Waterloo Bridge

7 hrs. 46 min.

Language Russian

Author Andrey Lazarchuk

Narrator avgri

A film crew of the military newsreel is sent “somewhere in the rear” to film the construction of a structure capable of radically changing the course of the war. But instead of filming the construction, the operators and sapper-builders of a bridge get drawn into a chain of events guided by a strange official from the Ministry of Propaganda. And soon, together with the heroes, we gradually stop understanding what’s happening—whether they are filming a bridge being built, or whether the bridge is being built according to a film script, and who (or what) is actually behind all this.

That’s the plot in brief. In reality, the author invites us to think seriously about very simple yet very complex things. For example, about what we want “to be recorded in history”—as we are, with all our mistakes and errors, and big and small acts of meanness? Or as strong, wise, “almost in everything the first”? Who will decide how we will be seen by our descendants?

The heroes of the book—and the reader—must find the answers themselves…

1. The Sorcerer (narrated by avgri) 2. Waterloo Bridge 3. The Lavieri Attraction (narrated by avgri) 4. The Path of the Defeated (narrated by avgri) 5. Bait for the Devil (narrated by avgri) 6. Tin Grove (narrated by avgri) 7. Soldiers of Babylon (narrated by avgri)