Deserter (Dezertir) (1933)

Deserter (Dezertir) Original Poster Country USSR Directed by Vsevolod Pudovkin Release Date 1933 Language Russian German Studio Mezhrabpomfilm Main Cast Character Actor Karl Renn Boris Livanov Ludwig Zelle Vasili Kovrigin Fritz Muller Aleksandr Chistyakov Greta Zelle Tamara Makarova Bruno Semyon Svashenko The secretary of Communist Party commetee Vladimir Uralskiy Otto Karl Gurnyak Marcella Zelle Yudif Glizer

Deserter (Dezertir) is a 1933 Soviet B&W film directed by Vsevolod Pudovkin. A young Hamburg worker Karl Renn (Boris Livanov) is a member of the German Communist party, but he doesn't show courage in the direct struggle with strikebreakers and police and even deserts a picket-line. His elder comrade Ludwig Zelle chooses Karl as a member of the delegation to the Soviet Union. Karl works together with Soviet workers on a mechanical plant but when gets news that Zelle is killed by police, he returns to Germany and becomes an active member of the struggle.

The following weapons were used in the film Deserter (Dezertir):

Mannlicher M1895 Short Rifle

Some German mounted policemen, dispersing the workers demonstration, carry Mannlicher M1895 short rifles that are Stutzen riflemen short rifles or cavalry carbines.

Steyr Repertier-Stutzen M1895 - 8x50mmR Mannlicher. M1895 cavalry carbine looks nearly the same.

A mounted policeman at the left carries a Mannlicher short rifle.

Typical Mannlicher stacking rod is seen.

The Mannlicher magazine can be seen.

A decent view of the rifle.

Unidentified rifles

Reichswehr soldiers, guarding the strikebreakers, carry full-length rifles with long bayonets. These rifles are seen only in distance and cannot be identified.

Soldiers carry rifles with bayonets. The rifles may be Gewehr 1898 with original M1898 bayonets but this is only a vague guess.

Mounted policemen also carry unidentified short rifles.

A mounted policeman carries a rifle.

Mounted policemen carry unidentified short rifles. The rifle at the foreground resembles a shortened version of Gewehr 1898 as it has what seems to be a Lange-Visier rear sight.

Another view of the same scene. A rifle at the foreground looks similar to Mannlicher M1895 but lacks the protruding magazine.

Degtyaryov DT

A T-27 tankette, armed with a Degtyaryov DT machine gun, is standing it for an armoured vehicle of German police, used against rioting dockers in Hamburg. This scene was reused in 1938 film Esli zavtra voyna.

DT machine gun - 7.62x54mm R

The hull-mounted DT on the T-27 tankette.

Trivia

T-27 tankette.

Tupolev TB-3 heavy bombers fly over the Soviet city during the celebration of the International Workers' Day.