Moonzund is a 1988 (filmed 1987) Soviet two-part historical war movie directed by Aleksandr Muratov (II) and based on the eponymous novel by Valentin Pikul. The movie depicts the story of Russian Navy officer Sergey Artenyev (Oleg Menshikov) during the World War I and the Russian Revolution 1917, his love affair with beautiful and mysterious woman who turns out to be an agent of Russian intellegence, and his participation in the Battle of Moon Sound (Russian: Moonzund; currently West Estonian archipelago).
The following weapons were used in the film Moonzund:
Nagant M1895 revolvers are used by the officers of the Russian Navy Sr. Lt. Sergey Nikolaevich Artenyev (Oleg Menshikov), Sr. Lt. Vladimir Petryaev (Pyotr Yurchenkov), Capt. 1st Rank Karl Joachimovich von Den (Vladimir Golovin), and an unnamed officer of the coastal artillery (Igor Dobryakov).
Sailors Khatov (Yuri Goncharov) and Portnyagin (Aleksey Buldakov), guarding arrested Capt. 1st Rank von Den, carry anachronistic Mosin Nagant M1938 Carbines. The hoods of the front sights are removed to make the carbines look more like WWI era rifles.
During the encounter with the German patrol, Trophim Semenchuk (Vladimir Gostyukhin) captures a Karabiner 98k with the sniper scope. The scope itself is a Soviet PE of 1930s pattern.
210 mm BR-17 (M1939) heavy guns are used to represent Russian 12-inch/L52 Pattern 1907 naval guns that were installed on the battery on Cape Tserel in reality. Only one of the four guns was real, borrowed from the Artillery Museum in Leningrad, while three others were mockups.
In the scene of the gunnery training on a Russian battleship, the loading of a 12-inch gun is shown. In reality this is a 12-inch/L52 Pattern 1907 gun in triple coastal turret on the Voroshilov Battery No 891 in Vladivostok (in late 1980s coastal artillery batteries with 12-inch triple turrets still were active in Vladivostok where the scene was filmed and in Sevastopol). These turrets were taken from the scrapped battleship Poltava which was actually part of the Baltic Fleet in the WWI.
In the scene of the battle of the Russian destroyer Novik with German destroyers, a 4-inch/L60 Pattern 1911 gun is seen. No active ship of the Soviet Navy had such gun in 1980s so maybe a museum gun was temporary mounted on some modern ship or a specially build replica was used.
An abandoned 8-inch howitzer Mk VI is seen in one scene. During the WWI Russian Army purchased 72 Mk VI howitzers, both original British and US produced. The screen artillery piece was probably borrowed from the Artillery Museum in Leningrad.
The DVD cover for Moonzund shows Artenyev holding a Makarov PM instead of FN 1910. The hand with the pistol on the collage used on the cover obviousy doesn't belong to Oleg Menshikov.
