In Flight are the Night Witches (V nebe 'Nochnye vedmy')

In Flight are the Night Witches (V nebe 'Nochnye vedmy') DVD Cover Country USSR Directed by Yevgeniya Zhigulenko Release Date 1981 Language Russian Studio Gorky Film Studios Main Cast Character Actor Sr.Lt. Oksana Zakharchenko Valentina Grushina Sgt. Galya Polikarpova Yana Druz Capt. Marya Ivanovna Nina Menshikova Capt. Dusya Boguslavskaya Valeriya Zaklunnaya Fedya Pavlov Dmitri Zamulin

In Flight are the Night Witches (V nebe 'Nochnye vedmy') is a Soviet 1981 war movie. The movie tells about the Soviet female military aviators of a night bomber regiment, nicknamed Nachthexen (Night Witches) by Germans. Yevgeniya Zhigulenko, the director of the movie, herself served in female night bomber regiment during the WW2.

The following weapons are seen in the movie In Flight are the Night Witches (V nebe 'Nochnye vedmy'):

Tokarev TT-33

The service sidearms of Soviet pilots are Tokarev TT-33 pistols. They are mostly seen in holsters.

Tokarev TT-33 - 7.62x25mm Tokarev. Post-1947 version.

Capt. Boguslavskaya (Valeriya Zaklunnaya) has a TT holster at her belt.

Sgt. Galya Polikarpova (Yana Druz) shows her unloaded TT to an orphan boy Fedya Pavlov (Dmitri Zamulin) who was adopted by the female pilots.

Galya Polikarpova cocks the pistol.

Fedya holds the pistol.

Fedya with TT in another scene.

SPSh Flare Pistol

SPSh Flare Pistols are seen in several scenes.

SPSh Flare Pistol - 26.5mm

Capt. Boguslavskaya (Valeriya Zaklunnaya) with a flare pistol.

Flare pistols are used for salute.

PPSh-41

PPSh-41 SMGs with drum magazines are seen in hands of Soviet marines in the scene of the night landing.

PPSh-41 - 7.62x25mm Tokarev

SKS

In the same scene several of marines carry anachronistic SKS rifles. They are seen very blurry due to fast motion but they are still recognisable.

Simonov SKS - 7.62x39mm

MP40

German soldiers are armed with MP40 SMGs.

MP40 - 9x19mm

Shpitalny-Komaritski ShKAS Machine Gun

Shpitalny-Komaritski ShKAS machine guns are mounted on Polikarpov Po-2 biplanes.

ShKAS aircraft machine gun - 7.62x54mmR

A ShKAS is seen behind Sgt. Galya Polikarpova (Yana Druz).

Fedya plays with a ShKAS.

A close view at the ShKAS.