«ZUGZWANG OF OBER LIEUTENANT BRUNO THEVS» Page #3

ZIMMER:

(unfriendly)

Don't be pathetic, Ober Lieutenant.

Bruno takes one of the beds, takes a book out of his backpack, and begins to read.

EVENTS FROM THE BOOK "THE GREAT GAME IN AFGHANISTAN"

14. EXT. THE BANK OF THE AMU DARYA RIVER — NIGHT, PREDAWN.

TITLE:
SOVIET-AFGHAN BORDER 1929.

It is quiet, only the sound of gurgling water is heard. On an open, elevated place visible from everywhere on the northern bank of the border river Amu Darya stands the international formation of a special detachment of the Red Army (Workers' and Peasants' Red Army) 2000 fighters from national units of the Central Asian Military District (SAVO) - Uzbeks, Turkmens, Tajiks, Kazakhs, Kirghiz, Uighurs, Russians, Cossacks all dressed in Afghan military uniforms.

The commander of the detachment, Vitaly Primakov, with the call sign WITMAR, is dressed in the uniform of an Afghan officer, reading out a combat order.

WITMAR:

(in a commanding voice)

The detachment is tasked with infiltrating the adjacent territory to perform a responsible government task. For the duration of the operation, in the presence of the Afghan population, address each other with distributed Muslim names.

15. EXT. THE BANK OF THE AMU DARYA RIVER - IT'S GETTING LIGHT.

The advance group of the Witmar detachment secretly swims through the water barrier of the Amu Darya River and silently removes the Afghan border outpost. The main forces of the Witmar detachment with 4 mountain guns, 12 machine guns, 12 light machine guns, powerful mobile radio stations, a supply of provisions are loaded onto motorboats, barges, kayaks, and force the river.

16. EXT. THE BANK OF THE AMU DARYA RIVER, DESERT — DAWN.

TITLE:
SOVIET BORDER AREA, AFGHAN TERRITORY.

Six Soviet airplanes equipped with bombs and machine guns appear in the sky. Together with Witmar's detachment, they cross the Soviet-Afghan border and fly into Afghanistan. Part of the squad is in the water; some are still going down to the water. The camera is behind the squad.

Airplanes fly around the Afghan border post Patta-Gissar twice in a circle and, descending, make a fire raid. The Afghan border post, barracks, and most of the Afghan border guards have been destroyed. The shelling of the Afghan territory from the air continues. In response, the Afghan border guards occasionally shoot at Soviet planes with their rifles, but all in vain, only two of the 50 border guards remain alive.

17. EXT.KELIF-DAY.

Fighting is taking place near the city limits of Kelif.

Afghan formations are desperately repelling bayonet and saber attacks by the Witmar’s troops.

Witmar's fighters are pushing forward guns, and the first cannon shots and machine-gun bursts destroy and morally break the Afghans.

The Afghans are fleeing from their positions, leaving their weapons.

18. EXT. MAZAR-I-SHARIF, AFGHANISTAN — DAY.

TITLE:
MAZAR-I-SHARIF, AFGHANISTAN.

Witmar's detachment attacks the bastion, smashes the gates of the Mazar-I-Sharif fortress with direct artillery fire, and breaks into the city.

Witmar's squad has broken into Mazar-I-Sharif, rushes to the attack with the traditional Russian "Hurrah". Russian obscenities are heard everywhere on the streets.

The defenders of the garrison are crowding in, fleeing.

Piles of motionless, bloody bodies lie near the Afghan guns. The losses of the Afghans are great.

Torn fragments of bodies. The faces of the dead.

Soviet airplanes are raiding Mazar-I-Sharif from the air, dropping bombs on Afghan positions, and additional weapons to the Witmar fighters.

Afghan tribal formations dressed in national Afghan clothes - robes, turban - arrived to help the Afghan detachments in Mazar-I-Sharif. Tribal formations immediately engage in battle, trying to knock Witmar out of the city. Large in number, tribal formations are poorly organized, resume attacks in open terrain one after another, advance in a dense formation, but are cut off by oncoming gun and machine-gun fire from Witmar fighters.

19. INT. TF-47 HEADQUARTERS — DAY.

TITLE:
KUNDUZ. TF-47 HEADQUARTERS, COMBAT CONTROL CENTER.

A room with many telephones, military maps, where the borders of provinces and counties are outlined, the names of settlements are marked. Oberst Jung gathers deputies and commanders of special forces groups for a meeting at the "Combat Control Center". The room is filled with officers.

OBERST JUNG:

Our agents have revealed the plans of the Taliban leaders — Moulawi Shamsutdin and Mullah Abdul Rahman, to organize a series of attacks on columns of German military equipment and to commit a terrorist attack on the Bundeswehr garrison in Kunduz. Based on strategic expediency, TF-47 begins to develop an operation plan codenamed "Joker". The analysis of intelligence data with a high degree of probability indicates the appearances and permanent residence of the leaders Shamsutdin and Abdul Rahman. The objects are monitored around the clock.

(Jung suddenly turns to Bruno)

Despite your lack of practical experience in the participation and planning of special operations, for a speedy entry into the combat environment, I include you in the list of developers of Operation Joker. I hope it pays off!

And now, Ober-lieutenant Thevs, read the intercepted fresh report.

Oberst Jung pushes a folder of documents towards Bruno. Bruno doesn’t hesitate to start reading.

BRUNO:

"I, Moulawi Shamsutdin, the leader of the Taliban movement in Kunduz province, order the detachments under my control to attack the German columns in order to seize large-capacity trucks. We will stuff them with explosives and, by means of a suicide driver who will break through the security cordons, we will send them inside the Bundeswehr garrison in Kunduz, to the places of concentration of the German military, their living quarters. We'll blow them up there! The attack on the garrison will be continued by small arms and grenade launcher fire of our mobile groups that will invade after them."

20. EXT. KUNDUZ–BAGHLAN HIGHWAY — DAY.

TITLE:
KUNDUZ–BAGHLAN HIGHWAY, ALIABAD DISTRICT.

On the highway near Kunduz, from both sides of the road, the Taliban launch an armed attack on the Bundeswehr convoy. Grenade launchers are the first to hit the head and tail of the column, igniting the first and last cars of escort. Intense shooting can be heard.

Bruno and his group on armored personnel carriers are cut off from other vehicles by heavy fire. The special forces dismount and engage in battle.

One of the commandos is wounded in the neck, blood is gushing from the wound.

Bruno, under fire, quickly crawls up to the commando, grabs his ammunition and hurriedly drags him to shelter.

Bruno gives the commando an injection of the painkiller promedol, bandages the wound.

The Taliban capture two large-tonnage 50-ton tankers filled with diesel fuel. The Taliban shoot the drivers of the tankers and dump their bodies in a ditch. The Taliban hijack tankers from a busy highway to a country road in the direction of the nearest village.

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