If War Comes Tomorrow (Esli zavtra voyna): Difference between revisions
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[[File:EZV-T27-1.jpg|thumb|none|500px|T-27 tankettes and T-37A amphibious light tanks are armed with a single DT, hull-mounted on T-27 and turret-mounted on T-37.]]
[[File:EZV-T27-1.jpg|thumb|none|500px|T-27 tankettes and T-37A amphibious light tanks are armed with a single DT, hull-mounted on T-27 and turret-mounted on T-37.]]
[[File:EZV-DT-2.jpg|thumb|none|500px|A close view of the DT on T-27 tankette. This scene is a footage from 1933 movie ''Deserter'' where T-27 appears as a armoured vehicle of German police, used against rioting dockers in Hamburg.]]
[[File:EZV-DT-2.jpg|thumb|none|500px|A close view of the DT on T-27 tankette. This scene is a footage from 1933 movie ''[[Deserter (Dezertir) (1933)|Dezertir]]'' where T-27 appears as a armoured vehicle of German police, used against rioting dockers in Hamburg.]]
[[File:EZV-T26-1.jpg|thumb|none|500px||T-26 Model 1931 light tanks are armed with two DT machine guns in twin turrets.]]
[[File:EZV-T26-1.jpg|thumb|none|500px||T-26 Model 1931 light tanks are armed with two DT machine guns in twin turrets.]]
[[File:EZV-DT-1.jpg|thumb|none|500px|A coaxial DT on BT-5 tank.]]
[[File:EZV-DT-1.jpg|thumb|none|500px|A coaxial DT on BT-5 tank.]]
Efim Dzigan Georgi Beryozko Lazar Antsi-Polovskiy Nikolay Karmazinskiy
Release Date
1938
Language
Russian German
Studio
Mosfilm
If War Comes Tomorrow (original title Esli zavtra voyna...) is a Soviet 1938 B&W war movie directed by a group lead by Efim Dzigan. It depicts an invasion of some unnamed hostile state in USSR, the repulse and the following victorious counteroffensive of the Red Army. The enemy state is never named (although it is known that Nazi Germany was meant and the enemy trops speack in German), and even the insignias of invading army are fictional, so in this article these troops are named simply "enemy". Most of the movie was filmed during the large maneuvers of Red Army, and no actors are credited as the plans of the creators of the movie was to show it as a documentary (so it is similar to what is known as "mockumentary" in modern days). The movie and its musical theme, the song "Esli zavtra voyna" became famous in USSR but when the war really broke out, it was so different from the film that it was banned for a long time.
The following weapons were used in the film If War Comes Tomorrow (Esli zavtra voyna):
In one scene an enemy officer holds a pistol that appears to be a Colt M1911 (an original M1911 is a better guess than an M1911A1 as A1s appeared in USSR only via lend-lease while M1911 were purchased by Russian Imperial Army in 1916-17).
In one scene several Soviet paratroopes carry guns that aren't seen clear but their general outlook greatly resembles Tokarev M1927 submachine guns. It was an experimental weapon, chambered for 7.62mm Nagant cartridges. Tokarev SMG was never adopted for service but several hundred pieces were produced for extensive trials, so these guns could appear in the movie.
Simonov AVS-36 automatic rifles are seen in documentary footage of the 1938 May Day parade in Moscow when these brand new guns were first seen in public.
Mannlicher M1895 rifles are also used by enemy troops. A rifle that appears to be a short version of M1895, known as Repetier Stutzen M1895, is seen in documentary footage.
Degtyaryov DP-27 machine guns are used by Red Army troops and Soviet border guards. DA-27s, mounted on Colt M1895 tripod with shield, are used by enemy troops. All DP-27s, seen in the movie, lack their conical flash hiders, supposedly due to the problems when firing blank cartridges in full auto mode.
A single Degtyaryov DA machine gun is mounted on Polikarpov R-5 reconnaissance plane. Twin DA-2 machine guns are mounted on Tupolev TB-3 heavy bombers.