«ZUGZWANG OF OBER LIEUTENANT BRUNO THEVS» Page #22

BRUNO:

(loudly, frantically)

Why?!

The helicopters are leaving.

Bruno remains sitting next to the deceased Otto.

Ober lieutenant Zimmer abruptly steps up from Bruno's back, raises his machine gun and, pointing the barrel at the back of his head, prepares to shoot.

Abdullo aims and shoots Zimmer in the head from the buildings where the Taliban were located.

The special forces load the bodies of Otto and Zimmer into the back of the MANGO, Bruno sits forward in the cockpit.

132. INT. OBERST JUNG'S OFFICE — DAY.

Bruno resolutely enters the TF-47 headquarters, passes the duty officer, without knocking, bursts into the office of Oberst Jung, approaches Oberst Jung sitting at the table.

Bruno bends down, leans close to Otto's face.

BRUNO:

(in a raised tone)

Why did you call the aviation?!

OBERST JUNG:

(firmly)

Calm down, Ober-lieutenant!

It wasn't my decision! We are at war, and there are commanders above

me!

BRUNO:

(with pressure)

Did you want to kill us?! Otto Greenberg saved your son's life! Why did he pay for it with his own?!

(pause)

The cynicism and inhumanity of ISAF has no limits!

You, Mr. Oberst, are personally responsible for the victims of civilians in Umar-heil. The command of the US grouping and the army of the corrupt Afghan government — the MSF hospital and the children of the village of Daftani!

OBERST JUNG:

You, Ober-lieutenant, have completely lost your temper with your Pashtun girl, have turned into a blancmange, and you desecrating the memory of your father!

Bruno is furious, immediately punches Oberst Jung sharply in the jaw. Oberst Jung falls off his feet.

Bruno slams the door loudly, leaves Oberst Jung's office.

133. EXT. SHEREMETYEVO-2 AIRPORT — DAY. CLOUDY.

TITLE:
MOSCOW, SHEREMETYEVO-2 AIRPORT.

A large civilian airliner lands on the runway.

134. INT. SHEREMETYEVO-2 AIRPORT BUILDING — DAY.

Bruno goes out to the arrival’s hall of Sheremetyevo-2 airport, takes out his father's old notebook, dials phone numbers. He is answered.

135. INT. RUST'S APARTMENT — DAY.

TITLE:
MOSCOW. KUTUZOVSKY AVENUE.

The phone rings in the apartment, a woman in years, RAISA AKHMADULLOVNA, in an oriental long robe embroidered with patterns, her hair in a chignon, approaches.

RAISA AKHMADULLOVNA

I'm listening to you!

BRUNO:

Hello! My name is Bruno Thevs.

I need Rustam Tukaev.

RAISA AKHMADULLOVNA

(dignitarily)

Hello, Rustam is not here now, this is his mother. What should I tell him?

BRUNO:

(brightening up, with a European accent)

Please tell him that Bruno, the son of his friend Konstantin Thevs, who died in Afghanistan, called.

I am in Moscow now and would be glad to see him.

RAISA AKHMADULLOVNA

(perked up)

Of course I will! But you should come here to Kutuzovsky avenue. Rustam will be here soon. He talked a lot about your father, Kostya, and he will be glad to see you.

136. EXT. MOSCOW — DAY.

The road, Leningradsky avenue, Garden Ring, Novy Arbat, Bruno is sitting in the back seat of a taxi. He moves the Arbat Bridge, drove to Kutuzovsky avenue, stops at the house.

137. INT. RUST'S APARTMENT — DAY.

Bruno takes the elevator to the top floor, calls the apartment. It is opened by Raisa Akhmadullovna.

RAISA AKHMADULLOVNA

(with cordiality)

Hello, Bruno! Come on in.

Bruno goes into the bright hall, sees a familiar framed photograph on the chest of drawers, with a friendly six soldiers on it. He holds his gaze for a while.

RAISA AKHMADULLOVNA

Come into the kitchen.

He makes tea in a teapot, serves a teapot, bowls and a golden Tatar chak-chak to the table.

RAISA AKHMADULLOVNA

Is this your first time in Moscow?

BRUNO:

You could say that.

I was four years old when my mother and I flew to Germany for permanent residence, we made a transfer in Moscow.

RAISA AKHMADULLOVNA

(amazed)

Oh! How did you keep a good knowledge of the Russian language?

BRUNO:

(with a smile)

Thanks to the efforts of my mother, who read Russian fairy tales to me when I was a child.

(pause)

Growing up, I read books by all Russian classics: Pushkin, Lermontov, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Dostoevsky, Gogol, and others.

To save conversational skills, my relatives and I try to communicate in Russian. However, the German language actively displaces it, dominates, because we live in Germany.

(smiles, pause)

I called the phone numbers from my father's notebook, but none of them answered, except for yours.

RAISA AKHMADULLOVNA

(with longing)

The fates of the guys turned out differently. Vanechka Kostrov — died at the walls of the House of Soviets in October 1993, a little daughter remained in the family. And Seryozha Sidorenko is completing his prison sentence, he should be released in the next few days. Rustik will go to meet him.

BRUNO:

Oh, I'd love to keep him company.

(pause)

You know, I also served in Afghanistan.

(pause)

As part of the ISAF, a NATO grouping.

Now I am retired from military service. I flew to my homeland, to Dzhambul, saw the houses where my parents were born and lived, went to my father's grave, visited elderly relatives.

Reisa Akhmadullovna's eyes filled with moisture.

RAISA AKHMADULLOVNA

(with surprise)

Did you serve in Afghanistan?!

How did Mom let you go there?

The conversation is interrupted by a phone call, RUST calls.

RAISA AKHMADULLOVNA

(revived, with a loud voice)

Rustic, where are you?!

(pause)

You know, Bruno, the son of Kostya Thevs, has come to us!

There is amazement in the receiver. Rust asks to pass the phone to Bruno.

RUST (V.O.)

Guten Abend!

BRUNO:

Guten Abend!

RUST (V.O.)

By what fates?!

BRUNO:

I wanted to see my father's friends.

RUST (V.O.)

(approvingly)

Laudable, laudable.

Now my driver will come for you, we will have dinner in the city.

Pass the phone to Mom.

Bruno passes the phone to Raisa Akhmadullovna.

RAISA AKHMADULLOVNA

(disappointed)

Rustic, how so?!

I have already rolled out the dough for kystyby. Why not have dinner at home?

RUST (V.O.)

Mom, I'm sorry, please!

We'll sit in the Black Cat.

More people will come to us.

138. EXT. THE BLACK CAT INN — EVENING. EXTERNAL LIGHTING.

TITLE:
MOSCOW. TAGANKA. THE BLACK CAT INN.

A black Mercedes-Benz jeep drives Bruno to the end of the 18th-century mansion, the entrance to the tavern. Bruno descends to the level of the basement, enters.

139. INT. THE BLACK CAT INN — EVENING. ARTIFICIAL LIGHTING.

At the entrance, stylized as the 1940s, Bruno is met by Rust and a long-bearded, uniformed typical cloakroom attendant. Rust - in a strict suit with the order bars of 2 orders of the "Red Star", medals "For Bravery". Rust warmly hugged Bruno tightly, invited him to pass.

Visually, the inn is divided into two zones. On the left flank, "bandit raspberry", on the right — "Petrovka, 38". "Raspberry" is decorated in the likeness of the Moscow city dwelling of 1930-1940, where various criminal elements gathered. "Petrovka, 38" consists of the offices of the Moscow Criminal Investigation Department.

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