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The White Darkness (Bílá tma)

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The White Darkness (Bílá tma)
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Cinema poster
Country Error creating thumbnail: File missing Czechoslovakia
Directed by František Cáp
Release Date 1948
Language Czech
Studio Československý státní film
Main Cast
Character Actor
Pavel Kafka Július Pántik
Rozka Kafková Natasa Tanská
Katka Mária Prechovská
Dugin Boris Andreyev
Zika Rudolf Deyl
'Strategist' František Dibarbora
Holeša Ladislav H. Struna
German commander Radovan Lukavský


Bílá tma (English: The White darkness) is a 1948 Czech black-and-white war drama directed by František Cáp. This film was the first to artistically depict the Slovak National Uprising of 1944. A young doctor, Pavel Kafka, (Július Pántik) and nurse Katka (Mária Prechovská)shelter with a group of wounded partisans in an underground hideout until they are liberated by the Soviet Army. The theme of promoting friendship with the Red Army (and thus the USSR) permeates the entire film. For example, the story instills in the viewer the feeling that the Russian partisan Dugin (Boris Andreyev), pictured as a handsome, kind-hearted Russian guy, never has a moral crisis and is always at the right time at the right place.


The following guns were used in the 1948 Czechoslovak film The White Darkness (Bílá tma):


Submachine Guns

PPSh-41

The partisans in the film are mostly armed with Soviet PPSh-41 submachine guns. They are seen with both 35 round stick magazines and 71 round drum magazines.

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Soviet PPSh-41 Submachine Gun with 35 round stick magazine - 7.62x25mm Tokarev
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Soviet PPSh-41 Submachine Gun - 7.62x25mm Tokarev
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A partisan aims a PPSh-41 submachine gun with stick magazine.
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Holeša (Ladislav H. Struna) holds also that same SMG.
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Nurse Rozka Kafková (Natasa Tanská) retrieves a PPSh-41 to defend her patients.
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Nurse Katka (Mária Prechovská) used in firefight a PPSh-41 with drum magazine.
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Slovak insurgent Zika (Rudolf Deyl) also carries a PPSh-41 with drum magazine.
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Soviet partisan Dugin (Boris Andreyev) fired his PPSh-41 with drum magazine.
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Partisan 'Strategist' (František Dibarbora) (left) aims his PPSh-41.

MP40

German soldiers and some partisans are equipped with MP40 submachine guns.

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MP40 submachine gun - 9x19mm
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Doctor Pavel Kafka (Július Pántik) with a captured MP40.
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A German Gebirgsjaeger is armed with a MP40.

Rifles

Sturmgewehr 44

Some German soldiers are armed with Sturmgewehr 44 assault rifles.

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Sturmgewehr 44 - 7.92x33mm.
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Multiple German soldiers armed with StG-44s advance.

Grenades

Model 24 Stielhandgranate

The partisans use captured German Model 24 Stielhandgranates and Soviet F-1 hand grenades.

Model 24 Stielhandgranate
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Dugin (Boris Andreyev) pulls his Model 24 Stielhandgranate.

F-1 hand grenade

F-1 High-Explosive Fragmentation hand grenade
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A partisan prepares to throw a grenade, most likely an F-1.

Unidentified Hand Grenade

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Nurse Katka (Mária Prechovská) gives a mortally wounded partisan an unidentified hand grenade.