"The Brest Fortress was built on the western frontier of the Russian Empire in the mid-19th century, where the Mukhavets and Western Bug rivers meet." "Forts, embankments and trenches made the fortress impregnable.But in 100 years new weaponry had minimized the fortressdefenses... but not the strength its defenders." "20 years after WW2 ended, the world found out the truth about the fortress defenders from the Sergei Smirnov's book." "On May 8, 1965 it was honorably named the "Fortress-Hero"." "This movie is devoted to the memory of the heroes of the Brest Fortress, and to the memory of all those who fought for our Motherland." "The Brest Fortress" "June 21st, 1941." "Brest." "City Park." " So I guess we can have some ice cream." " What movie we'll watch, do tell me please..." " Let's go for ice cream." "C'mon let's go!" " I'll be there first!" " Where are you going?" "!" "I remember, I remember everything." "As always on Saturdays, there was public dancing in the City Park." " Thank you, Tanya" " You welcome, enjoy." "This is me, Aleksander Akimov, a cadet of the musical band, the 333rd Regiment." "My parents died in Spain, in 1937" "Only two of us were left - me and my brother." "And this is Anna, just Anna..." "Except that for me she wasn't just Anna." "Wait up please." "I'll be right back." "Sashka!" "Why aren't you with your unit?" "!" " Kostia asked me to fill in." "Their entire orchestra took off." "The last trumpeter left on Wednesday." " Cadet Akimov!" " Yes, sir..." " I order you to immediately return to the fortress!" " What are you screaming at me for?" "!" "You aren't my father or my commander!" "Why yelling at me in front of everybody!" " You will tell Corporal Kovalenok to exemplarily punish you." " Yes, sir..." " I'll come and check." "And it was totally unnecessary to mess up the tune so much!" " Turn around!" "March!" " And he calls himself a "brother"!" " Grandma, grandma, look..." "Comrades, family of the military officer, pull yourselves together!" " Anna, come here." "Turned it all into circus." "Give her to me." " Quiet." "Everyone freeze." "Freeze!" " It's easier to command the Regiment than trying manage you all." "This is my home, my fortress." "Pretty large..." "Of course, you cannot cover it all..." "But I knew such spots that, if I'd really want to hide, no one would find me." "Thank you." "Brest City." "Railway Station." " Where are you going!" "Get back!" "Get back!" " Stop crowding in front of the cashier window!" " Citizens, stop pushing!" "Everyone disperse!" "I'm telling you, there will be no tickets today!" " I'm telling you, no tickets!" "Neither for the Army nor for any other status." " And I'm telling you in clear Russian, I was given only 3 days for everything." " Then they should also give you the tickets." "We have none." "Kill me now." " Listen to me." "I have to get my wife, my baby and my patrol dog to my dislocation." " Only after July 20th, it's all I can do!" " Unlock the reservation!" " Comrade Commissar!" "I'm speaking to you like you are my family." "I was forbidden to unlock the reservation." "I've received the directive from the Army's HQ - "By Special Order Only"!" " So it's a "no"?" " Maybe it's for the better." "Why coming in here when everybody's leaving." " What exactly are you trying to tell me?" " It's hot..." "Like in Sahara..." "What a day!" "Lie down and die." "...Is it a German train?" " Good day, Comrade Commissar!" " Hi, Nikolai." " Are you bring us the movie?" " Yes, yes I am." " Hey, hey!" "C'mon, c'mon!" "Faster, faster!" "Go, go, go!" " It's Tiagushev." " Kolia is fast, but Tiagushev is even faster!" ""My dear, I cannot come now." "It's all peaceful in the fortress, there will be no war!"" "Checkmate!" " Logical coincidence!" "C'mon!" "Let's play again!" " Commissar!" "Tidy up!" " You haven't left, Comrade Commissar?" " Good luck trying to leave you." "Look at you, Einspiel..." " Have you got the movie?" " Yes, I have." " And beer." " And how about "no beer"?" " Uhm, tomorrow is Sunday." " On Sunday, people take it easy." " And so I will..." "Three beer." "And sparkling water for kids." " Ahh, he remembered kids!" " Alright, did we forget anything?" "Thank you, Sonia." " C'mon troopers, lets go." ""Closed for Inventory Restocking"" " Have you got it?" " Yes, I have." " Is it perhaps about love again?" " Yes, it's about love." " I got caught, Comrade Corporal" " What?" "!" " Ass whooping, that's what you need!" "Where did he catch you, huh?" "!" " I messed up the tune." "And you know my brother's musical ear." " What were you play?" " "On the hills"" " You will learn it overnight." "Tomorrow at rehearsal you shall play!" " Stop the music!" " Hrusch, what are doing?" "!" "Where are looking?" " Comrade Lieutenant, it's like a friggin' "Swan Lake"!" " And...." " Good day!" " Good day!" " Now..." "So when do you think the war with Germany will start, in your opinion?" " Oh, I see..." " I was appointed to investigate your case concerning the spread of panic rumors about the war with the ally." " I believe and I'm convinced that you are an honest man and a devoted communist." "How could it happen then, Peter Michaelovich, that you were appointed as an alarmist?" " You should ask those who "appointed" me." " Help me, Peter Michaelovich." "I don't have a high rank and enough authority." "Yet the tasks we have are significant." "I can clearly see you're not to blame." "Who is spreading the panic in the garrison in your opinion?" "I delibirately asked you to come here so we can talk tete-a-tete, so to speak." "Who is it, Comrade Major?" "I do..." "I said mindlessly a couple of times that the Germans will steamroll through us soon." "I haven't heard anything like this coming from anyone else." "There is no panic in the garrison, Comrade Weinstein." "Sleep peacefully." "Look here Lieutenant." "If they strike us, we'll all be in a cauldron." "The garrison is 8,000 people." "Such a stampede will never make it in time through the Northen Gates." "Everyone's grown a household around themselves - babies, nanies, grandmas, curtains, napkins!" "A god damn resort!" "The majority of the garrison should be moved beyond the fortress walls, to the areas of the troops' dislocation." "This is what I - a combat officer of two wars - am saying." "And will continue saying it!" " And what about the entire 4th Army, Peter Michaelovich?" "They aren't gonna leave us?" "They aren't gonna let us fry, right?" " No, they won't let us, - if they all will be where they're supposed to be!" "Soldiers are in one place, the officers - in another." "When soldiers are without the commander, there is room for panic!" "It's elementary "A-B-C", Comrade Lieutenant!" "I completely understand you, Peter Michaelovich." "I find our conversation very valuable." "But needless to say, I'm asking you to keep it in secret." "The hearing of your case is schedueled for June 27th." " May I go, Comrade Lieutenant?" "The movie starts soon in the club." " Yes, of course." " C'mon, it's starting." " It's alright, we still have time." ""..." "Ram-pam-pam-pam, our iron is red hot." "I'm not jealous over her, but that's about to change." "You'll be mine and this is it, you got no way out of it..."" " Sonia... are you gonna stay overnight?" " Look at how people live, ahh..." " Yo, what the hell, get the movie back on the screen!" " Thank you, Comrade Major." "( Speaking German )" " Peter..." "Your tea is cold." " Go to sleep, Katusha" "( Speaking German )" "This is how the German saboteurs turned up in Brest, dressed up in our uniforms." "Switching off of electricity and running water in the fortress was their job." " What's going on with you?" " We had one more deserter today from the Polish side of the border." " He says, the war will start today at 4am." " Do you believe him?" " Of course not." "But it's just that we caught 10 like him this week." "And all of them say it will start today, tomorrow, on August 8th..." "Naa, I'm actually wound up because of Annuta." "She's totally grown up now." "She used to tell me everything." "And now whatever you ask her she turns her nose up and "bye-bye"." " Listen, maybe she's got sick?" " Aha, "Sasha Akimov" is the name of that sickness." "Our Anna is in love." "There you got it, daddy!" " Sasha, do you remember you've promised to take me fishing with you?" " No Annuta, your parents won't let you go." " No, I'll sneak out quietly when everyone is asleep." " Alright then, Annuta." "Here, practice a bit, while I take a break." " Let's get married." " Did you ask me first, groom?" " You don't believe me?" "I'll be right back!" " Wait up." " I'll be back in a moment!" " H-h-h-ello." " Your last name?" " I'm Kolika." "I've brought the movie..." "June 22, 1941, 3:58am" " Military exercise?" "No sleeping now..." " I'm going to check it out." " Get down!" " What is this?" " Military exercise!" " Run home, I'll find you!" " What about you?" ".." " Where is Anna?" " Don't worry, we'll find her!" " Andrei!" " Where is Anna?" " Peter, it's a war!" " Katia!" "Quick!" " Did you get everything?" " Hold on!" " Run!" " Katia, do as I taught you." "Hide in the old basement shelter." " Calm down!" "C'mon sonny!" " Here is your hat!" " When it'll calm down, I'll come to you." " That's it." "It'll be alright." " How can it be?" "!" " You stay here." "Don't go out without me, OK?" "That's it!" "See ya." "Run!" "Run!" " Andrei, Andrewshenka!" " Mama!" ".." " Take care of her." " Stop panicking!" " C'mon!" "Go, go, go!" "I was imagining what a war would be like..." "But I could not imagine it would be this kind of war." "Everyone was preparing for it." "But no one was prepared that it would happen like this, so suddenly, so simply and horrifically." "I was running to this building." "It was a meeting point in case of a war." "It said so in the staff instructions manual." "But that manual remained there, in the already destroyed building." " No one's allowed!" "No weapons without the Commander's order!" " Let us in, you, nit!" "I wasn't allowed to carry a weapon." "But I had my own weapon, the kind of weapon that didn't require any permit." " It seems like it calmed down." "( Speaking German )" " Mama." " Sonny, crawl into the shelter." " Run, sonny." " Stop!" "It's not allowed in here!" "Fortress." "Volyn Fortifications." "Hospital." " You cannot come in here!" " It's not allowed in here." "We're in the middle of a surgery!" "( Speaking German )" "Fortress." "Kobrin Fortification." "Northern Gates." "Stop the panic." "Stop panicking!" "Fortress." "Kobrin Fortification." "Eastern Fort" " I said, get back!" "Get back into the barracks!" "Stop the panic!" " Hey, lad, play something!" " What should I play." " Just play!" " Halt!" "Halt!" " Boy, you've lost your mind?" "Run!" " Where is your weapon?" "!" " Go to hell!" " Commanding officers, get over here!" " Here we are, sir." "We are lieutenants." " Lieutenants?" "!" "I see none here!" "Pull yourselves together." "Start acting like officers or I'll shoot you on the spot like alarmists!" " Everyone, get back to the barracks, pick up your weapons and take up the defensive positions!" "Go, go, go!" "Fortress." "Holm Gates." " Where is everyone?" "I have only German signals." "Maybe it's an exercise?" " What friggin' exercise, god damn it!" "?" "What friggin' exercise!" ".." " Cut it out!" " I apologize, Comrade Commissar." " Stop panicking!" "Is the Regiment Commander in the fort?" " I see..." "I take the command upon myself." "Corporal, gather all the personnel and distribute the weapons and ammo." "Take up positions in the windows, conserve your ammo, and don't let the Germans through the bridge!" " Do not stop trying to establish communication." " Yes, sir!" " I'm Fortress, I'm Fortress..." " Outpost, listen to my order!" "Get your weapons ready!" " We don't have much weapons, Comrade Lieutenant!" "It's buried under the rubble." " Political Officer..." " He's dead." " Everyone who's got weapons, form on me!" "Everyone else, get whatever you can from the rubble." " Germans!" "( Speaking German )" " Outpost, get ready to fight." "Follow me!" " We need 5 people on the first floor!" " I'm Fortress, I'm Frotress." "We are holding our defenses, continuing fighting, awaiting reinforcements." "Fortress." "Baracks of the 132nd NKVD battalion." " What is this unit?" "Who's the commanding officer?" "Get me the officer!" " Lieutenant of NKVD Weinstein!" " As a higher ranking officer, I order you to leave the barracks, divide into small groups and try to break out of the fortress towards the fortifications area." " Comrade Major, allow me to interject." "If we leave our positions, the Germans will break through to the fortress." "But we can hold them until the reinforcements arrive." " More Germans!" "Get back to fighting!" "On the left!" " Do as I say, execute the order, Lieutenant!" " Two divisions have already moved out from Kobrin to reinforce you!" "There is no need to sacrifice you men!" " And you, Sergeant Novikov?" "Do you know what happens to those who disobey orders?" " Comrade Major, I apologize, I don't know you." "Please show me your ID documents?" " Yes, of course." "Here." "I command you for your diligence." " And show me your boots." " What about the boots?" " Show me your boots' soles." "Our boots have round nails." "German nails are square." "Novikov come look..." " They are square..." " Halt!" "Halt!" " The dogtag is German after all." " Heh, but the nails were round..." " Sonia!" " Kolia!" "I'm here Kolia!" " Sonia, I'm here, one moment." " The Germans are falling back to the club building!" " Sonia..." " Kolia, Kolia, my dear!" " Please be quiet, I beg you be quiet." "Shhh..." " I'm so afraid!" "I cannot bear it anymore." " Shhh..." "The Germans are here!" "They are here!" "Shhh...." " I beg you, please..." " Quiet, quiet!" "Don't cry." "I know you are so strong." "Shhh..." ""...according to the statement from the 135 Infantry battalion, it's the 45th German Infantry division. 12:00pm - the fortress is surrounded..."" " Comrade Commissar, take a look, it's our guys from the hospital." " I see a nurse there, she used to treat me from lice..." " What are we gonna do, Comrade Commissar?" ".." " Corporal, you'll come with me." "Leave your weapon behind." " Everyone, take up positions in the windows and aim at the column at the chest level." "Follow me!" " What a great shield you found yourselves." " Get down!" " Open fire!" " Comrade Commissar!" " Everyone, get into the basement shelter!" "Go, go!" " We need to break through to Brest City, to find out what the situation is there." " The task is clear?" " Yes, sir, Comrade Commissar." " Execute the order." " Look at how many people they killed!" " Stop!" "Stop!" "Do you have any ammo?" " Get in!" " Do you have ammo?" " What ammo, damn it!" "Get in!" " Go to the Northern Gates!" "Kobrin Fortifications." "Officers' House." "I was looking for my brother." "We used to live here, our family and the family of Pochernikovs." " Uncle Vania!" " Go, crawl to the window." " Have you seen my brother?" " Here, help me with this..." " Bitches." " Shura, don't!" "Come here." " Sashka, get outta here." " No." " It's an order!" " What are we gonna do, Vania?" " I won't surrender alive." " I'll go with you." "I understand everything." " I don't want and will not live without you and the children." " Shura... forgive me." " Forgive me too." " Look out, see what they are doing there." " Turn around." "We won't make it through here." " I'm Fortress, I'm Fortress..." " No way through, Comrade Commissar..." " I'm Fortress, I'm Fortress..." " Waiting for reinforcements, continuing fighting, holding our positions..." " Comrade Major, tanks!" " Calm down, Lieutenant." " Give me just one AT gun!" " I was telling them and I was telling them..." " Third one..." " Damn, an AT gun would be nice now." " Get ready!" "Prepare grenades!" " Collect weapons!" " Dig in!" "Don't shoot without signal!" " Ram-pam-pam-pam, our iron is red hot." "You'll be mine and this is it, you got no way out of it..." "( Speaking German )" " Get down!" " Who's doing the shooting?" "!" " Fire!" " One of ours." " Reload!" " Aim!" " Fire!" " More shells!" " Kovtoon, grenades!" " Yes, sir." " Reload!" " Everyone attack!" "Charge!" " What's your name, sonny?" " Lieutenant Akimov." " Akimov..." "This is how my brother died, on the first day." "On the first endless day." "The first order to retreat in the course of the war was given by the German Command, on June 22, 1941, at 11:00am, here at the Brest Fortress." " We have only 18 men capable of fighting." "We have no meds, food or ammo." "What do you think, where are our troops?" "Why aren't they coming?" "Or they'll come soon?" "What shall I say to the guys?" " They'll be here by the morning, - they'll surely come..." " Alright, have we buried everyone?" " Yes, sir." " What about water?" " We have some ice in the cellar." "It'll last us a day." " And then?" ".." " Comrade Major, tomorrow our reinforcements will arrive and sweep the Germans the hell outta here..." " It's no longer safe to stay here." "The building is heavily damaged." "Everyone will come with me and hide in the barracks' basement until our reinforcements arrive." " Where is Anna?" " I thought she's with you..." " We need to move." "I did not know what was happening." "I didn't know what to do, where to go." "But I knew one thing for sure." "I had to wait until tomorrow." "Because in the morning our reinforcements will arrive." "And everything will stop." "June 23" "( German loudspeaker ) Soldiers, officers, you have a choice." "Decide - to die or to find strength to surrender and live." "Your situation is hopeless." "Resistence is futile." "...We came to free your country from Jews and Bolsheviks." "We'll build a new life without enslaving collective farms and Stakhanovschina." "...Surrender and live with us." " Let me hose them..." " Don't." "To each his own..." " Get in here!" " Give me your hand!" " Comrade Lieutenant, allow me to speak." "Music band cadet, 333rd Regiment, Akimov Alexander." " Get him into the shelter..." " Comrade Lieutenant, where is Anna?" " What?" " Anna..." "I saw her running to you..." " Get him into the shelter, quick." " Let me go!" " Stop!" "Where are you going!" "?" " I'll find her!" " Akimov!" " Sashka!" " I'll find her!" "( Speaking German )" "Don't!" "Don't!" "No, no!" "Don't!" "Please don't!" "Please don't kill me!" "Please I beg you!" "No, no!" "Please don't!" "Please I beg you!" "Please!" " Drag him here!" "Let Fomin know!" "Quick!" " Look, we got a live prisoner!" "I remember Fomin and Zubachev..." "Their small platoon at the Holm Gates." "They weren't letting the enemy across the bridge." "Here I saw for the first time a German prisoner." "( Speaking German )" " Vatslov!" " What is he saying?" " He... he says it's most likely the City of Minsk is captured." "He says you're in the rear." "We are in the deep rear." " What Minsk!" "?" "What the hell did you come here for!" "?" " You're lying." " Someone call the Lieutenant here!" " Comrade Commissar, look!" " It's our's." " It's our's." " On your tail, on your tail!" " Alive?" "Good man!" " Alright, let's go!" " Lieutenant Karelin, 123rd Fighter Squadron." " Regiment's Commissar Fomin." "Tell me." "What's happening in Brest?" "In Kobrin?" " Why is our air force silent?" "Where are our forces?" " There are no air bases, Comrade Commissar." "All are destroyed." "The Germans are in Brest." "Our forces are falling back to Minsk." " Comrades." "Warriors." "The Germans are offering us surrender." "They offer us a cowardly existence in captivity." "They are mistaken." "We are the solders of the Red Army and we'll defend our Motherland till the last drop of blood." "We have no other choice." "June 24" " Uncle, give a little bit of water!" " I have none, my dear." " Yes you do, please give me some!" " Where is your family, Kostia?" " I don't know." "I left them in our house, in the basement." " Where they are now?" "I don't know." " The same with mine..." "I don't know." " We can't drink it." "It's gasoline." "I remember that morning and the people." "I woke up and saw the hands of Kovalenok." "He was cutting a whistle for me out of wood." "I was looking at it thinking - what do I need it for?" " We need to join our forces and go for the breakthrough." "Who are we waiting here for?" " The breakthrough!" "Immediately." "We all go tonight." "Or we'll lose everybody, one by one." " What breakthrough?" "The fortress is surrounded." "Brest is captured." "Where would we go - captivity, concentration camp?" "To death?" " We are all dead men, Comrade Captain!" " Yes, many will die." "Possibly all." "But while we have strength we need to go for the breakthrough." " Write the order." " Number?" " Order number one." "June 24th, 1941." "Fortress." " The current situation in the fortress requires immediate retreat." "Cross out "immediate retreat"." "...write down "organised military action" to further combat the enemy." "The commanders Commissar Fomin, Captain Zubachev, Lieutenant Vinogradov decided to join the remaining forces into a combined group." "The combined force will attempt to break through tonight, on June 24th to re-unite with the regular units of the Red Army and to continue combat the Fascist invader." " Germans, Germans are on the bridge!" "To your positions!" " I'm Fortress, I'm Fortress..." " OK..." " Nesterchuk, Babenko come here!" " Yes, sir!" " Now, listen carefully!" "Given the sounds of fighting coming from the Terespol Gates and the Eastern Fort, we still have our guys there." "Come with me!" "Try to make it there at all cost, give them the sitrep, and tell them about our decision to go for the breakthrough tonight!" "Try to make it there before the breakthrough and come back alive!" " Comrade Commissar, let me come too!" " Negative!" " Have some water, it's all I have." " Give it to the wounded Comrade Commissar." " Execute the order!" " Yes, sir" " Here, give it to the wounded in the basement." "Do it!" " Yes, sir!" " Ok, I got it." "Got it." " Let me see." "Easy, easy." "All is good." "Finish it yourselves." " Doctor..." " Doctor..." " On Saturday they brought cold sparkling water to the mil-trade store..." " Into the shelter!" " I didn't make it!" "I didn't make it, Sashka!" "C'mon, go to the Eastern Fort!" "There are our guys." "Pass on the order, tonight is the breakthrough!" " I'll pass it on." "I knew that nothing will happen to me." "Beacause I had to deliver this order." "( Speaking German )" " Anna, uhmm... we cannot get out now." "You stay here I can't take you along, I have an order I have to deliver." "Do you hear me?" "Do you hear me?" "There was no water." "To be precise it was everywhere." "But you couldn't get to it." "All approaches to the beach were shot up." "People were dying for a canteen... for a gulp of water." "But that little water that they could get was saved..." "to cool off machine guns." " Comrade Major, allow me to speak." "Music band Cadet Akimov of the 333rd Regiment..." "The order - tonight is the combined breakthrough." "The signal - red flare." " I'm so lucky... with Akimovs." ""...26/06/41" " Ammo is scares." "Experiencing acute shortage of water, medications and food." "Tonight we're going for the breakthrough!"" " I'm Fortress." "Continuing fighting." "Holding our defenses." "Waiting for reinforcements..." "June 25, 1:55am" "( Chanting a Muslim prayer )" " It's time." " Follow me." " Go." " Forward." " Forward, forward." " Tereshenko, where are you hit?" " Shoulder, Comrade Commander." " Milnechenko, help him!" " Yes, sir!" "Give me your hand!" " I'll do it myself!" " Conserve your ammo!" " Everyone, retreat!" "Fall back!" " Fall back!" " Fall back!" " Comrade Military Doctor..." " I.." " I did all I could..." "( German loudspeaker ) ...Have mercy on yourselves and your families." "Have mercy on your children..."" " Have mercy on your children." "Have mercy on your children." "Have mercy on your children." "Have mercy on your children..." " Do something." "Do something, Commander." " Anna!" " Anna!" " I will not go anywhere!" " I'm not asking you, Katia." " You can't give me an order!" "I will not go!" " Then no one will go." "But you're my wife." "A wife of a commander." "They will follow you." "We've already lost Anna." "I don't want to lose you all." "I want you to go." "It's your chance, the last and only chance." "You have to, you have to raise the children." "You'll manage." "You are strong, you are very strong." "You are the strongest one." " Anna." " Anna, do you hear me?" "We need to go." "You dad is looking for you." "He is there." "He's waiting in the barracks." "We have to go." "( German loudspeaker ) "..." "You have 15 minutes left..."" " Sonny, go..." " Go..." " Andrewshanka..." "( German loudspeaker ) "..." "You have 10 minutes left..."" " Pa-pa..." " Anna..." "You're alive." "Alive..." " Sania." " You need to go!" "You'll go together!" "Together." " I'm a military serviceman and I won't go anywhere!" " Cadet Akimov!" "It's an order!" "Do you hear me?" " Sania, she won't go without you." "Do you hear me?" " Yes, Comrade Lieutenant." " Do it, Sania..." "( German loudspeaker ) "..." "You have 5 minutes left..."" "June 26, 3:58pm" ""We are dying, but not surrendering"" "Having exhausted all possibilities, the Germans dropped on the fortress a 2 tonne bomb." " I'm Fortress, I'm Fortress." "Continuing fighting." "Holding our defences." "Waiting for reinforcements." "I'm Fortress, I'm Fortress..." "( Speaking German )" "( Speaking German )" "( Speaking German )" " C'mon!" " C'mon!" "Dance!" "Dance you, snake!" "( Speaking German )" "( Speaking German )" " Commissars, political officers, Jews, forward..." " I'm a commissar..." "A communist, a Jew..." "The Regiment's Commissar Fomin, Effim Moiseivich was shot by the Holm Gates at the end of June, 1941" "In 1957 he was awarded with the Lenin's Award, posthumously" " The order..." "leave the fortress one by one." "Stay alive... as long as possible." "I thank you, Comrades!" "Good-bye." "Good-bye." "Thank you." "Good-bye." "Thank you." "Good-bye." "Good-bye." "Thank you!" "Major Gavrilov, Peter Michaelovich was captured heavily wounded on the 32nd day of the war..." "As many others that were in captivity, he was subjected to prosecution, expelled from the Communist Party..." "And only in 1957, he was reinstated and given the rank of the Hero of the Soviet Union." " Is this all who's left?" " Yes, sir." " I ran away, Comrades..." "I ran away when they led us through the forest." " The bomb hit as I was coming in..." "It hurts." "I'm deaf, Comrade Lieutenant, can't hear anything." " While you still have strength, I order you to break through towards Terespol." "Nikolaev, you'll lead the group." "I will stay here, give you covering fire..." " Do as I say!" "Stop wrenching my soul, go!" " Yes, sir." " Come here." " Help me." " Save it." "I know you are born lucky, you'll make it out of the fortress." "One more thing." "Tell there about everything you've seen." "Tell all the truth." "Tell about us." "Do you hear me trumpeter?" "You cannot hear me..." "Go." "Go, Sanka." "Go." "In 1965, the Commander of the 9th Border Outpost, Lieutenant Kizhevatov, Andrei Mitrofanovich was given the rank of the Hero of the Soviet Union, posthumously." "My Anna and the entire Kizhevatov's family, along with the other families of the fortress defenders, were gunned down by the Germans in the fall of 1942." "The banner given to me by Kizhevatov" " I saved it." "...As I saved my memories and my believe." "I still believe." "And you believe too." "They are all alive, everyone I told you about." "And those that I know little about." "They are all alive..." "Somewhere..." "I was as old then as you are right now."