My name is Ana Fyodorova,
chief researcher on the MS-23 project,
I deliberately authorized the vaccine to be tested on humans.
By skipping all preliminary tests.
I take full responsibility for the death of my colleague,
Maksim Zotov.
By allowing him to test the MS-23 vaccine on himself,
I violated the standard testing protocol
to speed up the research.
It won't make things right or easier for you.
I should have tested the vaccine on myself.
But I was scared.
You did not have the right to take that risk.
This project is your creation, your spiritual child.
I cannot continue to work like that.
At least,
I should start all over and test it on animals.
Our entire operation in Africa depends on the effectiveness of the vaccine.
I am sure you will be successful.
We have to finish on time, to avoid any accusation.
Listen, if you quit the project now,
our Zotov will have died in vain.
I will take care of his family.
And what of the families of the future test subjects?
Will you take care of them too?
Enough, Ana...
The end justifies the means.
The accomplishment of the task justifies everything that happened.
Dear friends,
to the new year and to Ana’s success.
Your vaccine is a real breakthrough!
Hooray! Happy New Year!
Good luck.
Let’s not miss the good wishes.
Let's welcome the new year
by sending our best wishes to the people of the Soviet Union.
To all peace fighters and social progress...
To all nations on Earth ... - Pick it up!
On behalf of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union...
The Premier of the USSR and the government
send their warmest congratulations to all... - A man asks for you.
Excuse me.
- Hello? - Happy New Year.
How did you find me?
Get to the point.
There was an accident in the very deep well of Kolja.
Unofficially, twenty people are missing.
The management made the decision to isolate the area in the next 24 hours.
Unknown subterranean sounds were recorded before the incident.
Subtarranean?
What kind of well is this?
Officially, it is the deepest well in the world.
Unofficially, this is the deepest research laboratory,
at a depth of over 12 kilometers.
The deepest place a man has ever set foot.
It sounds very impressive.
How does this affect me?
According to the report of the station manager, Grigoryev,
there is an unknown disease.
We're flying to Murmansk in two hours.
A moment please.
- Ana? They're waiting. - I am coming.
Rescue missions are not my job.
I need a specialist team.
The rescue is managed by the Ministry of Health.
They want samples brought to our lab before we shut it down.
We enter, we take samples and we get out.
Does the end still justify the means?
The research will be yours exclusively.
You will have free rein for this job.
See you in two hours.
Apples in the snow
pink on white
What we do with them,
Major, we are about to ask permission to land... What we do with them,
Major, we are about to ask permission to land...
with apples in the snow... Major, we are about to ask permission to land...
- How long before landing? - About seven minutes!
Apples in the snow, apples in the snow...
They opened fire! Take your positions!
Are you in place? Open the doors!
- Only shoot at my command! - Stop!
Stop, we're ready to shoot! Not another step!
Stop!
Stop firing!
Major, should we open fire?
Stay where you are!
- Grenade. - Granade!
Look at me. Are you OK?
- Yegorov. - Yes?
- Check the crew. - Yes, Commander.
Nothing serious, just scratches from glass shards. It's fine.
- How can I help? - Better not touch anything, Major.
I didn't even introduce myself. Sergei Mikheyev.
Ana Fyodorova.
It's a familiar accent. From Estonia?
I've seen scarier things before.
No need to reassure me.
What could it be?
Hello, Colonel Taraukin. Are you OK?
Colonel Morozov, central services, what happened to him?
He was one of the well workers.
As soon as he came to the surface, he started acting that way.
He took a grenade from a soldier.
Three men were not enough to hold him down, he was too strong.
I have to control the people on the bus.
Fyodorova.
Fyodorova!
Can't it go any faster? We've been here for an hour.
- Is it still long? - A little more.
They are all dead.
Do you know anything about this disease?
There's no sickness down there.
They lie!
- Semyon... - As soon as you can, go home.
It's hell down there, this is what they found.
Hell.
Fyodorova.
- What do you think? - I'm not sure, but there is something here.
- Were you able to get a sample? - Not yet.
The corpses are contaminated and the miners appear to be in good health.
I understand.
The one with the scars was afraid of something.
In my opinion, it has nothing to do with the disease.
Peter Kuznetsov, deputy head of the station.
Currently acting station manager.
Have you denounced Grigoryev's actions?
Comrade Colonel, let me show you the installation.
This passage leads to the lower levels.
The vehicle is ready.
Come along and talk to us.
From the outside it looks like a normal mine.
But now you will see what it is about.
- Comrade Colonel, allow me. - A moment.
Grigoryev insists to speak to you before you go down.
Something important about the disease.
Your employee committed suicide because of an illness?
I need to know everything you know to neutralize the source of the infection.
There is nothing worse in our actions
than betraying our own cause.
What are you talking about?
I'm talking about the Hippocratic Oath, Ana.
- I did it. - So let's not do it between us.
An epidemiologist is not sent alone.
That’s not what you’re here for.
That's for sure.
Comrade Grigoryev, let's get to what we are here for.
I suggest you get quickly what you need,
but ensure the safe evacuation of all survivors.
Why did you lock them up there?
It wasn't an easy choice, Ana.
He did what he could.
We'll be fine without her.
I'm afraid you have no choice.
Coming to the surface, I changed the elevator codes.
How long will it take to recode?
Hard to say. From a few hours to a few days.
Difficult to make a prediction.
The elevator goes down to 6,000 meters, where there is accommodation for workers.
The module for scientists is deeper, 12 km.
Tashkent, where it all began.
- Escort her. - At your command, Colonel.
Incorrect code. Two attempts still available.
He really changed the code.
If you can do without your jokes, comrade Grigoryev?
You don't work well at gunpoint. Warning: incorrect code.
If we miss three times, the elevator will drop to the bottom.
Protection against intrusion.
Access authorized.
We have twenty seconds left.
I've always been interested in the difference between a microbiologist and an epidemiologist.
- Microbiologists study life forms. - And you?
The forms of death.
- Is this normal? - Absolutely.
That's why the well was drilled right here
through an unusually thick layer of permafrost.
Drilling ice is easier than granite.
A happy coincidence for us.
A pressure problem,
I have to adjust it manually...
You are alive!
From Latvia, is that it?
What happened?
Grigoryev depressurized the cabin and took the access card.
Without him, we cannot go back up.
WELCOME TO A DEPTH OF 5,220 METERS
Kuznetsov, show us where we are now.
Here at the housing module.
Yalta?
That's what the employees call it, here they rest between breaks.
The module for scientists, Tashkent
is even deeper, it is accessed by another elevator.
Without the access card we will have to go down six hours in the oven.
- Jegorove, are you receiving me? - I'm listening.
There is another elevator here. Inspect it.
Nothing to report!
It is used by miners.
Ana, are you all right?
Thank you, I'm okay.
- Hands in the air! - Everyone stay where you are!
Stay calm!
Nothing to report!
Happy New Year friends.
This is Kira Vitalyevna, our doctor.
How can I help?
Are you alone here?
Yes. We are waiting for a scheduled evacuation.
Where is Grigoryev?
He ordered us to wait here for his return.
With or without it, our service is over since a long time.
Who is it?
Engineer Nikolai, he works on maintenance and repair of equipment.
- Good. - Do what you want, we'll go back.
Nobody is going anywhere.
What are you looking for? Are you in love?
- This is not necessary, please. - Stop!
I promise, he will do everything you ask him.
You better listen.
Kira Vitalyevna,
I shall have to examine you,
and then you will assist me.
Show me the lab.
Yes, of course.
I told you I don't know where Grigoryev is.
I don't trust him.
- Do you feel weakness or nausea? - No.
- Do you feel uncomfortable? - Not until you arrived!
Kira and Nikolai look healthy. I'm going to need better equipment.
Get dressed.
Are you sure?
There is nothing useful here. We can go on.
Nothing to report.
- Answer me! - It's clear here.
Keep looking.
Yuri Borisich, looks like Grigoryev had everything planned.
There are no traces of infected samples here.
And how can we get back to the surface?
I will solve this problem. Concentrate on your task.
Ana...
Ana,
take the people to the surface.
I can't give you the access card. Take them on foot through the tunnel.
Save them while you can!
He's here!
People must be a priority!
I got you, you bastard.
Stop the elevator!
- Stop him. - We cannot.
It's an order.
This elevator, once started, does not stop and, most importantly, does not come back.
Life does not come back as the song goes.
It's impossible to get out of here. I will send the men through the tunnel and we'll catch him.
Very well.
When the elevator stops, block it on the spot.
Grigoryev may be inside.
Then unlock the tunnel door.
- We don't have much time. - Major!
Don't walk away from me.
PROTECT ME FROM EVIL
Maybe that's the only thing to do.
It may be a mistake.
What's this?
Latin. It says: "insatiable hunger".
Hungry?
What are you waiting for? Put on your suits!
REDEMPTION
BURIAL
THE DEMONS ARE HERE
You have to put your boots on first.
Listen, why Tashkent?
Because the derby of the Uzbekistan championship is played there.
It's two hundred degrees below.
The thermal protective suit is completely hermetically sealed,
and can withstand temperatures up to three hundred degrees Celsius.
I went to Tashkent. They make delicious pilaf with raisins there.
For this pilaf, I'd give you the machine gun.
You also wore clothes like that over there?
What are you doing?
It's automatic. You can't open it! We are not protected.
- I didn't touch anything. - Then who did?
There might be someone on the other side.
Open it now.
Igor, there is a civilian here. Come to the tunnel immediately.
This is Olga Krylova,
head of the scientific laboratory.
She traveled all the way from Tashkent at 200 degrees.
How did you manage to ascend the tunnel without a protective suit?
And what happened in the science module, You remember?
Her temperature is extremely high.
You don't feel anything?
I know there is something wrong with me.
But I feel no pain.
Mask!
Don't move now. Please.
It hurts?
I'm just cold.
I'll prepare the analysis equipment.
- Major, are you there? Over. - What is your situation? Over.
How's the woman we picked up? Over.
- What do you mean? - Dark, narrow and damp. Over.
- Stay focused. You hear? - Of course, comrade Major.
- Ana, what do you think? - I do not understand,
how did she survive with so much damage?
- There is an intracellular parasite inside. - Is that what we're looking for?
Yes.
Igor, can you hear me? Over.
From what we can see, this is a form of highly developed mold.
Is it hot, comrade Major?
Some light. Over.
Proceed carefully. Report every ten minutes. Understood? Over and out.
Of course. Over and out.
Listen,
mushrooms are the least studied form of life.
And science has not yet discovered this type of life.
Let's get ready to go. Mikheyev, check the status of the elevator.
Yes sir.
We have to isolate it. A drysuit quickly!
- We should put her on the bed. - Let's try to pick her up.
- We cannot. - I'll get help.
I'll go.
Wait for me outside.
I don't know what to do. I am scared.
Watch her.
Are you receiving me?
There, I restarted the elevator. It'll be here in about an hour.
Olga!
- Bright light, we can't see anything. - Yegorov,
find out what's behind it!
Something's moving here... Back, back up!
Yegorov!
I know you can hear me. I see you have started the elevator.
So you stayed here.
- Now we will all stay here. - Son of a bitch.
Forever!
- He's inside the tunnel. - Impossible to get out!
I gave you a chance to leave, but you didn't listen.
You are all going to die.
- Ana. - You are all going to die.
Forgive me for what I did!
Some of you have been guilty of the worst.
Ana.
Hey!
Are you OK?
This sucks...
Let's go.
Come on stand up.
This is what Yalta will look like in an hour.
Without pressure, we will end up like this box.
I lost contact. I'll go find Yegorov's group.
Don't you think your boys can take care of an injured old man themselves?
- Is that all you have to say? - No.
I had forgotten that you are the one who decides everything.
Enough!
Stop!
We all go into the tunnel.
Be ready in five minutes.
Colonel, I want my men to find Yegorov's group.
We're going to go up to the surface.
It's an order, Major.
I'm going to need help in the infirmary.
I'll help you.
- I'm sorry, I didn't mean to. - I know it's not your fault.
Do not worry, we're all going to get out of here together.
Are you sure?
Of course, I'm sure. I was even ordered to do so.
We have a problem in the infirmary. Everybody come here.
She's still alive. Have you ever seen anything like this?
Do not enter!
It must be Olga.
We are in an infected environment, unprotected.
Ana, take samples.
Let me help you.
Czechoslovakia? Bulgaria?
- Do not open, we will infect the entire station. - We're gonna do something.
... the system is destroyed...
Something controls the muscles
... cold... attacked...
Oh!
There is nothing worse than betraying your cause.
Wait! Don't open it!
Be ready, at my command!
One - two - three!
Open! Open quickly!
Spray it on my clothes. Hurry up!
- Thank you. - You're in luck, the extinguisher worked.
Hurry up.
What about the samples?
The Major needs a doctor!
- Kira attacked me in the hospital wing. - You know why?
- I need to know if there is an infection. - Why is this?
Don't you see it?
Ana, why did Kira attack you?
She was no longer in control of herself.
The parasite had invaded her body.
If it is similar to cordyceps, it's not good news.
Can you tell me more?
Cordyceps infects the ant and then forces it to return to the anthill.
After that,
it releasses the spores
and infects everything inside.
You know I have to stay here.
You have to get them all to the surface.
They have to know everything.
Only you can persuade them.
You are right.
I will do whatever I can.
I wish I had met you in civilian clothes.
Thanks for saving my life.
So Olga is back in the anthill?
We need to talk.
I understood everything. Olga complained about the cold.
I thought her body was reacting at the high temperature,
but in fact it was cold for the parasite.
This is its weakness.
It can survive in the body of the host.
But if the host dies in a cold environment, the parasite dies too.
Thanks to the hosts, it spreads to the colony,
but the permafrost destroys it.
Wonderful.
Colonel...
Do you have any suggestions?
Bring all the survivors of Yalta to the surface.
Call Yegorov's group back urgently.
And for the Major, send a team of epidemiologists.
I will stay to stabilize his condition until they arrive.
No team will come here, Ana.
The facilities will be sealed in five hours.
Permanently.
Maybe it's you who will lead the mission?
We don't have the technical capacity to take samples.
Think about it.
Kira and Olga could have been alive if I had acted like a doctor.
The man who tried to help me is now a walking corpse.
How many people still have to die before we realize we've lost?
It’s not a war.
You are wrong. It is a war.
They destroy our country as we speak.
We need guns that will give us an advantage over the rest of the world.
If this country falls apart,
then all those who died for it will have died in vain.
If we give up now
everyone here will have died in vain.
Maybe this time you are wrong.
Don't try to mislead me.
You have a sample,
someone who can go up to the surface on his own two feet.
You will help him get to Murmansk.
There are people up there.
You want to take him to the anthill?
Carry out the order.
Thank you.
- I had no choice. - Maybe I don't understand.
Ana, tell me honestly.
Will I be able to go to Moscow?
I think you have confirmed it.
Please don't let anyone die... except me.
Major, over. -Yegorov, where are you? Over.
If you can hear me, don't open... Stay inside!
- What is happening? - Do not open...
Yegorov, report according to protocol.
Don't open the door... I repeat, do not open the door.
Don't open the door. Stay inside!
Yegorov?
Yegorov!
- I have to go help them. - Stop! He said not to open...
My men are there. We have to open it!
- It's too dangerous, Major. - You can't help them.
I cannot leave them.
- I said open it! - Calm down!
We have to leave the module.
The longer we stay here...
... the fewer chances we have.
Hang on, Major. We will bring them back.
- We have to close the door. - No, we wait.
Wait? What are we waiting for?
Look.
What is it over there?
It's the sergeant.
He's alive?
- What did you shoot at? - I do not know. Something big.
It's out of control. The exit is compromised.
So if we don't fix the elevator, we will be completely stuck here.
He is alive!
Something attacked us.
You should not have opened the door.
Now it knows where we are.
Will the door hold?
Who knows?
Faster! Go!
To the left!
There, we have nowhere else to go.
Go!
Let's go, let's go!
Silence!
Shsh!
It came in.
- We don't have an access card! - I know, just a second.
I can't make it go up, but I can bring it down. But how to brake?
Proceed.
I will stay here.
No, we're all leaving together.
Listen to me.
I am already dead.
I will keep the module until you return.
Faster.
I have to disconnect the brake system, it's the only way.
- We have to leave now. - Ana, go quickly.
- Major, I won't leave you. - I'm also compromised.
Do not bury them prematurely.
Please leave me.
It's done!
Good luck, Major.
Go away!
Yugoslavia?
I'll tell you when we get back.
Very well.
Ready?
Three... two... one...
I thought it would be warmer in here.
There is nothing left here.
There are no bodies, sick or dead.
All my life, I dreamed of building this station.
And now, I hope to destroy it.
No one imagined that this could happen.
There is nothing more we can do. All attempts to stop it have failed.
For millennia, the ice cap prevented it from invading the planet.
Sooner or later it will pierce the permafrost and will appear on the surface.
It will take control of our nervous system.
It will make us move like puppets.
And now it learned to mingle with our bodies
to preserve the heat which it needs to survive.
All I want, is seeing it one last time before I die.
Because, it is so beautiful.
Without a cooling system, all protective suits are useless.
With all this blood Grigoryev couldn't have gone far.
How far to the end point? Two, three hundred yards.
It's two hundred degrees outside. It's a furnace.
Technically,
can the suit handle this temperature
for a few moments?
Two hundred degrees Celsius, Peter?
It happened once, when someone climbed into the shaft with damaged cooling.
After five minutes, he took off his suit along with his skin.
Five minutes.
Ana, don't even think about it!
Leave us.
You were right.
That damn thing should stay here forever.
And everyone on the surface should know that.
I am an officer.
People need you more than me. That's all.
You will talk to nobody other than General Gromov. General Gromov.
He will protect you.
Do not disappoint me.
I will do my best to be back in five minutes.
Three minutes.
All who are here,
Grigoryev and the others, they sacrificed themselves so that no one will know anything.
- Grigoryev was crazy after all. - He was right.
If we don't get out, we won't be able to tell anyone what happened here.
We obviously cannot go up without an access card.
Maybe, but I would like to come back here. Examine and study it.
And to take advantage of this layer of permafrost that holds it here.
It could happen elsewhere?
Of course.
So we'll have to be quiet.
I dreamed of becoming a great scientist here.
How stupid of me now.
So I have to do it.
If I have to choose between the protocol and people, I prefer people.
They will send someone
to search for us.
They cannot abandon us.
It's been five minutes.
And?
Who's next to take a walk?
Ana!
- You are incredibly brave, you know? - Give me the access card, please.
To fart?
Please.
- I'm serious. - To fart?
- You really suck. - Me? What about Grigoryev?
I guessed what he was hiding here.
Yes, it's big, but not that much.
You do not understand. I saw it.
It is death itself.
Maybe it's death,
maybe...
But I will master it.
And the world will know
to which scientist they will owe this discovery.
You will help me.
I'm waiting for the access card.
Do not do that.
Nikolai,
you go first.
To fart,
son of a bitch.
Pay attention!
Where is Nikolai?
He's probably dead.
If you want, go check it out.
Ana, step aside.
Do not worry, I will send help.
ELEVATOR TO THE SURFACE
Ana?
- Where's Peter? - He's not coming with us.
- Stop! - I'll do it, I'll do it.
Go!
It's in the hallway.
Hurry up.
Come on, you bastard!
Ana.
I do not understand...
what you are doing here...
Do what is most appropriate.
You're welcome.
We can't go to the surface.
You can't take so many risks.
You're welcome.
I don't want to die here!
We have to bring down the elevator,
by entering the wrong code three times.
Ana.
Ana, are you finally going to tell me?
Yugoslavia.
Destroy the elevator.
Do it.
Activation of manual control.
Incorrect code.
Two attempts still available.
Incorrect code.
There is one attempt left.
Incorrect code.
Alarm!
Self-destruct!
Six, five, four,
three, two, one.
We have a survivor. Request a helicopter for emergency evacuation.
- Stop the vehicle! - Watch out, grenade!
Stay away! Stop the vehicle!
- Let me out, stay away! - Put down the grenade, stop!
- Everybody out! - Let her go!
Calm down. We want to help you.
Stay where you are.
Last warning. Put down the grenade!
ANA PULLS THE SAFETY PIN
Subtitles translated and edited by SirCRD