My Zero Hour (Meine Stunde Null): Difference between revisions
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My Zero Hour (Meine Stunde Null): Difference between revisions
Blank (Friedo Solter), a member of NKFD, who speaks with Hartung, carries a [[Nagant M1895]] revolver. This is a visually modified prop, fitted with elongated barrel and wide grips. Probably it was mocked up in style of Colt revolvers for usage in some East German Western movie.
Blank (Friedo Solter), a member of NKFD, who speaks with Hartung, carries a [[Nagant M1895]] revolver. This is a visually modified prop, fitted with elongated barrel and wide grips. It appears to be the same prop, used in ''[[Sons of Great Bear (Die Söhne der großen Bärin), The#Nagant M1895 (visually modified)|Die Söhne der großen Bärin]]'' 1966 Western movie.
[[Image:Nagant-1895.jpg|thumb|none|300px|Nagant M1895 - 7.62x38R Nagant. Note the angular front sight which was used from 1930s.]]
[[Image:Nagant-1895.jpg|thumb|none|300px|Nagant M1895 - 7.62x38R Nagant. Note the angular front sight which was used from 1930s.]]
[[File:MSN-Nagant-1.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Blank's revolver on table. Elongated barrel is seen.]]
[[File:MSN-Nagant-1.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Blank's revolver on table. Elongated barrel is seen.]]
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= Footage =
= Footage =
In one scene Hartung watches documentary footage from Soviet newsreel. Wartime photos are also seen during the opening credites.
In one scene Hartung watches documentary footage from Soviet newsreel. Wartime photos are also seen during the opening credits.
[[File:MSN-Cronicle-1.jpg|thumb|none|600px|76.2mm F-22USV (M1939) field guns are seen on wartime photo.]]
[[File:MSN-Cronicle-1.jpg|thumb|none|600px|76.2mm F-22USV (M1939) field guns are seen on wartime photo.]]
[[File:MSN-Cronicle-2.jpg|thumb|none|600px|[[37-mm M1939 (61-K)|37mm 61-K]] AA autocannons are seen on wartime photo.]]
[[File:MSN-Cronicle-2.jpg|thumb|none|600px|[[37-mm M1939 (61-K)|37mm 61-K]] AA autocannons are seen on wartime photo.]]
My Zero Hour (Meine Stunde Null) is an East German 1970 war movie directed by Joachim Hasler. In 1943 Wehrmacht Gefreiter Kurt Hartung (Manfred Krug), a former Berliner worker, is captured by Soviet soldiers. Never been a faithful Nazi, Hartung joins the National Committee for a Free Germany (NKFD), a USSR based German anti-Nazi organization.
The following weapons were used in the film My Zero Hour (Meine Stunde Null):
Blank (Friedo Solter), a member of NKFD, who speaks with Hartung, carries a Nagant M1895 revolver. This is a visually modified prop, fitted with elongated barrel and wide grips. It appears to be the same prop, used in Die Söhne der großen Bärin 1966 Western movie.
Soviet intelligence officer Maj. Gornin (Anatoliy Kuznetsov) carries a Walther PP pistol in several scenes (Note: Gornin is credited as Oberleutnant but he has Soviet Major insignia, while he appears in German Oberleutnant uniform only during the operation across enemy lines). During the operation Kurt Hartung (Manfred Krug), disguised as an officer, also carries a Walther PP.
In another scene Gornin holds an unidentifided pistol, instead of Walther PP that he carries in previous and following scenes. The pistol bears resemblance with CZ 27 but it's only a guess.
Most German soldiers are armed with Karabiner 98k rifles. This is historically correct, by contrast with numerous war movies that shows each and every Wehrmacht soldier with MP40.
Kurt Hartung (Manfred Krug) carries several hand grenades. One of them, with an elongated elliptical body resembles Nebelhandgranate 42 smoke grenade but it is seen too unclear for positive identification.
Kurt Hartung (Manfred Krug) also has two hand grenades of another model. The body of these grenades resemble Model 39 Eihandgranate but the fuse is different.