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
[[File:BlizzardofSouls-Kar4.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Vanags holds his camouflaged Kar98k covers Arturs' face with mud.]]
[[File:BlizzardofSouls-Kar4.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Vanags holds his camouflaged Kar98k covers Arturs' face with mud.]]
[[File:BlizzardofSouls-Kar5.jpg|thumb|none|600px|There are indentations on the buttstock, to show how many kills he got.]]
[[File:BlizzardofSouls-Kar5.jpg|thumb|none|600px|There are indentations on the buttstock, to show how many kills he got.]]
[[File:BlizzardofSouls-Kar6.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Arturs aims the carbine at a German soldier, who stands on top of the edge of the trench as a punishment.]]
[[File:BlizzardofSouls-Kar6.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Arturs aims the carbine at a German soldier, who stands on top of the edge of the trench as a punishment; what is rather an unlikely event.]]
==Mauser Model 1938==
==Mauser Model 1938==
What appears to be an anachronistic [[1903 Turkish Mauser|Turkish Mauser]] is briefly seen used by a child soldier.
What appears to be an anachronistic [[1903 Turkish Mauser|Turkish Mauser]] is briefly seen used by a child soldier.
[[Image:Turk38Mauser.jpg|thumb|none|450px|Turkish Mauser Model 1938 - 7.92x57mm ("8mm Mauser")]]
[[Image:Turk38Mauser.jpg|thumb|none|450px|Turkish Mauser Model 1938 - 7.92x57mm ("8mm Mauser")]]
[[File:BlizzardofSouls-Mauser.jpg|thumb|none|600px|The child soldier in center aims his Mauser. The front barrel is different from German Mausers.]]
[[File:BlizzardofSouls-Mauser.jpg|thumb|none|600px|The child soldier second in the foreground aims his Mauser. The front barrel is different from German Mausers.]]
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.
