Thank you, Comrade Senior Lieutenant.
- A letter from home?
- Yes.
- Everything all right?
- Yes.
Greetings!
I've been looking for you.
Carry on. I'll wait here.
You're a commander. You must be
strict with your subordinates.
But you try to do everything yourself.
There's a lull now, and we have time.
When the offensive starts,
there'll be the wounded.
I don't know what to do about you.
Since you're a commander,
get the medical service in order.
You've got two days. Then report back
to me.
Yes, Comrade Senior Lieutenant.
Don't worry.
Everything'll be... in order.
What's your name, Lieutenant?
- Masha.
- That's a pretty name.
My name's Leonid.
Lennie for short.
Have you ever had a boyfriend
called Lennie?
- No.
- So I'm the first?
Are you from the Ukraine?
- Why?
- You're beautiful and stubborn.
No, I come from near Moscow.
Peredelkino. Twenty minutes by train.
In Siberia, where I come from,
300 km is considered "near".
Surikov, the painter, used to live in
our town. Ever heard of him?
And in our town, writers used to live.
We once saw Alexei Tolstoy.
And Korney Chukovsky.
He's very tall, with a white head.
They were walking in the woods.
- Were you ever wounded?
- Yes, I was.
Why are we so formal?
Let's be on first name basis.
- I find it hard to so quickly.
- And I don't.
I'll start now, and you start
gradually, okay?
- What is it?
- A cobweb!
So what? Aren't you a brave soldier!
Some brave commander!
I'm only afraid of spiders.
Nothing else?
Vassiliev!
Have you seen Captain Kholin?
He went that way with the doctor's
assistant.
Walk the trunk! You said
you're not afraid of anything.
Well, I will.
That's enough.
Jump! I'll catch you.
Got scared?
Then why don't you?
No special reason.
So you were frightened?
All right, I forgive you.
I don't need your forgiveness.
You don't?
- Let me help you.
- I'll manage.
She'll manage!
Come here, Masha.
What for?
Come on, Masha, come here.
What for?
Come here, quick!
Hurry!
Now go away...
Go away, Masha.
You hear me, Masha? Go!
Go away quick, Masha...
Let's go and have a look
at your troops.
There they are, Lyakhov and Moroz.
Go have a smoke.
- Good morning!
- Hello, Katasonych.
Galtsev, give me the defense line map.
Wait for me in your "underground".
I'll be right back.
Comrade Senior Lieutenant,
the gunners gave me a record.
They say you have a gramophone.
Could we listen to it?
- The gramophone's broken.
- I'll fix it.
Thanks, Katasonych.
This place is best, Captain.
But where will we land?
What d'you say, Katasonych?
In those bushes.
It's a safe place.
Only be sure to tell the gunners
to leave us a corridor.
WELCOME
Damn! Couldn't you have dug
a deeper one?
D'you know who's sitting there,
on the other bank?
I know.
Then why can't you bring them here?
It'll take but an hour.
- Have you got any boats?
- No.
You're lying.
- What for?
- I need them.
You are not even good at lying.
- They're for the landing party.
- That's what I need them for.
Are you and Katasonych planning
a scouting mission?
No, a picnic
with your gramophone.
Will Ivan go again?
Ivan, Ivan...
I'm not an information bureau.
- What's so funny?
- Nothing.
You've got a pretty doctor's
assistant.
I'm sending her away.
She can't cope with the job.
Aren't you severe, Galtsev!
Have a heart.
War is a man's business.
It's not for girls.
All right, go. I don't need you here.
Some man!
Excuse me, are you Masha?
Yes.
Don't you remember me?
No, I don't.
We took the college entrance exams
together.
Yes... now I do.
I'm so glad I met you!
Me, too.
I'm glad I saw you.
Where'd you go after the exams?
I looked everywhere...
Now I've found you, Masha.
I'm coming!
I've found you!
We'll meet again, won't we?
We'll meet again, Masha!
We'll meet again!
WELCOME
Captain!
- That's you, Katasonych!
- We are here.
- Good.
Hello, Kholin!
- Hello, Ivan!
Ivan?
- Hello.
- Hello.