Wait for Me (Zhdi menya) is a 1943 Soviet war drama directed by Boris Ivanov and Aleksandr Stolper and based on the works by Konstantin Simonov. In Summer 1941 Soviet pilot Nikolai Yermolov (Boris Blinov) is missed in action when his airplane is downed behind enemy lines. Even Nikolai's close friends think him dead, but his wife Lisa (Valentina Serova) still believes that Nikolai will return and waits for him.
The following weapons were used in the film Wait for Me (Zhdi menya):
When Yermolov's airplane makes crush landing during the recon mission, the crewmembers - pilot Nikolai Yermolov (Boris Blinov), navigator Solovyov (Anatoliy Alekseev), gunner Yeliseev (Andrei Apsolon) and war correspondent Mikhail Vainshtein (Lev Sverdlin) - use TT-33 pistols. Several other Soviet officers, notably Fyodor Levykin (Pavel Geraga), carry TT in holsters.
Mikhail Vainshtein (Lev Sverdlin) carries a PPSh-41 after the crash landing. Then he gives the PPSh to Nikolai Yermolov (Boris Blinov). Several partisans, including Yermolov and Pasha (Ekaterina Sipavina), carry PPSh-41s.
Soviet civilian volunteers and partisans are armed with Mosin Nagant rifles in several scenes. Most if not all of these rifles are original Mosin Nagant M1891 Infantry.
German soldiers and Soviet partisans use Mauser rifles. None of these rifles is seen clear enough for proper indetification but Mauser Gewehr 1898 and Karabiner 98k are the best guesses.
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Machine Guns
Shpitalny-Komaritski ShKAS
Shpitalny-Komaritski ShKAS machine guns are mounted on SB bomber plane and R-5 recon and liason plane. When Yermolov's SB makes the crash landing, navigator Solovyov (Anatoliy Alekseev) takes a ShKAS from the plane. In the episode of Mikhail Vainshtein's (Lev Sverdlin) air flight to partisans, the gunner of R-5 fires a ShKAS at German fighter planes, and after the gunner's death Vainshtein replaces him.
