MOSFILM STUDIOS
Part Two
Script by P. Pavlenko, M. Chiaureli
Directed by Mikhail Chiaureli
Photography by L. Kosmatov
Music by D. Shostakovich
M. Gelovani as Joseph Stalin
Enacting the leaders of the Party and the Soviet Union:
M. Schtrauch, A. Gribov, N. Ryzhov, G. Belov, R. Simonov, G. Pasechnik, A. Khanov
V. Lyubimov as Marshal of the Soviet Union Vasilevsky
S. Blinnikov as Marshal of the Soviet Union Konev
B. Livanov as Marshal of the Soviet Union Rokossovsky
F. Blazhevich as Marshal of the Soviet Union Zhukov
K. Bartashevich as General Sokolovsky
A. Abrikosov as General Antonov
B. Andreev as Alexei Ivanov M. Kovaleva as Natasha Rumyantseva
Yu. Timoshenko as Kostya Zaichenko A. Urazaliev as Yusup
D. Dubov as Egorov G. Tatishvili as Kantaria
V. Saveliev as Hitler M. Novakova as Eva Braun
Ya. Verikh as Goering N. Petrunkin as Goebbels
V. Kenigson as Krebs V. Andjaparidze as Hans’s mother
V. Pokrovsky as Jodl K. Gomola as Linge
So what next?
Who will seize Berlin?
- Will it be us or the Allies? - It will be us, sir.
This is what Reuters Agency writes:
"The Allies troops are moving ahead
"without almost no hindrance,
"the only problem being bomb craters
"and destroyed bridges.
"As yet not a single shot has been made."
From London paper:
"Germans dragging along the roads, only wishing to surrender."
We should bear in mind: Germans may give away Berlin
to Anglo-American troops without offering any resistance.
We should take urgent means in this connection.
We are planning to carry out
the final attack against Germany
on April 16.
The 1st Belorussian Front will strike Berlin.
The 1st Ukrainian Front will approach from the left,
and the 2nd Belorussian Front - from the north.
Any ideas? Proposals?
My front stretches as far as the sea.
If Rokossovsky takes the place
of my troops on the right flank,
I’ll be able to reinforce the centre and be ready by April 16.
Anything you need?
I would need artillery reinforcement,
to provide for the gunfire density
of 220 cannons per one kilometer.
It would be very helpful, sir.
I think you would rather need
at least 280 cannons per one kilometer.
And provide yourselves with a bigger amount of tanks.
Anyway, soon we'll reforge them into ploughs.
We're not living in the year 1941 anymore.
We have enough of everything.
Soldiers and armaments being more than enough
to carry out the Berlin operation.
So, if Rokossovsky replaces you on the right flank,
- you will make it by the 16th? - Yes, sir.
Comrades - be ready for the final battle.
High time to end this war,
high time.
Oh, what a voice I used to have, guys.
Such a clear, tender voice.
They even were going to send me to Conservatory.
You don't say so!
If it were not for this damned war,
I would have already performed in Bolshoi Theatre.
Did you hear that, Yusup?
Alyosha, why are they laughing?
Why have we stopped?
- We moved, but suddenly we stopped. - He is impatient to move on.
His Natasha was driven away to Germany.
Alyosha, but maybe she is still alive.
If only she was alive...
Natasha...
And you know, guys, why I lost my beautiful voice?
- Why? - Because of all this stress.
Why have we stopped?
Just you wait, guys.
When we're in Berlin, my voice will be restored.
I will sing atop the Reichstag, you know...
Oh, why do I love you so much,
Quiet night.
Oh, what a pleasure and anguish it is to watch you...
Full ahead to Berlin
- Sergeants: Yusupov! - Here!
- Ivanov! - Here!
- Zaichenko! - Here!
- Egorov! - Here!
- Kantaria! - Here!
- Ischadov! - Here!
- Scherbina! - Here!
- Privates: Polinchuk! - Here!
- Shubkin, Prygunov! - Here!
Dear warriors of the Stalingrad Battle!
The great day
for all soldiers
and all Soviet people has come!
We are moving towards Berlin,
with the banner we have been carrying since Stalingrad!
In the name of our country and Lenin's behests!
In the name of great Stalin!
Fire!
For our Motherland! For Stalin! Charge!
Hurrah!
The Russians have broken through the right flank of the 101st Corps,
in the sector of 'Berlin' Division. We're suffering heavy casualties.
Volkssturm!
Volkssturm to defend Berlin!
Call everyone to arms!
Germany is in danger.
Only those loyal to me selflessly,
only those who believe in victory can win!
Goebbels!
In these days of trial I entrust
the destiny of Germany into your hands.
I ordain upon you the high mission
of imperial commissar
of the defense of Berlin.
I will not spare my life, oh my Fuhrer,
to live up to your trust!
The Russians have broken through the 303rd Infantry Division
which is now asking for reinforcement.
The situation is very disquieting.
Employ Kurmark motorized division.
- Our last reserve. - Yes, Kurmark!
The Russians have broken through
in-between the 11th and 56th tank corpses.
There are heavy casualties. They are asking for reinforcement.
Don't let Russian pass - at any price!
Employ the 18th motorized division.
The 11th and 56th tank corpses are retreating towards Berlin.
Have the commander shot to death!
Circulate the order: not a single step back,
even if there are American tanks in Berlin already.
Send forth Nordland division to cover up the breakthrough!
Good news, my Fuhrer.
Churchill and Eisenhower are in a disagreement. A conflict!
Americans refused to attack Berlin
due to problems in the rear. Your genius has foreseen this.
I'll set the English against Americans,
and both parties - against Russia!
I'll knock them together, bickering!
And another piece of news, my Fuhrer.
Our 9th Army counterattacked the Russians
and stopped them at Seelower Heights.
Russians will never take Berlin!
I will defend it personally!
Redeploy our troops from Elbe River - to Berlin.
Let the Americans hurry up.
They must stop the Russians.
Wenck's army should move to the positions to defend Berlin.
He should do it now!
I'm telling you - Russians will never enter Berlin!
To Berlin!
Alyosha, wait. Today we won't manage.
We will. Should you move back - I'll kill you!
Why move back? We'll move ahead!
Charge!
Charge! To Berlin!
We'll never seize these damned Seelower Heights.
- What heights? - Seelower.
Seelower...
May devil take them...
Duck!
Charge!
Tie him up!
You devil.
A good identification prisoner.
- An SS one. - How many tanks are there?
Shut up!
You are the prisoner.
Russ - surrender!
You son of a bitch.
I'm almost in Berlin, and you want me to surrender?
Who is in Berlin?
You? Never!
Only with your hands raised.
We'll fight until Americans are here, and then...
Devil take him!
There he is, talking about Americans. Yusup, take him away.
A useful prisoner. A tankman.
Our men have just captured a tankman - corporal Hans Anderer.
He said, Hitler's order was to fight to the last,
even if there are American tanks in Berlin already.
So, they are waiting for Americans.
Send the testimony of this captive to the General Staff HQ.
Come in.
There is a message from Zhukov.
Read it.
A war prisoner corporal Hans Anderer said
they had Hitler's order
to hold Oder to the very last.
Anderer said: "We should not let Russians come near Berlin
“even if there are American tanks in Berlin already.”
Who said this?
Some corporal? An unreliable source of information.
The difficulties the 1st Belorussian Front is facing
are obvious to us as it is.
Wire to Zhukov:
"Pay no attention to the testimony of the captured corporal."
Hitler is weaving a web of intrigues
around Berlin,
trying to cause disagreement between the Allies.
We should cut off this web
by taking Berlin by our own forces.
We can do this and we must do this.
Inform Rokossovsky:
"Not later than April 24
"and using our main forces -
"to proceed further to the south-west,
"by-passing Berlin and delivering a north-wards blow,
"thus covering up Zhukov's troops on the north-west."
Put me through to Konev.
Comrade Konev? Good evening.
Zhukov is stuck.
Readdress Rybalko's and Lelyushenko's tank armies
towards Zehlendorf,
by-passing Berlin on the south,
as per our previous agreement.
Your troops should join
Zhukov's forces in the region of Potsdam
thus encircling Berlin.
I wish you luck.
Soon everything will be over for Berlin.
Katya!
Mister Zizka!
Comrade Pasic!
It's our planes!
I can know them by the sound.
Look!
Look, they are coming again!
They are coming!
Let them bomb everything here!
Let them bomb everything!
Let them raze this damned camp to the ground!
We've no time for evacuation. Drive them inside and kill them all!
My dear friends!
The time has come!
Let us challenge them before they kill us!
Let's go! Emilio, let's go!
I want to go back to my mother!
The war took away her husband and her brother!
Don't shoot! Are you mad? I'm an American!
Johnson, tell them.
Impossible to find reason with beasts!
Natasha!
Kostya, I think Natasha is here!
Someone is calling for me!
- Tanks! - Our tanks!
Our tanks!
Hurrah!
They walked amongst fire,
they came to save us...
She is neither among the dead, nor among the quick...
My Fuhrer, the situation is critical.
Russians broke through the Seelower defense line.
Some extraordinary measures should be taken.
You believe that the war is over, don't you?
You are wrong, Krebs.
It's all the other way round:
never before have the developments been so favorable.
Let's proceed to the bomb shelter, my Fuhrer.
Berlin is in the danger of encirclement.
Gentlemen!
Berlin is in no danger!
The orders I issued
and the new armaments will change the situation.
I think you should hide in your bunker, my Fuhrer.
Hot days, eh.
But not to worry, not to worry!
I have prepared a surprise for them.
Blondie...
Is it safe here? Where are we?
We are beneath 8 m of reinforced concrete.
Nice ventilation. Communication with the fronts.
Not a single sound will penetrate here.
- Not a single sound of life. - What did you say?
It's a touch-and-go. In Berlin the fate of Germany will be decided.
The moment you talk about Russians, you begin shivering.
You still can't overcome the stress of the year 1941?
Today I came to a final decision.
Keitel and Jodl will take the plane to join Doenitz.
Goering will take care of preparing the Alpine base.
You will go to western regions.
And I will be defending Berlin.
Goebbels and Bormann will remain here with me.
Here in Berlin I will have Stalin
and Allies at loggerheads. Thus I'll win this war.
And you will see what strong will means.
Blondie!
Persuade him to leave Berlin, and it will be left unharmed.
You know very well that Hitler only brings misfortune.
What are you talking about? It's too late.
Russian tanks have entered Luckenwalde.
- What? - Russian tanks are in Luckenwalde.
This wounded soldier says that Russian tanks are in Luckenwalde.
It's impossible!
Impossible!
This is Krebs.
Tell to the Fuhrer cautiously
that Russian tanks broke through southern approaches to Berlin
and are swiftly advancing on their way.
Berlin is holding out!
It is holding out for the sake of Germany and all Western Europe.
New forces are coming to our rescue.
The Bolsheviks will be smashed,
smashed right here in Berlin.
Berlin will remain a German capital to the end of times.
The Fuhrer will never abandon Berlin.
The Soviet tanks will be stopped by a new weapon
never used before.
Goebbels thinks his long tongue is such a new weapon.
No way it can stop me, let alone Russians.
And our dear Fuhrer can't wait to run away to Bavaria.
A new weapon, ha.
Fritz!
Take this to Mueller's on Kurfurstenstrasse.
He is connected with Americans, so he will keep it.
Is the plane waiting?
- I'm coming. - Shall I bring your best suit?
Bring a parasuit.
Nowadays you're in your best suit when you're in a coffin only.
I wonder whether they will show my ultimatum to him.
What a scoundrel!
- Who is a scoundrel? - Goering, my Fuhrer.
We expected it coming.
Goering betrayed you.
Goering
wants me to retire!
Just listen to this...
If I don't, by 22 p.m.,
pass the supreme power to him, he will take it by himself...
Dirty pig! Counterfeiter!
He wants my supreme power!
This stinky pig wants to rule over Germany!
I will order to hold his public execution!
On April 25, on the west direction to Potsdam,
the troops of the 1st Belorussian Front
joined forces with the 1st Ukrainian Front
thus accomplishing the encirclement of Berlin.
Where is the army of that wretched Wenck?
Why is he so slow? Did you send my orders to him?
Wenck is cut off, my Fuhrer.
Berlin is surrounded by the Soviet troops.
What a brilliant operation. Unimaginable!
Where are those damned Americans?
Krebs, do everything to help them
to get to Berlin as soon as possible.
I will send them into confrontation with each other!
They will be at each other's throats before my very eyes!
Do you hear me?
My Fuhrer...
We intercepted American radio.
Himmler offered Americans peace on any conditions.
You are heroically defending Berlin,
and he is playing a double game, traitor.
All your generals are swines...
Swines!..
An ultimatum!
To me! - from Himmler,
that runt
whom I have turned into a man.
No cup has passed me by…
There is no such treachery
which did not touch me...
This is the end.
All your generals are traitors, they all abandoned you...
Betrayed you...
Yes, it's time to step down…
My will... Be quick... my will...
I decided to leave...
At the present moment Germany should...
But before you do this,
Adolf, I want to become your wife.
It is vulgar to die just being your mistress.
Yes,
we shall get wed.
Call for a pastor...
Summon Americans quickly...
Stalin!...
He put all of them to their knees...
But maybe it is not the end... I will not give in...
- There is a hope yet. - Shall I write it all down?
To write what? It's too late.
Soon they will show me in the waxworks museum...
I'm a victim...
I’m doomed to Golgotha...
Good morning, my Fuhrer.
When is my wedding?
What wedding are you talking about?
The Russians are fighting in the metro, 200 m away from us.
In the metro?
Inundate it with Spree waters.
- But there are many children there. - It doesn't matter.
And thousands of wounded.
Nothing matters, except my own life.
Linge! Fulfill my order!
Linge, wait!
My Fuhrer, there are many thousands of wounded Germans there,
including my brothers....
Open the Spree floodgate - and inundate the metro!
The metro...
The water!
May Hitler be cursed!
The Russians
are only 100 m away from the Reich Chancellery.
- Where is the Fuhrer? - Hush, you idiots.
Wrong time for this. The Fuhrer is getting wedded.
What?
Getting wedded.
The Fuhrer is getting wedded!
Hans!
My dear son...
I have no one left in this world...
My dear son...
My darling boy...
May you be cursed...
You, Hitler, you, wretched clown!
Give me back my Germany!
Give me back my brothers!
Give me back my son Hans!
May you be cursed!
Gentlemen,
I took a decision
to leave you.
At the present moment
Germany should be left with free hands.
My dear Linge,
I cannot see our doctor among us.
The doctor has left us, Frau Eva.
Hasn't he left anything for us?
He has, Frau Eva.
Is it reliable?
I don't know, Frau Eva.
Very well then.
It's a reliable substance.
Chuikov is here.
Yes, General, sir...
Yes, they have sent flag-bearers.
Chief of the Army General Staff
General Krebs, with an important message.
I see...
Yes, sir. I'll be waiting for you.
You'll bring the messengers when General Sokolovsky is here.
- Will you need an interpreter? - We gonna tell them a thing
they'll understand with no interpreter.
Go.
- General... - At ease.
At ease!
General, permission to report:
the German commandment have sent
General Krebs with an important message.
Well, let's listen him out.
- Be seated. - He is all yours.
It's your hq, so he is all yours.
Bring in Krebs.
- How is everything? - Can't be better.
Take a seat.
Chief of the Army General Staff,
General of infantry - Hans Krebs!
I was authorized
by the new Chancellor
Doctor Goebbels
to deliver to the leader of the Soviet state
a message of extraordinary importance.
I'm authorized to listen to it. Please be seated.
A message of extraordinary importance.
Put me through to Moscow.
General Krebs brought a letter from Goebbels and Bormann:
"I inform the leader of the Soviet people,
"the first among the non-Germans to hear it,
"that today, on April 30,
"at 15.50 hours, Adolf Hitler
"committed suicide."
Like a gangster,
like a defeated gambler,
he ran away from the judgment of the people.
- The reasons of suicide? - A war defeat.
Which means complete bankruptcy.
- What else? - Doenitz was made Head of State,
Goebbels - the Chancellor.
So, they seek a contact with the leader of the Soviet state.
Total surrender.
As the only pre-condition for any discussions.
Provide for the arrival of Doenitz to Moscow.
Should they oscillate,
hurry them up.
Total and unconditional surrender.
It's a total catastrophe.
The main thing is to end the war,
but I do not have the authority to make such a decision.
General,
I propose a pause in the fighting.
I beg you.
Surrender, or we shall have to kill all of you there.
But, General...
General...
Damn, the sun is rising.
General...
The 1st of May...
Today
is a big holiday in Moscow.
Nevermind, we'll have a nice 1st of May in Berlin, too.
Follow me!
Where are we?
Under Himmler's residence.
And this is the Reichstag!
- Sergeant Egorov! - Here!
- Sergeant Kantaria! - Here!
- Sergeant Ivanov! - Here!
Comrades!
We have been given a great honor.
To raise, by order of Comrade Stalin,
the banner of Victory over Berlin.
I'm handing this banner to you on behalf of our country.
Go ahead, sons.
My heart is with you.
See you soon.
Hey, guys!
There it is...
Kostya,
- what's wrong? - Yusup,
is so damn near,
but my life not long enough to get to it,
to climb the Reichstag.
Raise my flag, too.
Even though dead,
I want to be up there...
Bring the banner!
Kantaria - a grenade!
Yusup!
What?
Look, where we are, Yusup!
Berlin is ours, Yusup!
Victory!
Hurrah!
Comrades, Victory!
I'll take off my gloves -
Good evening, girls!
A conversation I want to start
To tell you what is on my heart.
Tomorrow is a big day!
Girls, use your papillotes…
I'm from Stalingrad. Victory!
- I'm from Orel. - I'm from the Urals.
- I'm from Erevan. Victory! - I'm from Leningrad!
- I'm from Moscow! - I'm from Baku. Victory!
- I'm from Kiev! - I'm from Ryazan!
And we're from Ryazan.
Victory!
My congratulations, comrades!
My congratulations to all of you!
We did great, eh.
Dance 'Komarinskaya' with us, sir.
- Join in! - No, I'm too old for this.
Let's go...
General, colonel Kuznetsov is here.
Commander Kuznetsov!
So, you took the Reichstag, eh.
And you took the Reich Chancellery. Look at them dancing away!
Of course they are dancing. They have finished the war
and they can go home now. But you and I will be out of work!
Glory to Stalin!
He is for ever true
To the vow that he made to Lenin.
Our friend and teacher
Has confidence in the people.
Together with the people
He has always prevailed.
Great leader! We wish you
Health and strength for many years.
Glory to Stalin!
He led the Soviet people fearlessly.
We passed like a storm,
Like a spring wind!
Great Leader! We wish you
Health and strength for many years.
Following you, to the radiant time
We march by the path of victories.
Glory to the great Stalin!
How do you do, comrade Chuikov.
How do you do, comrade Konev.
How do you do, comrade Rokossovsky.
Accept my words of gratitude
for the brilliantly performed operation
of encircling Berlin.
Glory to Stalin!
Glory to the Soviet banners
And Lenin's Party!
We sing them praise!
Comrades!
Today we are celebrating
a great victory over German fascism.
Hurrah!
This victory has been won at a great price.
Do not forget the sacrifices you have made.
Now history is opening up
wide vistas before those peoples
who love freedom.
Every people
must fight for peace throughout the world,
for the happiness of the ordinary men
of all countries and nations.
Only then will it be possible to say
that our sacrifices were not in vain,
that each and every one of us
will be able to look firmly to the future.
Alyosha?
Alyosha!
Natasha!
Glory to Stalin!
Glory! Glory!
Glory to Stalin!
Glory! Glory!
Great Leader! We wish you
Health and strength for many years.
May I kiss you, comrade Stalin?
For everything that you have done for our people,
for us!
We must preserve peace
for the sake of the future.
I wish you peace and happiness,
dear comrades!
Translated by Svetlana Chulkova