Blizzard of Souls: Difference between revisions
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Blizzard of Souls: Difference between revisions
A [[12 Gauge Double Barreled Shotgun]] hangs on a wall in Artūrs' mother's home.
A [[12 Gauge Double Barreled Shotgun]] hangs on a wall in Artūrs' mother's home.
[[File:Stevens12GaugeShotgun.jpg|thumb|none|400px|J. Stevens and Company Side by Side Shotgun (Circa 1878) exposed hammers and designed to fire Black Powder shotgun shells - 12 Gauge]]
[[File:Stevens12GaugeShotgun.jpg|thumb|none|400px|J. Stevens and Company Side by Side Shotgun - 12 Gauge]]
[[File:BlizzardofSouls-Shotgun1.jpg|thumb|none|600px|The shotgun is seen hanging on the left side of the entrance.]]
[[File:BlizzardofSouls-Shotgun1.jpg|thumb|none|600px|The shotgun is seen hanging on the left side of the entrance.]]
[[File:BlizzardofSouls-Shotgun2.jpg|thumb|none|600px|A German officer checks the shotgun.]]
[[File:BlizzardofSouls-Shotgun2.jpg|thumb|none|600px|A German officer checks the shotgun.]]
Blizzard of Souls, also titled 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 Artūrs 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. Artūrs now finds himself fighting in the midst of a brutal civil war, which makes the hope of peace and the liberation of his homeland a distant, almost futile, prospect.
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 the 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 Latvian Riflemen in the film, including Artūrs Vanags (Oto Brantevics), Edgars Vanags (Raimonds Celms), Mikelsons (Jekabs Reinis), and Konrads (Gatis Gaga). It is still 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 Artūrs and his father. Some unscoped Kar98ks are also used by German and Latvian soldiers in mass scenes.
Instead of accurate German stick grenades like the Model 15, 16, or 17, the post-war Model 24 Stielhandgranates are used, presumably standing in for their more historically accurate counterparts.
