The Battle of Neretva: Difference between revisions
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The Battle of Neretva: Difference between revisions
[[Image:Pg-Mk2-hg-BN.jpg|thumb|none|500px|A Partisan girl about to throw a grenade at Chetnik cavalry.]]
[[Image:Pg-Mk2-hg-BN.jpg|thumb|none|500px|A Partisan girl about to throw a grenade at Chetnik cavalry.]]
== "Molotov coctail" ==
== Molotov cocktail ==
Partisans use incendiary Molotov cocktails against the German.
Partisans use incendiary Molotov cocktails against the Germans.
[[Image:Milena Drapcevic-BN.jpg|thumb|none|500px|A Partisan woman ([[Milena Drapcevic]]) throws a "Molotov cocktail" at German tanks.]]
[[Image:Milena Drapcevic-BN.jpg|thumb|none|500px|A Partisan woman ([[Milena Drapcevic]]) throws a Molotov cocktail at German tanks.]]
== Unidentified bomb ==
== Unidentified bomb ==
Revision as of 03:26, 24 March 2013
The Battle of Neretva (Original: Bitka na Neretvi) is a 1969 Yugoslavian war drama recounting the largest combat encounter between the Axis occupiers and the partisans in the territory of the former Yugoslavia during WWII. The film was an Italian-German coproduction directed by Veljko Bulajic and was the most expensive film produced in the then-Yugoslavia country. The film also featured an international cast including Yul Brynner, Orson Welles, Sergei Bondarchuk, Hardy Krüger, Curt Jürgens, Franco Nero and Sylva Koscina and is also notable for the massive amount of Soviet-made armor used in the production.
Partisans anti-tank troops are equipped with PTRS-41 rifles.
Kurzer 8 cm Granatwerfer 42 (GrW 34)
Flak 38
Partisans capture a German Flakvierling 38 anti-aircraft gun.
M1939 (52-K) Soviet 85mm Anti Aircraft Gun
7.5 cm PaK 40
Armor
One of the most interesting aspects of this film was the massive amount of Soviet-era armor lent to the production including the following:
T-34
The unmodified T-34 Russian tank is the most widely seen armored vehicle in the film, which was typically seen utilized by the German forces.
Pzkw VI Tiger I
What appear to be Tiger I tanks are also seen used by German forces in the film. In reality, these were T-34's with modified turrets to resemble the Tiger. These mockups were so well detailed that three of them were eventually reused in the 1970 Clint Eastwood war film Kelly's Heroes.
M4 Sherman
Strangely, American M4 Sherman tanks are also seen depicted as German armor in the film.