"March 11, 2011 Prime Minister of Japan addresses the nation." "The sad news of the earthquake in the Tōhoku region left the country deeply shaken." "The total number of casualities is growing by the hour so for now we can only speculate as to the scale of this tragedy." "We're deeply moved by bravery of our people, their courage in the wake of such adversity" "I want to express my deep gratitude to the international community of relief workers for their participation in the rescue operations all of you are facing the danger and we admire your bravery and commitment." "I sincerely hope that we will continue to work together as a community, as it is the only way to move past the hardships of this difficult time." "I pray for the salvation of the victims." "For you, we will rebuild Japan and continue forward..." "We salute each and everyone of you." "Produced by Alexandr Rodnyansky" "Produced by Anton Zlatopolsky and Dmitry Rudovsky" "Produced by Sergey Melkumov" "a presentation of" "a film by FYODOR BONDARCHUK" "The number of victims, roughly?" " In our area, about 8,000." "It's a very bad situation." "Can get worse at any time." "We can't use our equipment." "Everything is like a cardboard, like it held by the string." "We have digged out 28 survivors." "Witnesses say there are five more people trapped in the area of the dining room." "Two girls and three young men." "All of them are German." "They've been out there." "The rain mixed with all the rubble." "We have cleared a path, and inserted a tube, we have a video surveilance system." "We'll try to get to them from the other side..." "That's all we can do so far." "I think there are no serious injuries." "They are trapped under the concrete panel no deeper than 30 cm" "It's very dangerous, there could be another quake at any moment." ""Ministry of Emergency Cituations." "Russia"" "Stay calm, kids." "I am a doctor." "Don't speak al at once." "It wastes too much oxygen." "I need one of you to briefly describe the situation." "So... who will speak?" " I'm Nina." "Can you hear me?" "There's five of us down here." "We...still..." "We're all alive." "Okay, kids." "Now let's do this..." "Try to lay quietly to conserve oxygen." "We can talk further once we get you all out of there." "No, don't go!" "Talk to us." "Please!" "I am not going anywhere." "The subway is out of service." "Does anyone at home know that you're here?" "Your Mom, Dad?" "Yes, my mom knows." "My father died." "I miss him!" "Nina, Nina, please don't cry!" "It uses up oxygen." "I had five fathers." "And they all died." "Perished." "But I'm not crying, see?" "Five fathers?" "That's impossible." "but it is... it is possible..." "What do you know." "Anything is possible..." "STALINGRAD" "Lord!" "They walk on water." "Well, yes." "We're all the apostles." "Shut up, asshole!" "You're too young to joke." "This is no laughing matter" "They'll hear us." " Don't be crotchety, old man." "The engineering force submerged the crossing, so they're invisible from the air." "Ah..." "Well, God be with us now." "Get the paddles, kids." "This was in Stalingrad." "In the autumn of 1942." "Russian forces were crossing Volga river, to strenghten their hold of the other side." "And to prevent the Germans from taking the city and the exit to the river." "It was nearly impossible task, but nobody was thinking about it." "Each soldier fought the best he could, but they didn't realize that they were participating in the bloodiest battle, in the history of mankind." "That's not good." "The intelligence is here." "Jump." "You go to repair the equipment." "Right." "Jump." "Don't get up." " Did you mark a way through?" "Mined?" "Have you tried talking?" "Chvanov!" "We had a deaf-mute guy at the factory." "Retarded." "Listen, there are no retarded in people the USSR." "Only mentally ill." "No retards." "Good..." "Wait for the assault group." "Take them to the refinery." "And hurry up." "Let's go!" "We are here." "The building is there." "We'll enter quietly." "Then, it's all like cards." "Either face or back." "If it's face, look for the detonator" "It would be on the first two floors." "There's a good view from the second floor, no reason to go higher." "Flying shrapnel could cut it." "Second possibility: back of the card." "If the detonator is found, then kill everyone." "Cut each wire you find." "That's all." "Let's go!" "Jürgens." "Jürgens!" "Russians have snicked in." " What?" "Go and tell the staff." " We have no communication, sir." "Jürgens, I didn't ask why we don't have comms!" "Go and detonate the fuel tanksl!" "But that's the fuel supplies for the whole army, Captain." "Jürgens, you are an idiot." "The Russians are coming!" "[Speaking German]" "Grenade!" "Here you are, bitch!" "God be with us." "Come on, son." "Oh dear!" "Oh, dear boy..." "Have a look around." "I'm going up." "Comrade!" "I'm a correcting the fire!" "Get me my radio set comrade, comrade..." "Here it is!" "Yesterday morning we went to the bombed tower..." "Germans killed my radioman." "Are you recon scouts?" "Yes we are, and what kind of fruit you are?" "Like I said." "I am correcting the fire." "I am an officer." " An officer?" " We've been correcting our fire..." "The Krauts've hanged you like a Christmass decoration!" " I hadn't slept for three days." "So, I admit it, I fell asleep." "Sleepyhead, you bastard!" "Because of you, a division burned alive." "There was no artillery support, And you were sleeping?" "!" "Commander!" " What do you want?" "Semionov was killed, and his radio was destroyed" "Maybe we could use him and his radio for now?" "Do you know how to operate the radio?" " Yes, I do." " Establish the connection with HQ." " OK" "Just tell me the frequency and call sign." " Call sign is "Kaluga"." "Forty-four-three." "You chicken-shit!" "I'm not a chicken-shit." "I am an officer in the The Workers' and Peasants' Army." "Give me back my gun, please." " Establish the connection." "If you do not get a connection..." "I'll kill you." "Captain, come here, quick!" "What's going on?" " He's got a boy hostage." "It's over, man!" "It's a girl!" "Oh God, it's a girl, Commander." "A bit shell-shocked." "God forbid, possibly a bit cracky" "We'll deal with it later." "How are you, Nikiforov?" "What do you know, we have company." "Yes - and who the hell are you?" "I'm not the devil, Comrade Captain." "I'm an angel." "Artillery Commander, Sergeant Poliakov." "Tank Artillery?" " Exactly." "Where's your gun, Commander?" " Right out there." "Under the arc." "Hmm, so..." "And shells?" " Yep..." "One..." "Anty-artillery." "Got you..." "Then we still can fight." "Comrade Captain..." "Comrade Captain!" "Division headquarters on-line." " Sit down." "Are we to baby-sit her now?" " Damn, that's what we need." "Wait, Commander." "Can't you see what the Krauts did to her?" "This is war, Angel." "If she's alive, she'll be fine." "This is how they've met..." "Five men, hardened by two years of fighting, from the big cities and remote towns of the vast country, brought by the winds, into the city on the banks of the great river." "were five men and my mom." "My young mother." "The building, where my mom lived, was blocking one of the exits to the Volga." "For the past few months, our forces won the building a few times, only to lose it again." "Mama got tired of life in a fiery hell, got tired of horrors and human misery and malice and even of her own endurance" "Mama was just living in the old house and didn't want to leave her home." "Here was her room, her apartment, her stairs, her street." "And eventually - her town" "She couldn't just leave it." "In those days mama was just turning nineteen years old..." "What do we have here?" "The fountain." "Three hundred meters to her." "Chvanov will miss no one." "Nothing can hide from Chvanov." "Ha, the disabled tank hiding behind the walls of the store." "The Germans..." "Equipment." " Crappy equipment ." "Nothing works, nothing shoots." "Nice nest, shitty woodpeckers." "Chvanov!" " Ah?" "Go down there." "Check on the guys." "Fool." "What did he do there?" "Apartment #8, where my Mom's neighbor an engineer Sazonov, used to live." "a collector and fan of butterflies and insects," "Gromov, the caretaker of the building, made the observation point." "Keep building three days." "While the main force do not move to your bank." "Got it?" "I understand, Comrade Fourth." " What did not you understand, Second?" " Sounds like you didn't get something!" " I didn't get how to carry out that order..." "You're a trained soldier, but you talk like a mobilized student." "You solve it." "Is that clear?" " Yes, Comrade Forth." "Out!" "Hold it!" "What are you doing here?" "Stop." "Stop, stop!" "Do not be afraid;" "I don't need you." "You should not be here, they'll kill you." "Come on, leave." "This is my house, not yours." " Yours?" "Do we have your permission to stay?" " It's fine." "You can stay, for now." "Give me your canteen to get water." "That night the garrison in the building increased." "All that had survived, instinctively crowled to the building." "On the first floor there were sailors from the Volga Fleet, volunteer workers from "Red October" factory and several engineering units." "They settled in an apartment #6." "The Kulikov family with their many children had lived in it peacefully before the war." "Now there was a machine gun." "It works, fascist creep!" "Girl, come here, I'll let you shoot the Germans." "He's joking!" "Hand me your canteens." "Will you bring them back?" "Come on, take it!" "She is shell-shocked... and looks feeble-minded." "All you need to take and use her, she's nicely built..." "Can't you get a joke?" "What are you looking at?" ", What is her name?" "You..." "What is your name?" "Katya." "Give me your canteen." "So, citizens tenants!" "The first floor is yours." "Go there and make it home." "Don't go outside, Don't shoot without command." "Throw the Germans out, the bodies will start to stink soon ." "What are you waiting for?" "Chuck them through the window!" "Who's in charge here?" " I am." "Chief Sergeant Krasnov." "And you?" "I am." "The building manager." "Hello." " Hi." "Soldier." "Another..." "And this officer." "Apparently, poor Jürgens." "What's the matter, Kahn?" "Your people are thrown out the window and you are standing in front of me alive and well?" "You wanted me to be thrown through the window as well, Colonel?" "I want to know why are there Russians in that damn building?" "I had no orders to keep the building." "But to blow up fuel, in case of an attack." "Kahn, what's the difference between the German officer and those of other armies?" "He does not discuss the orders." "He executes them." "That is why the Wehrmacht is now on the Volga." "And is soon to be on the border with India." "But do not be afraid, Kahn." "You won't be riding an elephant." "Damned lice!" "The whole army is scratching like monkeys in a zoo." "Russians add ashes to their lye." "Ashes?" "In the lye!" "Barbarians!" "Kahn, tomorrow that damn building will be ours." "You gave it to the Russians, You will get it back." "Put some ashes in the lye, to kill those bloody insects." "So... they throw our soldiers through the windows?" "Let us teach them a lesson!" "Next." "Get the officer!" "From mangy sheep a sackful of wool." "Hold it!" "Hold it!" "Do not shoot!" "Do not shoot!" "Hands in the air!" " I can't!" "My hands are busy!" " Who are you?" " We're the locals." " You live in this building?" " No, in the port area." "What are you doing here?" "Check the basket." "Come on!" "Soil!" "Clay and sand." "Soil." " We came from the river." "We always come here from the river." "Why?" " We take the grain from the coast" "The Germans bombed the ship with the grain, and we collect it." "We sift the grain, dry it and cook porridge for the children." "Some sand is left in the porridge but it does not matter, it can be eaten." "We'll go." " There are the Germans." "So what?" " You're crazy, it's behind the front lines!" "You're crazy!" "Tomorrow the frontline will be on the river." "Should I run after you then, or what?" "We did not surrender the city to the Germans, We live here!" "And we'll stay!" "Captain, let her go!" "I can't hear that voice anymore!" "By God, like a shot in the guts!" " I'll shot you myself!" "Close your mouth!" " You first!" "All right." "Can you hear it Anna?" "Don't look at them!" "The water is cold." " Do not twist." "Heil!" "Lye and lice?" " Yes lye, lye." "Do not open your eyes, Daria." " Turn around." "Raia, come here!" "Oh Lord, not him again." "He's been gone for a week." "I was hoping he was killed." "I see others eat what I bring to you." "Do you give i yourself..." "Or do they take it by force?" "Look..." "That's my wife." "When I saw you, I was amazed how much you looked like her." "She died." "My Christina." "Tuberculosis." "Who is this?" " My wife." "Frau." "Your wife?" "." "Frau." "Wife." "Mine." "It's my time." "This food is for you." "Do you understand?" "Just for you!" "I'll be back." "I appeal to everyone:" "If anyone took the food from this girl, I will personally shot him." "Mashine gun." "Grenades..." "One." "Four more." "Well." "Listen to me." "Here's a city." "And here is the crossing." "This is our building." "If we let the Germans in, they will burn the crossing again ." "It's the perfect spot to fire from." "Therefore, we must not let them in." "Is that clear?" "There aren't many cartridges." "We have a German machine gun." "Four belts." "Three." " Three." "It will last for one hour of battle." "The artillery, everything is set." " Artillery is ready." "You know your locations.." "Spread out." "It will soon begin." " Wait a minute, Captain." "We will deploy." "But what we gonna do here?" "We will defend this building because there is an order to do so." "Whose orders?" "Orders from the Division Staff." " Well, that's a different story." "You've got, your staff's orders." "Execute!" "And I need to find my own staff." "Sorry, but we are going to be deployed on that coast." "Nikiforov, shot the sailor!" " What?" "!" "That's a shame." "We could use him." " Why?" "I don't have a boat for him." "Commander, come to the Square..." "Please come..." "What is this circus?" "The people are assembled, Herr Colonel." "Ask if she's Jewish." "Are you a Jew?" " How could we be Jews?" "We've never had Jews in the family." "Never had Jewish neibourghs." "Let me go." "Let go, please!" "Aunt Rimma!" " Let me go!" " Come with me!" "Quick!" "Let go of me and my daughter!" "We are not Jewish!" "Please people!" "Look, the bus, there they are." "They will burn them alive, Comrade Captain!" "Let the girl go!" "She is not Jewish, she's only a child!" "Please, somebody help!" "Do you see the officer?" " I see." "Will you hit him?" " How?" "They hid behind the kids, bastards!" "What are you doing for God's sake!" "Colonel, what orders were given for the attack on the building?" "I will answer you, Kahn." "Although it's not required by the rules." "I know the rules, Colonel." " I have no doubt!" "But in this war you've forgotten, our roots and origins." "For example, the ancient Germans made sacrifices to the gods before the battle." "Go with the soldiers." "The order to attack will be given soon." "Or do you want to watch our sacrifice?" "No." "Everything is fine." "Don't be afraid." "Someone will come to help us." "Please!" "Don't..." "There you are, you bastard!" " Why are you just sitting here?" "Do something!" "There's a woman and a child!" "You better shoot them, otherwise they will burn, and suffer horribly!" "Commander, make her stop." " She's right, shoot!" "They're going to shoot the children?" "!" "Motherfuckers!" "Give me the gun." "Burn in hell, you bastards!" "Go forward!" " Shoot the bastards!" "Shoot them!" "Shoot them all now!" "Go!" "Go!" "Retreat!" "Retreat!" "Retreat!" "Mine!" "Heil!" "What are you doing?" "Lord have mercy on her!" "Deliver her from this torment." "We haven't killed enough of them..." "Like rats coming out of the ship's hold." "Hey, blondie." "Yes, you." "Come quickly!" "Commander calls!" "It's gonna hurt for a second." "Does it hurt?" "It's nothing." "It'll heal" "Sasha." "Alexander Nikiforov." "Yes, I who you are." "My mom and I often went to your concerts before the war." "I know all your songs." "And arias." "Mom loved you." "And my sister." "Your portrait used to hung on our wall." "Nikiforov!" "Commander wants you." "Sasha!" "If I ask you, will you sing for me?" "Who, he can sing?" "He has spoken once in six months." "Do I miss something here?" "Come here." "Alexander Nikiforov Solo recital" "Alexander Nikiforov." "Tenor." "You called me, Comrade Captain?" " Come here." "Do you see the plane?" "Can you see the plane?" "This is a "Henkel"." "Tried to bomb the crossing, bastard." "It has two machine guns and a third, smaller one, in the radio cabin." "Nikiforov, take the engineer and go." "Take the gun and instruments." "Wrap them in a cloth, and don't rattle them around." "I am an engineer, not a mechanic." " Come on, go!" "Anything wrong with you?" "We killed fourteen Germans." "We lost six." "Small cost for us." "Do you have a cigarette?" "May I go sir?" " Yeah, go ahead." "By the time he was fourteen years old, Sanya Nikiforov had been detained ten times by the police." "But the destiny, as she was represented by the District Police superintendant was willing to send him to the foundry of the Tractor factory." "The factory owned well-known Club House - the best and the biggest in Stalingrad." "Then in his 16th year Sanya appeared to have a crystal clear tenor voice." "The factory's young communists fraction sent him to the Moscow Conservatory." "A year before the war, he came back to the Stalingrad Philharmonic as a soloist, and immediately became a big local celebrity." "In the first days of the war Nikiforov volunteered to fight." "For twenty days he wanderd through the Belorussian wastelands and forests in the madness of people's despair until he was found by Russian forces." "For twenty more days he was interrogated in a military camp." "These dreadful first months of the war made him cold, introvert, even cruel." "Look at me - this filthy animal." "Peter Kahn, awarded the Order of the Iron Cross." "From the noble Prussian family." "Fieldmarschall Paulus invited me to lunch." "He called me a hero." "A hero!" "You people are not possible to fight!" "You have no idea of honor." "You are bandits who shoot you in the back." "You don't fight for victory but for the sake of revenge." "I came here as a soldier." "You've turned me into a beast" "Well, in general and on the whole?" "You still desire to learn to shoot?" "You haven't changed your mind?" "Don't just shake your head." "Say it with words." "I want." " One desire, two desires." "(Variation on a sound of the word)" "Three, I want to squeeze your body." "You've been living here under the Germans." "And not saying anything." "That's not good." "Not good, in general and as a whole." "What a man." "As they say, a real spit." "Filthy mouth." "Too dirty." "Katya, you do not listen to him." "Don't listen." "What are you looking at?" "Want to know how we lived here under the Germans?" "What were they doing to us?" "How I stayed alive?" "Why am I not in the pit with my mom and dad?" "Why didn't I kill myself?" "Ask, do not hesitate." "Come on!" "Go ahead, ask." "Do you want details?" "Our protectors!" "I myself couldn't" "I was afraid." "I was waiting for you to..." "Shoot." "Come on." "What are you waiting for?" "I'll kill him!" " Damn." "Sit down!" "Sit down I say!" "Forget what you've just heard!" "Polakov, go calm the girl." "Mines." "And one more thing." "I have a beautiful wife." "I met her in our village because of her beauty." "The village was far away, near Briansk." "We began to live." "We lived well." "I did everything for her." "Beautiful scarf she picked-out, boots made of felt..." "She loved when I caressed her head." "I get home, I sit down beside her, She laid her head on my knees." "I was caressing her..." "Her hair was long and black." "Before New Year's Day 1939 she gave birth to our daughter." "You'd think I look like a grandfather, eh?" "And then my daughter was born." "I'd sleep for a while." "Can I?" "... just a little." "I'm not heavy." "The wife and daughter of Vassily Polakov had been dead for almost a year." "They lived in Moscow in the Mary's grove district." "where Polakov had two rooms from Metro construction organization." "They died absurdly, during the terrible bombings of October 1941." "They didn't make it to the shelter because they helped a woman with a stroller." "The woman and the baby survived, Polakov's family did not." "Polakov's wife was twenty-six years younger than him." "That night he told his story to the only person on Earth my mom." "You're soul is clean, Do not be afraid of anything." "Masha - fascist whore." "Masha - fascist whore." "Are you going to wash ?" "Peeeew, ... you won't clean yourself!" "Out of my way!" "Are you going to get water?" "Here's your water!" "Here!" "[Humming popular song]" "What do you want?" "You promised to teach me to shoot." "Teach me then!" "Lie down next to me, I'll teach you." "Stock goes on the shoulder, Toes go here." "I know how you hold a gun." "Teach me to shoot the target." "Find your target, get it in the crosshairs, and then shoot." "Who is this?" "Who, who, woman." " She's so beautiful." "She's beautiful." "I've seen her many times." "A Kraut goes there, to the basement." "Who is he seeing there?" "Maybe her.." "Shoot her." "You're fool." "German." "It is a German." "You're lucky, first time and you got a German." "Now look..." "You need to see this." "Head - chest, head - chest." "Skinny." "With glasses." "He walks like a goose." "He's still young." " Do not look at where he is, but where he'll be" "Follow him!" "Shoot him." " Stop!" "She's got him." "On the first shot!" "Bravo." "What have you done, idiot?" " What is it, Commander?" "This soldier who coming for water." " He's a fascist, not a soldier." "Even animals never kill each other at the watering hole!" "Do you know this little verse, Comrade Captain?" ""Every time you see him, every time you kill him. "" "I do not care whether he goes drinking, eating or shitting." "I have killed and will kill them again." "My mother wrote to me that they killed my little brother." "Just because his name was Vladimir Ilyich." "He was seven years old." "And what did the soldiers do?" "Enough!" "I killed him!" "Get out, so I won't see you again" "The mother of Mishka Chvanov hasn't written the whole story." "She couldn't have" "Back at their home in Gomel, the SS had raped and threw into the barn to die... his beautiful older sister." "The mother was wounded, and was nearly burned alive in the house." "She fled to the partisans." "They had to amputate her wounded arm which had gotten gangrene." "Good thing she was left-handed, because he didn't notice anything in her handwriting." "When I look at you, you seem a completely normal woman." "Like a German, or a French woman." "As if you didn't want to put a knife in my back, if I turned around." "But we both know the truth." " I don't understand a word you're saying." "Grab anything useful and take to the streets." "Heil!" "Colonel, We found a German officer." "It's a spectacle." "A German soldier whith his pants down, with a Russian whore." "And at this time that the Fuhrer's army trying to keep the banks of the Volga." "Shining example for others." "Words evade me, Captain." "Yes, you've made an effort ..." "I still can find no words." "What exactly is your excuse?" "Yes, I thought so." "Colonel, permition to speak." " Not granted." "Headquarters has ordered us to "clean" the combat zone of all the dirt and filth." "What do you think Kahn..." "Is she dirt or trash?" "Well, I can understand." "You haven't conquered this Russian fortress, but ... a smaller box." "But you wanted to celebrate, didn't you?" "I can understand you as a man, But as an officer I can't." "Petty Officer!" "Get the women to wash our clothes" " Yes, Colonel!" "Get those who are older and uglier." "We must somehow get rid of these damned lice." "Get up, go to the rear with Nikiforov." " I'm not going anywhere!" "Leave." " Hey, you!" "Leave nicely, while you're here, guys will not rest." "They aren't fighting for the Motherland or Stalin, they are fighting over you!" "You're not doing it right!" " Why not?" "Get dressed already!" "You are going to get kiled, stupid." "Our Motherland will not be killed." "She is great." "And you..." "I can not protect you." "You will be killed, and they will break." "And you, are you fighting for me?" "I won't break." "I want to fight with you, to kill Germans, to shoot them." "Listen, you're not even sixteen..." "My passport." "Yes." "Right." "Fifteenth..." "It's your birthday!" "Look at my birth year." "I can be mobilized." "You are nineteen today..." "Congratulations." "I'll go and tell them." "So..." " Let me be, Captain." "You understand?" "I understand why wouldn't I understand?" "Stand up." "Hush, hush, can you hear me?" "I said, hush!" "Can you hear me?" "Don't play games with me, chicken." "This is not good." "This is not good." "She's not your woman, you understand?" "Do you understand me?" "Get some rest." "The Krauts are behind the department store." "The Crossing is compromised." "We can't reach them from here." "Hey chicken..." "Can you ask your platoon to target them?" "It's dangerous, they'll cover us as well." "Get In the water!" "Go!" "Go!" "I've choosen them myself." "From our cannon." "No way, the cannon got hit and cannot fire!" "I'll make it fire." "This is my shot." ""HITLER - your liberator"" "Left!" "Left!" "Right!" " Where are you taking those people?" " At the station, Herr Captain." " Why?" " To load them in wagons." "Masha!" "Masha!" "Masha!" "Herr Captain, this is the mail post delivery motorcycle!" "It belongs to German Army, idiot." "Bastard, where are you going!" "Masha!" "Please stop!" "Get on!" "You shouldn't talk, Chvanov." "Lieutenant Astakhov is educated, he graduated from the Academy." "Not a genius like you." "Stupid peasant." "Great thing, the Academy." "Now try to shoot from a damaged cannon." "Hey chicken, how much longer?" " I am ready." "Chief, I've only got one shell." "Give me the orders..." "I wouldn't mind..." "He will hit it." "Wait a minute." "Let me see..." "I see the target." "The dome of the tank." "The lower left corner." "The angle looks correct." "Well?" "Fire?" "Perhaps you have been really blessed by God" "Motherfucker!" "Even the hit tanks are shooting in Stalingrad!" "Sergei Astakhov went to the Artillery Academy straight out of school." "In the city of Podolsk, where he was born and raised." "Less than a year ago in October of 1941, he and the other cadets, defended the town of Maloyaroslavets for several days." "He was the only survivor of his entire company." "No one could look at him then, and call him a chicken." "But with the girls, he was really shy." "Kahn!" "Have you completely lost your mind?" "We've been under attack from your building." "You never said there was artillery." "You where seduced by a Russian whore and you went AWOL." "Where have you been?" "Answer me!" "I will execute that whore!" "She turned my best officer into brainless idiot." "And you!" "I will also shoot you!" " As you wish." "But first I'm going to take that building." "And she'll wait for me here." "Kahn, if you do not get that building, I will execute you." "I know." "Herr Colonel!" "All residents of the building, which my mother have known, remembered and loved since her childhood all her relatives, friends, neighbors..." "have perished... right before her eyes." "How my mom percevered, how she managed to survive all by herself, I can not say." "She rarely spoke about the events of the first months of the war." "Many times I've heard her stories about the peacefull life in the building." "And imagined all its inhabitants." "I knew about her neighbor, Uncle Misha Sazonov, and Mitya and Lenocka Kulikovs, her friends from the first floor and Aunt Hassia, my mum's music teacher... they all were killed during the August bombing." "Surviving neighbors buried them amidst the ruins of the building, because it was impossible to get to the city cemetery." "Last graves appeared when the Germans occupied the building." "Nikiforov, let me go." "Be a man." "I need to find a gift." "For Katya." "For her birthday." "Are you happy now?" "Mama shoveled the burnt land, all by herself." "this is why 14 people, adults and children, layed in very shallow graves, which were covered by stones." "Her sister and her mother, my grandmother and my aunt mom have buried near the edge, to avoid confusion..." "It's here somewhere." "Here it is." "Here, here." "Think about it, no water, the bathhouse was destroyed by shell." "The poor thing for half a year couldn't wash properly." "And only cold water." "She'll be happy." "Krasnov..." "[Speaking German indistinctly]" "Shut the fuck up." "NCO Schojman, Captain, Sir." "How can I help?" " Do you have a cigarette?" "One moment, Captain." "Here you are, sir." "What was destroyed?" " Everything." "The cannon?" " Not operational.The shutter valve failed." "Why aren't you fixing it?" " There are no spare parts." "No supply." "I don't care if this tank moves or not But I need the cannon." "If you can't do it, I'll kick you out to the street and order you to storm the building." "Do it!" "Crowl?" "No way!" "The Red Navy never crowls!" "We're no lizards!" "You see, Astakhov, there is a hit tank over there." "won't you give it to Katya for her birthday, eh?" "All right." "First torpedoe unit ready?" " Ready." "Second unit ready?" "Get it up!" "They are moving already." "Attention." "Attention!" "Are you from reinforcement?" " Yes, Herr Captain." "What' it says on the buckle?" "Faster!" " God is with us." "God is with us..." "Where there is God, there is our Führer, Adolf Hitler." "And where Hitler is, there is Germany." "Germany is here with us in this place." "I'll ask you, what else do you need, to just take the damn building?" "I am listening!" " Nothing, Captain, sir!" "Behind this house is the Volga." "Behind this house is the end of the war." "Behind this building is India." "And in India, all whores have six arms." "Just imagine what they can do with their six arms." "Maybe some of you do not wish to get to India?" "You have 15 minutes." "Then we'll start." "Attention!" "Chicken, get up!" "I said go!" "Katya, you're with him on the second floor." "Anything happens you scream, got it?" "Angel, you go too." "Get out!" "Chvanov, Nikiforov, in the corners." "I will be in the center." "Come here quicky!" "The river is on the right." "Come quickly!" "Move, move, move!" "Come on." "Got it?" "After the explosion, when they enter... we cut them to pieces" "Cover yourself up." "Where are you going?" "Hold it!" "Hold it!" "Not so fast, Captain." "Bad timing, Chvanov." "Do you know what you are, Kahn?" "You are a disgrace to the entire Wehrmacht!" "I'm going to the division headquarters." "You still have time." "I hope that you will use it." "Captain!" " What?" "The canon is operational." "Killed in one strike." "Easy way to die." "My other soldier too." "Where's Katya?" " In her room." "I'm going to dig the graves for them." "I won't go." "I'm not going anywhere!" "Please let me go!" "Fire!" "What's going on?" "Why aren't you shooting?" "It is stuck again , Captain." "Shit!" "Here was Captain Gromov the professional hero," "He has always been where the war was." "be it Khalkhyn Gol, Guan-Zhou, or the Mannerheim line." "He had neither relatives, nor family, nor a place he wanted to return to." "He was wounded three times." "According to the doctors, once he was even mortally wounded." "You are bleeding." " Where?" "I think it's just a scratch from the debris." "Glass." "Slowly, slowly..." "Listen to me." "Get out of here." "Please." "Go." "Do you hear me?" "I'm begging you!" "I can't hear you." "I will not go... anywhere" "My mother's house was the first one to which Captain Gromov felt bound." "And my mother - the only woman for whom he had cared for so long." "God, why do I need her?" "For what sins?" "For what good deeds?" "Will I ever again feel so peacefully with a woman?" "Stroking her hair." "I do not understand you, Petya." "In Russian we say: "Piotr", "Petya"." "Petya." " Not Petija." "But Petya." "Petya." " Petya." "The funny sounds all you Russians make:" "Masha..." "Petya, Volga, Bul Bul." "Love?" "You know what that word means?" "I love you." "Liebe." "(Liebe sounds in Russian) either, or..." "I would be put against the wall anyway..." "either by your souldiers or by ours." "I don't care anymore." " Sverazno." "Anyway." " Whatever." "any..." " Whatever." "I love you" "Anyway." "Get out of the way." "Here's a present for you." "Thank you." " Smell it." "Wonderful..." "Blow the candle!" "Well... what..?" "Shall we drink?" "Happy birthday." " Happy birthday." "Well..." "Help yourself." "And now, for a festive part!" "Our own Alexander Nikiforov will sing romances and arias from the operas." "Look at him!" " Take the stage." ""E lucevan le stelle..." ""ed olezzava la terra stridea..." ""l'uscio dell'orto..." "e un passo sfiorava la rena..." "What am I to do?" "What should I do..." "Tell me German..." "What should I do?" ""L'ora e fugitta, e muoio disperato!" ""E non ho amato mai..." "Damn this war!" "Damn country, damn building!" ""tanto la vita..." "Thank you, Sasha." " And now, here's your present." "From all of us." "Come on!" "Come on!" "Guys, it's girl quarters..." "Off liimits..." "We're going downstairs." "Let me look." "He must have kept this bow-tie in his pocket since the war begun." "Funny, isn't it?" "There is naked woman up there, and we can't even see." "Though, we might still die today." "You know what they say:" "Behind the Volga there is no life." "Angel, is anything left to drink?" "That's it." "Fighters." "Sleep!" "Put your clothes on." "In the morning I'll take this building." "At any cost." "I will take you to safety." "In the vicinity of the fire tower..." "Nobody goes there." "Neither us nor the Russians." "I'll hide you there for one day." "Do you understand?" "One day!" "Seriozha." "Don't go." "I feel so good it's frightening..." "It's freightening because it's good?" "Yes." "It's not right..." "There's war..." "Katya." "Get dressed." "Get dressed, please." "I need to show you something." "It's very close..." "The commander said it's okay..." "Seriozha..." "Seriozha where are you taking me?" "In a moment..." "Have a seat." "Sit down!" "It will now begin." "Look." "This was my observation post." "Then the Germans discovered us." "They began shooting at us with heavy guns." "We decided to retreat" "Retreat -...?" " Retreat, move" "We were all caught down there." "Careful..." "Go... go..." "Bitch!" "Why are there are no Germans?" "It is strange." "They're everywhere, but not here" "Really." "It is really weird." "I didn't think about it before" "I bet this is the only building in the city, with no Germans" "Neither Germans nor our own forces." "But it'll be better, we will wait here." "Wait for what ?" "Wait out our fear" "Wait out the night" "Wait out the terror, the war." "Wait out everything" "Like on the cloud." "Katya." "I love you." "Two days that I'm already in love with you." "I know." "Come on." "Sit." "You will stay here." "Do not go anywhere." "I'll be back." "Nikiforov!" "Where's Katya?" "Where is Astahov?" "Find them." "Wait." "What is it?" "Will you be back?" " Go hide in there!" "German whore!" "Russians!" "Colonel, We caught a Russian spy." "Where did you get him?" " Captain Kahn caught him in a fire tower." "He killed three of our communication unit." " Captain Kahn?" "A miracle!" "What do I do with this waste?" "Kahn, what do we do with him?" "Question him?" " Interrogate him?" "Do you know Russian?" " I speak German." "Come on, Grandpa, get up, why do you sit there?" "Tell your people to bring me food and water." "Why are you all standing?" "A Russian officer is on his knees in front of you, you freaks!" "Where did you come from?" "This building or from the other side of the river?" "I have a present for you." " What?" "I have a present for you." "From a Russian girl ..." "Katya." "What a crock of shit." "I can't feel anything." "Absolutely nothing." "No pain." "I just have an itch in my armpit..." "Damned lice ..." "They could left a dying man alone." "Lieutenant Schmidt." " Captain Kahn." "Do you have a cigarette?" "The Russians made a passage across the bloody Volga." "Let's go there." "See that building." "The third floor on the right?" "I see it." "My Russian friend has made his nest up there," "Can you hit it with the tank?" "Yes, the target is plain-as-day." "Then go on." "What is it?" " Nothing." "Just a noise." "Go back to sleep, it is still early." "We need to go home." "You know, I fell in love with you at first glance." "I looked at you and I knew that I was in love." " I love you too." "Really?" "Really." " I will go now." "I can't not go." "I will go with you." " No!" "You'll wait here." "Is that clear?" "All right." "Soon it will all be over." "Are you alive?" "I'm alive." "How are you?" "It's nothing." "You..." "Go." "I'll wait here for Nikiforov." "Go." "Here it is, bro." "We will die in the orchestra seats." "Well, it's time to go to heaven." "Simply to heaven?" "Why?" "To paradise!" "I have a pass." "That's not the right Russian." "Where's the other one?" "Where is he?" "Russian!" "Russian!" "Don, damn it." "Don." "It's Gromov." "Stand up." "Don't shoot, Chicken!" "Radio station." "Go on!" "Don..." "Don, Don!" "Here Don, I'm listening." " Here "Kaluga"." "Open fire." "Immediately." "Coordinates:" "Square 24, longitude 17 degrees, lattitude 14" "Have you got this, do you copy?" ""Kaluga", "Kaluga", did not copy." "These are the coordinates of the building, where our forces are." "Do you copy?" "That's us." "We are saying it, Open fire!" "The Germans entered the building." "Open fire!" "Now!" "Roger that." "I understand you "Kaluga"." "All is understood." "Goodbye, boys..." "That's it." "It will be done now." "Did you want to ask about Katya?" "She's fine." "I hid her." "She sent her regards." "And she said  that she loves you very much." "This was in Stalingrad." "In November of 1942" "There were terrible months of bloody battles ahead, which began the great change in the history of mankind." "And in the history of my great country." "Mom wanted me to always remember" "That people, who live on this planet owe their lives and freedom to those heroes." "Though she named me after my father - Sergey Astahov," "My mother had always said, that I really had five fathers." "There was a man..." "down there..." "And he talked to us..." "Sergei?" "Sergei Astakhov is there." "Sergei, Sergei?" " Sergey Astakhov is over there." "My mother also said, that I was lucky, because I look like all of them." "And I am must be lucky, because thanks to my fathers, and the fathers of my countrymen..." "I have absolutely no idea what war is." "Stalingrad" "Directed by FYODOR BONDARCHUK" "Katia MARIA SMOLNIKOVA ♪♪In the web of strings" "♪♪tight cry is in the throat" "Masha YANINA STUDILINA ♪♪tight cry is in the throat" "Captain Gromov PYOTR FYODOROV" "Captain Kahnn THOMAS KRETCHMANN ♪♪the time has come" "Sergey Astakhov SERGEY BONDARCHUK II ♪♪there is no place to scream" "Chvanov DMITRY LYSENKOV" "Polyakov ANDREY SMOLYAKOV ♪♪Only then, someone won't be able to forget" "Nikiforov ALEKSEY BARABASH ♪♪Only then, someone won't be able to forget" "Krasnov OLEG VOLKU" "Hense HEINER LAUTHERBACH ♪♪How tired warriors?" "i ♪♪wiped their swords on the grass" "Natashka POLINA RAYKINA ♪♪How tired warriors ♪♪wiped their swords on the grass" "Nina ANNA VON ABLER and YURI VLADIMIROVICH NAZAROV as the bombardier ♪♪How flapped their wings ♪♪the black tribe of crows" "♪♪How flapped their wings ♪♪the black tribe of crows" "Directed by FYODOR BONDARCHUK ♪♪How flapped their wings ♪♪ the black tribe of crows" "Produced by SERGEI MELKUMOV ♪♪How sky was laughing, ♪♪and then how it bit it's tongue" "Produced by ANTON ZLATOPOLSKY ♪♪How sky was laughing, ♪♪and then how it bit it's tongue" "Produced by DMITRY RUDOVSKY" "Produced by ALEXANDER RODNYANSKY ♪♪How trembled the hand ♪♪of those who lived" "♪♪How trembled the hand  ♪♪of those who lived" "Screenplay by ILYA TILKIN ♪♪How trembled the hand ♪♪of those who lived" "Screenplay by SERGEY SNEZHKIN" "Partially based on the novel "Life and Fate" by Vasily Grossman ♪♪How the moment turned into eternity" "Music:" "ANGELO BADALAMENTI" "♪♪How sunset burned like funeral fires" "Director of Photography MAXIM OSADCHY, R.G.C. ♪♪How sunset burned like funeral fires" "Production designer SERGEY IVANOV" "Costume Designer TATYANA PATRAKHALTSEVA ♪♪How stars looked down ♪♪from clouds, like the wolves" "Make-up designer MARINA KRASNOVIDOVA ♪♪How stars looked down  ♪♪from clouds,like the wolves" "Casting INNA STERENHARTZ" "Editor IGOR LITONINSKY ♪♪How those who went into the night ♪♪lied down, spreading their hands" "Sound Designer ROSTISLAV ALIMOV ♪♪How those who went into the night ♪♪lied down, spreading their hands" "♪♪How those who lived ♪♪slept with no dreams." "Vocalise composed by Angelo Badalamenti Sung by ANNA NETREBKO" "♪♪Life is only a word." "♪♪There is only love and death." ""LEGEND" by VICTOR TSOY Sung by ZEMPHIRA ♪♪Life is only a word." "♪♪There is only love and death." "♪♪Who's gonna sing ♪♪if everyone is asleep?" "♪♪Death is only worth to live." "♪♪Love is really worth the wait." "♪♪Death is only worth to live." "♪♪Love is really worth the wait."