The Murderers are Coming (Russian: Убийцы выходят на дорогу, Ubiytsi vikhodyat na dorogu) is a 1942 Soviet war film directed by Vsevolod Pudovkin and Yuri Tarich based on the 1938 play Fear and Misery of the Third Reich by Bertolt Brecht.
The soldiers' search of the young woman’s home ends in tension, and the mother hurls a piece of the gifted apple at them in helpless defiance.
As suspicions grow, Anna finds chalk marks on her back, a chilling sign of surveillance, and warns her brother Franz of potential danger.
A husband and wife fear retribution after their son, a member of the Hitler Youth, reads aloud about executions and seemingly leaves to report them.
A factory worker's wife, mourning her brother's death on the Eastern Front, shares unsettling rumors of German pilots executing parachuting comrades to protect secrets.