stretcher-bearer?
- What?
- What are you talkng about?
- I'm a hospital orderly.
You know, Igor,
my mother...
was 7 years older
than my father.
And it was not a problem,
after all.
She was madly in love with my father
and he did not even look at her.
It is painful, isn't it?
Try to tolerate it a little bit.
Once we were running
a test of our new tractor...
and I do not know how
the man who built this tractor is called...
- Do you mean an engineer?
- Exactly. An engineer.
Yeah, he fell in love
with my mom.
At this moment my dad
looked at her with new eyes.
He was quick to fall in love
with her as well.
So, so you could have been
an engineer's son, couldn't you?
What do I need him for?
I have a dad of my own.
What are you laughing at?
Forget it, man!
Stop looking at me like that.
What are you doing, man?
I'll kill you!
Do you speak German?
- Yes.
- It is Heinrich Heine.
- Do you know this poem?
Listen, Otto!
Why in hell did you shoot at me?
You know, Vanya has a girl
back there in the village.
Her name is Kalya.
He loves her so much...
You can not even imagine that.
And I was a fool to get
in their way.
What for?
Well, but I like her
very much as well.
Everybody likes her.
But Vanya loves her!
And this is...
What? Addis Ababa?
So you've wounded Igor...
And his girl is waiting
for him back in the village.
It is so interesting with him.
He knows everything
about everything.
- And have you heard about Zeus?
- What?
He saved a beautiful girl.
Her name was Europe.
- Have you heard about this?
- Aha, Europe...
And then they had a lot of kids
and all the kids were boys.
- Europe...
- Exactly!
We were not wounded
and that's good.
Stop it, man,
do stop it!
Halt, bitches, halt!
Vanya, Vanya, help me!
What has happened to Vanya?
Where is he?
. Attention.
Let's go.
Let's go.
- He was running after his oxen for all night.
I know.
You did not want to shoot at me.
Listen,
we won't get anywhere.
Otto-Figotto.
Vanya!
Vanechka!
Well, I'll visit you in Rostov some day.
Then we'll go to Moscow together.
Then we'll head for Addis Ababa.
We'll surely go there.
You know I suddenly had a
craving for everything in this world.
And our Partisan ox has
damaged its leg.
Well, Partisan, you'll
have to work for all the others.
It's a pity the hay has perished,
but anyway...
Oh, my God!
One, two, pull!
One, two, pull!
Step ahead, you bastard!
Hey, Reddy, Reddy!
We do not have either
food ortransportation.
What should I do about it?
Well, Zeus, will we save
this Europe beauty?
You must get up, Partisan.
You must get up!
Stand up!
You'll stand up anyway!
We do not have anything else
we can do.
Vanya, Vanechka!
Why are you so silent?
Tell me something.
Please!
Breaking News:
The Soviet troops completely...
encircled 300.000-thousand
strong German Army
at Stalingrad.
Hurray!
Hurray!
Hey, Vanya!
Vanechka!
Igor! Igor!
We almost went nuts in your absence.
Andrei Scheglov as Vanya
Ivan Zhidkov as Igor
Georg Zheno as Otto
Violetta Davydovskaya as Kalya
Script
Petr Todorovsky and Georgi Buravsky
Camera
Vladimir Bashta and VLadimir Klimov
Music
Petr Todorovsky