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Battle for Moscow
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Battle for Moscow(Russian Title: Bitva za Moskvu/Битва за Москву) is a 1985 Russian/East German/Czechoslovak/Vietnamese World War II drama directed by Yuri Ozerov. The film consists of two parts. In first part (named Aggression) shows the events that took place in Summer 1941 on the Eastern front: the sudden Nazi Germany's attack on Soviet Union and heroic defense of the Brest Fortress. In second part (named Operation Typhoon) shows battle for Moscow, in which German troops has suffered their first major defeat in World War II. This battle was one of the largest during the War, with more than a million total casualties.
The following weapons were used in the film Battle for Moscow:
Handguns
Tokarev TT-33
Tokarev TT-33 is the standard sidearm of Russian officers. In movie mostly seen holstered
SPSh Flare Pistol
Submachine Guns
PPSh-41
MP40
German troops widely use MP40 submachine guns in this movie.
Rifles
Mosin Nagant Rifle
Full-length Mosin Nagant Rifle
Mosin Nagant M38 Carbine
Mosin Nagant M38 carbines is a standard weapon of the Soviet artillery gun crews
Karabiner 98k
PTRD-41
Machine Guns
Degtyaryov DP-27
Degtyaryov DT
PK Machine Gun (modified to resemble MG34)
Real MG34 can be seen only in documentary footage. Other MG34s used in this movie are visually modified PK machine guns
Maxim M1910/30
37-mm M1939 (61-K)
Hand Grenades
Model 24 Stielhandgranate
RPG-40
Other
TM-62M Anti-Tank Mine
Artillery
45mm Anti-tank Gun M1937 (53-K)
76 mm Divisional Gun M1942 (ZiS-3)
7.5 cm Pak 40
122 mm Howitzer M1910/30
76mm Air Defense Gun M1931 (3-K)
85 mm Air Defense Gun M1939 (52-K)
122 mm Howitzer M1938 (M-30)
152 mm Howitzer-gun M1937 (ML-20)
Gun Platformes
BA-20
Tatra OT-810
There are a lot of Tatra OT-810 half-tracked personnel carriers represented as German SdKfz. 251 personnel carriers were used in this movie. Some of them were armed with visually modified PK machine guns. Some have gun turret. Probably represented as Sd.Kfz. 251/9 "Stummel" self-propelled gun
BT-5
BT-5 light cavalry tank were widely used by Russian Army at first period of WW2. Most of BT tanks used in movie were built on T-34 tank chassis
T-34-76
T-34-85
PzKpfw III
Fake PzKpfw IV
Kliment Voroshilov KV-1
Fake PzKpfw VI Tiger
T-62
In some episodes were used T-62 main battle tanks represented as German tanks. Because in this scenes were involving more than hundred of tanks at the same time. So for extras had to use modern tanks
