The Tunnel (Tunelul): Difference between revisions
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[[File:Tunnel-Holster-4.jpg|thumb|none|600px|A Soviet officer carries an out of time holster for [[Makarov PM]].]]
[[File:Tunnel-Holster-5.jpg|thumb|none|600px|A Sovier officer carries a holster for [[Nagant M1895]].]]
[[File:Tunnel-Holster-1.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Lt. Denisov ([[Aleksei Loktev]]) carries a TT holster.]]
[[File:Tunnel-Holster-1.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Lt. Denisov ([[Aleksei Loktev]]) carries a TT holster.]]
[[File:Tunnel-Holster-2.jpg|thumb|none|600px|''Hauptmann'' Otto von Keller ([[Emmerich Schäffer]]) carries a Luger holster.]]
[[File:Tunnel-Holster-6.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Natasha ([[Valentina Malyavina]]) carries a holster for her compact pistol (at the left). It is much smaller than TT holster.]]
[[File:Tunnel-Holster-2.jpg|thumb|none|600px|''Hauptmann'' Otto von Keller ([[Emmerich Schäffer]]) carries a early version of [[Walther P38]] holster (though his pistol is a [[Luger P08]].]]
[[File:Tunnel-Holster-7.jpg|thumb|none|600px|A German officer carries a P38 holster.]]
[[File:Tunnel-Holster-3.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Capt. Dronov ([[Gennadiy Yukhtin]]) carries a TT holster.]]
[[File:Tunnel-Holster-3.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Capt. Dronov ([[Gennadiy Yukhtin]]) carries a TT holster.]]
The Tunnel (Romanian title Tunelul, Russian title Tunnel) is a Romanian-Soviet 1966 B&W war movie, directed by Francisc Munteanu. In Autumn 1944, soon after Romania turned against Nazi Germany, a joint Soviet-Romanian commando group is sent across enemy lines with a mission to prevent the destroying of strategic mountain tunnel by German troops.
The following weapons were used in the film The Tunnel (Tunelul):
A Walther P38 is a personal sidearm of Romanian Sublocotenent (2nd Lt.) Mihai Petrescu (Ion Dichiseanu). In the climactic scene the Walther switches to TT-33.
While crossing the frontline and in the first scene in safe house Sublocotenent Mihai Petrescu (Ion Dichiseanu) carries a different pistol that seems to be an M1911A1 or some similar looking gun.
Radio Operator Sgt. Natasha (Valentina Malyavina) carries an unidentified pistol. It appears to be smaller than a TT. The shape and size are similar to Korovin TK but it's unproved guess.
PPSh-41 SMGs are widely used by Soviet soldiers, notably by members of commando group Grigoriy (Lev Prygunov), who has a PPSh with stick magazine, and Sergei (Viktor Filippov).
In the final scene a group of Soviet and Romanian soldiers, lead by Capt. Dronov (Gennadiy Yukhtin), break through the tunnel on a railbus. A machine gun on tripod is mounted in the railbus. It appears to be a post-war Goryunov SGM (the tripod mount for SGM was issued only in 1949).
In the same scene a light machine gun on bipod is seen on the rooftop of the railbus. It seems to have a top-mounted magazine, so a Romanian issued ZB-30 would be a good guess. It's hard to say if the magazine is straight or curved; in latter case the machine gun could be a Bulgarian issued ZB-39 (Bren is uncommon for Eastern Europian cinema).
In the climactic scene Molchanov (Leonid Zverintsev), disguised as a Romanian railroad worker, tries to use a bundle of hand grenades to explode the rails. The grenades are of "pineapple" type but the model is uclear: they looks different from Soviet F-1, its Romanian post-war version, French F1 and other similar grenades.
