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Co-director-the honoured actor of the republic Yu. Solntseva Assistant director- L. Bodik

Sound editor - N. Timartsev Original music by D. Kabalevskiv Production designer- M.

Assistant director - I. Ignatovich The State Orchestra of the Ukrainian SSR Conductor - S.

Cinematography by Yu. Goldabenko Assistant camera: A. Mishurin. V. Yurchenko Assistant

Assistant art director - Ya. Breskin Assistant film

Production assistant- I. Shmaruk Makeup

Pvrotechnics - V. Likhachey Sound recordists:

Cast: Schors-Ye. Samovlov Bozhenko -the

Commanders: L. Lvashenko, Yu. Titov. P.

Soldiers: Yu. Bantvsh, D. Barvinskiv, D. Kostenko,

Isaac Tvshler - V. Dukler Petro Chvzh - F.

Tkachykha - the national artist of the republic H. Borvsohlibska Savka Troian - O. Khwlia Vurm

German colonel - the honoured artist of the republic S. Komarov Petliura -the honoured

German soldiers: the honoured artist of the republic O. Glazunov, the honoured artist of the republic H. Klering

Hetmanets Borkovskvi - O. Levchenko Colonel

Production manager - Z. Rogozovskiv The

- Petro! Petro! Bomb to the right! Here they get!

- Running away, you sons of a bitch, rascals! Tell that Lenin not to forget about our Ukraine. Do you

- We won't daddy! Long will the Soviet power

- Goodbye dad! - Goodbye! - Pavlo! Oh my God,

You should contribute three million to the shop in

- Oh where should we get it? We didn't take anything! We just ploughed the ground! Give us

- why? - On a visit perhaps. Gave you the best

- What are you laughing at? - A. egad. laughing.

For you to rule Ukraine along with the Germans?

- Shut up rascal father! - You're lving. my sons

- Stop! hey. who's there? - Guerrillas! From

Documents? - We have different documents

- Well. So you saw Germans and haydamakv

- Hide it. Here evervone is that kind. There's no

Evervone's back is painted, traces of rope on the

- Tonight you rest, and tomorrow you march

- At your service by the order of rebel committee! With one hundred seventy seven men guerrilla

- That's good! That's good! Oh that's the

How do you like it? - Mind your footing,

- I see. - And if there's something wrong -

- I'm asking you if there was a revolution? Yes.

And why? - Ask socialists-revolutionaries and

- Backing up old regime. - That's why! What is

Today I come to line section to the nurse, and she's here. At once give me the thermometer and

You've got- she savs - blood normallv pulsing...

Mv blood is healthv. I sav. my bellv and breath

Here I go to the machine gun company to our

and he tells me, brothers: quiet, he says, Rohovenko. radiwo informs that vesterdav

- Is that true that Germans pav hundred

Our empire is under pressure of revolutionarv

That's all by now. The catastrophe should be

Remember. the destinv of our fatherland never

The fatherland needs to eat. officers! Ukraine

Calm down officers! I call you on this horrific

- Since the moment of appearance on this

vou'll be shot in five minutes! Now tell what you

...committed to you revolutionarv regiments of

- From whom?! ...from Ukrainian bolsheyiks

- Please excellence. immediatelv sent your armv

Armv of workers and peasants of Germany won't

- Whom did hetman hold on? On Kaiser's

- Remember excellence that we'll perish here,

- It's not your business! - No. it's our business! -

Deadmen... Went back from the most high in the

Fatherland altar is piled with our corpses and

- Soviet Ukraine will rise in liberation patriotic

Tel them that Russia and Lenin are with us, that

Fasten you, please. Remember, when you'll negotiate with Germans pass awav from the

- Yes sir! - But please. no innormative.

- Understood. - Petrov! Watch the innornative! -

- Commander of Bohun regiment comrade

- Okav. Tea? Just without sugar... Here are my

- Thanks. On what ground you didn't accomplish the order of narkomvoen (people's commissar of

- What do you mean no order? You should have

- "For commander of Bohun regiment. Immediatelv load up and direct to the

Verv interesting! Who in the headguarters makes

- What? - As far as I know. the decision of partv

- Tell me comrade what will happen to Ukraine?

- You don't know what's going on?! The people rise against hetman, Petliura! The Germans drive

- To Kolchak?! Do you know that half of regiment

- Ukraine should be liberated! - why Ukraine!

- We know. we know... - For Siberia there can be

- why. why? Because Ukraine is likesav more

- Wrong! Wrong! Siberia is as important for

"Ukraine is more important for revolution!" Oh,

- Because we believe in people and in victorv. Bv

Guvs! Father Bozhenko. Taraschanskvi regiment

What a people, indeed! Wherever you turn they

- Haw! Ask me mykola why would I come to

- Haw. kids and no more! Plaving soldiers.

- why. impossible? So many workers perished

- Eh. you lazv bone! You know it all son of a bitch!

- Bottle? What's about bottle there? I'm asking

- I believe. Now go to combatants and wait for

- Readv long ago! You won't hold me! Well. see

- Oh what a smart guv you are mykola! I mean no

...What a people. indeed! Wherever you turn

- "If I on my combat wav will offend a poor one,

swear my honour and my life... swear my honour

Get out scum! - "Get - I saw - out!" and the bomb

- That's the machine gun company! they've got

- So they got processed by hetman spies. It's a

- Sorrv, mykola. Cleaned alreadv. Thirtv men

- Well. but it's not over vet. The regiment should

"I, the son of labour people, voluntarily enlist the First Ukrainian rebellion regiment named after

Without regretting my life I oblige myself to fight

- German occupants! ...German occupants! -

...From capitalistic oppression! ...oppression!

...to secure the honour of Bohun regiment! - And if I on my combat wav will offend the poor

...if I breach the order of the command and

...drunkard and straggler... ...drunkard and

...backstabber... ...backstabber! ...and

- Watch out! International express is coming! -

Hello diplomats! - Hi! - Hello narkomindel

- Hi there! - How are revolutionarv German

- Scum! - Got barricaded. see. bitches. with

- What about the soldiers? - Free to outspeak but

- Just with bayonet, just with bayonet! - Oh-oh, what a stupid! You saw too little. that's why you

- Okav. I'm gonna do it by myself... And who's

- Comrades! Comrades! Comrades! Genossen! Genossen! Germans were considered the cultural

Savageness, and barbarity, and death were brought to your countrv on their bavonets.

How can I talk to you comrades?! How can I look

- Commanders, come here! Havrychenko! To the village Lvshvchi! Prepare population for the

- Ivanov! - Yes sir! - Understood the German? -

- Move the regiment with the population straight to the German trenches. No single shot! Armv.

Go insane punishers. Feed the spies, build the prisons. Until the combat there will be a hundred

We'll break, break, break all the shackles! Forthe libertv of people. for its rights. no shackles scare.

Cause the free spirit can't be shackled! Die! Die!

To workers of spirit. all workers we'll lend our

Cause the same destinv joint us: and labour. and

- Who are you? What do you need here? What do

- You know who we are. And we came to congratulate your soldiers with revolution in

- I didn't receive an order about revolution in

- I got nothing to talk about with you. Who invited

Comrades soldiers of German armv! - Hoorav!

- Comrades Bohunians! I greet you with entrv

- I greet you with the beginning of the victories!

- Ouiet. calm down guvs... Let's give them some

- Guvs we are at fatherland! At fatherland! Don't

We are just the advance guard unit. Lon live the

- Congratulation to comrades Germans with the

- Wir begluckwunschen eich zur revolution in

- Zuruck in die gameit! - Beat on your

- Nieder mit der bourgeois... ...and mensheyiks

- Return to your fatherland! - Zuruck in die

- Beat on your bourgeois... - Nieder mit der

Long live revolution! Long live world revolution! - Es lebe die weltrevolution! - Long live world

Still, the Germans didn't resist. Incited by their command and fabricants they broke out against

If in defeat that Chors in the morning. it's not for

- Pa... pa... for God sake! What to do? Sir

- You don't know how to make authority. I have to get to Germany with the weapon! I'm German

- For God sake sir colonel. pardon... - Verstehen

- Don't frighten. You got no right to touch me! I'm

- In the echelon of German officer there were

...sugar. You are thief! And robber! We will

- Excuse me. but onlv German people mav indict

- Okav! Call German people here. evervbodv

- Comrade commander! - Yes. - German people

- Defendant stand up! Comrades judges. the

Thief and murdererturned you into thieves and

- Much more could be told about it. But we're in

I ask each of you to reply for yourself and the whole perished regiment. what should we do

- I warn you once again. the enemv has huge

- Wait, wait, you'll get gibberish! Here we got the blossom of hetman armv General Tereshkewch

- Right! - That's it! Chernihiv must be captured

- You will go round about the right flank! First and third battalion occupv the positions nearthe

- Left flank round about! Hitch the battalion! At a

It was a wonderful winter Chernihiv day. On the occasion of pontiff the general's driven in the sun

- hey you, hetman's pans! Enough of running

- Eh? How much? - Ave... - Now I'll let you see!

Curlv teamster. Curlv teamster, hurrv up you

Don't mind me weeping. cause it's the parent

When I see the parents-in-law I'm gonna weep

- Let me go! - No I won't! - Let me go you son of

- Hiding son of a bitch! - Curlv teamster. hurrv

- Halt. don't shoot! - Let me pass up to that

- Father and mother asked and I ask too, and all familv of ours asks: don't stav awav to see our

- Greeting s to the newlyweds! Still let me ask what authoritv do you drink for at your marriage?

- We are neutral people. We'll belong to the one

- What reach we are if there are Germans... - and

- And, guys, isn't that a kind of bold marriage? What if forced to marrv you this poor beautiful

What if you don't love her at all? Eh? Answer

What are we fighting for?! What are we shedding blood for?! For love! For respect!

You should marrv just for love. and not force the

Comrades trust me and the life will be wonderful

- Oh right son, true! I married my son of a bitch

dried, and my brain dried in work and darkness! And I though all the time how to live better in

- Incorrectlv. - Well, perhaps we'd beat him up?

- Where are you heading? - Let me go! - Where

- I fell in love with you at once when I saw you by the cannon. I'll fight by your side till I die! What's

- Go away neutral! I'm not your wife! You are none. no cold. no hot. You'd better go to Petliura

- Comrade division commander... - Take her man,

- Boyars... Okay, but remember-fight until the victorv! We pav no salarv. And for pillage and

- I'm not your father! What father? Regiment

- Beat'em in the face sons of a bitch! Haw fed

Don't be afraid. hit him right in the muzzle with

- You comrade commander, tell us clear and we will make anything for you. Just don't listen to

Remember guvs. the front is wide and everv dav

we will capture is readv to turn into seized

- But we will nevertheless destrov Petliura

We'll capture the landlord's land forthe

...traitors and rascals... Understand? -

- Well, that's all. saw goodbye to your parents!

- Father Bozhenko drives Petliura to Kyiv from Bakhmach. We're from Chernihiv. We can't let

join in Kviv. That's why we must to catch up with

- Saddle up and to Semypolky! Don't take off the marriage wipers. the fianc�e comes with us so

The Cossacks whistled. to the trek in the

Don't crv, don't crv Marusenka. don't weep, don't

- Where's jov?! Where's the jov for victorv I'm

Chief ataman! I! Directorv gentlemen, we have to

Workers look as the wolves! Jews lie low! In the

Directorv gentlemen we have to do something

- I concretelv propose to serve praver service at

And to ring three davs all the bells on the

And all the people should wear no hats and be jovful. jovful. and jovful and around - bow. bow,

- Rubbish. you're talking rubbish! Rubbish! We

- That's it! We need to get acknowledged bv

Two American officers came. So, we should in the shortest terms give them twentv million dollars

You see? Then they acknowledge us. You se? Flatterv will get you everywhere, as the

- Who are cheaters?! How do you dare to offend

- Enough! It's not cooperation! It's Directorv!

- Enough! I sav. I! We have to gather

Enough of mess! Manufacturer should know that the factorv remains fro him. landlord - too. and

We can hold onto just army and not onto the manufacturers. Having heard such declaration

- I want the same as you mister Petliura. But it all

And then. don't use the expression "association

Labour, labour, labour... Catch it? The word should be related to labour. Understand.

Tomorrow in Semvpolkv no mincemeat will be

Prisoners of war. attention! Commander of Bohun

- Two thousand two hundred twentv privates. one

- Well. Where from? Who are? Who are you I

Who are you? Who are you? Prince? Count?

And I'm worker. no tsar general. as your cur

And my soldiers too - workers and peasants. And

- Well. So, you're obtaining sovereign Ukraine for atamans? And your father gives awav the shirt of

Ukrainian Cossacks, during the centuries fighting for freedom of Ukrainian people. spilling their

Cossacks! Here are Cossacks! Faithful sons of the people: Ukrainians. Russians. Bolsheyiks! And

as our great Sheychenko said "bitchv

What do you think with? Whom are you fighting?!

Whom are you fighting for?! For pans, for atamans - here they are. here! For landlords. for

For Polish and German slavery! That's what vou're fighting for! Glorious

sons of Ukrainian People. we won't let Ukraine

We'll destrov pans as Bohun did. that's why we

And you... what do you think? Will we fusillade

- Where should we go? - Wherever you want. -

- We don't need you. Return to Petliura and if you

Who can sav? why did warrant officer guided

defeated some gross military unit led by the hundred of officers with higher militarv

- No. No that way. Don't lie. You're afraid of death. that's why. And you're afraid of death

- Hi! Tell them why you fought against us that

- You see. they saw Bolsheyiks are gonna

A Petliura. who the hell knows. will he or won't.

Unharness bovs you horses, And lie to have a

And I go to the green garden, to the garden to dig a well. I've been digging the well in the cherry garden. Will the girl go out to take water early in the morning. She went out, the girl went out earlv in the morning for the water. and the

- Mom. mom! Dad's coming! Dad! Coming! Mom!

- Ouiet! Ouiet! Ouicklv! Ouicklv. the gold. the

- Gold! Dumb bitch! Gold... Pass the gold!

- It's been a long time since we last paid salarv to

- Gather the bourgeois and talk to them about

- God save, Mykola! Watch it! Tenderly and politicallv. cause there are bourgeois from all

- Isaac! Watch father. I'm afraid for him to get

- Citizens! This dav our red troops liberated the

from the traitors of the people. likesav, Petliura's

vou. the representatives of likesav... better-off

likesav of some current moments... likesav

For continuation I call upon the commander of

Beg you pardon faithfullv for realizing the

Otherwise you scoundrels won't get reached?!

Kolia Schors. our dear commander. ordered me to

Who invented it? You! And who with this machine

- Well. in discussing of this machine gun. so I'm

to borrow me fiftv millions in monev at yours,

Don't regret. capitalist citizens. anywav it's the

- Go to hell! "Tender, tender". What am I. an

Money! Appears, you supported the White Armv? Our political commissioner is going to tell

- I whisper to him... I whisper: "Vasvl

The father answers: "Don't regret. misters

- Father, what should we do with the bourgeoisie, which is in theatres? Monev's collected. Now the

- Wait, what means let go? - they have to be

- Wasted? You've got no right. Everv individual

- mykola. mav be it would be right if the God

- No. father. God is God. but anarchv shouldn't be

- Anarchy? What anarchy? And who told on the meetings: Comrades. let us destrov the

- You're in a good company. father, but first of all

- You've got to think, but also you've got to listen to what the boys are talking about. What are they. angels or children. those bourgeois and

Neither with the bomb, nor with nothing! Colonels are accepted in staffs. The working class

- One must listen not onlv to what bovs are

- The Partv? And who ordered you to recruit

- No wav to you too! Not all the officers are

One thing we can't let them command. but on the

- How can I learn from them to win when I win

Now depart with the brigade to Vinnytsia to

- I've been to Vinnytsia ten times, and without any map. Let officers show you the wav with

- You should better command with washing

You shout "Down with the officers!" being unable

- I'll find if I want to. Sava. be so kind to show

- why should I spoil my eves? any case. you

After we'll gain Berdvchiv we'll... two finger

- That's what I'm talking about! mykola

- He'll perfectlv show anything. He knows

But everyone's got his own mannerto read maps. The Father's got his own. Knowing topographv

He alwavs checks how good his commanders

That's right, father, that's right! We'll chase Petliura out of Berdvchiv and after that we'll

- why are you putting me in shame in presence of

Who taught you to ride horse in hetman's

- Father, and do you remember me shooting twelve Petliura gang members in Nizhvn from

- And in Horodnia. remember? Those officers?

- All right. all right... We'll run out of cognac soon

- So. comrade Fedorov. you'll compose for me the

- I talk to you honestlv. comrade Commander of

- It's all fine. they will. Here's your commissioner.

- In old militarv schools people were acce... -

- I wanted to say that in old military schools people were accepted. as to sav. with speciallv

- That's right. That means you understand how

- Yes. sir! - And it will exist. That's we who'll do

Well. thank you. You lie. rascal! You had no

- I'm an intelligent man too! We both learnt for

I assign you as a chief of brigade supplv. Do you

Personallv Schors! Medical assistant! Don't you

- mykola. let me gain Zhmervnka at least. The

- Offended? All right, you can gain it. Look. here's

- Enough with this map things! Give me a

- mykola! It's not that easv to gain Zhmervnka.

- It's not necessarv... mykola. tell this greenhorn

- Cavalrv... - Just remember my strict rule: less

- Yes, yes, yes! Engage carefully. Once engaged behave yourself in the wav to scare off the

Well. god luck! If you die. have no offence. The

- All right. There we'll see what's going to stav...

He did it! He did it! He gained Zhmerynka, I say! He gained Bar! He gained Komariytsi!

- I can't believe it, bovs! Vasvl Nazarowch. you're

- I know it was a joke, mykola. But if so. you

- why? Who told? Sometimes it's possible to

- Well, comrades, Kyiv is underthe threat. Ataman Konovalets and Oskilko attack

- The tenth regiment couldn't stand Petliura's

We call off Kalinin from Bar urgentlv. to defend

I will defend the station with two armoured

To Father Bozhenko... Vasvl Nazarowch. that's

...With the fifth and sixth regiments. we'll

- That's it. comrade Brigade Commander. - I

- Hem... I opened my case this morning... White

When will we dress it, father? Somewhere in the

Where? What's wrong? Who're you running

Comrade Commander of Division. the people are

- And why are you alive. you son of a bitch? To

- Comrade Commander of Division is here. -

Comrades Novgorod-Seversk, I announce the precombat meeting opened! Comrades. is it clear

- Good. I announce the meeting closed! Follow

Tell Kalinin: gain Lvsa hill at any cost! Tell

- why? - why? What are we going to do if you

In two words we were hopefullv chosen to save

...Petliura brought much superior forces on

Our regiments were chased off and forced to

Hardlv had I came, I understood what could be

I stop the running. take them to attack and...

...He had five armoured vehicles and thirtv-two

But I was highlv convinced in victorv and I won...

- Well then. For example they say the God doesn't exist... Nature. Well. there's got be somebodv

- Here, I go fighting. I hit Petliura members two hundred steps awav. I wish: fall down. fall down,

I run out of machine gun ammo. all the ammo.

And I suddenlv wish: let the cranes flv by in the

- Comrade Commander of Division! Me too. I go

River. Field. Fog. Silence... I wish: scream out, landrail! Screams: der-der, der-der. der-der... I

- Falls! I wish Nastia: Nastia. come to my dreams!

- I once dreamed that I had released the whole

- And I am bullet proof. comrade Commander of

We're attacking the positions. I go. Bullets whine

And I, comrade Commander, want to win so much! I sav: don't touch, bullet. don't touch. and

...Doesn't touch. Tickles, but doesn't touch! Sav,

- It's true. Once in a thousand of vears a bullet

I think often too: vears will pass. the revolution

How many stories will be told about us, how

In quiet evenings under starry sky, somewhere near Chernihiv, international bovs and girls will

they will sing out and become guiet. The cranes

- Yes. Some brown-eved girl will hug her genius

"Let's now sing old folk songs about the Great

And we will arise from the great age of centuries,

overwhelmed with solemn rhvthms and beautv -

without toadving and treacherv. We will follow

plain comrades, that if it was possible to imagine

many will crv now in grief, that they have carried

and heads through their lives in a slightlv wrong

Is there a limit in prizing of life. lads! "Oh. my

- Well. "Tell me, grey eyed, what did you look like?" - as if she would ask mildlv. Chvzh! What

- Well, indeed. I will! I will saw that we were

There were drunkards, and those... slackers, and various undisciplined elements. There were other

The majoritv. I will sav. was such. that not onlv in

who they were and where they must go the next

and in gun-machine shootings, and on sabre blades they read Lenin programs for life and

- Yes. ves. I will sav! And everything I will saw in

Ouite often. I should sav. sons got fatherlv bullet

and by themselves they spat into their parents with pistols and revolvers. and nobodv. I should

considered it as infanticide, pardon forthe rough word. or. how can it be said in our fashion. in that

parricide, they called it plainly: a son against his father. a father against his son. obligatorv is

I will say that was such a time, when a revolutionarv urge tore its wav through the

orfire from volcanic mountains! So, I suggest signing about us as you please. and forgive us for

We were benighted and poor, and very angry for a lot of evil piled up upon our heads for hundreds

Petliura alone, bastard, costs a great deal! And then again these various... Halvchans, Germans,

Uh, vermin! Comrade division commander, what shall I tell them. by God? I am not a great

- Comrade Commander. I wanted to ask you

- Yes? - Is it true you want to plant the gardens

Shine. oh shine. moon. hey. hey! And a bright star

- Telegram! Our forces defeat the white near

And there's a young girl in that garden. hey. hey,

- Thank you. Comrade Commander, and all the

as it was said. And God bless you. son. and good

- Thank you. father. for being kind! I don't drink

- You don't drink? How are you supposed to fight

- Sorrv. And it's good to be done. why. here it's

Just like water! they saw it's frightful to fight

- It's all fine. we'll knock them down without

- We are here. comrade Schors. with delegation.

Here's Maksvm Sirko, warrant officer of her

Captain of cavalrv of his majestv prince Mikhail

Mykyta Sherstiuk - chief warrant officer of her emperor majestv Maria Fedorovna's uhlan

Petro Shramenko and Hordii Horlvtsia -

- Her majestv's disciplinarv battalion convict

- Where are you going, old one?! Sonny, don't take him! He's an alcoholic! He'll spoil all your

- Go away, informer! You've a too long tongue! Comrade Commander. it's my wife. don't listen to

- Let the father look after the bee-garden! I need

- This? Some german killed father this winter, and grandfather went mad and killed the german

- You're invited to the staff with a verv important

- No. His wife was killed near Kviv bv

You little poor! I imagine what's going on there, the old man cries. the brigade's crving on the

Suspicious agitators... Don't smoke, please! - I

- Poor Bozhenko. poor Bozhenko! - Oh my God!

- Mother's killed! Mother's killed! Ah... oh...

- To Kviv! - To Kviv, to Kviv. guvs! - Blood river is

- That's right. blood river is going to flow from

- Oh, oh, where're you... oh... where're you,

- Father! Calm down. father. don't. don't! Father,

- Vasyl Nazarovych! Calm down! Vasyl Nazarowch. calm down. please... don't crv!

- Father. father, calm down. Drink some water...

- Father... father... - Vasvl Nazarowch! Father!

- Mykola! Mother's been killed by Petliura bandits! You hear. mykola. and you. Petro. do you

In Kviv! Where was this government looking and

Interrogating the bourgeoisie individuallv! But it

she served tea. Iooked afterthe wounded,

- What do you think, Mykola, if I call off from position Taraschanians to clear Kviv. won't your

- I love you. father. But if so. my Bohunians will

And die myself! And let everything go to hell! You

Glorious Commander of famous Taraschan

The working class of Ukraine and Russia along with the government and the Partv express deep

The working believes that the revolutionary goals will prevail over private ones. and is proud of

Working people, pool country inhabitants and workers wait victories from you and just

Remember, father, that our names are already enlisted in the historv of mankind with golden

So accept from workers of the whole world this

- Oh, you son of a bitch. mykola! why do I love

- My sons!!! Mother's been killed! Noone will serve us tea. wash our shirts and sew the holes

Beat Petliura to the end. that's what! Give us

Lexander! How many versts are there to

- Seventv five. - You have to be there tomorrow

- When you gain Zdolbunovo. guvs. and destrov

comrades. excuse us generouslv for the battle

- But if Petliura escapes to Poland don't be shv,

...guard the border so the bird couldn't flv

- I've got the dispatch from Schors from Zhytomvr. We are doing bad. We've got a lack of

I told him we should've been one whole fist

Now we've got it... Deniking is going to attack

there. somewhere from Bakhmach. And here's

He gathered all the scum and sneaks together with polish masters. counts. princes. Have you

All right. And if you were attacking. how could I

- For you, son of a bitch, didn't show me three wavs. but one. which is the best. Button up.

- Don't hope too much for support, Savochka. So vou have to be more brave. have more class hate,

Like eagles! Taraschanians! they rumbled all

- Drive them out to hell! I don't need any

- We need to conduct a revision of you Taraschan brigade. Besides. we need to know the guantitv

- Eh... Your education level? - From priest in

- I'm sorry, but how can serve as a Commander of Brigade with no education and militarv

How would mykola do? - Check the Partv

- Unfortunatelv not for now. We had one

You son of a bitch. rascal! Didn't I shoot your

In Nizhyn... Have you forgotten? When did you manage to become an inspector? Or mav be it's

I go to combat now. And I take you with me as privates - for two weeks. There you'll see my

general and militarv! If you stav alive - we'll talk.

- You've got no right! ...died as heroes forthe

- Howdie. Commander of Brigade! Is everything

- It's fine and coming better. The aid has finallv

- It's humiliating! - Leave those stupidities. - I

- Commander of Brigade Bozhenko, I order you! -

- Vasvl Nazarowch! A polish uhlan regiment has

- Cut off! - It's a vile guerrilla thing! And you'll

So? Was I right leaving my staff and rushing

- You deserved it. You don't want to take

Borkovskvi, for example, as a chief of Bozhenko's

- Yes! And not only me. In the army staff a lot of people think that your whole division is full of

- So the division. that passed entire Ukraine from

that defeated germans. hetman. Petliura,

- Yes. but except being the Commander of

- Halt! You can't flee. bastard! Comrades,

- Comrade Commander of Division! - Let go!

- Comrade Commander of Division. I've caught

- A landlord! Hetman's butcher! How many

- It's not true! - Mavbe. you're wrong. Sherstiuk?

- I won't! I won't. comrade Commander! I know

...Comrades! Comrades! We're being sold! -

- they won't sell you. you'll be fine! Enterthe

- Good luck. mykola! - Good luck. old fellow! Take

- Yes, sir! - Good bye. comrade Commander of

- I don't want to see you in dislocation of my

- Neschadvmenko! Staff is talking. I pass the

- Hello! Neschadvmenko? Schors is here. How do

Wait. wait. wait. later. Listen. give me all you got

You can congratulate me. I say, you can congratulate me. the landlords are coming. Yes.

- Yes. - Yes. What. what? Nothing. nothing. hold

Right. Good. What. what? why do you retreat?

- Yes, yes. I'll be in the morning. What, what? The connection is interrupted. Poles? Well good

- As we finish the war and plant the... - Yes...

- Nothing, nothing, nothing. In two hours everything should be fine. Yes. ves. Give me

- Severvn? Schors. Listen. Severvn! I need your

Cross the Horvn near khutor and attack the rear

What. what? Yes. you got it right. Well done! And

Polish staff! We surrounded them in the Vvshnevetskvi castle. And Cherniak connected

- Eh... - Polish group commander? You're

express yourself carefullv. Who's talking? It's

which shows the ukrainian people traitor and renegade prince Yarema Vvshnevetskvi fighting

We wear the name of Bohun and. you know. we

So, would you be so kind... What. what? Oh. over

- Go ahead, bovs! Bohun! In the name of Bohun,

The unforgettable summer of 1919 was coming to it's end. All the ukrainian South West was

And general Dragomirov was coming from the

Schors was rushing in this sinister circle like a

Forgive me magnanimouslv for that I die on lads'

As soon as I die. burv me near the Pushkin... they

Near his monument in Zhvtomvr. on the

- You sing over the tomb "Mv testament" bv

Listen to mykola Schors! He will unite you! And

the enemv a devastating blow throughout

And then the White Guards will dig me out of the

And people will watch this and will hate them

...Amid the wide-spread plain. In my beloved

Oh burv me. then rise ve up And break your heaw

And water with the tvrants' blood

- Good bye, father! Take our love and friendship

You didn't fullv know the map. but sensed and

Good bye. Commander. we're in a hurrv! We'll

- why do we retreat? Oh. why do we retreat? -

- I answered alreadv to the Commander directlv

- Excuse me, but here's the commandment order to retreat to Kviv through Korostvshiv along the

- Order isn't dogma. Circumstances change,

- If you don't understand. don't talk. Retreat to

You want Denikin from Bakhmach and Petliura

- So we don't want it to be proved! We move to

- And if don't success. which is also possible! -

especially when soldiers are tired and Trotskiy doesn't want into account the needs of our

So we've got one way left - contemporary retreat to Russia through Mozvr in orderto get help in

- It's not you who should talk about it! I obev to

Damn it! I send a telegraph message: "People are tired. Onlv additional troops can save the

They answer: "You have the reserves. Engage into the combat the Red Commanders School".

- Shut up. you... militarv man! I won't send to

I will loose the division, but save the commanders. and I'll have a division! Corps!

hey there. happv people over the Desna. The sun

Bohunians gathered a force there,

- Here they are. best of the best!

Tell to the special men of Trotskiv that you saw

Despise the slaverv like death, love the

That's me who tells you. Schors! And that's Lenin