«ZUGZWANG OF OBER LIEUTENANT BRUNO THEVS» Page #25

The MOSCOW-ARKHANGELSK train is approaching its destination, private houses and booths of country cottages are visible outside the windows. There is a knock on the door of the carriage.

THE CONDUCTOR:

Will you order tea or coffee? We arrive in Arkhangelsk in half an hour.

Rust looks at Bruno, both refuses.

RUST:

How was your trip to the Bolshoi Theatre with Masha? I was getting worried about your long absence. I didn't call you. You're an adult now,

(smiling)

you can't get lost in Moscow.

BRUNO:

(enthusiastically)

Wonderful! After the performance, we walked around Moscow all night. My childhood dream came true — to visit the Red Square. It's a pity we couldn't get to Lenin.

(smiles)

We went to a restaurant in GUM. During the meal, we sincerely told each other about ourselves.

(pause)

As soon as I saw Masha in the "Black Cat", I lost my head. I fell in love at first sight. You will probably find my action unacceptable, but in the morning, I proposed to Masha to marry me.

RUST:

(astonished)

This is happiness, man! How glad I am that this has happened! Here we will meet Sidor, and as a close friend of your father, I will take over the organization of the wedding!

152. EXT. RAILWAY STATION PLATFORM — DAY.

TITLE:
ARKHANGELSK.

People are waiting for the arrival of the train, among them the Rust's driver MUNIR. In the parking lot of the railway station, Rust and Bruno get into a black oversized jeep, driven by Munir. The jeep is moving.

153. EXT. THE OUTSKIRTS OF KOTLAS — DAY.

TITLE:
THE CITY OF KOTLAS. ARKHANGELSK REGION, A STRICT REGIME COLONY.

A jeep with Rust and Bruno pulls into a parking lot in front of a barbed wire fenced area.

Soldiers armed with machine guns are standing on towers and checkpoints.

A bald-haired man with a trunk in a tracksuit and a leather jacket comes out from behind the gate. This is Sidor.

Rust and Bruno get out of the car, go to meet SIDOR.

RUST:

(sonorously from a distance)

From start to finish!

SIDOR:

(positively, slightly embarrassed)

I've been to the war, and it's clearly fated to go to prison!

RUST:

(with a smile)

Fatalist!

(looking at Bruno)

Does he remind you of anyone?!

Sidor looks at Bruno, think about it.

BRUNO:

(with a smile)

I am the son of Konstantin Thevs!

SIDOR:

(to Rust, delighted)

But he looks like Kostyan, doesn't he, Rust?!

RUST:

(with a smile)

A son, after all, how can he not be like his father?!

(pause)

But that's not all the good news! Soon, he will marry Masha Kostrova!

SIDOR:

(astonished)

Wow! This is truly good news!

(with regret)

It's just a pity that their fathers did not live to see this wonderful day.

There was a short silence.

RUST:

(to Sidor and Bruno)

Well, shall we get in the car?!

Rust, Sidor and Bruno get into the car and return to Arkhangelsk.

154. EXT. HIGHWAY— DAY.

The black Jeep is on the move. Munir is driving, Rust is in the passenger seat in front. Sidor and Bruno are in the back. They drive in silence, the radio sounds quietly in the cabin.

The wedding cortege, beeping loudly, overtakes the jeep at high speed. Young people wave their hands from the open windows of 4 white executive foreign cars.

The jeep shares the positive of the motorcade. Sidor, Rust, and Bruno are waving back.

155. EXT. RAILWAY CROSSING — DAY.

A jeep with Rust, Sidor, Bruno and Munir is approaching the railway crossing on the outskirts of the settlement. The barrier is down.

The wedding cortege is tightly lined up to the barrier.

Two decorative golden rings are fixed on top of the roof of the limousine standing last. Inside, the newlyweds are sitting on the back leather seat: a naughty young groom in a black tuxedo with a bow tie and a pretty young bride in a magnificent wedding dress with a veil.

The second one behind the motorcade is a KAMAZ truck that has arrived, filled to the top with bags of sand concrete.

Rust's jeep stands third behind the KAMAZ.

While waiting for the train, festively dressed young people loudly pour out of the cars of the motorcade.

Deafeningly shooting corks up and spraying foam on screaming girls with glasses, the guys open bottles of champagne.

Young people dance to the song "WE WISH YOU HAPPINESS" playing from the car.

156. INT. RUST'S JEEP — DAY.

Rust turns to Sidor, both smiling.

Bruno falls into melancholy, remembers the deceased bride, Seeta Akhmadzai.

FLASHBACK:

157. EXT. HOSPITAL GARDEN — EVENING. ARTIFICIAL LIGHTING.

Seeta dances in slow motion at a concert at the MSF hospital to the music of the Afghan singer Shafiq Murid, the audience and Bruno cheerfully clap Seeta.

FLASHBACK OUT:

158. INT. RUST'S JEEP — DAY.

Rust hugs Bruno.

RUST:

(not noticing Bruno's sadness)

There will be a celebration on our street soon. Isn't that right, Bruno?!

Bruno is distracted, smiling slightly.

159. NAT. RAILWAY CROSSING — DAY.

There is still no train.

The drivers of the wedding motorcade, tired of waiting, are calling passengers to get into their cars with horns. The cars of the motorcade, one after another, begin to move, go around the barrier, move over the railway track.

A brisk attendant in an orange uniform runs out of the booth, shouts, waving a baton.

A passenger train appears in the distance, rushing at high speed.

The second car of the motorcade in the tail of the first overcomes the railway crossing.

All four of Rust's jeep jump out of the car, anxiously watching what is happening.

MUNIR:

They're crazy, they're going to get killed!

The rapidly approaching train begins to emit shrill horns.

Following the second car of the motorcade, a third one goes through the railway tracks.

Behind her, a limousine with the newlyweds is moving around the barrier.

As soon as the limo pulls into the wooden deck for the rail track, it stalls and becomes motionless.

The screech of metal on a braking train is heard.

Seeing this, Bruno jumps out of the jeep, rushes to the KAMAZ parked in front, the driver of which smokes near the car, abruptly jumps into the cabin, revs up, rams the car with the newlyweds from the railway track.

The train sliding on the brakes hits the KAMAZ in the side of the body, turns it over.

The train stops. The limousine with rings with a flattened trunk and a KAMAZ truck with a crumpled cabin are visible on the other side of the railway track.

Sidor and Munir run to the scene of the accident.

Rust watches as Sidor and Munir extract the wounded Bruno, who was cut by broken glass, from the KAMAZ.

A limping Bruno is loaded into the SUV.

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