All language subtitles for 17.MGN.part.1-1

Central Studio of
Children and Youth Films

named after M. Gorky

By commission of State Committee
of the USSR Council of Ministers

on Television and Radio Broadcasting

Mister Bolzen.

Do you hear me, Mr. Bolzen?

I have to tell you this.

I don't know about you,

but I'm already charged with oxygen
for our awful city life.

What do you think, Mr. Bolzen,
isn't it time for us to go home?

I think it's time.

Oh, Mister Bolzen!

Mister Bolzen,

please be a gentleman
to the end and help me.

I can't step over this.

- Please, Frau Zaurich.
- Thank you.

For several years now,
Mister Bolzen,

you've been bringing me here
in the early spring.

I must say that
this outing will last me

almost a whole year.

You know,

I don't feel like
going back to town.

How about you?

That's what I mean. I'm sick and
tired of my institution.

You understand that I mean
that damn joint and my...

with your permission,
that profession of mine.

Hold this, please.

Of course, if it were not for the war
and my children were alive...

Do you know what herb it is?
It's a wonderful, medicinal herb.

If you dry it,
you can make a decoction from it.

Smell it. One must drink it
if he has bad kidneys.

- Do you have bad kidneys?
- No.

It's a pity, because that decoction
helps a lot if you have bad kidneys.

What do you think, can I wear these
rubber boots for another season?

- Of course you can.
- I think so too.

The birds are singing so beautifully!
It's so good that spring has come!

You know, spring means victory
over hunger, over winter.

And even, if you like,
a victory over death.

- You think so?
- Don't you?

- Well, I think you're right.
- Yes, I'm right.

We're going to tell you
about some events

of the last spring of the war.

The last spring of the war.

In three months
fascism will be crushed,

but now fierce fighting is
going on on the Oder,

near Budapest, in Pomerania.

We will tell you only about
seventeen days of that spring.

SEVENTEEN
MOMENTS OF SPRING

Starring
Vyacheslav TIKHONOV

Also starring

Kruger - Yevgeny KUZNETSOV

Kaltenbrunner -
Mikhail ZHARKOVSKY

Hitler - Fritz DIEZ (GDR)

Goring - Wilhelm BURMEYER (GDR)
Himmler - Nikolai PROKOPOVICH

Bormann - Yuri VIZBOR
Schellenberg - Oleg TABAKOV

Holtoff- Konstantin ZHELDIN

Frau Zaurich -Emiliya MILTON
Pastor Schlagg - Rostislav PLYATT

Astronomer - Yuri KATIN-YARTSEV

Kaltenbrunner's aide-de-camp -
Stanislav KORENEV

Don't ever think of seconds haughtily.

The time will come you'll know this
self-evidence:

Like whistling bullets by your head
they flee,

Those moments, those moments, those
moments.

Those moments...

02.12.1945
(16 hours 30 minutes)

Hitler's bunker.

Transcript of a meeting at the Fuhrer's.

Those present were:

Reich Marshal Goring,

Field Marshal Keitel,

Chief of Land Forces Jodl,

Reichsleiter Bormann,

Reich Minister of Arms and Munitions
Speer

Head of the Reich Security
Main Office Kaltenbrunner,

Brigadefuhrer of the SS Schellenberg,

Foreign Ministry envoy Havel,

Admiral Fosse,
Admiral von Puttkamer,

Captain Neurath,
aides-de-camp, stenographers.

"We have got but hours,

just hours, to win a victory,"
said Hitler.

Everyone who can look,
analyze and make conclusions,

must answer only one my question:
Is the victory possible soon?

I'm not asking for a blindly
categorical answer.

I'm not putting up with blind faith.

Never before has the world seen

such paradoxical
in its controversy

a union
as the allied coalition.

While the aims of
Russia, England and America

are diametrically
opposite,

while they are
moving, directed

by the diversity of their
ideological aspirations,

we are moved by only one aspiration,
with our whole life subordinated to it.

While contradictions between them are
growing and will continue to grow,

our unity, as never before,
has acquired

the solidity I have strived for
throughout the years

of this strenuous and great campaign.

To help destroy
the coalition of our enemies

by diplomatic or any other way
would be utopian,

if not a demonstration of panic
and the loss of perspective.

Only by inflicting them military blows,

by demonstrating
our unbending spirit

and our inexhaustible might

can we speed up the demise of that
coalition,

which will break down
to the thunder of our guns.

I'm turning my eyes to the Germans.

Only our nation can
and will be victorious.

At present the whole country
has become one military camp.

I mean Germany, Austria,

Norway,
part of Hungary and Italy,

the greater territory of Czech and
Bohemian protectorates,

Denmark, Holland.

This is the heart of European
civilization.

We've got in our hands the material
of victory.

Now it depends on us,
the military, how well

we can use this material
for the sake of our victory.

Believe me, the very first
devastating blows of our armies

will make the allied coalition
crumble down."

Main Office
of the Reich Security

02.12.1945
(19 hours 45 minutes)

Reichsfuhrer of the SS Himmler.

You can go.

- May we begin?
- Yes.

Please, begin.

- Won't light be a problem?
- It's getting dark very quickly now.

Anyway, it would be better
to pull down the blackout shades.

All right.

Top secret.

Personal file on Walhter Schellenberg,

Brigadefuhrer of the SS, Chief of
the 6th Dept. Of the Reich Security.

Reference on Walther Schellenberg,
member of the Nazi Party since 1933,

Brigadefuhrer of the SS, Chief of
the 6th Dept. Of the Reich Security

(political intelligence).

A true Arian.

Of Nordic character,
brave and firm.

Open, sociable and friendly
with friends and colleagues.

Merciless towards the Reich's enemies.

An excellent family man.

His wife's candidature
approved by the SS Reichsfuhrer.

No discrediting liaisons.

A splendid sportsman.

Proved an outstanding
organizer in work.

February of 1945,
the eve of the victory over nazism.

The events of the last week give us
full grounds for this statement.

The advance of the Russian armies

that has broken the nazi
defenses on the Oder,

their fortitude, displayed
in Hungary and Czechoslovakia,

have earned eternal glory
for the Red Army.

The fierce battles
on the sea attest to

the Allies' absolute superiority.

The armies of Eisenhower and Montgomery
are carrying on a successful offensive.

A complete victory

in the air and on the sea
is final and obvious.

The propaganda hype.
You may not translate.

Tell them to show our newsreels.

Run the latest reel of
"Die Deutsche Wochenschau", please.

A disgusting
propaganda hype.

- But it's true, Reichsfuhrer.
- Don't succumb to panic.

And you said we couldn't fight.

You're right,
we still can fight.

But we should have already
begun a dialogue with the West.

The delay means death.

It's spring of 1945,
not autumn of 1941, Reichsfuhrer.

Thank you for reminding me.

But in fact, each morning
I look at the calendar.

What else?

Russian newsreel, their special
edition on the Yalta conference.

Interesting.

It came by John's channel.

It's interesting. Go ahead.

Go on, please.

The news of the work of the historic
Yalta Conference which started

on February 4, 1945 went all over
the world.

In the air is the plane of the USA
President, Mister Roosevelt.

President of the United States of
America Franklin Roosevelt.

In the air is the plane of
the prime minister of Great Britain,

Mister Churchill.

Prime minister of Great Britain
Winston Churchill.

Here, in Livadia,

the talks of the heads

of the anti-Hitler coalition,
Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill,

were going on for 8 days.

For 8 days the leaders
of the three great powers

met at the round table

to discuss the questions of the final
defeat of Nazi Germany

and the establishment of a lasting
peace.

The conference had on the agenda
and decided the following questions:

The defeat of Germany,

the occupation of Germany
and the control over it,

the reparations of Germany,

the question on a conference
of united nations.

He got old, hasn't he?

- Who?
- Stalin.

The issue of Poland
has been thoroughly discussed...

I don't think so.

The principles and terms
of the meeting

of Foreign Ministers
have been fixed.

It has been also decided at
the conference that the Allies'

land, sea
and air forces,

based on a greatest
than ever before

coordination of military
efforts, would strike

on fully agreed dates
new,

even more powerful blows
at the heart of Germany.

What an idyll.

Blows from the east,
west, north and south.

That's what has been decided
at the conference.

He did get old.

What is it, Walther?

In his place, I think I wouldn't
display so openly

his complete misunderstanding and
aversion to his ally.

Though that should suit us.

Reichsfuhrer, it's spring of 1945.

Yes?

- May I come in?
- Yes, please.

I'm listening.

Yes.

In Lisbon.

5/11.

I've reported.

I've reported it.

Yes.

This is not a matter to discuss on
the phone.

No.

Not now.

Top secret.

Personal file on Wilhelm
Ferdinand Holtoff,

Obersturmbanfuhrer of the SS
(4th Dept. Of the Reich Security).

Reference on Wilhelm
Ferdinand Holtoff,

SS Obersturmbannfuhrer,
member of the Nazi Party since 1938.

A true Arian.

Character approaching
the Nordic, firm.

Maintains good relationship
with his colleagues.

Excellent work
showing. A sportsman.

Merciless towards the Reich's enemies.

Unmarried.
No discrediting liaisons.

Holder of the Fuhrer's decorations
and the SS Reichsfuhrer's citations.

Yet a lot still remains unclear. Yes.

I agree.
Hail Hitler.

I've been ordered by my superiors
to consult with you.

I got a very intricate case.

Either my prisoner
is mentally unstable,

or he should be handed over
to you, to the intelligence.

He speaks like those
English swine on the radio.

Sit down.

I can't go on like this! I just can't!
I can't, do you understand?!

I just want to live,
to live under anyone,

under fascism, under capitalism,
with Hitler, without Hitler.

I can't go on like this!

I just suffocate from your
blindness, stupidity, insanity!

Who ordered you
to write proclamations?

You couldn't have thought
of that filth yourself.

Who gave you the text? Your hand was
directed by the enemy's will.

With whom of the enemy did you
connive? Where and when?

I connived with nobody and
nowhere.

I'm afraid of talking
even to myself.

I'm afraid of everything.
Don't you have eyes?

Don't you realize that's the end?
We are finished!

Don't you understand that each
new victim now means vandalism?

You've kept repeating you
live for the sake of the nation.

So go away
and save the rest of the nation!

You're condemning
poor children to death!

You're fanatics
seizing upon power!

You eat well,
you smoke good cigarettes,

you drink coffee, cognac.

So let us too live like human beings,
not like dumb slaves.

Or kill me right now,
so that I don't go mad

from the sense of my own impotence,
of the stupidity of the nation

which you've turned
into a dumb flock.

Wait.
Shouting is not an argument.

Do you have any suggestions?

What?

I'm asking: What specific
suggestions do you have?

How can we save our
children, women and old people?

What do we have to do for that?

It's always easier to criticize
and bear malice.

It's much more difficult to propose
a reasonable program of action.

I reject astrology.

I bow down before astronomy.

I was refused a chair in Kiel.

That's why you're being so malicious!

Wait.

Stop shouting.

Go on, please.

There's interconnectedness

between everybody living on Earth

and the sky, the sun.

That interconnectedness helps me

take a more correct, a more sober

look at everything going on
on the soil of my homeland.

I'd be very interested in discussing
that subject with you in greater detail.

But now, I think, my colleague
will permit you to go to your cell,

where you will rest for a couple of
days, and then we'll continue our talk.

You can take him away.

You can go, too.

He's a bit insane,
don't you see that?

All scientists, writers, actors
are insane in their own way.

They need a special approach,
because they live their own life

they've invented for themselves.

Send this eccentric to our hospital
for expert examination.

If it were a peacetime,
we would have sent him to a camp.

He would have quickly been reformed
and become useful to the Reich,

working at some
institute, but now...

He talks like
a Briton from the London Radio,

or like a Social Democrat
conniving with Moscow.

People invented radio to listen to it,
and he's listened a lot.

No, it's not serious. We,
the intelligence, are not interested.

But I'd like to meet with him
in a few days

to feel whether he's actually
a scientist orjust a neurotic.

If he's a serious scientist, we'll go
to Mueller or Kaltenbrunner

and ask them to give him a good ration
and evacuate him to the mountains,

where all the cream of our science
is now.

Let him work.

He will stop blabbering as soon
as there's no bombing,

plenty of bread and butter
and a mountain cottage in the wood.

- Don't you agree?
- I do.

No one would have blabbered

if everyone had
a cottage in the wood,

plenty of bread and butter
and no bombing.

- I mean...
- I'm sorry, pal.

On Schellenberg's instruction
I have to meet in 20 minutes

with the chief of Prison 123.

- Hail Hitler.
- Hail Hitler!

Top secret.

Personal file on
Max Otto von Stirlitz,

Standartenfuhrer of the SS
(6th Dept. Of the Reich Security).

Reference on
Max Otto von Stirlitz,

SS Standartenfuhrer,
member of the Nazi Party since 1933.

A true Arian.

Of Nordic character, self-possessed.

Maintains good relationships
with his colleagues.

Irreproachable in carrying out
his line of duty.

Merciless towards the Reich's enemies.

An excellent sportsman:
Tennis champion of Berlin.

Unmarried. No known
discrediting liaisons.

Holder of the Fuhrer's decorations
and the SS Reichsfuhrer's citations.

Bring him here.

Schranke's speaking.
Call Block 5 duty guard to me.

He's been in prison 6 months already.

Yes, Standartenfuhrer, to be more
exact, 6 months and 15 days.

Why do you so often call
the doctor for him? Is he ill?

He's on a hunger strike.

How long has he been
on the last hunger strike?

A week.

Hail Hitler.

Prisoner No.524 for an interrogation
by Standartenfuhrer Stirlitz.

May I go and carry out the order?

Blackjack. I won.

Christ!

Psalm 8.

More.

Seven. Eight.

- Who's banking?
- I do.

What are you staking?

His leg. Higher, higher.

That's it.

He'll hold on for half an hour.

What if you lose?

- I'll knock his tooth out.
- It's against the regulations.

I'll make it loose with a finger.
Are we banking?

Kurt, call No. 524 for interrogations.

- 524?
- Yes.

Number 524 for interrogations.

Got you.
Number 524 for interrogations.

- Has he been in a solitary?
- Yes.

- Twice?
- Twice.

Who gave the order
to put him with the criminals?

That was his investigator's injunction.

- And what?
- The same as before.

- Did you apply the deterrent method?
- Yes.

And what?

Prisoner 524 will be here right away.

Fine.

I'm taking this pastor of yours
with me until 10 p.m.

I'm sorry, Standartenfuhrer, but...

Here's Brigadefuhrer
Schellenberg's instruction.

Without convoy?

It's all written there.

Put him in order.

I'll be back to pick him up in half
an hour.

At 22:00 you'll get him back.

At 22:15 he should be
in a solitary.

Good afternoon.

I've lived... in Berlin...

for 52 years,

but I've never been here before.

Come on in. Have a seat.

Beer, please.

I'm glad to see you're alive and well.
Considering our times, it's something.

- Please.
- Thank you.

Beer to this table.

Yes, it's strange.

What's strange?

Strange...

that you've lived in Berlin for
52 years and never been here.

Though you've been to London, Paris,
Prague, Bern. Isn't that so?

Yes.

I've been to...

Paris, London,
Prague and Bern.

You forgot to mention two more cities.

Antwerp and Budapest.

I've been already asked that
during the interrogations.

The interrogations when I was...

beaten, deprived of sleep and...

and food.

Forget about Antwerp,
the English have it now anyway.

But Berlin... I deliberately
took you for a ride about the city.

Did you see what happened to Berlin?

I did.

Well?
Go on, eat.

- It's terrible.
- What's terrible?

It's terrible that you, a pastor,

are not a patriot
of the German state system.

Tell me, the fact
that I, a pastor,

have been tortured for 6 months in
prison -

is that an inevitable result
of your state system?

Prisons are reforming the stray.

Obviously, those who haven't gone
astray, but were the enemies,

are to be eliminated.

Is that you who decide
who is right

and who is guilty?

Of course.

So you know everything about everyone?

Who has erred
and who has not erred.

So you know about each of us
absolutely everything?

- We know what the nation wants.
- The nation...

The nation is made up of people.

So you eliminate people

in the name of the nation.

Waiter!

- What would you like?
- Coffee.

Two cognacs and the cigarettes.

Tell me, how often
in the history of Christianity

did they destroy the heterodox people

in the name of the welfare
of the rest of the flock?

They destroyed heretics.

All right. But fighting heresy,
did the church permit violence?

It did.

Violence against heresy had been
done throughout 8 centuries.

We came to power in 1933.
What do you expect from us?

In those 11 years,

we've done away with unemployment,
we gave food to the Germans.

Yes, while doing violence to
the heterodox.

If you're such
a convinced opponent...

perhaps you should've leaned more
on the material, instead of spiritual?

Excuse me, I don't understand you.

Why didn't you try to organize

an anti-government group
among your parishioners?

You see, if I began
to use your own methods

against you, I would have...

...unwittingly become someone like you.

So if a man comes to you...

What man?

Some young man
from your parish.

And he'll say, "Father,
I do not agree with the regime

and I want to fight it."

I won't stand in his way.

All right, but he'll say
he wants to kill the Gauleiter.

And the Gauleiter has 3 children, girls.

2-year-old, 5-year-old and 9-year-old.

And a paraplegic wife.

What would you do?

I don't know.

And if I question you about that
man, what would you say?

To you I will say nothing.

Good work, Stirlitz.

Frankly, I didn't expect it.

I didn't think
he'd agree so quickly.

Didn't think he would so quickly
agree to collaborate with us.

A very good job, Stirlitz.

He didn't agree because of fear.

Mediating is his
natural occupation.

He has nothing to fear.
He plays with open hands.

I wouldn'tjump at so
categorical conclusions, Stirlitz.

Put him to a good test.

In his cell?
Planting our man there?

All right, arrange a good
testing on the loose.

I'll try to
persuade the Reichsfuhrer

to let the pastor go free
for a while for our purposes.

Reception room of
Kaltenbrunner,

Chief of the Main Office
of the Reich Security.

02.13.1945
(18 hours 23 minutes)

Sit down.

Top secret.

Personal file on
Friedrich Wilhelm Kruger,

Gruppenfuhrer of the SS.

Reference on
Friedrich Wilhelm Kruger,

SS Gruppenfuhrer,
member of the Nazi Party since 1929.

A true Arian,
devoted to the Fuhrer.

Of Nordic character, firm.

Equable and sociable with friends.

Merciless towards the Reich's enemies.

A good family man.
No discrediting liaisons.

In work proved to be an indispensable
expert at his job.

Do you have any excuse,

an objective enough excuse,
which the Fuhrer would've believed?

In fact, you, and only you, Kruger,

were responsible for the punitive
operation in Cracow.

Here, see the reports

about how Cracow was not blown up.

And after you read them, answer me.

No.

I have no excuses.

And there can be no excuses.

I'm a soldier, war is war.

I don't expect any allowances made
for me.

This failure should be analyzed,
not to be repeated again.

Obergruppenfuhrer,
I know my guilt is immense.

But I would like you to hear what
Standartenfuhrer Stirlitz has to say.

He was fully informed about
the operation and he can confirm

that everything had been prepared
with utmost thoroughness and care.

What does Stirlitz
has to do with the operation?

He's from Schellenberg's intelligence,

he dealt with different
matters in Cracow.

Yes, I know.

He was on the Runge case, concerning
the missing V-2 missile.

But I considered it my duty

to inform him
of the details of our operation,

believing that
on his return

he will report to the Reichsfuhrer or
to you how we prepared the operation.

I was waiting for further
instructions from you,

but never received them.

Was Stirlitz among the persons

to be familiarized
with this operation?

I don't know that.

Please check

if Stirlitz from the 6th Dept.
Was included in the list of

the persons cleared for the operation
on the destruction of Cracow.

Obergruppenfuhrer, I am...

the only one to blame,

and I would be greatly distressed
if you punished Stirlitz.

I deeply respect him
as a devoted fighter.

I can redeem my guilt only with
blood on the battlefield.

And who will fight
the enemy here?

I? Alone?

It's too easy to die for the Fatherland
and our Fuhrer at the frontline.

It is much more difficult to work
here, under bombardment,

wiping filth out.

Just bravery isn't enough here,
it takes brains, Kruger,

a lot of brains.

Find out, please,

had Stirlitz seen any of the superior
officers on his return from Cracow.

If he had, who was it.

And what exactly was
the subject of the conversation.

I've already made inquiries.
He hasn't reported to anyone.

On his arrival, Stirlitz
immediately got down

to selecting persons suitable
for infiltrating the Southern group.

Thank you. You may go.

Take a rest today.

And tomorrow write in detail
everything about the operation.

Then we'll think
where to send you for work.

We have few people and a lot of work,
a great deal of work, Kruger.

Hail!

Hail!

Bring me all Stirlitz's files
for the last year or two.

But make sure that Schellenberg doesn't
know about it, we don't want any panic.

Stirlitz is a valuable operative
and a brave man,

we shouldn't cast a shadow of
suspicion on him.

And prepare an order on Kruger.

We'll send him to work as Deputy
Chief of the Prague Gestapo.

Call for the car. In 20 minutes
I have to be at the crematorium.

Yes, sir.

02.13.1945
(18 hours 30 minutes)

This is Budapest.

Today, February the 13th,

after many days of
bloody fighting,

having shattered the fierce
resistance of Hitler's troops,

the Soviet Army liberated

the capital of Hungary
from fascist oppression.

The armies of the 2nd Ukrainian Front,
assisted by the 3rd Ukrainian Front,

have completed the defeat of an enemy
encircled grouping in Budapest

and got full control
of Hungary's capital.

In the course of February 11-12 fighting
in the city's western part,

by preliminary estimations,
over 30 thousand

enemy soldiers and officers
have been taken prisoner.

The soldiers-liberators had been
welcomed by the citizens of Warsaw,

Sofia, Bucharest, Belgrade, Vienna,

which were liberated due to
the heroism of the Soviet soldier.

Today they are welcomed
by the citizens of Budapest.

The Soviet tanks have
entered the territory of Germany.

The armies of the 1st Belarusian Front
under command of Marshal Zhukov,

having broken the enemy defenses,
came out to the Oder,

the last water barrier on their way
to the capital of Hitler's Germany.

The storming of the nazi stronghold
has begun.

Stirlitz arrived home
when dusk began to descend.

He loved that time of the year.
There was almost no snow.

In the morning the tall pine-tree
tops were lit by the sun,

and it felt like summer already.

Here, in Babelsberg,
very close to Potsdam,

he lived alone in his cottage.

By some strange
coincidence, Babelsberg

has remained but not
touched by bombardment.

Only the cannonade was heard here,
which was more audible with each day.

There were few people
left here, just like in Berlin.

People went to the mountain villages,
fleeing from the air raids.

- Good evening, Mister Stirlitz.
- Good evening.

You can go home for tonight.

Thank you. Here's your mail.
I'll prepare your supper and leave.

All right.

- What time is it?
- About seven, Mister Stirlitz.

- And more exactly?
- Quarter to seven.

All right.

"Lucky girl, she can afford
those 'about seven"', -

Stirlitz thought to himself.

"The happiest people on earth are those

who can be
so casual about time,

without thinking of the consequences."

Moscow speaking, "North-1"
calling "Taiga-5".

Calling "Taiga-5", "Taiga-5".

Informing geological
groups 12, 16, 21

of the results of the analysis of
batches

sent January 1, 3 and 7 of this
year, respectively.

38, 977, 35, 610,

97, 653...

It was a coded
message for him.

He's been waiting for it for 6 days
already.

He received such
coded messages once a month.

There were plenty of numbers.

The announcer recited them in her
habitual dry and precise manner.

To her those numbers were
just digits.

21st, a special attention to be paid
to the lower Jurassic deposits

in Quadrant AC-5

in the area of Mound 2569.

When packing rock samples
please keep to our standards.

Congratulations to Nikolayev
on the birth of his son.

Weight - 3.5 kg, height - 49.

Over. Will repeat in an hour.

The instruction received by Stirlitz
over Moscow Radio read as follows:

Center to Yustas.

According to our information,
some high-ranking officers

of the SD and SS Security have been
appearing in Sweden and Switzerland

trying to make contact
with the aids of Allen Dulles.

You must find out
if those attempts at contact are:

1. misinformation,

2. personal initiative of high-ranking
SD and SS officers,

3. execution of the Center's order.

In case these
SD and SS officers

were acting on orders from Berlin,

it is necessary to find out
who sent them on that mission.

Who of the Reich's leaders
in particular

is seeking contacts with the West.

Alex.

Alex was
the chief of Soviet intelligence.

And Yustas was

he, Standartenfuhrer Stirlitz,

known in Moscow as Colonel
Maksim Maksimovich Isayev

only to the highest officials.

Don't ever think of seconds haughtily.

The time will come you'll know this
self-evidence:

Like whistling bullets by your head
they flee,

Those moment, those moments, those
moments.

Each moment has a reason of its own,

lts own bells, its own notability,

Distributing to some shameful renown,

To some only infamy, to others -
immortality.

Of tiny moments even the rain is made.

The water pours from heaven in
a torrent,

And it may take a half-life just to wait

For it to come, your one and only
moment.

It comes like a gulp of water in
the prime

Of a scorching summer, comes like
an atonement.

But don't forget your duty at any time,

From the very first to the very last
moment.

Don't ever think of seconds haughtily.

The time will come you'll know this
self-evidence:

Like whistling bullets by your head
they flee,

Those moments, those moments, those
moments.

Those moments...

End of Part One