Ballad of a Soldier
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Ballad of a Soldier Ballada o soldate ) is a 1959 Soviet World War II drama directed by Grigori Chukhrai. A young soldier Alyosha Skvortsov (Vladimir Ivashov ) made a heroic act - destroyed two enemy tanks. A command decided to reward him. Alyosha asked for a few days of vacation to visit his mother. The way home was long and difficult. As a result, the young soldier has only a few minutes to hug his mother and say: "I'll be back, Mom!"
The following weapons were used in the film Ballad of a Soldier (Ballada o soldate) :
Rifles Mosin Nagant M38 Carbine Field telephone operators Alyosha Skvortsov (Vladimir Ivashov ) and his unnamed fellow soldier (Pyotr Savin ) are armed with Mosin Nagant M1938 Carbines .
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Mosin Nagant M38 Carbine - 7.62x54mmR Error creating thumbnail: File missing Both soldiers' carbines are seen on the ground. Error creating thumbnail: File missing A bolt of an M38 Carbine is seen. Error creating thumbnail: File missing A good view of Alyosha Skvortsov's carbine. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Alyosha runs through the battlefield. The forward section of the barrel of his carbine seems to be longer than on M38 Carbine, so this rifle may be an M44 Carbine with removed bayonet but this is only a guess. Error creating thumbnail: File missing A close-up of the muzzle and the front sight. Mosin Nagant M1891/30 Most Soviet soldiers (among them Valentin Bryleev , Lev Borisov , Nikolay Smorchkov and Aleksandr Kuznetsov ) are armed with Mosin Nagant M1891/30 rifles, all with attached bayonets.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Full-length, Soviet Mosin Nagant M1891/30 - 7.62x54mm R Error creating thumbnail: File missing Most soldiers on the river crossing carry M91/30 rifles. Error creating thumbnail: File missing A soldier (Lev Borisov ) at the left carries an M91/30 rifle. Error creating thumbnail: File missing An M91/30 rifle is seen at the left. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Error creating thumbnail: File missing Gavrilkin (Aleksandr Kuznetsov ), a sentry in the military train, holds an M91/30 rifle. Mosin Nagant M1891 Infantry Some soldiers, notably Sergey Pavlov (Gennadiy Yukhtin ), are armed with Mosin Nagant M1891 Infantry rifles.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Full-length, Imperial Russian Mosin Nagant M1891 Infantry - 7.62x54mm R Error creating thumbnail: File missing Sergey Pavlov (in center) carries an M91 Infantry rifle. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Another view of Pavlov's rifle. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Pavlov (at the right) and a soldier in center carry M91 Infantry rifles. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Another view of Pavlov's rifle. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Pavlov (at the left) carries his M91 Infantry rifle. Machine Guns Maxim M1910 or M1910/30 Several Maxim M1910 or M1910/30 machine guns are seen in the scene of the river crossing.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Maxim M1910 with 'Sokolov' wheel mount, w/o shield - 7.62x54mm R Error creating thumbnail: File missing A soldier carries the body of Maxim machine gun (at the left). Error creating thumbnail: File missing Another Maxim is seen in the same scene. Error creating thumbnail: File missing A soldier carries the carriage of the machine gun. Other Weapons PTRD-41 Alyosha Skvortsov (Vladimir Ivashov ) fires a PTRD-41 AT rifle at enemy tanks.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing PTRD-41 anti-tank rifle 14.5x114mm Error creating thumbnail: File missing While running through the battlefield, Alyosha falls down on a PTRD in a shell crater. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Error creating thumbnail: File missing Alyosha operates the PTRD rifle. Error creating thumbnail: File missing He watches at a burning German tank. Error creating thumbnail: File missing The buttstock is seen. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Alyosha fires at the second German tank Trivia 76.2mm divisional gun M1902 Error creating thumbnail: File missing 76.2mm M1902 Putilov Field Gun Error creating thumbnail: File missing A destroyed 76.2mm divisional gun M1902 can be seen on the battlefield. T-34-85 Error creating thumbnail: File missing A T-34-85 crosses the river. T-34-85 (visually modified as Tiger tank) Error creating thumbnail: File missing The fake German Tiger tank is built on the base of the T-34-85. Error creating thumbnail: File missing The tank is seen from the front. The frontal part of the T-34 turret remains unmodified. Error creating thumbnail: File missing The tank is seen from the air. 
