Leningrad

SEPTEMBER, 1941 RUSSIA

THREE MONTHS INTO THE WAR

Move aside!

LENINGRAD SUBURBS

Make room for Army vehicles!

Out of the way! Now!

Where are you going with your cow?

I sent it away!

Out of the way! Now!

Watch or be violated!

Where are going? Get away!

Go, go, go.

Hey! Let the vehicle pass!

Stop the truck.

Watch the car!

Get away! Army Vehicles.

Down!

Come on, hurry!

Leave.

Down!

Go, go, do not stop.

Without violence. Go, go, go.

Do silence. Come on.

Speech Petchora 6.

Change.

Lieutenant Gorkin?

Sergeant Tsvetkova.

I brought new orders.

They out of men?

They're sending girls now?

The messenger was killed.

I took his job.

You don't even bother to read it?

I heard. "No retreat".

Shoot anyone who does.

Don't try to scare anyone, kid.

Just get me reinforcements.

Your new company, sir.

Down.

More down.

Go!

Go, go, go!

These?

Stick them up your ass.

I asked for soldiers,

not profs and students.

Lieutenant, did you hear me?

Receive the company and attack!

Shut your mouth, you snot-nose brat!

I have my orders too, Lieutenant.

And if you think

I will not obey them...

Comrades Militiamen!

If you don't have a weapon...

take one from the dead.

Or pick one up on the battlefield.

Alright, guys...

Troops!

Attack, Lieutenant!

Still here?

Go home. Save yourself.

No use staying here.

With me! Advance!

Where are you going? Attack!

More down.

Where you going? Go back, go!

I said go!

Tsvetkova, what are you doing?

No more retreating! Enough!

For the Motherland!

For Stalin!

For Leningrad!

Stop, you are not allowed!

You know, it is not allowed!

They're retreating!

Keep the posts.

F*** you!

I am disappointed,

very disappointed, Von Leeb.

You promised to take

Leningrad in July.

Then August. It's now

the end of September.

The city is completely

surrounded, my Fuhrer.

But not taken!

I am moving the point

of attack to Moscow.

I'm giving Von Bok the first

and sixth tank divisions...

My division...

Goopner's group,

Reinhardt's corps...

the 36th Motorized Division

and Mahnstein's tanks.

This morning

I appointed Zigelmeyer...

deputy superintendent of the army.

Formerly, he was...

Director of the Munich Food

and Nutrition Institute, my Fuhrer.

According to the Laws

of energy conservation...

in order for the organs

of the body to function...

they must receive fuel energy.

Our body is like

any engine, gentlemen.

In physiology this fuel

is calculated in calories.

to sustain life.

Listen, Von Leeb!

Von Leeb, guess what's going

to smash Leningrad instead of you?

According to the

latest intelligence...

the daily ration in Leningrad...

is down to 300 grams of bread a day.

That's 500 calories.

The Fritzes!

They're digging in!

We've stopped them!

We've stopped them!

Breakfast...

Lunch...

Dinner.

A fine diet, indeed.

Total extinction when?

If our troops maintain the siege...

When?!

Three months maximum.

Two million people

will die of starvation...

until January 1942.

This is 2/3 of the population

of Leningrad, my Fuhrer.

Leningrad is blocked

by German troops, comma.

The Russian army has no forces...

to combat the stranglehold the city.

Supplies of food will be cut. Point.

Only a narrow corridor,

by Lake Ladoga...

is still controlled

by Russian troops.

The situation is more

precarious every day.

Food comes to town

by Lake Ladoga...

but little and does not cover

the needs of the population.

Next paragraph. Hospitals begin...

Besides the exchange of

fire in bombing and air...

the storms of October

begin to reach Ladoga.

Only one of 20 boats

with supplies to Leningrad...

can browse in safety...

Point, end of report.

SAVOY HOTEL, MOSCOW

Can you live without him

for a five minutes?

Who?

Mr. Parker will show.

Oh, he... I'm not waiting for him.

Apart from the Pulitzer prize what

is so great about your Mr. Parker?

Redder than the Soviet flag?

Wait till you see it unfold...

And heels!

Would you prefer me in these couple

of ugly boots I have for Leningrad?

Oh, really! I can't believe

we are finally going!

After three months of those endless

and phony Moscow press releases.

Well, actually, it's only one

reporter from one country.

England is sending Finley...

and the Times is more powerful

than your Telegraph.

I'm sorry, Kate.

I am not going?

There wasn't anything

I could do.

But you know, how long

I waited for this chance!

Yes, but if this thing happens,

it will only be for a day.

We'll go in a dawn,

and get out in a dusk.

There will be nothing to see,

I promise.

Look, there is your pal Chigasov...

the one you are keeping deep

in booze and cigarettes.

If you tell him to put me

into reporter list, he will!

Go on, Phil! Tell him!

And it will be done!

Kate! I want you to be safe!

If it was up to me, I'd send you

somewhere far away from here!

What?

Like Australia, or whatever...

That's what it is!

Katy!

How rude of me! I seem to have

abandoned by dancing partner.

Kate!

See you in Leningrad, Phil!

This is Leningrad speaking...

with official broadcast

information...

from the Leningrad Front...

Fall in!

Foreign reporters are coming.

Repeat their duties.

Keep order. No bread lines.

No panickers or whiners.

Stay out of sight. Clear?

Sir, yes, sir!

Comply with the orders.

The city has 7 days

worth of flour left...

Sugar?

And because we've been

graced with five...

oh, forgive me, six...

six foreign journalists...

It has been decided to split

everyone into six groups.

One foreigner per group.

And each visits

a designated area.

Why split us up?

Fair question.

I can't possibly afford to lose...

the entire foreign

press corps in one incident.

Can I, Mr. Finley?

I'm going to the

anti aircraft unit...

and then on to the lake Ladoga.

The very best assignments before

they even announced.

Why don't you join me?

Perhaps, you'd like to write

my piece for me as well?

Okay, break it up. Now!

Break it up.

No bread today!

Okay, go.

Going, going.

All right, moving.

We've been here since

five in the morning!

For one little foreign poodle

they put on an entire show.

It is there where to

go to get bread, now.

Hide!

Hide!

Go.

Walking.

Come on, disperse! Hurry!

Katya, where are you?

Here I am!

We must go.

Walter! You are a good pilot!

Start thinking about

that second Cross.

Uncle, is it true the Fuhrer's

new plan is no longer...

to take Leningrad, but to wipe

it off the face of the earth?

If the Russians' fault...

their meaningless resistance...

And here I thought that

they were the barbarians...

Well...

German reconnaissance broke,

but we threw them back.

You can take pictures.

Then we move on.

Attention!

Headquarters of Leningrad's Air

Defense announces an air alert!

Attention, air raid!

Air raid!

To the shelter!

Get to the bomb shelter! Now!

A trophy!

I'll hang it on the office wall!

You are not put off? Not disgusted?

Well, I worked at

a crime scene for two years.

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