I Was Nineteen (Ich war neunzehn)
Original Theatrical Poster
I Was Nineteen Ich war neunzehn ) is a 1968 East German B&W war drama directed by Konrad Wolf. Gregor Hecker's family fled from Nazi Germany to the USSR when the boy was eight. In April 1945, the 19-years old Gregor Hecker returns to his homeland as a Red Army military interpreter with a Lieutenant rank.
The following weapons were used in the film I Was Nineteen (Ich war neunzehn) :
Revolvers Nagant M1895 A Nagant M1895 is the service sidearm of Lt. Gregor Hecker (Jaecki Schwarz ).
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Nagant M1895 Revolver - 7.62x38R Nagant. Note the angular front sight which was used from 1930s. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Hecker holds a Nagant. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Error creating thumbnail: File missing Hecker carries his revolver in a holster. The grip is seen. Error creating thumbnail: File missing The Nagant next to a sleeping Hecker. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Sascha Ziganjuk (Aleksey Eybozhenko ) takes the Nagant and wakes Gregor. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Hecker removes the holster from the belt when he goes as a parlimentaire in Spandau fortress. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Ziganjuk holds Hecker's holster with revolver. Pistols Tokarev TT-33 A TT-33 is seen in hands of a Soviet tank officer. Some Soviet officers carry holsters for TT pistols, which are most likely empty.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Tokarev TT-33 - 7.62x25mm Tokarev. Pre-1947 version. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Capt. Wadim Gejman (Vasiliy Livanov ) carries a holster for a TT-33. It's hard to say if there is a pistol inside. Error creating thumbnail: File missing An officer at the right holds a TT when he argues with Capt. Gejman. Error creating thumbnail: File missing A Soviet artillery Jr. Lt. (Boris Tokarev ) is gunned down by a German soldier. He carries a holster for a TT-33. The pocket for a spare magazine is empty. Walther PP Sr. Lt. Aleksandr (Sascha) Ziganjuk (Aleksey Eybozhenko ) carries a Walther PP pistol. An SS Sturmbannführer (Kurt Böwe) in Spandau fortress shoots himself with a Walther PP.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing War Time Walther PP Pistol - 7.65x17mm (.32 ACP) Error creating thumbnail: File missing Ziganjuk carries a Walther PP in a holster. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Error creating thumbnail: File missing The SS Sturmbannführer commits suicide. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Ziganjuk holds his pistol. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Another view of Ziganjuk's pistol. Error creating thumbnail: File missing The grip of the pistol is seen in Ziganjuk's holster. Luger P08 A German kid takes a Luger P08 from a pile of surrendered guns.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Luger P08 - 9x19mm Error creating thumbnail: File missing Willi Lommer (Dieter Mann ) carries a holster for a Luger P08 , possibly empty. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Error creating thumbnail: File missing Error creating thumbnail: File missing The kid plays with a Luger. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Dsingis (Kalmursa Rachmanov) takes away the dangerous "toy". Error creating thumbnail: File missing Same scene in a promotional still. Walther P38 A wounded, blind German NCO (Klaus Manchen ) carries a Walther P38 in holster.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Walther P38 WWII dated with black grips - 9x19mm Error creating thumbnail: File missing A small part of the grip can be seen. Submachine Guns PPSh-41 PPSh-41 SMGs are used by Sr. Lt. Sascha Ziganjuk (Aleksey Eybozhenko ) (later he carries an MP40 ) and driver Dsingis (Kalmursa Rachmanov). Many Red Army soldiers also carry PPSh-41s.
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Error creating thumbnail: File missing PPSh-41 - 7.62x25mm Tokarev Error creating thumbnail: File missing Ziganjuk fires at a German soldier who attacks Gregor Hecker. Error creating thumbnail: File missing A soldier with a PPSh in a truck. Error creating thumbnail: File missing A soldier with a PPSh. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Dsingis carries a PPSh. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Error creating thumbnail: File missing An infantryman and a tank crewmember hold PPSh-41s at the left. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Dsingis in a shootout with SS men. Error creating thumbnail: File missing A good view of the drum magazine of Dsinsis' PPSh. MP40 Sr. Lt. Sascha Ziganjuk (Aleksey Eybozhenko ) carries an MP40 . In one scene, he gives his SMG to Lt. Gregor Hecker (Jaecki Schwarz ).
Error creating thumbnail: File missing MP40 - 9x19mm Error creating thumbnail: File missing Ziganjuk holds an MP40 at the right. Error creating thumbnail: File missing He gives the gun to Hecker. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Hecker holds the MP40 at the left. Error creating thumbnail: File missing MP40 next to a dead Ziganjuk. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Ziganjuk holds an MP40 at the left in a promotional still. Assault Rifles Sturmgewehr 44 Many German soldiers carry Sturmgewehr 44 assault rifles. Sometimes, they switch to out-of-time AK-47s .
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Error creating thumbnail: File missing Sturmgewehr 44 - 7.92x33mm Kurz Error creating thumbnail: File missing A closeup of a captured StG 44. Error creating thumbnail: File missing German soldiers escort Soviet parlimentaires. Error creating thumbnail: File missing A German soldier in attack. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Error creating thumbnail: File missing Ziganjuk and Hecker gather surrendered weapons, mostly Sturmgewehrs. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Surrendered Unteroffizier (NCO) Willi Lommer (Dieter Mann ) carries Sturmgewehrs and Karabiner 98k rifles. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Error creating thumbnail: File missing A pile of surrendered guns include many Sturmgewehrs. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Lommer holds an StG 44. In the previous moment, he was seen with an AK. MPi-K In several scenes, MPi-Ks are used as substitutions for Sturmgewehr 44s . As in many other films of the Eastern Bloc, this is due to the fact that regular troops with their service weapons participated in the filming.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing 7,62-mm-Maschinenpistole „Kalaschnikow" (MPi-K) both sides - 7.62x39mm. Note: early versions of the MPi-K has the design of the front sight was different. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Error creating thumbnail: File missing A German soldier with an MPi-K in action. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Gregor Hecker (Jaecki Schwarz ) fires an MPi-K at SS men. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Willi Lommer (Dieter Mann ) fires an MPi-K at SS men. In the next moment, Lommer's gun switches to an StG 44. Error creating thumbnail: File missing A general view of the scene. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Lommer fires an MPi-K in a promotional still. Rifles Karabiner 98k Karabiner 98k rifles are seen in the hands of German soldiers and among surrendered weapons.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Karabiner 98k - 7.92x57mm Mauser Error creating thumbnail: File missing A sentry in Spandau fortress. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Error creating thumbnail: File missing German soldiers, attacking a Soviet artillery unit, are armed with 98k rifles and StG 44 assault rifles. Error creating thumbnail: File missing 98k rifles are seen among the weapons, gathered by Ziganjuk and Hecker. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Dsingis (Kalmursa Rachmanov) carries surrendered StG 44 and 98k rifles at the right. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Willi Lommer (Dieter Mann ) carries a pair of 98k rifles. Error creating thumbnail: File missing A closer view of one of Lommer's rifles. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Another view of Lommer with 98k. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Error creating thumbnail: File missing Several 98k rifles are seen in a pile of weapons. Mosin Nagant M1944 Carbine A Soviet girl, military traffic controller (Galina Polskikh ) carries a Mosin Nagant M1944 Carbine . Some Red Army artillerymen are also armed with Mosin Nagant carbines.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Mosin Nagant M44 Carbine, with attached side-folding bayonet - 7.62x54mm R Error creating thumbnail: File missing A girl at the right carries an M44 Carbine. Error creating thumbnail: File missing The barrel with the folded bayonet is seen. Error creating thumbnail: File missing The barrel of an M44 Carbine is seen at foreground. Error creating thumbnail: File missing The carbine of an artilleryman is seen on ground (but it's hard to say for sure if it is an M1944 or M1938). Error creating thumbnail: File missing Several M44 Carbines belonging to artillerymen stacked in a pyramid. Machine Guns MG34 MG34 machine guns are seen in several scenes.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing MG34 with front and rear sights folded down - 7.92x57mm Mauser Error creating thumbnail: File missing An MG34 in Spandau fortress. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Error creating thumbnail: File missing Error creating thumbnail: File missing An MG34 in a pile of surrendered weapons. LMG-K A heavily anachronistic LMG-K, the East German version of the RPK , is seen in the hands of a German soldier.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing RPK with 40 round magazine - 7.62x39mm Error creating thumbnail: File missing A soldier in the background holds an RPK. SG-43 An SG-43 is seen in a Soviet truck.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Goryunov SG-43 Machine Gun On 'Sokolov' mount with shield - 7.62x54mm R Error creating thumbnail: File missing An SG-43 in a truck. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Error creating thumbnail: File missing Another view of the same machine gun. Here it is seen loaded with a belt, filled with German 7.92x57mm Exerzierpatrone training cartridges. Error creating thumbnail: File missing A general view of SG-43. The shield and wheels are removed. MG08 Several MG08 machine guns are seen in Spandau fortress.
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Error creating thumbnail: File missing Panzerfaust 60/100 - 44mm with 149mm warhead Error creating thumbnail: File missing Error creating thumbnail: File missing Model 24 Stielhandgranate In one scene, Sascha Ziganjuk (Aleksey Eybozhenko ) carries an Model 24 Stielhandgranate .
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Model 24 Stielhandgranate "Potato Masher" high-explosive fragmentation hand grenade Error creating thumbnail: File missing Trivia Holsters Error creating thumbnail: File missing Error creating thumbnail: File missing The commandant of Spandau fortress, Oberst (Col.) Lewerenz (Johannes Wieke) carries a holster that seems to be an East German pattern Makarov PM holster. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Error creating thumbnail: File missing Oberleutnant Schenk (Jürgen Hentsch) carries a holster for a compact pistol like a Walther PP .Artillery Error creating thumbnail: File missing Two BM-13 Katyusha rocket launchers are seen in the background. Error creating thumbnail: File missing A German AA gun on the bridge appears to be a Soviet 85mm 52-K , standing in for an 8.8cm Flak. Error creating thumbnail: File missing A Soviet 76.2mm ZiS-3 field gun stands in for an abandoned German gun. Error creating thumbnail: File missing A ZiS-3 on position. Error creating thumbnail: File missing A ZiS-3 is seen in the background. Tanks Error creating thumbnail: File missing Soviet T-34-85 tanks on march. Error creating thumbnail: File missing An SU-100 SPG on march. Error creating thumbnail: File missing A T-34-85. Error creating thumbnail: File missing A German tank in Spandau fortress. It appears to be an accurate mockup of a Pz.Kpfw.VI Ausf. E. Tiger. Error creating thumbnail: File missing An SU-100 is seen at the background. Error creating thumbnail: File missing An SU-100 and a T-34-85, captured by Germans and used in an attempt to break out of Berlin. Error creating thumbnail: File missing An SU-100. Mosin Nagant M1891/30 Error creating thumbnail: File missing Mosin Nagant M1891/30 - 7.62x54R Error creating thumbnail: File missing Artillerymen carry Mosin Nagant M1891/30 rifles. PTRS-41 AT Rifle Error creating thumbnail: File missing PTRS-41 Anti-Tank Rifle - 14.5x114mm Error creating thumbnail: File missing Soldiers carry a PTRS-41 AT rifle, disassembled in two parts. Tellermine 35 Tellermine 35 (Stahl) Anti-tank mine Error creating thumbnail: File missing A Soviet sapper removes a German Tellermine 35 (Stahl) AT mine. BM-37 Mortar Error creating thumbnail: File missing Soviet 82mm BM-37 Mortar, early model Error creating thumbnail: File missing An 82mm BM-37 mortar in action. Artillery Error creating thumbnail: File missing 76.2mm M1927 infantry gun. Error creating thumbnail: File missing 76.2mm M1927 infantry gun. Error creating thumbnail: File missing 76.2mm ZiS-3 field guns. Error creating thumbnail: File missing 122mm M-30 howitzers. Error creating thumbnail: File missing 122mm A-19 heavy field gun. Error creating thumbnail: File missing 152mm ML-20 gun-howitzer. Error creating thumbnail: File missing BM-13 Katyusha rocket launcher. Error creating thumbnail: File missing BM-13 Katyusha rocket launcher. 
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