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Variant "Zombie"

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Variant "Zombie"
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Original Poster
Country Error creating thumbnail: File missing USSR
Directed by Yevgeni Yegorov
Release Date 1985
Language Russian
Studio Mosfilm
Main Cast
Character Actor
Sergey Lesnikov Aristarkh Livanov
Pavel Dyomin Yuri Gusev
Stannard Valeriy Ivchenko
Lucia Ginelli Irena Dubrovskaya
Kurt Horneman Romualdas Ramanauskas
James Davidson Valentinas Masalskis
Dietz Valeri Babyatinsky
Jacques Lemonnier Arnis Licitis
Kyuitis Ago-Endrik Kerge


Variant "Zombie" (Original title: Вариант "Зомби") is a 1985 Soviet spy movie. A powerful fascist-type organization is conducting experiments on the inhabitants of one of the African countries to create psychotronic weapons for mind control. But the method of memory restoration and treatment of mental neuroses, developed by the Soviet professor Lesnikov, is becoming a serious threat to the group.

The movie was probably the first film of this kind in the (ex-) USSR, and for a long time almost the only one due to the lack of particular popularity of such a topic. However, as might expect, the movie itself was mostly about spyfare, and zombies figure in it are superficially.


The following weapons were used in the film Variant "Zombie":


Assault Rifles

StG-44 (Mocked-Up as M16)

The organization's soldiers are visible with the StG-44s, mocked-up to look like as the M16.

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Sturmgewehr 44, visually modified to resemble an Armalite rifle such as the M16 - 7.62x39 blank. Such movie props were widely used in Soviet movies of 1970s-90s.

AK-47

One of the artillerymen seen with AK-47 in pseudo-documentary frames.

M16

One of the soldiers is visible with the M16 in pseudo-documentary frames.

Shotguns

Winchester Model 1912 "Trench Gun"

One of the soldiers is seen with what appears to be Winchester Model 1912 "Trench Gun" in pseudo-documentary frames.

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Winchester Model 1912 "Trench Gun" with heat shield and bayonet lug - 12 gauge