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The Russians Are Coming Die Russen kommen
Movie Poster
Main Cast
Character
Actor
Günter Walcher
Gert Krause-Melzer
Igor
Wiktor Perewalow
Christine
Dorothea Meissner
Father Bergschicker
Norbert Christian
Mother Bergschicker
Karla Runkehl
This is for the 1987 East German drama. For the 1966 American comedy with a similar title, see here .
The Russians Are Coming is an East German movie which was filmed in 1968 but was only released in 1987. Spring 1945 in a small town on the Baltic Sea. The 15-year-old Günter still believes in the final victory. He is the fastest in the hunt for a Russian boy, an escaped foreign worker. The Russian is shot by the village policeman. Günter proudly accepts the Iron Cross and volunteers for the front. Neither the mother nor the teacher can stop him. Soviet soldiers attack him the first time, but he can flee home. Shortly after the Soviet army occupied the place, Günter is arrested for murdering the foreign worker.
The following weapons were used in the film The Russians Are Coming :
Pistols
Unidentified Pistol
An unidentified pistol can be seen in a Leutnant' s holster.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing A possible guess could be a Walther PP or PPK .
Rifles
Karabiner 98k
The Karabiner 98k is used by a Police officer (Hans Hardt-Hardtloff ) and Hitler Youth members.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Karabiner 98k - 7.92x57mm Mauser
Error creating thumbnail: File missing The officer unlocks his carbine...
Error creating thumbnail: File missing ...and takes aim at the young forced laborer. Note the uncommon front sight.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Many Kar98ks on a truck.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Left behind carbines of Hitler Youth lying in the grass.
Sturmgewehr 44
Three German soldiers are seen with Sturmgewehr 44 . Günter Walcher (Gert Krause-Melzer ) can also be seen with a picked up abandoned STG.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Sturmgewehr 44 - 7.92x33mm
Error creating thumbnail: File missing The two German soldiers on the right with the assault rifles.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Desperate Günter fires into the air.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing A slightly different view offers more details of the rifle.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Citizens overwhelm a sentry guarding a food warehouse armed with a Sturmgewehr.
Submachine Guns
PPSh-41
Near all Red Army Soldiers are armed with PPSh-41 submachine guns.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing PPSh-41 with 71-round drum magazine - 7.62x25mm Tokarev
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Soviet soldier greets Günter with his PPSh.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Two soldiers stand in front of Günter to get him to the Soviet headquarters.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing A PPSh over a soldier's back.
Machine Guns
MG34
An MG34 is briefly seen among the Kar98ks in the truck.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing MG34 with front and rear sights folded down - 7.92x57mm Mauser.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing The MG34's barrel can be seen behind the MG42 seen in the center.
MG42
The MG42 lies also in the truck.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Maschinengewehr 42 - 7.92x57mm Mauser
Error creating thumbnail: File missing The MG42 can be seen in center among the Kar98ks.
Other
Movie Kolberg
The 1945 German Propaganda movie Kolberg is shown to the Hitler Youth in a cinema.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Prussian soldier uses a musket.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing A Flintlock pistol is used by a French soldier.
Panzerfaust
Günter and Bernd are seen with Panzerfausts when they were sent to the front.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Panzerfaust - 44mm with 149mm warhead
Error creating thumbnail: File missing The two boys hold their Panzerfausts inside a barn.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Bernd's launcher on the floor.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing The Panzerfaust of Günter lies next him.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Some left behind Panzerfausts of Hitler Youth members eyed by Günter.
76 mm divisional gun M1942 (ZiS-3)
The 76 mm divisional gun M1942 (ZiS-3) .
Error creating thumbnail: File missing M1942 (ZiS-3) 76mm Divisional Gun - 76mm
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T-34/85
Error creating thumbnail: File missing A Red Army column enters the Mecklenburg town from the southwest. At first, this column is misinterpreted by Günter's father as British Tanks, that occupied Lübeck a day before (which was the 11th Armoured Division on May 2, 1945). According to this statement, this unnamed town must be near Lübeck, however, American and British forces in early May also reached the Cities of Wismar and Schwerin, which are located around 43.5 miles (70km) east of Lübeck. So this statement is historically incorrect since it would have been occupied by the Western allies at that time.