Child 44

Your father?

Dead?

What's your name?

I don't want it anymore.

I'll give you a new one.

Leo. Like a lion.

Vasili, fire your weapon!

Shit.

Fall back! Vasili, get down!

Vasili, shoot back!

Alexei! Cover me!

Let's move out!

Vasili, fire your weapon!

Vasili! Hey, Vasili!

You can come up the stairs now. It's safe.

Don't be coward. No one will shoot you.

Alexei, just leave him alone.

Give him the flag.

Me? - You.

You, too. Come with me.

- Me? - Yeah.

Leo, make us proud.

I will, sir.

Okay. Get up there. On the spire.

Now let's show the people how Berlin has fallen to the Red Army.

Lose the goddamn watches.

What?

Take them off. Stolen watches. They can't be seen.

Hey, Leo!

What?

Admiral, he don't like my watches.

You take this.

He doesn't like watches?

No. He doesn't like German watches.

Grab the flag and get up there.

Yeah, come up here. You take the flag.

Okay, wait, wait.

Take the flag.

Catch a big wind,

so we can see our flag.

- Good, that's right. Like this?

Yeah, great.

- Whoa, whoa, whoa! - One more.

- You're sure? - Yeah.

Do you remember when we first met?

Raisa, remember when we first met?

You thought that I was rude.

- You were rude. - I was not rude.

You were staring at me.

- I was... - (ALL LAUGHING)

I was mesmerized.

I was mesmerized by your beauty.

I even had to get off at the wrong Metro station

just to ask you your name.

I lied.

- She did. - (ALL LAUGHING)

She told me her name was Lena.

Yes. I didn't know you then.

So you still lied.

I turn up at the park to see my beautiful Lena.

No Lena.

It was raining.

It was raining for a week.

It was raining. - (ALL LAUGHING)

Questionable.

But then I found you somehow.

8:15 a.m. Same train platform that I met you before.

Then I asked you...

Well, I convinced you to walk with me that day.

And when we got to the school gate,

I held your hands,

and I looked into your eyes, and I said to you,

“Lena.

“Lena, Lena, Lena, Lena.

“Lena, Lena.

“I am so ready to kiss you right now.”

And do you know what Lena told me?

“Comrade Demidov, my name is Raisa.”

Who's Raisa?

So now I have to go back to work

and tell all my friends that I'm in love with Raisa.

This beautiful Raisa.

My friends, they all laugh at me.

You were the worst, I remember.

Laughed at me because they say,

“Last week, we in love with Lena. This week, it's Raisa...”

Next week, maybe Natasha. Who knows?

With Leo it's always someone new.

No, there will never be somebody new.

There will only be you.

All those stories are over for me now.

There is only you.

There will always only be you.

Always you.

- (GUNSHOT) - (MEN SHOUTING)

This is the veterinarian's place.

Stinking zoo for a stinking traitor.

Is he gone?

You can't say I didn't tell you, boss.

Collect the evidence for me, please.

And you have no idea whatsoever

where Anatoly Brodsky might be?

None.

All I can tell you, he was...

Was?

- Is. - Is?

He is a good neighbor.

I respect and admire you trying to protect him,

but, you see, for me it's different.

Because we are here in your home

because your friend, companion,

he is a traitor, Zina.

You understand? And traitors have friends.

And these “friends,”

they are not our friends.

Do I have to spell this out for you?

Zina,

now is the time to say

something.

Anything.

Mama! Mama!

No shooting.

Mama.

Don't move.

- Semyon Okun? - Yes.

There's no one else in here.

Anatoly Brodsky, do you know him?

- Yes, I know Brodsky. - Right.

Do you know where he is?

Brodsky? In Moscow, I think.

No, he's not in Moscow.

We have information that tells us

that he's staying here with you.

- No. - Oh, it's...

Wait, you said something.

Mmm-mmm.

Yes, you did. You did. You said something.

No.

What did you say?

Yuri, Nikolai, spread out!

Brodsky!

Brodsky!

Don't fuck with me.

Put your hands where I can see them.

Come on. Get it over with.

Put your hands on your head.

Don't be stupid.

Shoot me.

Put your hands on your head.

Come on, shoot me!

Kill me! Kill me!

Come on, kill me!

Alexei!

Kill me!

Alexei! Alexei!

I got this.

Nikolas!

He's fucking crazy.

Please, I ask you. I beg you. Don't do this.

Please, don't kill my family, my children.

These are the future of Russia.

Please! No, please, I beg you!

What is he doing?

Please, no, don't hurt her. I ask you, please!

No! No!

Please! I ask you, please!

No!

Vasili!

Hey! Vasili!

What the fuck are you doing?

Huh?

Making... Making an example.

You're doing what?

Making example.

Making example of what?

These people are traitors.

Maybe now they can grow up and learn a lesson from all this.

What did you fucking say?

They can learn a lesson from this.

Learn something from you? You little shit? Huh?

What are they gonna fucking learn from you?

You fucking coward! Children! Fucking children!