Kima!" "Are you really happy you've met me?" "Of course I am." "I've never received any letters from my father." "He didn't write any letters that night before the battle." "He was with my mother." "That was the only night in their lives." "That's why I'm Anna Vilentovich, and not Anna Suslina." "We don't have his decoration either." "My grandmother keeps it." "My father's mother." "My grandmother never recognized my mother and didn't give us his order." "In those years, it was rare that love had a happy end." "But my mother thought she was the happiest of all women." "Seems strange, doesn't it?" "Or maybe not." "They measured life by different standards." "Happiness and misfortune." "This is our hospital." "Yeah." " I'll go tell them I'm here." " I'll wait." "Let's go together." "Hello, Uncle Alyosha." "Hello, girl." "I'll go and tell the girls, all right?" "Listen." " Go to sleep." " Listen." "Listen, pal." "Give me a smoke." "You see, I don't smoke." " I got no tobacco." " Too bad." "Listen!" "They want to amputate my arm." "I won't let them." " I won't give them my right arm." " Igor!" "Come on." " Water!" " You mustn't drink, son." " You mustn't." " Water!" " You must bear it, son." " Give me water, mother." "We had a bet with Boris Yatsenko that I..." "And you stood at the blackboard." "I came up to you... and put my hand..." "on your shoulder." "Yes." "And then..." "Touched with it what I shouldn't." "And you gave me such a look." "As though I hit you." "And I felt so ashamed of myself." "Even now..." "I'm still ashamed." "Come here." "Kima!" "Where?" "Where you shouldn't?" "Where?" "Now you may." "You may do everything now." "Because you get killed." "And we survive." "Because I love you." " Kima!" " Don't say anything." "I know," "I'm a fool, a miserable fool." "And you're a miserable fool, too." "Oh, God!" "Oh, God!" "May our children be happy." "This wine was given to me by my grandfather." "Exactly eighteen bottles of Tsolikauri." "My grandfather said:" ""You'll be drinking this wine in the evening, saying great toasts and remembering your fathers."" "When a man is born, he always cries." "Everybody around smile and say:" ""Hello, dear!"" "May each of us live his life the way that, when his final hour comes, only he would smile," "and all the rest would cry and say:" ""Farewell, dear."" "As we say to our fathers today." "To the honest life!" "To the last smile!" "To the man's proud smile!" "Alaverdy!" "Which means:" "Pass the floor to another." "We keep saying all day:" "Problems, percents." "Recently I read in a newspaper that... out of all fighting men born in '22, '23 and '24, we have surviving to this day only 3 percent." "3 percent..." "That's the problem..." "To the 97 percent!" "Alaverdy!" "Give it to me." "THAT DAY OF VICTORY" "WITH A GUNPOWDER TASTE." "THAT GREAT HOLIDAY" "WITH GRAY HAIR AND YOUNG FACE." "THAT GREAT HAPPINESS" "WITH A TEAR IN OUR EYES." "DAY OF VICTORY!" "DAY OF VICTORY!" "DAY OF VICTORY!" "THAT DAY OF VICTORY" "WITH A GUNPOWDER TASTE." "THAT GREAT HOLIDAY" "WITH GRAY HAIR AND YOUNG FACE." "THAT GREAT HAPPINESS" "WITH A TEAR IN OUR EYES..." "Wake up your lieutenant, Kima!" "A seriously wounded colonel has been brought." "He's in the surgery." "He wants to see an officer..." "You hear me, Kima?" "Calm down, you'll feel better now." "Hold on." "Junior Lieutenant Suslin is here on your orders." " Leave us alone with the officer." " You must go on the operating table." "Quick!" "I have no time." "Comrade Colonel!" " Only 2 minutes." " Got you." "Comrade Colonel!" "My platoon must be in Rumyantsevo at 11:00." "Forget about Rumyantsevo." "The Germans have broken out of the encirclement." "The motorized grouping with tanks and armored troop carriers." " I got you." " Don't interrupt." "They're moving to Ilyinka." "We have many wounded here." "I've reported about the breakthrough." "Help is on the way." "But you must keep the Germans back." "At any price." " How many men do you have?" " A platoon of anti-tank fighters." "There're two roads leading to Ilyinka." "Try to block them both." "And hold on." " Hold on, Lieutenant." " We will." "May I go and carry it out?" "Go, son." " Yes!" " Go." "Wait." "What?" "What did he say?" "The colonel?" "He told me to kiss you." " My darling!" " Kima!" " Please, stay alive!" " Kima!" " Stay alive!" "Stay alive!" " Kima!" "I'm sorry." "Kima, I..." "Just stay alive." "I'm begging you." "Stay alive." "Here died the liaison man whom Junior Lieutenant Suslin sent for help." "That liaison man was Vano Koderidze." "Father, I've been coming to you for 30 years." "Platoon, to arms!" "Alert!" "Take this height." "There're bogs all around, they can't take a byway." " I'll stop them by the road." " Yes, if we have time to dig in." "No, Suave, itjust can't be!" "That our troops would let the Fritzes out of a circle?" " The time is different now." " Anything can happen in war." "Does Suslik plan another quick march?" " Look, you pale youth..." " With fiery eyes." "If anyone once again calls our commander a dog's name," "I'll dismantle him to spare parts." " And say he was like that before." " Right." " 1st section, fall in!" " 2nd section, fall in!" "3rd section, fall in!" "Valyukha, come here!" " You command!" " Goodbye, Lieutenant!" " Stop that mysticism!" " It's just in case." " Take command!" " Gusev, take the cartridges." "Platoon, fall in!" " Why outsiders here?" " It's Valyukha, she's one of us." " I'm going to the village, to Grandma." " Go home, girl, quick!" "3rd and 4th sections, right dress!" "Follow me running!" "Suave!" "Please, help the commander!" " Who are you taking me for, Garbuz?" " Forward!" "Dig in, for your own sake!" "Where the hell have you been?" "Get the disks ready!" "Good we managed to dig in." "Now they just can't miss us." "Right?" "They mustn't, it's too deep to wade." "The only way left for them is the bridge." " If only we could blow it up!" " Perhaps with grenades?" "No, grenades won't do it." "I think I'll charge Suave with this bridge." "Do you mind, Commander?" " No." " Suave, to the commander!" "Suave!" "All right, only no bullshitting." " Either we play kids' games or..." " Or, Suave." " It's a deal, then." " Suave, you do the bridge." "We can't blow it up." "Try to organize a jam there." " Good idea, Vanya." " Don't waste time on the motorcyclists." "Sit tight and wait." "Either for a tank or an armored carrier." "Or a ship." "Right!" "But until the first shot, until my first grenade, just freeze, not a stir, not a sound." "Will you have enough nerve?" "Not you, I mean Baltic." "He sees a tank 500 meters away and begins to tear his shirt." "Suave!" "Comrade Lieutenant, did I pass your order right?" "My order?" "Yes, right." "Comrade Svyatkin!" "You..." "Put on a coat, or you may catch a cold." "That's right." "I don't need a running nose." "Yes." "Thanks, Saiko." "You're a real friend." "No, I'm not." "It's not about friendship, it's about service, Lieutenant." " I'm off to my position." " Yeah." " Hold on, Igor." " Yeah." "All right, if there begins some..." " What's most important for you?" " What?" "Not to fall asleep." "And you, don't you bang me in my ass." "Or I'll dismantle you to spare parts..." "There we go." "A cartridge, rookie." "What?" "The motorcyclists." "I threw a grenade and they turned away." "You can't hear them here, but they are coming." "What about Krynkin?" "I dragged him into the forest." "Igor!" "Can you imagine?" "There lies a lad from Ryazan and stares with his blue eyes at the sky." "Pull yourself together, Volodya." "I couldn't close his eyes." "I got scared." "Take your position." " Take your position." " I'll kill those bastards." " I'll tear them to pieces." " Take your position, Volodya." "Koderidze, run to Garbuzenko, tell him to pull 100 meters toward the height." " May I go and do it?" " Do it!" "Vinogradov!" " What else?" " Excuse me." " And you'll fight here without me?" " No discussions!" "Run!" "Yes!" " Platoon, ready for action!" " Yes." "Platoon!" "Ready for action!" " Ready for action!" " 1st section, ready for action!" "Fire at the foxholes!" "Well, Habanera, carry the cartridges." "Where to?" "Don't chicken out, Habanera, you can't die before your time." "Saiko, come back!" "See, pal, what a great position!" " Did you take the machinegun?" " I did." "There's a hatch in the bottom behind you." "Keep your watch." "Lest the Fritzes open it and bang us at the back of the head." "Come on!" " Water, mama" " Hold on, Gusev." " Water, mama." " Wait." "Guys!" "Anybody!" "Guys!" "Mama!" "A cartridge!" "Damn you!" "What are they doing?" "!" "They want to push that Tiger into the river." "They need the bridge." "Listen, Habanera!" " You ever had a gramophone?" " What gramophone?" "I hadn't it either." "Too bad, isn't it?" "Grab your rifle and get out of here." "Here!" " Run, Habanera!" " And you?" "I want to have a talk with that bastard." "Or he'll crush us under the tank without even asking our names." "Vanya!" "Vanya!" "Ivan!" "Baltic is gone." "Svyatkin, the tank!" "Cover the flanks, Lieutenant." "And ourjob is to burn the tanks." "Now they'll come again." "And we'll live as long as we hold on." "This is our final and decisive..." "Oh, how we sang it!" " You got cartridges?" " No." " Here, half a disk." " Thanks, Suave!" "They'll put shoes on their Tiger, and all our deaths go down the drain." "See, it's raining." "It's spring, Lieutenant." "I'm off, I got sick and tired of it all." "What, Suave?" "Where are you going?" "You got scared?" "You're a fool, Suslik." "I'll be a damn dude if I don't finish that bitch." "Well!" "Gypsy dance with an entrance." "Cover me." "Suave!" "That's it, Comrade Lieutenant!" " Only two of us." " Three." "The last ones." "A cartridge!" "Lt'll be hard for my family." "A cartridge!" "March 18, 1944" "WITH CLOSED EYES YOU SLEEP IN COLD," "UNDER A PLYWOOD STAR-SHAPED DOME." "RISE UP, RISE UP, MY FELLOW-SOLDIER!" "RISE UP, RISE UP, MY FELLOW-SOLDIER!" "RISE UP, RISE UP, MY FELLOW-SOLDIER!" "TAKE YOUR GREATCOAT, LET'S GO HOME." "WHAT SHALL I SAY TO YOUR RELATIONS?" "AND TO YOUR WIDOW HOW CAN I COME?" "VOW BY YESTERDAY IS NO CONSOLATION." "VOW BY YESTERDAY IS NO CONSOLATION." "VOW BY YESTERDAY IS NO CONSOLATION." "TAKE YOUR GREATCOAT, LET'S GO HOME." "THE WAR HAD BENT US WITH A GUN." "BUT IT ITSELF HAD COME TO DOOM." "FOUR YEARS A MOTHER'S WITHOUT A SON," "FOUR YEARS A MOTHER'S WITHOUT A SON," "FOUR YEARS..." "TAKE YOUR GREATCOAT, LET'S GO HOME." "WE'RE ALL WILD CHILDREN OF WAR MOLD:" "A PRIVATE, A GENERAL, WHATEVER TERM." "IT'S SPRING AGAIN AROUND THE WORLD." "IT'S SPRING AGAIN AROUND THE WORLD." "IT'S SPRING AGAIN AROUND THE WORLD." "TAKE YOUR GREATCOAT, LET'S GO HOME." "FOR THOSE WHO FOUGHT TO DEATH IN THE NAME OF LIFE"