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Night Riders (Nocní jazdci)
Night Riders (Nocní jazdci) is a 1981 Slovak action drama directed by Martin Hollý. It is shortly after rise of the Czechoslovak Republic, but a poor border villages under the Tatras have other worries. Former soldier Marek Orban (Michal Docolomanský) wants for all neighbors to raise money to leave for a better life in America, and therefore with a bunch of friends smuggled the horses from Poland. Yet it never caught in the act. The local customs officer Babušek (Leopold Haverl) is powerless. And therefore comes from Prague the new commander of the Financial Guard Halva (Radoslav Brzobohatý) with his men. Like Orban´s gang, Halva and his people have had a war experiences and are trained to fight. Paradoxically, the common past of war leads to the gentleman's agreement of the peace between the two men, which however is disrupted the murder of frontiersman Jan Bílý (Jirí Kodes) by smuggler Imro Jakuvec (Jozef Adamovic).
The following guns were used in the 1949 Czechoslovak film Night Riders (Nocní jazdci):
Femaru 37M
After the Austro-Hungarian Financial Guard also Czechoslovak customs officers had pistols Frommer Stop. In this film it replacing a later model from 1937, this is anachronism.
Steyr Mannlicher M1895
Czechoslovak Financial Guard inherited the rifle of Austria-Hungary type Steyr Mannlicher M1895.
Unidentified rifle
Carcano M91 Rifle
