Alyosha
Poster
Main Cast
Character
Actor
Alyosha
Maksim Saprykin
Yefrem Zhavoronok
Vladimir Epifantsev
Klanya
Anna Popova
Maj. Otto Kluge
Yuriy Utkin
Aldya
Yevgeniya Kaverau
Willi Lanz
Igor Denisov
Fedos
Igor Karpievich
Sr. Lt. Arkhipov
Kirill Novitskiy
Alyosha
The following weapons were used in the film Alyosha :
Revolvers Nagant M1895 Hilfspolizei Pashuk (uncredited) carries a Nagant M1895 revolver. Then his revolver is used by partisans nurse Aldya (Yevgeniya Kaverau).
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Nagant M1895 - 7.62x38R Nagant. Note the angular front sight which was used from 1930s. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Pashuk, one of the group of escaped Hilfspolizei , holds a Nagant. Error creating thumbnail: File missing A close-up of Pashuk's Nagant. Error creating thumbnail: File missing The revolver on the ground. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Error creating thumbnail: File missing Aldya holds the Nagant. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Alyosha (Maksim Saprykin) examines Aldya's revolver. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Error creating thumbnail: File missing The ammo is seen. In previous scenes the cylinder was empty. Pistols TT-33 Sr. Lt. of the Internal Troops of NKVD Arkhipov (Kirill Novitskiy ) carries a TT-33 .
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Tokarev TT-33 - 7.62x25mm Tokarev. Post-1947 version. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Arkhipov holds a TT. Error creating thumbnail: File missing He fires at Hilfspolizei Fedos. Note the Nagant pattern holster. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Another view of the pistol. Mauser C96 The commander of the partisans brigade (uncredited) carries a Mauser C96 in wooden holster.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Pre-War dated Mauser C96 "Broomhandle" Commercial Version - 7.63x25mm Mauser Error creating thumbnail: File missing Error creating thumbnail: File missing Submachine Guns PPSh-41 PPSh-41 submachine guns are used by Alyosha (Maksim Saprykin) and several other partisans, as well as the Soviet soldiers.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing PPSh-41 - 7.62x25mm Tokarev Error creating thumbnail: File missing Yefrem Zhavoronok (Vladimir Epifantsev ) fixes the jammed cartridge on Alyosha's PPSh. Error creating thumbnail: File missing A partisan fires a PPSh during the night battle at the river crossing. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Alyosha rests with his PPSh at hand. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Error creating thumbnail: File missing Alyosha fires the PPSh. Error creating thumbnail: File missing A Soviet Sergeant holds a group of Hilfspolizei at gunpoint. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Hilfspolizei Vasiliy Astashonok (uncredited) with a PPSh, taken from a killed Soviet soldier.Error creating thumbnail: File missing A Hilfspolizei Mikhas (uncredited), dressed in Soviet uniform, holds a PPSh. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Alyosha carries a PPSh. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Alyosha aims a PPSh. MP40 Several German soldiers carry MP40 submachine guns.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing MP40 - 9x19mm Error creating thumbnail: File missing One of the German motorcyclists fires an MP40 during the skirmish with the partisans. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Maj. Kluge's aide Lt. Heinz (uncredited) holds an MP40. Error creating thumbnail: File missing A German soldier at the foreground fires an MP40 during the battle at the river crossing. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Lt. Heinz carries an MP40. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Hilfspolizei Vasiliy Astashonok (uncredited) aims an MP40.Error creating thumbnail: File missing Error creating thumbnail: File missing Astashonok with the MP40 in hands. MP40 (replica) German soldier Jan (uncredited) carries an MP40 that turns out to be a plastic replica, very possibly a toy gun.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing A plastic replica of MP40 is seen at the right. Rifles Mosin Nagant M1891/30 Soviet partisans, German soldiers and Hilfspolizei widely use Mosin Nagant M1891/30 rifles.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Mosin Nagant M1891/30 - 7.62x54mm R Error creating thumbnail: File missing A partisan at the left carries an M91/30 rifle. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Hilfspolizei Kirak (uncredited) (at the left) and Fedos (Igor Karpievich) with M91/30 rifles.Error creating thumbnail: File missing Fedos' rifle lacks the hood on the front sight but due to the rounded receiver, his rifle is identified as an M91/30, and the hood is removed or broken. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Another view of the same scene. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Fedos holds his rifle in another scene. The front sight is of M91/30, with removed or broken hood. The cleaning rod with small diameter head is also a feature of M91/30. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Two German soldiers with Mosin Nagant rifles. The rifle at the left lacks the hood on the front sight and may be an M91 Dragoon or the similar (or even the same) M91/30 that was used by Fedos. Error creating thumbnail: File missing A gunned down German soldier drops his rifle. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Maj. Otto Kluge (Yuriy Utkin), the commander of the group of encircled German troops, holds an M91/30 rifle during the close combat with Zhavoronok. Due to a continuity error, previously seen Kluge's Karabiner 98k switches to a Mosin Nagant rifle. Error creating thumbnail: File missing A deactivation slot can be seen on the barrel of a Soviet soldier's rifle. Karabiner 98k Many German soldiers and Hilfspolizei are armed with Karabiner 98k rifles.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Karabiner 98k - 7.92x57mm Mauser. Manufactured in Germany, 1937. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Willi Lanz (Igor Denisov) holds a Karabiner 98k. Error creating thumbnail: File missing SS-Obersturmführer Rolf (uncredited) fires a Kar 98k during the battle at the river crossing. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Hilfspolizei Mikhas (uncredited) with a Kar 98k.Error creating thumbnail: File missing Mikhas and Astashonok (uncredited) aim at wounded partisans. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Hilfspolizei Pashuk (uncredited) with a Kar 98k.Error creating thumbnail: File missing Pashuk fires at cowardly Fedos. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Error creating thumbnail: File missing German soldiers, including Rolf, Lanz, Kurt and Jan, carry Kar 98k rifles during the wandering through the forest. Error creating thumbnail: File missing A close-up of a 98k of a German soldier. Error creating thumbnail: File missing A German soldier fires a Kar 98k. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Rolf takes a rifle with attached bayonet from a dying soldier. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Maj. Otto Kluge (Yuriy Utkin) holds a Kar 98k during the close combat with Zhavoronok. Due to a continuity error, in next moment his Kar 98k switches to a Mosin Nagant rifle. Antique Musket An antique musket of unknown model (very likely a mockup) is seen in hands of a village old man Alyes (uncredited) when he guards German POWs. Alyes claims that his grandfather got this gun on the Russian-Turkish war.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing The gun is partially seen in hands of Alyes. It looks very crude and may be nothing more than a mockup. Machine Guns Degtyaryov DP-27 Partisan Yefrem Zhavoronok (Vladimir Epifantsev ) carries a DP-27 machine gun throughout the series.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Degtyaryov DP-27 - 7.62x54mm R Error creating thumbnail: File missing Zhavoronok's DP-27 on the position. A Maxim machine gun is seen at the background. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Zhavoronok fires at German motorcyclists, covering the evacuation of wounded partisans. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Zhavoronok carries the machine gun. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Zhavoronok puts the magazine into the bag. Error creating thumbnail: File missing A close-up of two magazines. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Zhavoronok readies the DP-27. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Zhavoronok fires at German soldiers, holding the machine gun at one leg of the bipod. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Mikhas (uncredited) examines the DP-27. Error creating thumbnail: File missing A good view of the folded bipod of the DP-27. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Zhavoronok fires at Rolf. Maxim M1910/30 The partisans use a Maxim M1910/30 machine gun.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Maxim M1910/30, post-1941 manufacture with top hatch on cooling jacket allowing it to be filled more quickly or with snow - 7.62x54mmR Error creating thumbnail: File missing The Maxim on position. Error creating thumbnail: File missing The platoon commander, unnamed Lieutenant (Ilya Yasinskiy) at the machine gun. Error creating thumbnail: File missing The Lieutenant fires the Maxim. The water drain hole on the water jacket is plugged with a wooden stick - a very plausible detail for a partisans machine gun. Error creating thumbnail: File missing The Lieutenant maintains the machine gun. MG42 An MG42 is used by the partisans. Later an MG42, probably the same prop reused, is seen in German Maj. Kluge's car. This machine gun doesn't fire; in firing scene it is replaced with a PKM , visually modified as MG34 (see below).
Error creating thumbnail: File missing MG42 - 7.92x57mm Mauser Error creating thumbnail: File missing Error creating thumbnail: File missing Partisan Giniatulin (uncredited) carries the MG42 on sling and two ammo boxes in hands. Error creating thumbnail: File missing The MG42 on position. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Giniatulin at the machine gun. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Error creating thumbnail: File missing Error creating thumbnail: File missing An MG42 in Kluge's car. PKM (visually modified as MG34) In firing scenes the abovementioned MG42 is replaced by a PKM , visually modified as MG34 .
Error creating thumbnail: File missing A picture of the original MG34 and PK conversion Error creating thumbnail: File missing Giniatulin (uncredited) fires at German motorcyclists. Error creating thumbnail: File missing The fake MG34 on a German motorcycle. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Giniatulin fires the fake MG34. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Error creating thumbnail: File missing A German motorcyclist fires the machine gun. Other Weapons PTRD-41 Partisan Gurban (uncredited) fires a PTRD-41 in battle.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing PTRD-41 - 14.5x114mm Error creating thumbnail: File missing Gurban aims the PTRD. Error creating thumbnail: File missing The large amount of flame from the barrel is a result of deactivation of the weapon. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Gurban holds the bolt of the PTRD during the cleaning. This procedure is rarely seen on screen. F-1 Hand Grenade Alyosha (Maksim Saprykin) carries a pair of F-1 hand grenades .
F-1 High-Explosive Fragmentation hand grenade Error creating thumbnail: File missing An F-1 grenade is seen in Alyosha's hand. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Alyosha throws a grenade. Error creating thumbnail: File missing He readies his second grenade. Error creating thumbnail: File missing An F-1 and two RGD-33 grenades. RGD-33 RGD-33 hand grenades is seen in several scenes.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing RGD-33 high-explosive fragmentation stick grenade, shown with the diamond-patterned fragmentation sleeve. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Two RGD-33 are seen on the partisans positions. Error creating thumbnail: File missing An F-1 and two RGD-33 grenades. Granatwerfer 34 Mortar German soldiers use Granatwerfer 34 Mortars in battle.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing 8-cm Granatwerfer 34 (GrW 34) Error creating thumbnail: File missing Error creating thumbnail: File missing A GrW 34 mortar in action. Kurzer Granatwerfer 42 German soldiers also use Kurzer Granatwerfer 42 mortars, nicknamed "Stummelwerfer".
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Kurzer 8 cm Granatwerfer 42 - 81.4mm Error creating thumbnail: File missing Loading. The mortar shell is a Wgr. 34 or Wgr. 38. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Error creating thumbnail: File missing Fire! Error creating thumbnail: File missing Two mortars in action, both seem to be "Stummelwerfers". 45 mm anti-tank gun M1937 (53-K) A 45 mm AT gun 53-K is used by the partisans.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing M1937 (53-K) anti-tank gun - 45 mm (1.77 in) Error creating thumbnail: File missing Error creating thumbnail: File missing The 45 mm gun fires during the night battle at the river crossing. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Error creating thumbnail: File missing The gunner opens the breech and the spent ammo extracts. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Reloading. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Another view of the 45 mm gun in action. Trivia Throughout the series, Maj. Otto Kluge (Yuriy Utkin) carries a pistol holster that seems to be empty. Mostly this is a universal holster for Luger P08 and Walther P38 but in one scene it switches to a Bulgarian pattern holster for Luger.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Kluge carries a standard universal holster. It seems to be empty. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Kluge carries a Bulgarian pattern holster for Luger in the scene of the close combat. This holster also seems to be empty. Documentary footage of Soviet partisans is seen during the opening credits.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Partisans with a field gun, most likely a 76.2 mm F-22USV (M1939). Error creating thumbnail: File missing Partisans carry PPSh-41 and PPS-43 submachine guns. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Error creating thumbnail: File missing A Maxim M1910/30 machine gun. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Partisans fire a small mortar, probably an RM-38, RM-39 or RM-40 . Error creating thumbnail: File missing A partisan carries a PPD-40 . Error creating thumbnail: File missing Partisans with Mosin Nagant Rifles and a PTRD-41 AT rifle (at the left). 
