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Front Auerge corporation. Agent Vladimir Volnov alias Vlad Volnyi (Pavel Yuzhakov-Kharlanchuk ) meets Katarzyna Stuhr (Magdalena Górska), a Polish physicist who has to participate in the research but wants to escape to safety.
The following weapons were used in the television series Front :
Revolvers Nagant M1895 Nagant M1895 revolvers are seen in several scenes, notably used by Vladimir Volnov alias Vlad Volnyi (Pavel Yuzhakov-Kharlanchuk ) and Katarzyna Stuhr (Magdalena Górska). Probably two props are used throughout the series, and judging by the flashes from muzzles and cylinders, both revolvers are blank-firing versions. One of these guns can be identified as "Blef", while another revolver lacks any visual markings that allow to identify the exact version. This gun has a pre-1930 rounded front sight.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Russian Nagant 1895, produced 1920s. The rounded front sight is a sign of revolvers produced from 1890s until 1930 - 7.62x38R Nagant Error creating thumbnail: File missing "Blef" (VPO-503 "Nagan-S"), a blank-firing version of Nagant M1895 - .22 Gevelot small cap Error creating thumbnail: File missing A crewmember of a Soviet plane fires a Nagant at German soldiers. This revolver is a version with pre-1930 front sight. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Another view of the same scene. Abundant sparks from the cylinder are a sign of blank-firing Nagant. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Vlad holds a Nagant during the attack of bandits. This revolver is same version with pre-1930 front sight. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Katarzyna covertly takes the revolver from Vlad's belt. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Katarzyna aims the revolver at a female bandit, disguised as a Red Army military traffic controller. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Vlad takes the revolver from Katarzyna and puts it on the ground. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Vlad holds a Nagant on shooting range. This is again the same prop. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Col. Khlopko's driver, a Lieutenant of State Security (Aleksey Telesh) aims a Nagant. This revolver is a "Blef", and the TOZ stamp on the body matches 1921-1925 years of production. So originally this Nagant must have had a rounded front sight that was probably replaced with a post-1930 angular one during the conversion into blank-firing gun. Error creating thumbnail: File missing The same character's revolver switches to a Nagant with rounded front sight due to a continuity error. Error creating thumbnail: File missing The revolver again swtiches to the "Blef" and is seen firing. Error creating thumbnail: File missing A Nagant with rounded front sight is seen in hands of a Militsioner at the left. Another Militsioner seems to hold the "Blef" revolver. Pistols TT-33 TT-33 pistols are used by Vlad Volnyi (Pavel Yuzhakov-Kharlanchuk ), Capt. of State Security Vasiliy Litvin (Roman Ageev ) and other State Security and Red Army officers, and German agents Yushka (Pavel Kharizanov) and Shut ("Jester") (Mitya Labush ). All pistols that are seen close are of pre-1947 version.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Tokarev TT-33 - 7.62x25mm Tokarev. Pre-1947 version. Error creating thumbnail: File missing A crewmember of a Soviet plane fires a TT at German soldiers. The slide is jammed by the partially extracted cartridge. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Yushka, disguised as a Soviet State Security officer, confronts his old enemy Shut. The TT holster is seen perfectly. Error creating thumbnail: File missing A good view of Yushka's TT. Note the pre-1947 slide serration. Error creating thumbnail: File missing The pistol on Yuska's dead body. The deactivating pin is seen in the muzzle. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Shut who turns out to be a Soviet agent Aleksey Mishin, fires a TT. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Vlad holds a TT, taken from uncovered and disarmed agent Bukhta ("Bay") (Egor Bakulin ). Error creating thumbnail: File missing Litvin fires a TT towards a petty criminal in order to frighten him. Error creating thumbnail: File missing A good view of the TT when wounded Aleksey Mishin surrenders his pistol. Error creating thumbnail: File missing An Sr. Lieutenant of State Security (Aleksandr Soldatov) holds a TT, confiscated from arrested Col. of State Security Pavel Ivanovich Khlopko (Igor Chernevich ). Error creating thumbnail: File missing Lieutenant of State Security Nina (Elizaveta Nilova), impersonating Katarzyna Stuhr, holds a TT. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Litvin, uncovered as a German agent, fires a TT at the car with fake Katarzyna. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Vlad holds a TT during the arrest of Litvin. Luger P08 Vlad Volnyi (Pavel Yuzhakov-Kharlanchuk ), Soviet agent Trokhin (Yuriy Itskov ), and one of the bandits use Luger P08 pistols.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Luger P08 - 9x19mm Error creating thumbnail: File missing Trokhin fires at abducted German scientist Gutts. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Error creating thumbnail: File missing The pistol is seen firing and extracting the spent brass. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Vlad fires a Luger, distracting the pursuers from Katarzyna. In previous moment he holds a non-firing Denix replica of P08 (see below). Error creating thumbnail: File missing The moving jointed arm and spent brass in midair are seen. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Error creating thumbnail: File missing Another view of Vlad's firing Luger. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Bandits with a P08 and a P38 . Luger P08 (replica) Replicas of Luger P08 are seen in several scenes. Some of them can be identified as non-firing Denix replica, while one pistol, reused in several scenes, seems to be a gas-firing pistol (such "gas Lugers" were produced under Mauser, Erma and other brands). Unlike live Lugers (see above), these replicas "fire" with CGI effects.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Plainclothes Abwehr operatives hold Lugers during the shootout with Trokhin's group. Their pistol turn out to be replicas as the jointed arms doesn't move during the "firing". Error creating thumbnail: File missing Vlad holds a Luger when planning to kill Katarzyna. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Close-ups of Vlad's pistol allow to identify it as a Denix model. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Vlad holds the Denix P08 in another scene. Error creating thumbnail: File missing A closeup of the Denix P08 in sleeping Vlad's hand. In next scene he uses a real Luger (see above). Error creating thumbnail: File missing Error creating thumbnail: File missing Yefreytor (Corp.) Olga Belyakova (Olga Kuzmina) aims a Luger at Aleksey Mishin (Mitya Labush ) (she has a Walther P38 in previous scene). This P08 also turns out to be a replica.Error creating thumbnail: File missing Mishin disarms Olga but then gives back the pistol. Error creating thumbnail: File missing In the scene in German hospital Trokhin (Yuriy Itskov ) holds a Luger that turns out to be a gas-firing version. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Same prop is seen in hands of a female bandit, disguised as a Red Army military traffic controller. Note the squarish grip platings. Walther P38 Several German officers carry Walther P38 pistols. P38s are also seen in hands of Yefreytor Olga Belyakova (Olga Kuzmina), and an unnamed bandit.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Walther P38 - 9x19mm Error creating thumbnail: File missing An Abwehr officer Maj. Lems (Artur Kharitonenko) holds a P38. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Error creating thumbnail: File missing An officer holds a P38 during the shootout with Trokhin's group. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Olga holds a P38 when she meets Mishin and accidentally fires towards him. Due to a continuity error in next episode she carries a Luger (see above). Error creating thumbnail: File missing Hauptman (Capt.) Schalke (Rodion Prikhodko) carries his P38 in the universal holster for P08/P38 pistols.Error creating thumbnail: File missing Error creating thumbnail: File missing Schalke kills a tortured Polish boy. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Bandits with a P08 and a P38. Walther PPK Abwehr agent Anna Kruchinina (Yuliya Marchenko ) carries a Walther PPK in the scene in Col. Khlopko's car.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Early Waffenamt marked Walther PPK with orange bakelite grips, lanyard ring, smaller rear sight, grooved top, and irregular front - .32 ACP Error creating thumbnail: File missing Kruchinina aims her pistol at Col. of State Security Pavel Ivanovich Khlopko (Igor Chernevich ). Error creating thumbnail: File missing A good view of the pistol. Some illegible sign is seen on the front of the slide. The muzzle is visibly blocked; possibly the live pistol was converted into blank- or gas-firing gun. Error creating thumbnail: File missing The slide moves when Anna fires at the driver. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Khlopko disarms Anna. The grip is seen. Walther PPK (replica) A Walther PPK , carried by Abwehr officer Oberst (Col.) von Meyers (Vadim Skvirskiy), turns out to be a Denix replica.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing A good view of von Meyers' holster, a typical German pattern for compact pistols. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Error creating thumbnail: File missing Von Meyers holds his pistol... Error creating thumbnail: File missing ...and commits suicide. Curiously, the safety switch of the PPK is on the "safe" position. Browning Hi-Power In one scene Vlad takes the uniform and handgun from a killed Abwehr Lt. (Igor Golovin). The pistol is a Browning Hi-Power that was adopted in Nazi Germany as Pistole 640(b), but the actual screen gun is a post-war model.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Classic Commercial Browning Hi-Power (Belgian manufacture) - 9x19mm Error creating thumbnail: File missing Vlad fires a Hi-Power. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Vlad holds the pistol. The holster on his belt is a correct German pattern, issued for wartime produced Hi-Power pistols. Error creating thumbnail: File missing A good view of the discharged pistol. Submachine Guns PPSh-41 Soviet officers and soldiers, notably Capt. Vasiliy Litvin (Roman Ageev ) and Aleksey Mishin (Mitya Labush ), and Polish partisans widely use PPSh-41 submachine guns, mostly with drum magazines except for the PPSh of the commander of the Polish partisans group Voznyak (Aleksandr Stroev ).
Error creating thumbnail: File missing PPSh-41 - 7.62x25mm Tokarev Error creating thumbnail: File missing PPSh-41 with 35-round box magazine - 7.62x25mm Tokarev Error creating thumbnail: File missing Litvin and one of his scouts with PPSh-41s. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Litvin holds a PPSh. Error creating thumbnail: File missing A good view of a PPSh. Error creating thumbnail: File missing A Starshina of Militsiya carries a PPSh and holster for Nagant M1895 revolver. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Voznyak holds a PPSh with stick magazine. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Voznyak fires his PPSh. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Pvt. Misha Kuptsov (Vyacheslav Korobitsin) holds a PPSh. Error creating thumbnail: File missing A Lieutenant (Aleksey Vasilyev) fires a PPSh, defending the car with Katarzyna and Vlad. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Mishin with a PPSh. Error creating thumbnail: File missing A close-up of a PPSh in hands of a Sergeant of State Security. PPS-43 PPS-43 submachine guns are used by a crewmember of a Soviet plane Burin (Vladimir Maslakov ) and State Security and Militsiya personnel.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing PPS-43 - 7.62x25mm Tokarev Error creating thumbnail: File missing Burin carries a PPS-43. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Burin fires at German soldiers. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Error creating thumbnail: File missing Litvin fires at a State Security officer, armed with a PPS-43. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Error creating thumbnail: File missing A Starshina of Militsiya fires a PPS at escaping Litvin. He also carries a Nagant holster, possibly with a revolver inside. MP38 MP38 submachine guns are used by Vlad Volnyi (Pavel Yuzhakov-Kharlanchuk ), Trokhin (Yuriy Itskov ), one of his men (Sergey Sobolev), criminals Shchepa ("Splinter") (Artem Bordovsky) and Sych ("Owl") (Sergei Dyachkov), and some German soldiers. Probably two instances are used, one of the early version and another one of the late version that is sometimes referred as MP38/40.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing MP38 - 9x19mm Error creating thumbnail: File missing Trokhin's assistant fires an MP38 during the abduction of Gutts. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Same submachine gun is seen from another side. The cocking handle matches the first version of MP38. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Vlad fires an MP38, taken from a killed German soldier. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Vlad with MP38. Error creating thumbnail: File missing A German soldier fires at Katarzyna, swimming across the river. Note the deactivating elements in the muzzle. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Another view of the same MP38. Error creating thumbnail: File missing German soldiers with MP38 and MP40 meet Vlad in the forest. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Trokhin fires an MP38. The cocking handle matches the late version of MP38. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Sych carries an MP38. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Gang boss Shchepa with an MP38. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Sych and Shchepa with MP38s. Error creating thumbnail: File missing The bandits fire at the car with Vlad and Katarzyna. MP40 Only a single real MP40 is seen throughout the series, reused in several scenes (other MP40s are Denix replicas, see below). This is an early "transitional" version with smooth magazine well.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing MP40 - 9x19mm Error creating thumbnail: File missing One of the soldiers of Auerge guard holds an MP40. Error creating thumbnail: File missing A Polish partisan carries an MP40. Error creating thumbnail: File missing A German soldier fires an MP40 during the night battle. Error creating thumbnail: File missing A German soldier with MP40 during the hunt for Katarzyna. Error creating thumbnail: File missing A German NCO (at the left) holds an MP40. Error creating thumbnail: File missing A closeup of same character's gun. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Trokhin (Yuriy Itskov ) takes an MP38 and an MP40 from a bag. The pistol grip of MP40 is seen. Error creating thumbnail: File missing He readies the MP40. MP40 (replica) Most MP40s , used in the series, are non-firing Denix replicas. They are identified by silumin surface, visibly different from stamped blued steel of real guns, and by the shape and position of some details (one of the such features is the ejection port cover that looks recessed in comparison with real guns due to thicker silumin walls).
Error creating thumbnail: File missing A sentry at the Auerge building. Error creating thumbnail: File missing A sentry inside the Auerge building. Error creating thumbnail: File missing A soldier in the scene in Vlad's house. Error creating thumbnail: File missing A soldier stops the brawl among the trainees of Abwehr training center. Error creating thumbnail: File missing A sentry with a replica MP40 that has an front sight without hood (a feature of Denix MP40 replicas of early manufacture). Error creating thumbnail: File missing Polish partisan Lech (Marcin Rój ) in German uniform aims a replica MP40 at Vlad and Katarzyna. Error creating thumbnail: File missing German soldiers find the parachutes of Vlad and Katarzyna. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Vlad, in German uniform, holds a Denix MP40. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Sych with MP40. In the following moment he holds an MP38. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Due to a continuity error, Shchepa's MP38 switches to a replica MP40. MP41 Two of the German soldiers are armed with MP41 SMGs during the shootout with Trokhin's men (possibly a single prop is reused).
Error creating thumbnail: File missing MP41 - 9x19mm Error creating thumbnail: File missing A soldier at the right holds an MP41. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Same soldier is seen in center. Error creating thumbnail: File missing The soldier fires his MP41. The bolt of the submachine gun doesn't move, no spent ammo is seen, so the "shooting" is probably a CGI effect. Error creating thumbnail: File missing The MP41 is seen in the window at the far left. Erma EMP One of the German soldiers is armed with a Erma EMP SMG during the shootout with Trokhin's men. It is actually a Spanish-made copy of the EMP in 9x23mm Largo, standing in for a German-issue EMP.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Spanish EMP - 9x23mm. Error creating thumbnail: File missing A EMP is seen at the right. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Error creating thumbnail: File missing Error creating thumbnail: File missing A soldier fires his EMP. The bolt of the submachine gun is locked back into the safety catch and doesn't move, and no spent ammo is seen, so the "shooting" is probably a CGI effect. Rifles and Assault Rifles Sturmgewehr 44 In the scene in the hospital one of the German soldiers holds a Sturmgewehr 44 that doesn't fit for Summer 1943 when the plot is set.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Sturmgewehr 44 - 7.92x33mm Kurz Error creating thumbnail: File missing A soldier near the ladder aims an StG 44. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Error creating thumbnail: File missing Error creating thumbnail: File missing A soldier with the StG 44 is among the group, breaking in the hospital. Tokarev SVT-40 Two Polish partisans carry SVT-40 rifles.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Tokarev SVT-40 - 7.62x54mmR Error creating thumbnail: File missing An SVT-40 is seen in hands of a partisan. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Error creating thumbnail: File missing Error creating thumbnail: File missing Another partisan fires his SVT-40. The rifle fires on screen, extracting the spent brass. Mosin Nagant M1891/30 Many Soviet soldiers are armed with Mosin Nagant M1891/30 rifles.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Mosin Nagant M1891/30 - 7.62x54mm R Error creating thumbnail: File missing An M91/30 rifle and a PPSh-41 in the tent of the battalion commander. Error creating thumbnail: File missing An elderly soldier Mikhalych (Evgeniy Kapitonov) holds an M91/30 rifle. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Egorov (Dmitriy Shaygardanov) carries an M91/30 rifle. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Two soldiers (Denis Pyanov at the left, Artyom Leshchik at the right) who went fishing grab their rifles and aim at Vlad who swim across a frontline river. One of the rifles has a bayonet attached backwards. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Another view of these two rifles. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Error creating thumbnail: File missing Vlad seizes the rifle of moustached soldier. This rifle has an M1891 Dragoon front sight and M1891/30 rounded receiver; probably this gun was assembled of parts of several different rifles. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Sgt. Utrobin (Andrey Perovich), a guard in the displaced persons camp, holds a rifle. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Sgt. Utrobin carries a rifle. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Soldiers with M91/30 and PPSh aim at Vlad and Katarzyna. Mosin Nagant M1938 Carbine Mosin Nagant M1938 Carbines are also used by Soviet soldiers.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Mosin Nagant M1938 Carbine - 7.62x54mm R Error creating thumbnail: File missing A soldier at the foreground maintains his carbine. Error creating thumbnail: File missing A soldier at the left holds an M38 Carbine. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Two soldiers carry M38 Carbines. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Soldiers aim M38 carbines and M91/30 rifles at Mishin. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Another view of the same scene. Karabiner 98k In several scenes German soldiers 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 During the attack on landed Soviet plane some German soldiers carry 98k rifles. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Error creating thumbnail: File missing A soldier "fires" his rifle twice in a row, without reloading. Error creating thumbnail: File missing One of the sentries carries a 98k rifle. Mauser Gewehr 1898 A full-length Mauser rifle, most likely a Mauser Gewehr 1898 with a conventional tangent-leaf sight (G98M), is briefly seen on the positions of a Soviet unit.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Mauser Gewehr 1898M - 7.92x57mm Mauser Error creating thumbnail: File missing A Mauser rifle is seen together with Soviet Mosin rifles. Machine Guns Degtyaryov DP-27 Master ("Craftsman") (Igor Lepikhin), one of the agents of Kruchinina's group, uses a DP-27 during the attack on the car with Katarzyna and Vlad. A DP-27 is also used by Polish partisans.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Degtyaryov DP-27 - 7.62x54mm R Error creating thumbnail: File missing A DP-27 in hands of a Polish partisan is seen at the left. Error creating thumbnail: File missing The barrel of the DP in Master's hands. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Error creating thumbnail: File missing Master readies the machine gun. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Error creating thumbnail: File missing Master aims from the window. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Master is arrested by State Security operatives. MG34 MG34 , mounted on motorcycles, are seen in several scenes.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing MG34 with front and rear sights folded down - 7.92x57mm Mauser Error creating thumbnail: File missing The barrel of the MG34 is seen at the left. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Two motorcycles with MG34 machine guns on the forest road. Error creating thumbnail: File missing An MG34 is seen at the right. ZB-26 A ZB-26 (or possibly ZB-30) light machine gun is used by German soldiers during the night attack on the landed Soviet plane.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing ZB-26 - 7.92x57mm Mauser Error creating thumbnail: File missing Error creating thumbnail: File missing A soldier in center fires a ZB-26. Note the lack of the rotating knob of the range adjustment mechanism. Error creating thumbnail: File missing A view from another side. Other Weapons Leuchtpistole 42 A German soldier who finds parachutes of Vlad and Katarzyna in the forest, shoots a Leuchtpistole 42 flare pistol.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Leuchtpistole 42 Flare Pistol - 26.65mm Error creating thumbnail: File missing Error creating thumbnail: File missing A soldier readies the flare pistol. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Error creating thumbnail: File missing He fires. F-1 Hand Grenade F-1 hand grenades are used by Vlad (Pavel Yuzhakov-Kharlanchuk ), Capt. Litvin (Roman Ageev ), Mishin (Mitya Labush ), Col. Khlopko (Igor Chernevich ), Voznyak (Aleksandr Stroev ), Soviet scouts and Abwehr agents. Most if not all grenades turn out to be practice URG version.
URG F-1 practice grenade Error creating thumbnail: File missing One of Litvin's scouts uses an F-1 to make a booby trap. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Voznyak carries an F-1. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Voznyak throws up a grenade with his leg. Error creating thumbnail: File missing While flying in a German plane that paradrops agents on Soviet territory, Mishin covertly activates a grenade... Error creating thumbnail: File missing ...and leaves it in the plane with predictable consequences. Error creating thumbnail: File missing A German soldier on the motorcycle carries an F-1 grenade on his belt. Vlad covertly steals another grenade... Error creating thumbnail: File missing ...and uses it. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Litvin throws a grenade. Error creating thumbnail: File missing A German agent of Kruchinina's group tries to throw a grenade but is gunned down. Error creating thumbnail: File missing In responses to Kruchinina's Walther, Khpolko holds a grenade. Model 24 Stielhandgranate Trokhin (Yuriy Itskov ) and one his men (Boris Dragilyov) use Model 24 Stielhandgranate hand grenades.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Model 24 Stielhandgranate "Potato Masher" high-explosive fragmentation hand grenade Error creating thumbnail: File missing Trokhin's man throws a grenade at a car during the abduction of scientist Gutts. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Trokhin holds a grenade in the scene in the hospital. Error creating thumbnail: File missing He hands the last grenade to his man who is gravely wounded. Error creating thumbnail: File missing A close-up of this grenade. Note that the body looks different, very crumpled. Error creating thumbnail: File missing The scene in a moment before the grenade explodes. Again this is a prop with smooth, intact body. Schrapnellmine An anti-personnel mine is see when Katarzyna wades to the front line. It is a German S-Mine with tripwire-activated fuse.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing S-Mine 35. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Note the tripwire adapter, used instead of the standard three-pronged pressure fuse. 
