Enemy at the Gates: Difference between revisions
Enemy at the Gates: Difference between revisions - Internet Movie Firearms Database - Guns in Movies, TV and Video Games
Enemy at the Gates: Difference between revisions
[[Image:ETG-DegtyarevA.jpg|thumb|none|600px|At the Soviet HQ, some of the guards have Degtyarov DPM Machine Gun - 7.62x54R]]
[[Image:ETG-DegtyarevA.jpg|thumb|none|600px|At the Soviet HQ, some of the guards have Degtyarov DPM Machine Gun - 7.62x54R]]
===Maxim/Sokolov M1910-30 Machine Gun===
===Maxim M1910/30 Machine Gun===
The [[Maxim]] MG08 Machine Gun was adopted and used by the Russians. Their own version was designated the M1910-30 Machine Gun and chambered for the 7.62x54R Cartridge. Other M1910-30 Machine Guns can be seen in various fortified positions and on the troop transport train.
Russian [[Maxim M1910/30]] machine guns can be seen in various fortified positions and on the troop transport train.
[[Image:S_maxim.jpg|thumb|none|400px|Maxim 1910 with wheel mount and shield - 7.62x54mmR]]
[[File:Maxim M1910 30.jpg|thumb|none|400px|Russian Maxim 1910/30, post 1941 manufacture with top hatch on cooling jacket allowing it to be filled more quickly or with snow - 7.62x54mmR]]
[[Image:EnemyGatesMG08 02.jpg|thumb|none|600px|NKVD blocking troops ready their M1910-30 Machine gun.]]
[[Image:EnemyGatesMG08 02.jpg|thumb|none|600px|NKVD blocking troops ready their M1910/30 Machine gun. Note the post-1941 shape of the cooling jacket.]]
===DShK heavy machine gun===
===DShK heavy machine gun===
Revision as of 20:10, 17 March 2013
Error creating thumbnail: File missingEnemy at the Gates (2001) The theatrical movie poster with the "infamous" reversed image of a Mosin Nagant M91/30.
Enemy at the Gates is a 2001 World War II film directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud (Alien: Resurrection). Jude Law stars in the film as Vassili Zaitsev, an ordinary Russian soldier who became a legend for his feats as a sniper fighting during the battle of Stalingrad. Ed Harris co-stars in the film as German intelligence officer Major König, an expert sniper tasked to eliminate Zaitsev. The cast also includes Joseph Fiennes and Rachel Weisz. The film is notable for being one of the few modern English language films to depict the Eastern Front of the war.
The following weapons were used in the film Enemy at the Gates:
The Mosin Nagant M91/30 is used by nearly all Soviet infantry enlisted men in the film. Also used by Vasily Zaitsev (Jude Law) at the first battle he experiences in Stalingrad.
This shorter carbine version of the Mosin Nagant M38 is seen carried by Tania Chernova (Rachel Weisz), when she first encounters Vasily Zaitsev.
Error creating thumbnail: File missingMosin Nagant M38 Carbine - 7.62x54RError creating thumbnail: File missingWhen Tania Chernova (Rachel Weisz) first enters the basement, she is carrying a Mosin Nagant M38 Carbine - 7.62x54R. Note that she does not use the leather 'rings' of the traditional Mosin Nagant Sling, instead she sticks one end through the buttstock sling opening (like a K98 Rifle). Probably a field expedient to a damaged rifle sling.Error creating thumbnail: File missingTania Chernova (Rachel Weisz) setting her Mosin Nagant M38 Carbine against the wall next to Vasilis' Sniper Rifle - 7.62x54R
Mosin Nagant M91/30 Sniper Rifle
Vasily Zaitsev (Jude Law) uses a Mosin-Nagant M91/30 rifle with a PU scope when he is "promoted" to sniper. The Sniper version of the M91/30 is used by the other Soviet snipers, most notably master sniper Koulikov (Ron Perlman), Tania Chernova (Rachel Weisz), and junior snipers Volodya (Ivan Shvedoff) and Ludmilla (Sophie Rois). The use of the PU scope is anachronistic, as the Mosin-Nagant rifle with PU scope did not appear until 1943, after the Battle of Stalingrad. Zaitsev actually carried a Mosin-Nagant with an earlier PEM scope.
Russian Maxim M1910/30 machine guns can be seen in various fortified positions and on the troop transport train.
Error creating thumbnail: File missingRussian Maxim 1910/30, post 1941 manufacture with top hatch on cooling jacket allowing it to be filled more quickly or with snow - 7.62x54mmRError creating thumbnail: File missingNKVD blocking troops ready their M1910/30 Machine gun. Note the post-1941 shape of the cooling jacket.
Error creating thumbnail: File missingAn M1940 72-K 25mm Soviet Anti Aircraft gun can be see on the troop transport train. A Maxim/Sokolov M1910-30 Machine Gun can be seen in the front.
The precursor to the MP40, finely machined and more difficult to manufacture, the MP38 was phased out in favor of the stamped sheet metal MP40. The MP38 can be seen by various German soldiers, usually older NCOs.
