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Legend of the Living Dead (Legenda o živých mrtvých)
Legenda o živých mrtvých (English: Legend of the Living Dead) is a Czech TV four-part movie made in 1971 and recounts the story about the partisan movement in Moravia at the end of WWII. The commander of local garrison major Lenz (Jirí Dušek) fights with his honor and the duties of a German soldier and on the other hand, his conscience. He prefer to his conscience and help of a partisans. Lenz's opponent - Gestapo head Klein (Rudolf Jurda)with the assistance of zealous SS officer Lieblein (Ladislav Lakomý), gets information on partisan´s radio. The heroic struggle and death of two Soviet woman-operators Tanya (Jana Švandová) and Valya (Zdena Kružíková) prevents detection of hiding. Vasil (Ladislav Vecera) partisan´s commander and his commissioner Michael (Josef Šebek) has interested with Lenz to meet, even though he suspected of ambivalent game. Michael unfortunately is wounded in the firefight and then falls in the fight against the odds with his fiancee Helena (Renáta Doleželová). But the result of cooperation with Lenz is a finally revealing of the true traitor Felix, who is caught and shot. He was the son of Countess Eva (Vlasta Fialová), who avenges his death, when to Lenz attract into the trap of the castle and shoot him. The story ends with a few days before the arrival of the Red Army.
The following weapons can be seen in the TV series Legenda o živých mrtvých:
Handguns
Baby Browning
Walther PPK
Walther P38
Nagant M1895
Some Soviet partisans carry the Nagant M1895 Nagant M1895 revolver
Unidentified pistol
Rifles
Karabiner 98k
The Karabiner 98k is used by German infantry
Karabiner 98k - sniper
Mosin Nagant
Submachine guns
MP40
The Germans and the partisans was widely used MP40 submachine gun.
MP41
PPSh-41
Machine guns
MG42
MG30
The sets of a traps for the partisans was also the MG30 machine gun.