meters.
No, it looks more like 500.
5 machine gun slots 30 meters
awayfrom the hillock
-Are theyto the right to to the left of it?
- To the right.
OK, Germans, show more to us!
-Two more slots to the left ofthe hillock.
- l got it.
-Well, writers, are you working?
-Yes, we do, but there is not much to write about.
There is some dug-out there.
This is not some dug-out,
but a full-scale communication point.
What's to the right?
To the right,
we see the cannon fire.
Are these cannons ortanks?
Well, shit, there really
are some Tigertanks.
Our people must be having a hard time.
The prisoner seems to have told the truth.
-lt seems so.
- 2,3,4,5,6,7,9!
Two more!
Hell, it is quite a number!
Well, scouts!
This has to be checked.
-l'll check.
- Come on.
Folks!Dear!You, in the trenches!
ls anybody alive here?
Respond, anybody!
Here l am. Have you seen this?
These Tigertanks are made ofwood.
And theirteeth have long been covered with rust.
lt was my dad, Vanya.
My dad. Now l knowthat.
Kolya Malakhov, get up!
-What for?
- l need some help. Please take a spade.
-What do we need a spade for?
-A spade? To dig the earth, Kolya!
Come on, help me.
What's up, Nikolai?
-ls it here?
-Where? Next to the dig-out.
He used to be a scout.
The place is dry here, it looks like a hillock.
-Whom did you bury?
- My dad.
Well, come on.
Are you surprised, mayor?
lt means that everything except for
the comm point and a fewfiring slots
is a mock-up
made ofwood.
-A mock-up frontline.
- Exactly.
What about mortars?
Are they made ofwood too?
No, the mortars, machine-gun slots
and cannons are genuine.
lfwe considerthe terrain and the water spaces
here and there, the firepower is enough...
to extinguish a batallion,
But not enough to stop the entire offensive,
do you mean that?
What's wrong again?
What are you worried about this time?
There is no such thing as a mock-up frontline.
lfwe see wood here...
-There must be some metal as well.
- lt is the same thing all over again!
lf ''ifs'' and ''whens''
were pots and pens...
The offensive here has been confirmed
bythe HQ ofthe front
and we can not cancel it.
But we'll burythe whole regiment here!
-Do not teach me lessons here!
- l do not.
l've gone through
all that before!
-They haven't had the time to replace it!
- Really! Samsonov!
Mayor Samsonov reporting.
Replace it!
-Quickly!
-Yes, sir!
-He is about to replace it.
- Have a smoke.
-What is there on your mind?
- Thanks.
-Tell me.
- First, we witness all distinctive signs of a trap.
And ifthere is a mousetrap,
there is a wayto deceive it.
There is no better place
forthat than this hill.
l've already heard that.
Second, my scouts took a prisoner
who clearlyfed us false data. Why?
He knewthat we'd check it
and find out that the hill seems
not to represent any imminent danger.
What ifthe Germans knew about
the exact time ofthe offensive
and were going to covertly pull their shock troops
out to the hill bythe time it begins?
The front intelligence units reported that
somewhere here deep in the German defence...
there were mobile reserve tank units.
The Germans are not so strong as they used to be
in 1941, so they gather all theirforces into one fist.
How much time do you think
they need to get to Hill 89?
Well, ifthe road is good,
it'll take them not more than two hours.
OK, tomorrowwe are going
tojump into this boiler.
May l come in?
- Oh, it is you finally, lvan Semenovich.
Come in. The oven is fuming all the time,
it is really hard to breathe. l do not knowwhat to do.
Can you help us?
lt is a nightmare.
-Can you see that?
-Yes.
-Look.
- lt should go that way.
lvan Semenovich, may l
go out for a second?
-No problem.
- Could you watch the communications as well?
Everything is simple here.
Look, you simply press this button.
-OK.
- Then this one.
And then the red one.
That's all.
-Do you follow me?
- Press this button, that one and