From the script for the movie "A particularly important task" #023
Kirillov nervously flipped through the pages of the list, found Masha.
— The statement says: before the war, she graduated from the Osoaviakhim courses. I skydived," the cadre officer listed monotonously. — Voroshilov shooter...
Kirillov thought hard about the list.
The Kirillovs' apartment. Masha stands silently by the window. Kirillov is sitting at the table, holding a letter in his hands. Just a few lines typed on a typewriter: "In response to your request for the whereabouts of Kirillov's son Alexei, aged seven, who has no special concerns, we inform you that there is no such person in orphanages among children evacuated from the territory temporarily occupied by the enemy."
"It came two months ago,— Masha said. "I didn't want to, I couldn't show you...
Kirillov folded the letter and put it in an envelope.
"It's like a missing person notice,— Masha said softly.
—Nothing like that. He was not found in orphanages. That means he's with his grandmother. Maybe they got lost somewhere in the evacuation. But most likely, they didn't have time to leave, they stayed there!
"There!" Masha repeated. "Do we know what's in there?" It's been over a year. I'm afraid to turn on the radio, look at the newspaper... "In the village of Slobodka, out of two hundred houses, the punishers burned down one hundred and eighty...", she began to read from memory...
— Masha! Kirillov tried to stop her.
— "... And in the house of the collective farmer Fomichev the whole family. Daughters Maria and Catherine, aged sixteen and fourteen..."
— Masha! Kirillov got up from the table.
—Ivan's sons are twelve years old," Masha continued, and her voice sounded more and more strained, "Vasily is seven years old, Anatoly... Four years old...
Kirillov went up to her and put his arm around her shoulders. She became quiet.
"This village is only twenty kilometers from my mother's village," Masha said.
— Masha, understand! Kirillov said with pain. — Woe to everyone! There probably isn't a family anymore that hasn't lost someone. But we must not lose hope!
— Hope!.. Masha repeated with a sad smile. — We hoped that there would be no war, so we went to Sochi. The war had begun, and they hoped it would end soon. That they won't get far. Then they were waiting for our offensive, you said, back in the spring...
-no need!
— ...He promised a second front... And they're already at the Volga... And where is Bryansk now?
— Listen, in the end, do you think that with your arrival at the front, the situation will improve immediately? Kirillov couldn't stand it.
Masha turned to him, looked into his eyes.
— You said that there is no longer a family that has not lost someone. Probably. And, of course, there is no family from which at least someone did not go to the front. I know you'd be among the first to go. But you can't. So I have to...
"I won't let you in!" Kirillov blurted out.
— Seryozha, understand, I can't do otherwise!
— no!
"After all, you can't forbid me!"
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