NARRATOR: 1942, most of Western Europe
has fallen under the onslaught of German troops.
But in the East the Soviet Union
withstands the invasion of Nazi forces.
Desperate fighting for every inch of land
goes on along the entire Eastern Front.
Both sides suffer heavy losses.
And neither party will settle for anything but victory,
victory at any cost!
FIRST SQUAD
Attack!
(WHINNYING)
(GASPS)
(WHISPERING) That girI is obviousIy not in her right mind.
MAN: (SIGHS) Come on.
She's just an orphan, a victim of war.
(ACCORDION PLAYING)
(SINGING UPBEAT FOLK SONG)
SmiIe!
It's for the frontIine paper.
And now, your next performer is, without a doubt,
a girI wonder.
Let's give her a hand !
She wiII answer any question.
Ask her anything, even your innermost secrets.
Come on, ask her. Don't be shy.
What's my name?
Dmitry Sonin.
That's right, feIIas! Damn good !
And you are Private PanteIeyev, from TuIa.
Your nickname in schooI was Mozart.
That's true, he toId me so.
Hey, Iet's find out when the offensive wiII start.
SOLDIER 1 : And what's my name?
SOLDIER 2: When am I gonna get a Ietter from home?
SOLDIER 3: Who stole my knife?
SOLDIER 4: Will Lyuba marry me?
(ALL CLAMOURING)
(SILENCE)
I just wanted to ask
how Iong do I have Ieft to Iive?
(GASPS)
(GASPING IN HORROR)
(GASPS)
Nadya, time to wrap up.
ALL: AeriaI attack!
(EXCLAIMS)
(GASPS)
(FILM PROJECTOR WHIRRING)
THE MINISTRY OF SPACE AND TIME presents
Happy birthday, IittIe Nadya.
(BLOWING)
(BOTH GASP)
It's wrong to steaI appIes.
Yes, sorry
I'm Leo, what's your name?
Nadya.
(EXCLAIMS)
(BOTH LAUGHING)
(CLEARING THROAT)
(ORCHESTRA PLAYING DRAMATIC MUSIC)
(AUDIENCE MURMURING)
(AUDIENCE GASPING)
(LAUGHING)
ZENA: This is the Friendship of Nations fountain.
(BOTH LAUGHING)
(BB GUN SHOOTING)
(RINGING)
(ALL CHEERING)
(ALL LAUGHING)
Nadya, this is for you.
Wow, cute!
Thanks!
(FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING)
(HAMMERING)
(LAUGHING)
Marat, Iet's race.
I can't go any faster with this bike.
(MIMICS GUNFIRE) (GASPS)
Did I scare you? Don't forget, "AIways be prepared."
(ALL LAUGHING)
(PANTING)
(GRUNTS)
Don't worry, you'II Iearn it, too.
Everybody at our boarding schooI can do this.
(GUNSHOTS)
ExpIosive substances can aIso be mixed using. . .
INSTRUCTOR: lt is your duty to be fearless,
determined,
keep calm in any situation,
stay in the mental link and, most importantly,
abide by the principles of the 6th Division.
(AEROPLANES APPROACHING)
(GASPS)
(GUNFIRE) (GROANS)
Quick, hide in there
and don't come out untiI I get back!
I'II get the rest and come back.
Don't worry,
and don't Ieave, whatever happens!
(BARKING)
(SOLDIERS CHATTERING)
(GASPS)
SOLDIER: We got them. Let's go.
(SOBBING)
Run for the exit, it's too soon for you to die!
(GASPS) Leo, I don't understand.
You are caught between life and death, but you must survive.
Run!
(PANTING)
At Iast, we meet again.
OBERGRUPPENFUHRER: GentIemen, Ieaders of the Reich are worried
about the state of affairs on the Eastern Front.
During the winter campaign our offensive faiIed.
The army proved unabIe to break the Russian resistance.
To win this war, we need to resort to most radicaI measures!
What do you suggest?
It is time to begin Operation Sword of Vengeance!
AstroIogers confirm that the Moment of Truth is approaching.
ELDER: But, Chairman, for such a rituaI we wouId need an artefact
with very high energy.
And at Iast, we have one!
GentIemen,
behoId Grandmaster Baron Von WoIff's Iegendary sword.
Using it we shaII conjure the Baron's ghost to join our ranks!
Isa.
Ihwaz.
HaagIaz.
Gebo.
Mannaz.
Dagaz.
BARON VON WOLFF: That is my sword! Give it back!
Grandmaster, we EIders of the Ahnenerbe,
caII on you and your faIIen brothers.
Rise from the dead, and with this sword,
take revenge on your sworn enemies: the Russians.
BARON VON WOLFF: l have been waiting for 700 years, dreaming of revenge!
At last my sword is back in my hands.
l accept your offer!
(RUMBLING)
Come here, Nadya.
(GASPS)
That knight, I have dreamed of him.
In a recurring nightmare.
That dream is the Iast thing I remember.
He was a Iegendary warrior and magician, Baron Von WoIff.
The Baron and the knights of his order
were excommunicated for practising bIack magic.
In 1 242, he Ied his order to attack Russia.
(WOMAN SOBBING)
Von Wolff's crusaders torched towns
and slaughtered their inhabitants.
Many believed that he was served by demons of the underworld.
Finally, though, the people of many towns united in their resistance to the Order.
They defeated Von Wolff in a battle called the Battle on the lce.
The knights of the Order perished at the bottom of the lake.
This book says that 700 years after the Baron's death,
his grudging ghost will be called back to life.
This year, 1 942,
wiII mark 700 years since the prophecy.
But why have I been dreaming about this?
Nadya, these are not mereIy dreams, they are visions.
You have the gift of seeing into the future.
And you must use your gift to avert disaster.
But I don't even know who I am, or where I am.
Eat, now,
you have a Iong journey ahead of you.
I have nowhere to go.
I don't remember where I Iive.
Together we wiII go to Moscow, to the KremIin.
I'II take you
where your heIp is needed most.
(GASPS)
Nadya, go to Moscow.
The horse wiII find the way.
Find GeneraI BeIow in the KremIin, he wiII expIain everything to you.
And you. . . Don't worry about me. Just go!
(WHINNYING)
Go away!
PIease Iet me through.
I reaIIy need to get in.
NADYA: Where is GeneraI BeIow?
PIease, I must see GeneraI BeIow right away.
You know what, girIy? If you behave vioIentIy again,
we'II have to sedate you.
I can't Iet you see GeneraI BeIow because no such person exists.
He is a product of your imagination, a side effect of the contusion.
Oh, contusion? I see, but then. . .
Lies! You don't know anything ! Let me out now!
(GRUNTING)
DOCTOR: Why do they admit these Ioonies here?
We're busy enough with the wounded.
(SCREAMS)
Who are you?
You don't know who I am?
I'm your commander, GeneraI BeIow.
We have been searching for you aII over. What happened to you?
Sorry, but I don't remember.
Right, I taIked to the doctors.
A bIow to your head has damaged your memory.
Do you remember anything at aII?
Circus, friends,
summer, the boarding schooI.
Then the war began. My friends were kiIIed.
Mmm. That was more than haIf a year ago.
Many things happened since.
We don't have much time.
I'II teII you everything you need to know.
WorId War II is underway.
Nazi Germany has attacked our country.
ParaIIeI to reguIar miIitary operations
two occuIt secret services are engaged in a covert struggIe:
the German Ahnenerbe within the SS,
and the 6th Division of the Soviet MiIitary InteIIigence. That's us.
We're not your reguIar inteIIigence corps though.
We use tooIs of occuItism and magic:
astroIogy, cIairvoyance and hypnosis.
I'm the head of the 6th Division. And you, you are my best agent.
Since the beginning of the war,
you have compIeted numerous important missions.
A week ago we sent you, as a member of a propaganda team,
to the frontIine on an assignment,
where you compIeteIy vanished.
Your parents both had extrasensory abiIities.
Ever since they died,
the 6th Division has been your famiIy.
Died? Why? When?
Before the war, in the Iine of duty.
BELOW: We have an enormous workIoad right now, and I need you Iike never before!
So much depends on the current counter-operation we are pIanning.
(PURRING)
The astro-radar shows enormous activity in the beyond.
We have inteIIigence that the Ahnenerbe have obtained a strong aIIy.
If it's Baron Von WoIff and his knights,
we have a reaI probIem !
Does this Iook famiIiar?
I saw him in my dreams. He wiII come.
Yes, very soon. The oId prophecy is coming true.
(MEOWING)
That means that within hours
the spirits of Von WoIff and his warriors
wiII faII upon our positions.
ObviousIy, ghosts and demons are not afraid of our weapons.
The Iiving cannot even see them.
But how can I heIp?
You are the onIy one who can. I'II expIain.
For years, the 6th Division
has been deveIoping a speciaI task force of teen agents: First Squad.
At the beginning of the war, it was terminated by Ahnenerbe.
Leo,
Zena,
Marat,
VaIya.
They were aII kiIIed.
You're the onIy survivor of the First Squad.
Training at our schooI was aimed at buiIding
a mentaI Iink between the Squad members.
That's why onIy you can caII upon the spirits of your faIIen friends,
and with them, stop Von WoIff's assauIt.
The time has come for you to meet them again !
But how? You said the Pioneers were kiIIed.
ExactIy. I want you to go to the other side.
The 6th Division has designed a speciaI machine for this purpose,
Sputnik 01 . This is our Iast chance.
Can you handIe it?
I'II try.
Your Iocker is marked with the Ietter "N".
In it you'II find everything you'II need for the assignment.
(GASPS)
(GASPS SOFTLY)
The machine traveIs to the beyond
through the piIot's subconscious, so you'II Iand somepIace you know.
Your sword is a rare and powerfuI weapon against ghosts and demons.
Don't hesitate to use it. You're good with it, too.
You have very IittIe time, so act fast.
Most importantIy, don't miss the red return signaI !
If you miss it you'II be stuck there forever.
Let's go!
(GASPING)
(SCREAMING)
(INAUDIBLE)
HeIIo? Anybody here?
(CAWING)
(HIGH-PITCHED SOUND)
(GASPS)
(LAUGHING)
Seventy-seventh, seventy-seventh,
cease fire, over.
(GROANING)
Brothers! When the enemy stoIe our victory through deceit,
and the ice on the Iake cracked under our feet,
they thought we were defeated forever.
They were wrong !
We haven't spent 700 years in this gorge in vain !
The new Moment of Truth is approaching,
and this time, we wiII be victorious!
We shaII sway the destinies of the Iiving !
(ALL GRUNT IN AGREEMENT)
What?
She is aIive!
There's no pIace for the Iiving here.
AII right, take her to the butcher!
Time waits for no man !
We're moving out!
The eviI spirits came out of the man
and went into the pigs,
and the herd went rushing down a steep sIope into the water
and met their destruction.
The GospeI of Luke.
(RUMBLING)
What is this?
(GASPS)
Ready to roII?
(LAUGHS)
Not a moment too soon, as usuaI.
How'd you get here?
So you actuaIIy died? Didn't I warn you?
NADYA: No, I'm aIive. GeneraI BeIow sent me.
They have a machine that can send peopIe over here.
Are they crazy there at the 6th Division?
No one comes back from here aIive!
Now they do!
How did you find me?
We aII sensed you.
Remember mentaI frequency synchronisation exercises at schooI?
We may be dead, but we stiII know everything we Iearned whiIe aIive.
(EXCLAIMS)
Get down !
(EXCLAIMS) (BOTH LAUGHING)
NADYA: So scary.
And so beautifuI.
What a strange pIace.
Yeah, not the best pIace for a cIass reunion.
This is the GIoomy VaIIey,
where the spirits of faIIen warriors go after death.
They say there are other Iands beyond those mountains, but no one knows for sure.
There is no way out of the GIoomy VaIIey.
So, why are you here?
After 700 years of death Von WoIff is about to
break through the boundary between the worIds.
He reached an agreement with the Ahnenerbe
and wiII fight on their side.
ZENA: UnbeIievabIe!
The divide has not been broken in centuries!
LEO: The dead versus the Iiving. The Iiving don't have much of a chance!
Von WoIff has become an extremeIy powerfuI demon over the centuries.
His hate has enormous destructive power.
Once the Nazis Iearn to use that power,
they'II ruIe the worId of the Iiving.
I've come for you.
We must stop Von WoIff. I can't do it on my own !
Nadya, don't you get it?
We were kiIIed, we're out of the game.
We can't go back. It's taboo!
But if you don't intervene, miIIions of peopIe wiII die!
The worId of the Iiving and the worId of the dead wiII become one!
It'II be doomsday!
You were kiIIed, and I kept Iiving.
But I'm asking you to heIp us, the Iiving,
to win this ruthIess war.
Let everyone decide for themseIves.
I, for one, am ready. It's my war, too.
I can't just sit and watch things get so screwed up back there.
Guys, maybe we weren't kiIIed for nothing.
Let's kick those Teutons' butts!
WeII, Nadya, typicaI,
you just Iove the IimeIight!
(SIGHS)
AII right, I'm in. I don't want to miss an opportunity to kick some Nazi butt.
As for me, I'm in, too!
(ALL LAUGHING)
You know, I knew you'd agree.
The First Squad is back together, just Iike the oId days!
Comrade GeneraI, Sputnik is overheating.
Let's bring her back!
(GASPING)
What's this? What's going on, Nadya?
The signaI ! We need to hurry to the Ferris wheeI !
What's taking her so Iong?
(ALARM BLARING)
WOMAN: We're going to Iose her!
BELOW: Come on, girI !
Come back here when the amusement park starts up again.
That wiII be our signaI to break through !
We'II be there. See you on the other side.
(ALARM BLARING)
(GASPS)
Thank God you're back!
(PANTING)
You had me worried sick.
CongratuIations! You're the first human ever to return from the worId of the dead.
Now, teII me, what's going on over there?
Did you see them?
Von WoIff is ready for the break-through.
But First Squad wiII fight!
BELOW: I've got a surprise for you.
Oh, heIIo!
You see, I'm safe and sound, just as I said.
It was a cIose caII,
but those two were after you.
(CLEARS THROAT)
Let's get back to business.
700 years after his death
Von WoIff wiII break into this worId at the Moment of Truth,
but we don't know preciseIy when or where it'II happen.
The Moment of Truth ! That's what Von WoIff said to his knights.
What does it mean?
Moments of Truth are the most criticaI and decisive of moments,
when the actions of one man
determine the outcome of a battIe or an entire war.
Moments of Truth are instants, imperceptibIe to mortaIs,
when creatures from the other worId
may enter our worId and interfere with the naturaI course of history.
Moments of Truth have aIways existed and wiII aIways exist,
but onIy those with a rare gift can foresee and endure them.
And you, Nadya, have this gift.
BOTH: Herr Obergruppenfuhrer.
And here are our beauties! What's the good news?
The girI was identified at the Eastern Front,
a cIairvoyant, working for Russian inteIIigence.
Despite our efforts, we faiIed to eIiminate her.
(SIGHING HEAVILY)
Can you, pIease, get rid of that cIairvoyant from the 6th Division?
It must be done before the Moment of Truth.
Tomorrow morning you wiII be in Moscow. Dismissed.
BOTH: Yes, sir!
Here is what we know: a Iarge number of troops on both sides
are concentrated aIong the Iake shore.
Both sides have been trying to attack, but every attempt has faiIed.
It's around here that the Moment of Truth wiII occur.
The Commander in your dream is the onIy one
who wiII dare to rise from the trench, under fire,
and Iead soIdiers in the attack.
At the Moment of Truth, Von WoIff wiII try to behead him.
ShouId our attack not take pIace,
the Germans wiII Iaunch a counter-offensive and break the front.
Give it another try, maybe you'II see his face,
or maybe his unit.
I'm trying.
No, I can't see. It's okay. Next time.
You just need to rest.
A driver wiII take you to the army quarters.
Go have a good sleep and recover. lt will work.
DRIVER: I know you.
You were a circus performer. I drove you before the war.
I aIso remember your mom and dad. They were wonderfuI peopIe.
May they rest in peace.
PIease, teII me about my parents.
I hardIy remember them.
You don't remember? But it's onIy been a year since they. . .
(GUNSHOT)
(EXCLAIMING) (GUNSHOTS)
(METRO BELL RINGING)
(GASPS)
NADYA: "Captain Alexandr Nemov,
"the subdivision's sole survivor.
"After a massive enemy air raid,
"Alexandr was treated in hospital
"and now wishes to return to the front to fight the enemy."
The onIy survivor!
That's the object of the Moment of Truth ! I found him !
NADYA: It's me, I found him. Captain AIexandr Nemov.
Yes, I need the exact Iocation of his regiment.
No, I'm fine, but the driver has been kiIIed.
I'm being foIIowed. Got you. I'II caII you from the station.
(CHATTERING)
(WHISTLE BLOWING)
Can I get over there before the fork?
(GRUNTS)
(INAUDIBLE)
(TRAIN BRAKING)
Soldiers retreating from their positions without an order are traitors.
Scaremongers and cowards will be executed on the spot.
The enemy shall be defeated! We shall prevail!
Here we go. I hope he's there.
(POUNDING ON DOOR)
HUNCHBACK: Go away! We're cIosed !
What do you want?
Can't you read?
CLOSED
What are you doing?
Everybody wants something from the Hunchback.
I toId you, I have nothing to seII !
Listen, Hunchback, we don't have time.
How about a swap?
Hmm. 6th Division, Russian MiIitary InteIIigence.
Very rare.
AII right.
(GASPS)
ZENA: Man !
VALYA: Wow!
HoIy cow!
(GASPS) That's more Iike it!
HUNCHBACK: Newest modeIs on the market.
Russian, German, Japanese.
AII guns have augmented firepower,
and are in perfect working condition.
(COCKS GUN)
Let me check.
(GUNFIRE)
HUNCHBACK: Was that reaIIy necessary?
(SOLDIERS SHOUTING)
I just hope it works.
ZENA: ReaIIy? Here?
LEO: This is the onIy paviIion with Iights on.
This wiII be the entrance to Nadya's subconscious.
Come on !
Get in. She's caIIing us.
This tunneI shouId take us to the worId of the Iiving.
(GASPS)
(ALL EXCLAIMING)
NADYA: lt's wrong to steal apples.
(ALL EXCLAIMING)
VALYA: It's speeding up!
NADYA: Hurry up, faster.
(ALL COUGHING)
(ALL EXCLAIMING)
(ALL SHOUT)
(ALL GASP)
(ALL EXCLAIMING)
(ALL SCREAMING)
They didn't come.
BARON VON WOLFF: Knights, you are taking part in the greatest of battles.
Your names will remain unknown,
but your deeds will live in eternity!
(CHUCKLING EVILLY)
Here we go.
It's starting.
(GASPS)
(WHINNYING)
(ALL GRUNTING)
(WHINNYING)
(YELLING)
Some Iike it hot, huh?
Not a moment too soon.
(GASPS) Leo!
(GRUNTING)
(WHINNYING)
(GRUNTS)
(WHINNYING)
(YELLS)
Nadya!
WeIcome to the GIoomy VaIIey.
Nadya!
ZENA: What happened?
Did Nadya take out Von WoIff?
Have a nice trip home, freaks!
Attack!
(ALL YELLING)
SOLDIER: Fire!
Speaking !
Good. Roger that.
(ALL CHEERING) BELOW: Prepare an aeroplane.
l will pick up Nadya from the front personally!
(GASPS)
It's not him !
He escaped.