And Quiet Flows the Don
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And Quiet Flows the Don Tikhiy Don ) is a co-production British-Russian-Italian drama mini-series, a screen adaptation of the famous novel by Mikhail Sholokhov. It depict the fate of a Don Cossack family during the World War One, Russian revolution and civil war. The series was directed by Sergey Bondarchuk and filmed in 1990-1992 but due to the bankruptcy of the Italian film studio, the unfinished film and all working materials were confiscated by the lending bank. Only in 2005 the materials were purchased back, and the series, finished by Sergey Bondarchuk's son Fyodor Bondarchuk , was at last released in 2006.
The TV series is the third screen adaptation of Sholokhov's novel, following the 1930 B&W movie and the 1957-1958 three-part movie directed by Sergey Gerasimov , and preceeding the 2015 TV series directed by Sergey Ursulyak.
The following weapons were used in the film And Quiet Flows the Don (Tikhiy Don) :
Revolvers Nagant M1895 Grigoriy Melekhov (Rupert Everett ), Mikhail Koshevoy (Mikhail Vaskov ), a White Army Gen. Sidorin (Nikolay Zasukhin) and an unnamed officer carry Nagant M1895 revolvers during the scenes of the Russian Civil War. Nagants are also briefly seen in the scenes of the WWI. All Nagants are of post-1930 version.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Nagant M1895 Revolver - 7.62x38R Nagant. Note the angular front sight which was used from 1930s. Error creating thumbnail: File missing A Hungarian Hussar holds a Nagant (a correct revolver would be a Rast-Gasser 1898 ). Error creating thumbnail: File missing Another view of the Hussar's revolver. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Error creating thumbnail: File missing Red Cossack Mikhail Koshevoy kills White Cossack Pyotr Melekhov. Error creating thumbnail: File missing A White officer in charge of the convoy of Red POWs draws his revolver. Note that the extractor rod together with its housing is rotated to side. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Gen. Sidorin carries a Nagant in holster. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Grigoriy cleans his Nagant. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Grigoriy carries the Nagant in holster. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Error creating thumbnail: File missing Mikhail Koshevoy holds a Nagant. Rifles Mosin Nagant M1891 Dragoon and M1891/30 A mix of Mosin Nagant M1891 Dragoon and Mosin Nagant M1891/30 rifles are used by the Austro-Hungarian soldiers during the WWI and by Reds and Whites during the Russian Civil War.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Imperial Russian Mosin Nagant M1891 Dragoon - 7.62x54mm R Error creating thumbnail: File missing Soviet Mosin Nagant M1891/30 - 7.62x54mm R Error creating thumbnail: File missing An Austro-Hungarian artilleryman carries a Mosin Nagant M1891 Dragoon rifle. Error creating thumbnail: File missing The Red Guards carry M1891 Dragoon rifles and a Mosin Nagant M1938 Carbine (in center). Error creating thumbnail: File missing The Whites firing squad execute Red POWs. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Mikhail Koshevoy (Mikhail Vaskov ) holds an M1891 Dragoon rifle in the scene in the Revolutionary Committee building. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Red Guards with M1891 Dragoon rifles. One of them has a bayonet attached backwards. Error creating thumbnail: File missing A White Cossack at the right carries an M1891 Dragoon rifle. Error creating thumbnail: File missing A Red sailor, killed by Grigoriy Mekekhov, drops his rifle. The bolt is open, the rear sight indicates the 1910 version of the rifle. Error creating thumbnail: File missing The Commissar Osip Shtokman (uncredited) holds an M1891/30 rifle. The hooded front sight is seen. Error creating thumbnail: File missing A close view of the barrel and bayonet of the rifle of a Red Army man. Error creating thumbnail: File missing A number of M1891 Dragoon and M1891/30 rifles in the gun rack in the Whites headquarters. Mosin Nagant M1891 Infantry Mosin Nagant M1891 Infantry rifles are seen in the scene in the Revolutionary Committee building.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Imperial Russian Mosin Nagant M1891 Infantry - 7.62x54mm R Error creating thumbnail: File missing A Red Guard carries an M1891 Infantry rifle. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Another view of the same scene. Most rifles at the right wall are also Infantry model. Mosin Nagant M1938 Carbine Anachronistic Mosin Nagant M1938 Carbines are also used by Reds and Whites, notably by Grigoriy Melekhov (Rupert Everett ), Pyotr Melekhov (Vladimir Gostyukhin ), Darya Melekhova (Natalya Andreychenko), Pantelei Melekhov (F. Murray Abraham ), Prokhor Zykov (Aleksandr Bespalyy , credited as Alexander Bespalis), Mikhail Koshevoy (Mikhail Vaskov ), and Yesaul (Capt.) Ryabchikov (Anatoliy Guryev). The hooded front sights are removed from some carbines to make them look more like WWI era rifles.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Mosin Nagant M38 Carbine - 7.62x54mm R Error creating thumbnail: File missing Grigoriy Melekhov and other Cossacks carry M38 Carbines in the scene of WWI. Most carbines lack the hooded front sight. Error creating thumbnail: File missing A Red Guard in center carries an M38 Carbine, without the hooded front sight. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Pyotr Melekhov holds an M38 Carbine, without the front sight. Error creating thumbnail: File missing In the next scene Pyotr's carbine has the front sight on place. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Cossacks of Pyotr Melekhov's unit with M38 Carbines. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Prokhor Zykov carries an M38 Carbine. Error creating thumbnail: File missing A Red Army man fires at Commissar Osip Shtokman. Error creating thumbnail: File missing A Red Army man holds an M38 Carbine. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Darya takes a carbine from a Cossack. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Darya fires at Ivan Kotlyarov. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Mikhail Koshevoy carries an M38 Carbine. Error creating thumbnail: File missing A close view of the barrel of Koshevoy's carbine. Enfield Pattern 14 Austro-Hungarian (Hungarian Honved , judging by the headgears) soldiers are mostly armed with Enfield Pattern 14 rifles, instead of correct Mannlicher M1895s .
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Pattern M1914 (P 14) Enfield - .303 UK Error creating thumbnail: File missing Hungarian soldiers with Enfield P14 rifles and visually modified PK machine guns. Error creating thumbnail: File missing A soldier aims. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Soldiers in trench repel the Cossacks cavalry attack. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Error creating thumbnail: File missing Soldiers reload their rifles. Muskets Two antique muskets are seen on the wall in Gen. Lisnitskiy's house. They may be non-firing decorative "wall-hangers".
Error creating thumbnail: File missing An engraved matchlock (?) musket is seen at the right. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Another view of the same gun. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Error creating thumbnail: File missing A relatively short gun with Jezail style buttstock is seen on the wall. Shotguns Single Barreled Shotgun Young Grigoriy Melekhov (Rupert Everett ) holds a Single Barreled Shotgun when he meets Stepan Astakhov in pre-war scene. This is most likely one of the Izhmekh models, like IZh-17 or IZh-18 .
Error creating thumbnail: File missing For comparison: Izhmekh IZh-17 - 16 Gauge Error creating thumbnail: File missing For comparison: Izhmekh IZh-18EM-M - 12 gauge Error creating thumbnail: File missing Grigoriy holds the shotgun. His hand covers the hammer, so it's impossible to say if this is a gun with exposed hammer or a hammerless one. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Another view of the same scene. Double Barreled Shotgun A Double Barreled Shotgun is seen on the wall in Gen. Lisnitskiy's house.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing A double barreled shotgun is seen at the left. Machine Guns Maxim M1910 Maxim M1910 machine guns are used by Russian Army in the WWI, and by Red and White troops in the Russian Civil War.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Maxim M1910, simplified version with smooth water jacket - 7.62x54mmR Error creating thumbnail: File missing A Maxim on Russian positions in Spring 1917. Error creating thumbnail: File missing A Maxim in the Revolutionary Committee building. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Error creating thumbnail: File missing Maxim machine guns are mounted on tachanka horse carts of the Red sailors. Error creating thumbnail: File missing A Maxim in the headquarters of the White Cossacks. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Two Maxims of the White Cossacks. Pantelei Melekhov (F. Murray Abraham ) (at the left) holds a Mosin Nagant M1938 Carbine and carries an F-1 hand grenade on his belt. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Retreating Red troops with a Maxim. PK (visually modified to resemble MG34) The machine guns, used by Austro-Hungarian troops, are PKs , visually modified to resemble MG34 . Of course, neither MG34 nor PK is appropriate for the WWI era.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing A picture of the original MG34 and PK conversion Error creating thumbnail: File missing The machine guns on the positions. Error creating thumbnail: File missing A close-up of the firing machine gun. Error creating thumbnail: File missing The belt with blank cartidges is seen. Error creating thumbnail: File missing The receiver of the machine gun. Error creating thumbnail: File missing The visually modified PK is seen in the trench during the Cossacks cavalry attack. Other Weapons F-1 Hand Grenade Pantelei Melekhov (F. Murray Abraham ) and Mikhail Koshevoy (Mikhail Vaskov ) carry F-1 hand grenades in various scenes. These grenades may by a stand-in for French F1 or British Mills Bomb , both commonly used during the Russian Civil War.
F-1 High-Explosive Fragmentation hand grenade Error creating thumbnail: File missing Pantelei Melekhov (at the left) carries an F-1 grenade on his belt. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Koshevoy's weapons: Nagant M1895 revolver, Mosin Nagant M1938 Carbine and a pair of F-1 grenades. Trivia 3-inch M1902 Field Gun 3-inch M1902 field guns are used by Austro-Hungarian troops and by the Red Army.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Russian M1902 Field Gun - 76.2x385mm R Error creating thumbnail: File missing An Austro-Hungarian cannon. Error creating thumbnail: File missing The cannon show no recoil when firing - the muzzle flash and smoke are pyrotechnic effects. Error creating thumbnail: File missing A close view of the breech. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Two 3-inch guns of the Red troops. They slightly differ from each other, possibly of different modifications. Error creating thumbnail: File missing A close-up of the barrel of one of the Red guns. It has an uncommon shape of the front of the recoil device. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Another Red gun. It has a standard recoil device. Armoured Car (mockup) A mockup of a destroyed armored car is seen in one scene.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing A destroyed armored car of Red troops. It is armed with a Maxim M1910 machine gun in the turret. Documentary footage of the Great War is used in the series.
Lebel Mle 1886 Error creating thumbnail: File missing Lebel Model 1886 - 8x50mmR Lebel Error creating thumbnail: File missing French soldiers with Lebel Mle 1886 rifles. Unknown Mauser (?) Error creating thumbnail: File missing Error creating thumbnail: File missing German soldiers (identified by typical Pickelhaube spiked helmets) with Mauser rifles. The rifles have Gewehr 1898 -stye pistol-gripped stocks and protruding magazines which is an unknown combination. Mosin Nagant M1891 Error creating thumbnail: File missing Imperial Russian Mosin Nagant M1891 Infantry - 7.62x54mm R Error creating thumbnail: File missing Russian soldiers with Mosin Nagant M1891 rifles. Artillery Error creating thumbnail: File missing A heavy field gun, possibly 155 mm, of the French Army. Error creating thumbnail: File missing A heavy mortar of unknown model. English Release DVD Cover Error creating thumbnail: File missing The DVD release title is Quiet Flows the Don . 
