About Friends-Comrades (O druzyakh-tovarishchakh): Difference between revisions
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[[File:O druzyakh-tovarishchakh-MauserC96-2.jpg|thumb|none|500px|Anarchist Klychkov ([[Aleksey Bakhar]]) draws a nickel plated Mauser (at the right).]]
[[File:O druzyakh-tovarishchakh-MauserC96-2.jpg|thumb|none|500px|Anarchist Klychkov ([[Aleksey Bakhar]]) draws a nickel plated Mauser (at the right).]]
[[File:O druzyakh-tovarishchakh-MauserC96-3.jpg|thumb|none|500px|Klychkov fires his Mauser (the nickel plated pistol switches to blued one).]]
[[File:O druzyakh-tovarishchakh-MauserC96-3.jpg|thumb|none|500px|Klychkov fires his Mauser (the nickel plated pistol switches to blued one).]]
[[File:O druzyakh-tovarishchakh-MauserC96-4.jpg|thumb|none|500px|Yakov Khristoforovich Peters ([[Uldis Lieldidz]]), Deputy Chairman of the Cheka, personally takes part in the final operation against the conspirators.]]
[[File:O druzyakh-tovarishchakh-MauserC96-4.jpg|thumb|none|500px|Yakov Khristoforovich Peters ([[Uldis Lieldidzs]]), Deputy Chairman of the Cheka, personally takes part in the final operation against the conspirators.]]
[[File:O druzyakh-tovarishchakh-MauserC96-5.jpg|thumb|none|500px|''Chekist'' Aleksey Utrobin ([[Mikhail Kokshenov]]) fires his Mauser.]]
[[File:O druzyakh-tovarishchakh-MauserC96-5.jpg|thumb|none|500px|''Chekist'' Aleksey Utrobin ([[Mikhail Kokshenov]]) fires his Mauser.]]
[[File:O druzyakh-tovarishchakh-MauserC96-6.jpg|thumb|none|500px|Utrobin's pistol is seen firing.]]
[[File:O druzyakh-tovarishchakh-MauserC96-6.jpg|thumb|none|500px|Utrobin's pistol is seen firing.]]
About Friends-Comrades (the literal translation of the original title O druzyakh-tovarishchakh) is a Soviet 1970 made for TV adventure movie directed by Vladimir Nazarov. The story, losely based on real events, is set in Moscow in Autumn 1919. A group of Anarchists who oppose themselves to Bolshevicks plan terror against high rank Soviet officials. They explode a bomb in Moscow city committee of Bolshevick party. In order to prevent the future activities of Anarchists three young Chekists (Cheka agents) are sent to infiltrate the group.
The title of the film is taken from the iconic Soviet song "Davay zakurim" ("Let's Smoke") that appeared in 1942, more than twenty years after the events of the movie.
The following weapons were used in the film About Friends-Comrades (O druzyakh-tovarishchakh):
In the final scene Viktor Pshennikov (Gennadiy Yukhtin) uses an F-1 hand grenade, anachronistic for 1919 (though it can stand for some similar looking "pineapple" style grenade of Great War era).
F-1 High-Explosive Fragmentation hand grenadeError creating thumbnail: File missingPshennikov performs the typical cinematographic feat of pulling the pin with his teeth.
RGD-5 Hand Grenade
An Anarchist is seen with heavily anachronistic RGD-5 hand grenade. The black color of the body indicates URG-N training version.
