Leningrad Page #2

Dead bodies at the morgue

almost every day.

Every day... I see...

Vernik is from Leningrad.

What did you write

about before the war?

Exhibitions, mainly...

Art department.

Hey, man! Are you fed up

with life or what?

Forget the horse! Go!

And where shall I put my horse?

How can I leave it here?

Come on, turn the horse!

Are you all right, Vernik?

Messerschmitts!

Get back into the bus!

We can make it to the bomb shelter!

Hurry, go! Fast!

Chocolate! My daughter

will be so happy!

Vernik, go!

Go, go, go.

Go! I'm going!

Vernik, go, go!

Vernik, we outta here!

Go, go, go.

Kate!

We are going!

Wait for us, please!

Down!

Ageeva, where are you going?

There was an air raid.

The journalist group got hit.

Mainly foreign.

You stay here.

If there's a call

from the headquarters...

tell them everyone's out searching.

Yes, sir.

Continue.

Yes, sir.

Come on.

Hey, do you copy?

In listening?

In listening? Headquarters?

The English journalist

never made it back.

Who's there?

All Leningrad

was bombed, Parker.

Did you know that when placed

the lady Davis on the list.

I'm sorry.

Korneev? Korneev?

I can not leave.

There is a man there...

Yes, a woman.

Stop!

Comrade journalists!

This is Captain speaking.

You must board now.

We must get to Moscow before dawn.

A drink, please.

Girls... She's not Russian.

Okay, where is your "spy"?

We collect.

She's babbling in some

language. Suspicious.

Oh. It's you!

They have found you...

Omelchenko, damn!

Why the hell are you toiling along?

It's time!

Kate? Kate? Kate?

Kate! Let me through!

I am here, Kate!

Get out of here! Korneev?

Parker? Parker?

No one else survived.

Malinin!

Recognize it?

This is hers?

Parker, listen to me!

Listen to me!

Go to the airplane! Go!

Do you have papers?

Got it... No papers...

Comrades Journalists, I repeat!

Board the plane, everybody!

Come on!

Get up! Get up!

Lady... lady...

Don't die on me! Please!

What I am supposed to do with you?

Attention! It's Leningrad speaking!

The Information Bureau announces...

In different parts

the Western front...

the Germans have undertaken several

violent attacks at our positions.

Draw up!

Which the German nazy troops lost

up to 50 thousand soldiers...

dead and wounded, over 250...

through the Osinovets

and Kokorevo piers...

delivered for the last 30 days.

But the city consumes

and that's at the ration of

of the population.

How long can we hold out?

If we were to lower the rations...

Are you out of your f***ing mind?

How can we reduce?

Do you want an open

riot on our hands?

Nine days

Nine?

Nine days it is then.

Company, the car!

Hurry, go.

Hi there.

Come on, come on, come on, get on!

Sorry, I didn't mean to wake you.

Are you all right?

Dystrophy.

Like everyone these days.

I'll help you...

You shouldn't move.

Tsvetkova asked to look

after you while she is away.

I live upstairs.

Call!

She's probably shell-shocked.

She dies then we're to blame.

We call.

Ok, ok.

It was me who personally reported...

an Englishwoman killed.

Killed?

Personally.

It means that I personally

identified the dead body...

But it is half the problem.

I reported it to a

Security Commissar.

He obviously called the Kremlin.

That called the embassy of them...

already called it is known

there for those in England.

What we are supposed to do now...

tell them all we f***ed up here?

What else is there?

Kill her?

On October 6, cut the electricity.

Is she under arrest?

Who?

Exactly - who?

Did you see her papers?

She lost her papers.

So you are trying to stick me...

with some skirt with no papers?

October 14, the water pipe burst.

Your firearm.

On the table. Now!

Where is she? Answer me!

Where?

They cut the phone on September 8.

Out there. In the motorcycle.

The sidecar.

Come here.

So?

She ran away.

It is my fault, I'm ready a...

Are you crazy?

You are playing with fire.

Do you know who is singing there?

In the living room? Vozdvizhenskaya

Anastasia Andreevna herself.

The biggest star of

the Leningrad operetta.

It's my mom, who

is accompanying her.

And Tsvetkova's mother

is a housemaid here.

But Tsvetkova is ashamed of her

for being a servant.

As soon as she heard,

that the police took women...

she joined it.

Just to get away from here.

These are all Tsvetkova's

sports awards.

She won them while at university,

before she became a cop.

She set the city record

in skiing. Twice!

It's she, who taught me English.

Take a look. Temporary

refugee identification.

The real deal.

Got it in the station. I stole it.

Never done this before.

Now you can eat.

I'll take it to Yura.

No.

Yura will have his own food.

Eat!

Cost me all my savings.

SAVOY HOTEL, MOSCOW

Phil!

Finley!

It's major Barlow, your pilot.

He'll fly you to London.

Sir?

When you'll see her

parents, tell them...

that their daughter

was a hell of the reporter.

Mommy, look, there is

a cannon over there!

Gonzales Katerina Garsievna?

You are a Spanish communist...

who escaped the bloody hands

of a Franko's fascist regime.

I am?

We do not have British

political immigrants here.

But quite a few Spanish barely

speaking Russian, like you.

Please, memorize this:

You were on vacations here...

then the war and bombing and

everything you've got is gone.

Why I must pretend?

You will, unless you want

to be shot on the spot.

By the first patrol you'll meet.

Never leave the house without this.

Who knows, you may even

end up getting coupons.

Coupons?

Food coupons for bread.

I'll give you some.

Look, you're being extremely kind,

and I appreciate it very much.

I shan't be staying here that long.

I'll be going back to Moscow.

They must be looking for me by now.

You think I need you here?

There you go. Three days worth.

And believe me, no one

is looking for you. No one.

You died. It's in

everybody's reports.

And there are no way these

reports can be changed.

Look, you do not understand!

I work for a daily newspaper.

And I must file daily

reports to London.

I can't stay here for a week,

or a month, or a year.

Look around you.

Do you see little Yura?

Do you see half of our city

don't ever get out of bed.

Stay for a week.

Try to survive just one day.

This is Leningrad speaking.

The following is a

bread ration decree...

of the Provisional

Food Supply Commission.

Workers, their spouses

and children, 150 gm a day.

Lowered rations again!

Give us some bread!

Starved by our own!

Let the Germans in,

they'll at least feed us!

Who said "Germans"?!

Disperse these bastards!

Come on, go home! Go!

Air raid! Get down!

Get away! It's on delay.

It could blow any second!

People! Look!

See what it says!

It's sugar!

It's sugar!

It's sugar!

The Germans dropped sugar for us!

Exactly! While our own

starve us to death!

There are no real bombs like that!

Why are we staring at it?!

Just open it!

Are you crazy? Out of your mind?!

What are you doing?!

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