Blizzard of Souls: Difference between revisions
Blizzard of Souls: Difference between revisions - Internet Movie Firearms Database - Guns in Movies, TV and Video Games
Blizzard of Souls: Difference between revisions
[[Image:Nagant-1895.jpg|thumb|none|300px|Nagant M1895 Revolver - 7.62x38R Nagant. This example was dated 1939 manufacture and was a Wartime issued weapon. Note the angular front sight which was used from 1930s.]]
[[Image:Nagant-1895.jpg|thumb|none|300px|Nagant M1895 Revolver - 7.62x38R Nagant. This example was dated 1939 manufacture and was a Wartime issued weapon. Note the angular front sight which was used from 1930s.]]
[[File:BlizzardofSouls-Nagant1.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Vanags gives orders to flank the sniper with his revolver in hand. This revolver has an early rounded front sight.]]
[[File:BlizzardofSouls-Nagant1.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Vanags gives orders to flank the sniper with his revolver in hand. This revolver has an early rounded front sight.]]
[[File:BlizzardofSouls-Nagant2.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Pinned down by machine-gun fire, Edgars takes cover with his Nagant with the pre-1930 angular front sight.]]
[[File:BlizzardofSouls-Nagant2.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Pinned down by machine-gun fire, Edgars takes cover with his Nagant with the post-1930 angular front sight.]]
[[File:BlizzardofSouls-Nagant3.jpg|thumb|none|600px|A closer view of Edgars' snowy revolver.]]
[[File:BlizzardofSouls-Nagant3.jpg|thumb|none|600px|A closer view of Edgars' snowy revolver.]]
[[File:BlizzardofSouls-Nagant4.jpg|thumb|none|600px|A Bolshevik officer with his drawn Nagant revolver.]]
[[File:BlizzardofSouls-Nagant4.jpg|thumb|none|600px|A Bolshevik officer with his drawn Nagant revolver.]]
Blizzard of Souls, or also titled as The Rifleman, is a 2019 Latvian war movie directed by Dzintars Dreibergs and based on the novel of the same name by Aleksandrs Grīns. Latvia 1915, 16-year-old Arturs Vanags joins the Imperial Russian Army after losing his mother and home to war. But the hope of glory and the thrill of training is soon followed by the harsh reality of the battlefield. When the war seems to be coming to an end, there is a revolution in their own ranks. Arthur fights from now on in a brutal civil war, which puts the hoped-for peace and the liberation of his homeland again in the far distance.
The following weapons were used in the film Blizzard of Souls:
Latvian officers like Father Vanags (Martins Vilsons) and Sala (Vilis Daudzins) are seen using Nagant M1895. Both, the correct Imperial Russian and later produced Soviet variant, are seen.
Despite the fact, that Latvian troops during WWI were not equipped with the Dragoon rifle, it is widely used by them including Arturs Vanags (Oto Brantevics), Edgars Vanags (Raimonds Celms), Mikelsons (Jekabs Reinis) and Konrads (Gatis Gaga). But it is a more accurate choice than the M91/30 and Finnish M39 rifles seen in the first trailer.
An anachronistic scoped Karabiner 98k is used by the German sniper and later by Arturs and his father. Some unscoped Kar98ks are also used by German and Latvian soldiers in mass scenes.
