I don't know, either.
Yet we've got to understand the enemy.
War doesn't mean shooting better
than the others.
It means thinking better.
You'd better get some rest.
I can't, Rita. I must look for them.
I'm exhausted, but I've got to.
Who you'll be taking with you?
You're a good soldier, Ossyanina,
only you don't know regulations.
And... what do Regulations say?
A commander is not just a military
leader.
He got to be a teacher as well.
No, don't do it. You better take
Zhenya.
Of course, it would be better.
But a person should never
lose her self-respect.
Follow me at a fair distance.
Just take your guns and ammunition.
If you hear shooting, or two duck
quacks,
take cover and wait for us to get
back.
If we don't return, you retreat,
and go under cover to our previous
positions eastward.
- Say, how old are you?
- Want the truth? Seventeen.
So you told a lie when you
volunteered?
And I lied that the krauts killed my
family.
That's a good one.
But I must have had parents once,
haven't I?
They named you at the orphanage?
- Our manager thought of it.
- Chetvertak. New penny. Nice name.
- You really like it?
- Good things come in small packages.
Play dead! Don't even breathe!
Mama!
First group, move in from the back!
The rest follow me!
For our Soviet Motherland! Hurray!
Let's go, Rita. Let's go.
There're only two of them.
No, Zhenya, we must obey orders.
Surround them, men!
Kill the dirty fascists!
Follow me! Forward!
Kill the fascist swine!
You do as you like.
I'll go in by myself.
Gunner Komelkova, we're not playing
at cops and robbers. This is war!
For Stalin! Forward!
You hear that?
He's trying to lead them away from
us and Galka.
He promised to be back by tomorrow.
How about some more tea?
There are six of them.
They'll make it all right.
How clear the nights are...
Clear, but cold.
We're pretty far north.
I only hope the girls won't be too
chilly.
How did it happen,
Lisaveta?
I went too fast.
- Fedot Yefgrafovich!
- Fedot Yefgrafovich!
Comrade Sergeant!
- Fedot Yefgrafovich, it's us!
- We're over here!
My one and only Fedot Yefgrafovich!
You're alive!
Oh, dear!
You're here at last!
There, there, girls! What is it?
Did you have anything to eat?
Did you manage to get some sleep?
We didn't feel like it, Comrade
Sergeant.
You can forget about Comrade Sergeant,
little sisters. I'm your brother now.
Just call me Fedot, or plain Fedya,
like my mother called me.
I know it's a pretty ordinary name,
but I got no other.
We buried Galka.
Our comrades died
the death of heroes.
Galka Chetvertak fell in action.
And Lisa Brichkina has been drowned
in the marsh.
With Sonya, that makes three
that we've lost.
That's how it is.
On the other hand, we've kept the
Germans circling for 24 hours already.
So I propose we drink to our three
sisters.
That we drink to their glory!
Why haven't you executed my orders?
What orders?
I ordered you to pull back eastward.
So we did.
- Yes, I see...
- We picked up all the equipment.
Thank you for the equipment.
Now listen to some more orders.
You will first eat, then collect your
things and march eastward.
There won't be any help coming.
And the Germans are coming this way.
So we can't afford to waste time.
And you, Fedot?
It’ll be my turn to try and gain
24 hours.
Those three girls who'll never return,
I'll remember them till my last day.
Lost something, Fedya?
Now I'm without a grenade.
I've lost the detonator.
A grenade without a detonator
is just an iron rock.
A snowball would be more effective.
Never mind, Fedot, we'll beat them off.
We'll handle them, Comrade Sergeant.
You're going to pull out of here
on the double! I give you 3 minutes!
We are not pulling out!
For that insubordination...
I'll send you to Court Martial!
What are you doing to me,
girls?
We're all very worried, too,
Comrade Major.
More than forty eight hours.
Not a thing, no news.
No, he didn't send