Wz. 35 Vis

Wz. 35 Vis - 9x19mm - Left side

Wz. 35 Vis - 9x19mm - Right side

The Vis wz. 35 (Vis meanig "force" in Latin) is a high-end semiautomatic pistol developed and built by Poland prior to World War II. Its designers, Piotr Wilniewczyc and Jan Skrzypinski, took their inspiration from John Moses Browning's M1911 pistol. In 1935, the pistol was adopted as a standard handgun in the Polish Army and sent to production in Fabryka Broni Radom - state armory in the city of Radom, Poland. After the German invasion in 1939, the Germans continued production of Vis pistols and issued it to their own troops, as the Pistole P35(p). They also decided to move barrel production to the Steyr plant in Austria, with plans to make whole pistols there, because Radom's workers were known to make guns for the Polish resistance.

In American and English sources, this pistol is widely known as the Radom, named after its place of birth. This moniker is not used by other European sources, most importantly the Polish sources.

Specifications

(1936 - 1945)

• Manufacturer: Fabryka Broni Radom

• Type: Pistol

• Caliber: 9x19mm

• Weight: 2.1 lbs (1 kg) unloaded

• Length: 8.1 in (20.5 cm)

• Barrel length: 4.5 in (11.5 cm)

• Capacity: 8 rounds

• Fire Modes: Semi-Auto

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The Wz. 35 Vis and variants can be seen in the following films, television series, video games, and anime used by the following actors:

Film

Title	Actor	Character	Notation	Date
Fighting Film Collection No. 7 (Boyevoy kinosbornik No. 7)		An SS officer		1941
Ivan Nikulin: Russian Sailor (Ivan Nikulin - Russkiy Matros)	Stepan Kayukov	Daddy		1944
Victorious Return (Majup ar uzvaru)	Pavel Volkov	Melnikov		1948
	Ludmila Spilberga	Mother Grieze
Tracks in the Snow (Sledy na snegu)	Vladimir Gusev	Lt. of State Security Grigoriy Petrenko		1955
	Vladimir Krasnopolskiy	Major of State Security Roman Shelestov
	Oleg Zhakov	Vasiliy Belolyubskiy
	Mikhail Medvedev	Ivan Sharaborin
	Ants Eskola	A spy
Razzia (Razzia sur la chnouf)			Seen in Liski's gun cache	1955
Some Like It Hot	Mike Mazurki	Mob henchman	Anachronistic	1956
Canal (Kanal)	Kazimierz Dejunowicz	Capt. 'Zabawa'		1957
Ashes and Diamonds	Zbigniew Cybulski	Maciek Chelmicki		1958
The Gleiwitz Case (Der Fall Gleiwitz)		Members of Naujocks' group		1961
The Black Seagull (Chyornaya chayka)	Igor Dmitriev	"Yankee"		1962
Monsieur Gangster	Lino Ventura	Fernand Naudin	Suppressed	1963
The Little Soldier (Le petit soldat)	Michel Subor	Bruno Forestier		1963
	Henri-Jacques Huet	Jacques
The Monocle Laughs (Le Monocle rit jaune)	Paul Meurisse	Théobald Dromard alias "The Monocle"		1964
Room 13		Police constables, gangsters		1964
The Seventh Victim	Hans Nielsen	Reverend Turner		1964
The Dirty Game	Robert Ryan	General Bruce		1965
Alphaville	Eddie Constantine	Lemmy Caution		1965
Modesty Blaise	Monica Vitti	Modesty Blaise		1966
	Terence Stamp	Willie Garvin
		Fothergill´s men
The Second Wind (Le Deuxième Souffle)	Lino Ventura	Gustave "Gu" Minda		1966
Westerplatte		Polish officers and NCOs		1967
Dead Season (Myortvyy sezon)	Mauri Raus	Greban		1968
Kelly's Heroes	Len Lesser	Sgt. Bellamy	Used as a substitute for the M1911A1	1970
	Clint Eastwood	Pvt. Kelly
Hornets' Nest	Rock Hudson	Capt. Turner	Suppressed	1970
Walter Defends Sarajevo (Valter brani Sarajevo)	Velimir 'Bata' Zivojinovic	Walter	In pocket	1972
Flatfoot	Jho Jhenkins	Jho		1973
Ricco	Christopher Mitchum	Ricco Aversi		1973
	Luis Induni	Gaspare Aversi
Lacombe, Lucien	Franz Rudnick	A French Gestapo operative	Nickel plated	1974
The Gypsy (Le gitan)	Maurice Barrier	Jacques Helman	Nickel plated	1975
Syndicate Sadists	Adolfo Lastretti	Ciccio Paterno		1975
	Luciano Pigozzi	Conti's henchman
Death of a Corrupt Man (Mort d'un pourri)	Alain Delon	Xavier 'Xav' Maréchal		1977
I Am Afraid	Giuseppe Fazio	Pastorino		1977
		A hitman	Suppressed
Rebellious "Orion" (Myatezhnyy "Orion")	Leonid Yanovsky	Lt. Yury Novikov		1978
	Vladimir Brodskiy	Chief Officer Nikolay Pavlovich
	Yuri Mochalov	Michman Bobrin
	Georgi Dvornikov	Lt. Obolenskiy
The Fall of Italy (Pad Italije)			Seen among partisans' booty	1981
Deadly Circuit (Mortelle randonnée)	Michel Serrault	Beauvoir		1983
	Guy Marchand	Jean aka "The pale man"
My Friend Ivan Lapshin (Moy drug Ivan Lapshin)	Andrey Mironov	Khanin		1984
	Andrei Boltnev	Ivan Lapshin
Island of Lost Ships (Ostrov pogibshikh korabley)	Nikolay Lavrov	Jimmy Simpkins		1987
	Gediminas Storpirstis	Volodya
	Arunas Storpirstis	Fergus Slayton
Unknown Pages from the Life of a Scout (Neizvestnye stranitsy iz zhizni razvedchika)	Vitaliy Zikora	Ignat Barytski		1991
	Andrei Alyoshin	Vladimir Azov
	Anton Sivers	Mscislaw Swiatski
Avalon	Malgorzata Foremniak	Ash		2001
	Jerzy Gudejko	Murphy
Typhoon	Jung-Jae Lee	Lieutenant Kang Se-Jong		2005
Manhunt (Oblawa)	Marcin Dorocinski	Cpl. 'Wydra'		2012
City 44	Józef Pawlowski	Stefan Zawadzki		2014
	Anna Próchniak	Kama
	Maurycy Popiel	"Góral"
	Tomasz Schuchardt	"Kobra"
	Filip Gurlacz	"Rogal"
	Michal Zurawski	"Czarny"
	Max Riemelt	Johann Kraus

Television

Title	Actor	Character	Note/Episode	Date
Makar the Pathfinder (Makar-sledopyt)	Igor Dmitriev	A British officer		1984
The White Guard (Belaya gvardiya)	Aleksey Serebryakov	Col. Feliks Nay-Turs		2012
The White Guard (Belaya gvardiya)	Nikolay Efremov	Nikolay Turbin		2012
Days of Honour. Uprising (Czas honoru. Powstanie)	Maciej Zakoscielny	Bronek Woyciechowski		2014
Hetaeras of Major Sokolov (Getery mayora Sokolova)	Filipp Yankovskiy	krest		2014
	Aglaya Tarasova	Infanta
	Mikhail Kasapov	Miki
	(Panin's screen double)	Maj. Andrey Sokolov

Video Games

Game Title	Appears as	Mods	Notation	Release Date
Forgotten Hope 2	"FB Pistole 645(p)"		Added in v2.6 (2022)	2007
Uprising44: The Silent Shadows	"Vis wz.28"			2012
Deadfall Adventures				2013
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Misery				2018
Land of War: The Beginning				2021

Anime

Anime Title	Character	Note	Date
Jormungand	Soldier in Major Pollack's forces	"Pulsar"	2012

See Also

• Fabryka Broni Radom - A list of all firearms manufactured by Fabryka Broni Radom.