«IN THE CIRCLE OF KUNDUZ» TV PILOT SERIES SCRIPT

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This story is about a young Ober lieutenant of the special operations forces of the KSK Bundeswehr of Germany - Bruno Thevs, who served in the special intelligence anti—terrorist unit TF-47 (TASK FORCE 47) as part of the Joint Forces of the Western coalition ISAF in Afghanistan.
After tough and grueling tests at the secret KSK base in Germany, Bruno passes a special selection and rotates into the Task Force 47 (TF-47) special unit as part of the Combined Forces of the Western ISAF Coalition in Afghanistan.
Upon arrival at the unit and the beginning of combat activity, Ober lieutenant Bruno Thevs rescues in one of the special operations the German reporter for the “Der Spiegel” Otto Greenberg (prototype Stephen Farrell from the New York Times) from the Taliban captivity.
The evacuation of the wounded journalist to the hospital of the MSF Doctors Without Borders humanitarian mission in Kunduz promotes Bruno's acquaintance there with the Afghan doctor Seeta Ahmadzai, a German citizen from a family of Afghan immigrants born in Munich.
Bruno and Seeta are starting a romantic relationship.
Thanks to Otto Greenberg, Bruno Thevs receives from Mujahid Ismatullah, who fought against the Soviet troops in the 1980s, relics — a notebook and two photographs belonging to his deceased Father— Konstantin Thevs.
One of the photos shows six Soviet soldiers, including Konstantin. Ismatullah picked them up under boulders — the place where Soviet soldiers put their dead and wounded during the battle.
Ismatullah, at Bruno's request, brings him to the mountainous region, the place where his father fought and died. There, from Ismatullah himself, a direct participant in that dramatic event, Bruno listens to a story with detailed circumstances.
Participating in TF-47 special operations against the Afghan Mujahideen, Ober lieutenant Bruno is faced with the excessive use of ISAF military force, justifying his actions by fighting the Taliban and international terrorism, but bringing victims and destruction to civilians.
In the development of the plot, it is told about the actual airstrikes in Kunduz province, inflicted on civilian objects and dwellings of the population, which led to three tragedies with mass deaths of people.
In one of these airstrikes on the MSF Doctors Without Borders hospital, together with civilians and a group of doctors, Bruno's beloved girlfriend, Seeta Akhmadzai, is killed. The young couple should have already had a wedding. In another air raid, Otto Greenberg, a reporter for Der Spiegel who became Bruno's friend, is killed.
These heavy losses strengthen Bruno's confidence in the inhumanity of the goals and means of the Bundeswehr and the entire Western ISAF alliance in Afghanistan. Bruno is also disappointed in his private military mission.
At the end of his service in Afghanistan, Bruno returns to Germany and retires from military service. From there, he soon goes to his homeland in Jambul and pours a handful of Afghan soil on his Father's grave, collected by him at the site of his last battle.
Having completed his business at home, Bruno arrives by plane to Moscow. At the airport, he calls the number from an old notebook and searches for his father's combat comrade, a legless invalid Rust (Rustam Tukaev), who survived the Afghan war. After receiving the address, Bruno goes to Rust for a meeting.
Rust tells Bruno the story of six comrades in the Afghan War (1979-1989) — his father Kostyan (Konstantin Tevs), Strela (German Streltsov from Leningrad), Mongol (Buryat Darkhan Badmaev from Ulan-Ude), Sidor (Sergei Sidorenko from Rostov-on-Don), Koster (Ivan Kostrov from Moscow), and with them, his own — Rust (Rustam Tukaev from Tatarstan) - in the war, and after.
From Rust's narrative, Bruno learns about the vicissitudes of those who returned from the war alive — Koster, Sidor and Rust in civilian life.
The political crisis in Moscow in October 1993, which escalated into an armed confrontation between supporters of the President and the Supreme Council, splits Russian society into two halves. Honest to their conscience and true to their beliefs, Sidor, Rust and Koster will find themselves on opposite sides of the barricades.
Sidor, a supporter of the Supreme Council and People's Deputies, will find himself in the camp of defenders of the House of Soviets.
Rust and his comrades from the Union of Veterans of Afghanistan are on the side of President Yeltsin. The Alpha officer Koster performs the tasks assigned by the command in the interests of the President.
Having arrived at the House of Soviets at the beginning of the armed confrontation with a group of comrades from the Union of Veterans of Afghanistan, Rust was struck by a sniper bullet.
Rust's life is hanging by a thread, he is in a coma, and spends several months in a hospital bed.
Koster, risking his life, takes out a wounded Sidor from the upper floor of the House of Soviets, engulfed in flames, but soon, carrying out a wounded soldier from under fire, he himself dies. After Koster’s death, his little daughter Masha remains.
In the second half of the 1990s, Sidor joined a large diamond business, but by a fateful coincidence, he was outlawed and received a long prison sentence. Despite a long imprisonment and a special habitat, Sidor retains morality and moral principles.
Rust introduces Bruno to Masha, the daughter of Kostra, who died at the House of Soviets during the political crisis in Russia in October 1993.
Sidor's release from prison coincides with Bruno's
arrival in Russia.
Bruno and Rust go to meet Sidor at the gates of the colony and on the way back they get into a twist. Bruno will save the lives of young people with a desperately brave act.
United by a common misfortune — the loss of their father-friends, Bruno and Masha will tie up romantic relationships.
The events in Russia will fill Bruno's life with meaning and hope for the future.