«IN THE CIRCLE OF KUNDUZ» Page #16

SEREDA:

(strictly)

Take no more than 2 cans with you! Blow up all the provisions with ammunition and weapons!

THE SUN IS GOING DOWN, IT'S DANGEROUS TO MOVE IN THE DARK.

SEREDA:

(by order)

We'll camp in a cave for the night!

SIDOR:

(to Sereda)

Comrade Captain! There's nothing to breathe inside. The stench is from ptomaine.

SEREDA:

(strictly)

Throw the corpses into the abyss!

SIDOR:

(dissatisfied with Sereda)

Is not a pleasant share!

SEREDA:

(positive)

And you cast lots!

Just decide as soon as possible! Otherwise I will appoint personally.

SIDOR:

(excited)

Yes, sir, to cast lots!

65. NAT. MARMOL CAVE — IT'S GETTING DARK.

Sidor and Koster take out of the cave and dump the decomposing corpses of tortured Afghans into the gorge. Finished. Sidor sat down at the entrance to the cave.

SIDOR:

(to Koster)

Pulled the devil to turn to the commander! Have created a problem for myself.

(having smelled the sweet corpse smell attached to the camouflage)

Picky, at least take off the clothes.

66. INT. MARMOL CAVE — NIGHT.

Sereda put a machine gun and a bag on a boulder and gave the command to the unit.

SEREDA:

Company! Distribute the time of night duty – two sentries, go to rest!

The scouts lit sticks with tarred tow left by the rebels and, having gone deep into the labyrinths of the cave, lie down to rest.

67. EXT. MOUNTAIN RANGE — NIGHT

Rust and Mongol took up guard duty, replenished the weapon stores with cartridges from packs in backpacks and, pulling fascines out of the cave in order to sit comfortably on them, began to enjoy the landscape. A myriad of bright stars and a crescent moon illuminate the neighborhood.

The friends saw a high sheer wall that filled the entire horizon, hanging from the other side of the gorge — a smooth blue canvas similar to the habitat of swallows-shorebirds riddled with thousands of primitive dwellings cut into the rock, hearths shine in them. The narrow ravines that cut through the rock are the only communication connecting the cave inhabitants - Hazaras, Uzbeks, Turkmens and Tajiks with the outside world. An ancient cave city, located in a cleft of the rocky mountains, stretched for many kilometers, medieval authentic.

RUST:

(to Mongol)

Marmol is an epic place, here in countless caves and labyrinths during the Greco-Bactrian kingdom, the campaigns of Arab conquerors, the conquest of the region by the horde of Genghis Khan and Tamerlane, many ancient peoples and armies found shelter and shelter. Due to the geographical location and the inaccessible mountain landscape, Alexander the Great quartered his troops in the caves of Marmol, waiting out the harsh winter.

MONGOL:

(to Rust)

And also in these places, according to scientists, the Zoroastrian prophet and priest Zarathustra was born, to whom the revelation of the deity Ahuramazda appeared and the main part of the holy scripture of the Avesta was written here.

Our shamans, like the Zoroastrians, have a cult of fire.

According to our beliefs, fire arose at the moment when the land separated from the sky, and remained to us as a gift for communication between the worlds. Rust, have you noticed the Afghans with Mongoloid faces?

RUST:

The Khazars! The Mongolian people

— descendants of Genghis Khan.

MONGOL:

Right!

Mongol, distracted from the topic of conversation, sniffs.

MONGOL:

(alert)

Rust! Someone is smoking!

And good cigarettes!

Soft female voices are heard, speaking in French.

MONGOL:

Did you hear that?!

RUST:

(French)

Cherchez la femme!

Mongol, let's get to Sereda!

Sereda with a group of scouts - Lieutenant Vikulov, Kostyan, Sidor, Koster, Strela, Mongol in a matter of minutes resort to Rust.

SEREDA:

Listen to my command!

The machine gunners Tevs, Kostrov, Streltsov will go first!

By order of Lieutenant Sereda, the scouts are moving from the cave further along the ravine. They follow in the dark, without taking their palms off the mountain steep, so as not to leave the path, not to fall into the abyss. They discover the entrance to the cave, electric light comes from there.

68. INT. MARMOL CAVE — NIGHT.

Kostyan and Strela, enter the cave first, followed by a Koster.

Through the noise of the working diesel generator, they hear the male speech in Dari becoming more and more distinct. Kostyan and Strela are confronted by a group of armed rebels carrying stretchers with wounded. The rebels hurriedly lower the stretcher, take up arms, prepare to shoot. Kostyan, Strela, Koster are ahead of the rebels, mowing them down with bursts of their machine guns. The rebels are falling at the stretcher with the wounded.

A group of scouts is at the entrance, waiting for the order of Senior Lieutenant Sereda to enter the cave. The fire has stopped, male and female voices are heard in French. A man comes out to meet the scouts in a green medical uniform — caps and masks, with his hands raised, followed by 3 women.

Blue medical gloves of a man and one of the women in the blood. The doctor loudly grasses in French, actively gestures. The rest of the scouts are entering the cave.

SIDOR:

(it's gratifying)

Here's happiness rolled in!

Sidor is delighted with the rendezvous with the French ladies, begins to look at them, hums softly.

SEREDA:

(irritably)

Shut up, Sidorenko!

RUST:

(translates to Sereda from French)

He says that they are doctors from the international organization MSF "Doctors without Borders".

FRENCHMAN:

(emotionally)

Oui! Oui! IL en est ainsi! Nous sommes des medecins de Medecins sans frontieres! —

"We are doctors from the MSF organization Doctors Without Borders.

SEREDA:

(orders Rust to translate)

It is necessary to present passports!

Rust translates the requirement. The doctor turns to one of the women, she presents maroon books with the inscription "PASSEPORT REPUBLIQUE FRANCAISE". Sereda carefully examines each passport and, having read out a man's name in one, addresses.

SEREDA:

(with pathos)

Lucien!

I'll keep this for myself!

Sereda puts all the passports in the pocket of his vest. Vikulov approaches, having examined all the premises.

VIKULOV:

Comrade Captain! There is an operating room with the latest Western medical equipment, a warehouse of medicines, 3 hospital wards with clean linen, showers.

Most of the wounded were obviously evacuated. Three seriously wounded people remained in the ward. Another one is in critical condition lying on the operating table.

SEREDA:

(ordered to Rust)

Tukaev, translate to the doctor: let him take his women and continue to operate!

The wounded who were carried out by the rebels on stretchers and those who survived the shootout, bring them to the ward. Let them get medical help!

Sereda comes out of the cave, communicates with the regimental command on the radio station, reports the situation.

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