Attack and Retreat (Italiani brava gente): Difference between revisions
Attack and Retreat (Italiani brava gente): Difference between revisions - Internet Movie Firearms Database - Guns in Movies, TV and Video Games
Attack and Retreat (Italiani brava gente): Difference between revisions
Several [[45 mm anti-tank gun M1937 (53-K)|53-K]] AT guns are seen in documentary footage of the Soviet offensive at Stalingrad.
Several [[45 mm anti-tank gun M1937 (53-K)|53-K]] AT guns are seen during Soviet offensive at Stalingrad. The scene is a footage from 1949 film ''[[The Battle of Stalingrad (Stalingradskaya bitva), Part II]]''.
[[Image:53-K.jpg|thumb|none|400px|M1937 (53-K) Soviet anti-tank gun - 45 mm (1.77 in)]]
[[Image:53-K.jpg|thumb|none|400px|M1937 (53-K) Soviet anti-tank gun - 45 mm (1.77 in)]]
[[File:Italiani brava gente-53K-2.jpg|thumb|none|500px|Soviet troops deploy 45mm AT guns in center and at the left.]]
[[File:Italiani brava gente-53K-2.jpg|thumb|none|500px|Soviet troops deploy 45mm AT guns in center and at the left.]]
Attack and Retreat (original Italian title Italiani brava gente (literally "Italians are good people"), Russian title Oni shli na vostok ("They went to the East") is a 1964 Italian-Soviet war drama directed by Giuseppe De Santis. The film depicts the story of Italian soldiers of Italian Expeditionary Corps in Russia who fought on the Eastern Front along with Wehrmacht until the bitter end during the Battle of Stalingrad.
The following weapons were used in the film Attack and Retreat (Italiani brava gente):
A Luger P08 is a personal weapon of Maj. Ferro Maria Ferri (Arthur Kennedy). A German officer holds a Luger P08 pistol in one scene.
Submachine Guns
Beretta Model 38A
Soldiers of "Blackshirts" unit and Maj. Ferri's "Arditi" (shock troops) are armed with Beretta Model 38A submachine guns.
MP40
Numerous German soldiers carry MP40s. MP40s are also used by Soviet partisans.
PPSh-41
Soviet tank crewmembers fire PPSh-41 SMGs when their T-34 counterattacks Italian troops in Summer 1941. Many Soviet soldiers and partisans are armed with PPSh-41s in the scene in Winter 1941/42 and during the Battle of Stalingrad.
Rifles
Vz. 33 (Mocked up as Carcano M91/38 Short Rifle)
Most Italian soldiers, including Pvt. Gabrielli (Raffaele Pisu), Sanna (Riccardo Cucciolla), Bazzocchi (Lev Prygunov), Collodi (Gino Pernice), and Sgt. Manfredonia (Nino Vingelli) are armed with Mauser rifles, fitted with fake Mannlicher-style magazines that gives the rifles a distant resemblance with Carcano M91/38 Short Rifle. The Mausers are supposed to be Czech Vz. 33 carbines thought the sights seem slightly different.
Mosin Carbine (Mocked up as Carcano M91/38 Cavalry Carbine)
Italian soldiers also use Mosin Nagant M1938 (or M1944) carbines, mocked up as the Carcano M91/38 Cavalry Carbines. The typical folding bayonets of Carcano carbines seem to be permanently fixed to the barrels.
During the Battle of Stalingrad Italian soldiers use German MG34 machine guns.
Degtyaryov DP-27
During the Italian attack on the bridge in Summer 1941 Soviet soldiers use the Degtyaryov DP-27 light machine gun. DP-27s are also seen during the Soviet offensive at Stalingrad.
Maxim M1910/30
During the Italian attack on the bridge in Summer 1941 Soviet soldiers also use the Maxim M1910/30 machine gun. Maxims are also seen during the Soviet offensive at Stalingrad. In one scene a Maxim is seen in Italian trench (correct enough as Italian troops often used captured Soviet weapons that were better fit for Russian winter).
Goryunov SGMT
Goryunov SGMT machine gun is front mounted on AT-P armoured artillery tractor, visually modified as an Italian tank.
Visually modified Soviet postwar AT-P armoured artillery tractors stand for Italian tanks. They keep front mounted SGMT machine guns and get fake turrets.