Heart of Bonivur
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Heart of Bonivur Serdtse Bonivura ) is a Soviet 1969 historical mini series directed by Mark Orlov and based on the novel by Dmitry Nagishkin. The story is set in 1922 on Russian Far East, during the last events of Russian civil war. Vitaliy Bonivur (Lev Prygunov ) is one of the leaders of Red partisans, struggling against the White forces.
The following weapons were used in the film Heart of Bonivur (Serdtse Bonivura) :
Revolvers Nagant M1895 Nagant M1895 revolvers are widely used by Red underground fighters and partisans, including Vitaliy Bonivur (Lev Prygunov ), Aleksey Puzhnyak (Anatoli Yurchenko ), Boris Lyubanskiy (Viktor Korshunov ), and White officers. All revolvers are of anachronistic post-1930 version.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Nagant M1895 Revolver - 7.62x38R Nagant. This example was dated 1939 manufacture and was a War time issued weapon. Note the angular front sight which was used from 1930s. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Several Nagants are seen among the firearms, confiscated by Whites counterintellegence service from Red underground. Error creating thumbnail: File missing White officer (Valeriy Motrenko ) holds a Nagant during the chase after Bonivur in Vladivostok port. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Former officer Lisyanskiy (Lev Perfilov ) holds a Nagant during the encounter with Bonivur. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Vitaliy Bonivur holds his Nagant during the action in railway depot. Note the angular, post-1930 front sight. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Another view of the same scene. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Partisan Aleksey Zhilin (Yuriy Nepsha) aims his Nagant at feldsher Kuznetsov (Viktor Kondratyuk ). Error creating thumbnail: File missing Bonivur surprises White officer Capt. Berdyanskiy (Konstantin Artyomenko ). Error creating thumbnail: File missing Podporuchik Lyubanskiy fires his Nagant in air.Error creating thumbnail: File missing Puzhnyak fires his Nagant in the final battle. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Bonivur fires his Nagant in the final battle. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Nastya Nasedkina secretly takes a Nagant to shoot a traitor. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Lyubanskiy fires his revolver. Glisenti M1874 Old peasant Zhilin (Ivan Pereverzev ) owns a Glisenti M1874 revolver. He tells that he took the revolver from a White officer.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Glisenti M1874 revolver - 10.35x20 mm Error creating thumbnail: File missing A Glisenti revolver is seen among the firearms, confiscated by Whites counterintellegence service from Red underground. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Error creating thumbnail: File missing Zhilin shows his revolver. Pistols Mauser C96 Afanasiy Ivanovich Toporkov (Yevgeni Burenkov ), the commander of Red partisan unit, carries a Mauser C96 pistol in wooden holster.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Pre-War dated Mauser C96 "Broomhandle" Commercial Version - 7.63x25mm Mauser Error creating thumbnail: File missing A Mauser C96 in woodebn holster (on top) is seen among the firearms, confiscated by Whites counterintellegence service from Red underground. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Toporkov (in center) carries the holstered Mauser. Mauser C96 "Bolo" A short-barreled Mauser C96 "Bolo" is seen among the weapons, confiscated by Whites counterintellegence service from Red underground.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Mauser C96 Short Barreled "Bolo" Model - 7.63x25mm Mauser Error creating thumbnail: File missing A Mauser C96 "Bolo" (at bottom right) is seen among the firearms. Mauser 1910 Pocket Pistol A Mauser 1910 Pocket Pistol is a personal handgun of American journalist Parker (Georgiy Kulikov ) who meet with Red partisans in taiga.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing 1910 Mauser Pocket Pistol - 6.35x16mmSR Error creating thumbnail: File missing Error creating thumbnail: File missing Partisans disarm Parker. The pistol seems to have the correct size for .25 caliber version. FN Model 1910 White Army Rotmistr (Capt. in cavalry troops) Nikolay Karayev (Pyotr Glebov ) carries an FN Model 1910 pistol. "Uncle Kolya" Storozhenkov (Boris Chirkov ), the leader of Bolsheviks in Vladivostok, carries a holstered M1910. In the scene of Bonivur's escape Podporuchik Boris Lyubanskiy's (Viktor Korshunov ) Nagant revolver switches to an FN Model 1910 due to a continuity error.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing FN Model 1910 - .380 ACP Error creating thumbnail: File missing Storozhenkov (at the right) carries holstered pistol. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Rotmistr Karayev holds his pistol during the operation against partisans.Error creating thumbnail: File missing Karayev aims his pistol at Bonivur... Error creating thumbnail: File missing ...but he is wounded in hand. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Lyubanskiy holds a pistol instead of previously seen Nagant. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Karayev fires at a Cossack who rebels against the officers. Rifles Mosin Nagant M1891/30 Mosin Nagant M1891/30 rifles are used by both Reds and Whites.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Mosin Nagant M1891/30 - 7.62x54mm R Error creating thumbnail: File missing White Cossacks escort arrested Red underground fighters. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Vitaliy Bonivur (Lev Prygunov ) takes a rifle from a Cossack. Error creating thumbnail: File missing A White Army soldier stands on guard in railway depot. Error creating thumbnail: File missing M91/30 rifle in partisans camp in taiga. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Bonivur and Puzhnyak deliver numerous firearms, including M91/30 rifles, to partisans. Error creating thumbnail: File missing A partisan carries M91/30 rifle. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Partisan Nikolay Chekerda (German Kolushkin ) with M91/30 rifle. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Aleksey Puzhnyak (Anatoli Yurchenko ), disguised as a White Cossack, disarms a White soldier on guard. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Zhilin (Ivan Pereverzev ) (at the right) and his son Aleksey (Yuriy Nepsha), disguised as White Cossacks, are armed with M91/30 rifles. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Cossack Tsygankov (Evgeniy Gvozdyov ) carries an M91/30 rifle when he and Cossack Ivan Lozovoy (Nikolay Kuzmin ) who is also armed with M91/30 arrest feldsher Kuznetsov (Viktor Kondratyuk ). Error creating thumbnail: File missing Zhilin fires his rifle at attacking Cossacks. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Cossack Ivantsov (Vladimir Volchik ) fires his rifle. Mosin Nagant M1891 Some original Mosin Nagant M1891 rifles are also seen.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Mosin Nagant M1891 Infantry Rifle - 7.62x54mm R Error creating thumbnail: File missing A White Army soldier holds M91 rifle. Mosin Nagant "Obrez" Red partisan Nikolay Chekerda (German Kolushkin ) uses a Mosin Nagant "obrez" .
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Sawn-off Mosin Nagant M1891/30 - 7.62x54mm R. In Russian such weapon is called "obrez " which means "cut". It was mostly used by criminals and rebels. Error creating thumbnail: File missing A partisan in center holds an "obrez". Error creating thumbnail: File missing Chekerda holds an "obrez" at the right. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Another view of the same scene. Shotguns Single Barreled Shotgun Several Single Barreled Shotguns are seen among the guns, brought to partisans by Bonivur and Puzhnyak. They are most likely Izhmekh shotguns, like IZh-K or IZh-17 .
Error creating thumbnail: File missing IZh-K - 16 Gauge Error creating thumbnail: File missing A shotgun is seen on top. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Another shotgun is seen on bottom. Machine Guns Degtyaryov DP-27 (visually modified to resemble Lewis) A Degtyaryov DP-27 , visually modified to resemble Lewis , is used by both Reds and Whites. It is fitted with barrel shroud of very unusual shape, fake magazine in Lewis style and pistol grip. This movie prop appears in several other movies, filmed by Dovzhenko Studios, including Tachanka s yuga Vystrel v grobu
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Degtyaryov DP-28 machine gun - 7.62x54mm R Error creating thumbnail: File missing Lewis Gun - .303 British Error creating thumbnail: File missing Bonivur and Puzhnyak deliver numerous firearms, including "Lewis" machine gun, to partisans. Error creating thumbnail: File missing White soldiers with fake "Lewis". Error creating thumbnail: File missing Fake "Lewis" in action. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Another view of the machine gun in action. Error creating thumbnail: File missing A closeup of the muzzle. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Vitaliy Bonivur (Lev Prygunov ) fires the machine gun. Other Weapons OSP-30 Flare Pistol Vitaliy Bonivur (Lev Prygunov ) uses an OSP-30 flare pistol when commanding the partisans to retreat.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing OSP-30 Flare Pistol - 26.5mm Error creating thumbnail: File missing Izhmekh IZh-SPL Starting Pistol IZh-SPL blank firing starting pistol is seen in hands of Boris Lyubanskiy (Viktor Korshunov ) during the chase in port. It is probably standing for some pocket pistol of early 20th century.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Izhmekh IZh-SPL - .22 blank or Gevelot small cap Error creating thumbnail: File missing Error creating thumbnail: File missing Lyubanskiy holds the pistol. Hand Grenade (mockup) Mockups of hand grenades, similar with RG-14s or RG-14/30s , are used by Red partisans, including Zhilin (Ivan Pereverzev ) and his son Aleksey (Yuriy Nepsha).
Error creating thumbnail: File missing For comparison: RG-14/30 Soviet hand grenade. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Several stick hand grenades are seen among the firearms, confiscated by Whites counterintellegence service from Red underground. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Grenades are seen among the guns, brought to partisans by Bonivur and Puzhnyak. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Zhilin, disguised as White Cossack, holds a grenade. Error creating thumbnail: File missing A partisan carries a grenade at his belt. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Aleksey Zhilin holds a grenade during the last battle. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Zhilin holds a grenade during the last battle. F-1 Hand Grenade Several F-1 hand grenades are seen among the firearms, confiscated by Whites counterintellegence service from Red underground. Zhilin (Ivan Pereverzev ) uses an F-1 in the final battle. These anachronistic grenades are probably used as a replacement for Mills Bombs , used during the Russian civil war.
F-1 High-Explosive Fragmentation hand grenade Error creating thumbnail: File missing Error creating thumbnail: File missing Zhilin holds an F-1. Simonov SKS Guards of honor carry SKS rifles in Moscow in 1968.
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