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Reichswehr soldiers, guarding the strikebreakers, carry full-length rifles with long bayonets. These rifles are seen only in distance and cannot be identified. | Reichswehr soldiers, guarding the strikebreakers, carry full-length rifles with long bayonets. These rifles are seen only in distance and cannot be identified. | ||
[[File:Dezertir-1933-Rifle-1.jpg|thumb|none|501px|Soldiers carry rifles with bayonets. These thin and long bayonets with hooked quillion mostly resemble French patterns, issued for Lebel and Berthier rifles.]] | [[File:Dezertir-1933-Rifle-1.jpg|thumb|none|501px|Soldiers carry rifles with bayonets. These thin and long bayonets with hooked quillion mostly resemble French patterns, issued for [[Lebel 1886|Lebel]] and [[Berthier Rifles|Berthier]] rifles.]] | ||
Mounted policemen also carry unidentified short rifles. | Mounted policemen also carry unidentified short rifles. | ||
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Deserter (Dezertir) is a 1933 Soviet B&W film directed by Vsevolod Pudovkin. A young Hamburg worker Karl Renn (Boris Livanov) is a member of the German Communist party, but he doesn't show courage in the direct struggle with strikebreakers and police and even deserts a picket-line. His elder comrade Ludwig Zelle chooses Karl as a member of the delegation to the Soviet Union. Karl works together with Soviet workers on a mechanical plant but when gets news that Zelle is killed by police, he returns to Germany and becomes an active member of the struggle.
The following weapons were used in the film Deserter (Dezertir):
Rifles
Karabiner 1888
Several German mounted policemen, dispersing the workers demonstration, carry Karabiner 1888s.
Mannlicher M1895 Short Rifle
Several mounted policemen carry Mannlicher M1895 short rifles that are Stutzen riflemen short rifles or cavalry carbines.
Karabiner 98a
One of the policemen carries a Karabiner 98a, identified by the distinctive stacking hook just below the upper barrel band.
Unidentified rifles
Reichswehr soldiers, guarding the strikebreakers, carry full-length rifles with long bayonets. These rifles are seen only in distance and cannot be identified.
Mounted policemen also carry unidentified short rifles.
Machine Guns
Degtyaryov DT
A T-27 tankette, armed with a Degtyaryov DT machine gun, is standing it for an armoured vehicle of German police, used against rioting dockers in Hamburg. This scene was reused in 1938 film Esli zavtra voyna.
