A Noisy Household (Bespokoynoe khozyaystvo)

A Noisy Household (Bespokoynoe khozyaystvo) Original Theatrical Poster Country USSR Directed by Mikhail Zharov Release Date 1946 Language Russian Studio Mosfilm Main Cast Character Actor Yefreytor (Corp.) Antonina "Tonya" Kalmykova Lyudmila Tselikovskaya Pvt. Tikhon Ogurtsov Aleksandr Grave Starshina (Sgt.Maj.) Semibab Mikhail Zharov Lt. Ivan Kroshkin Vitali Doronin Lt. Jacques Larochelle Yuri Lyubimov Krauss Sergey Filippov

A Noisy Household (Bespokoynoe khozyaystvo) is a 1946 Soviet war comedy directed by Mikhail Zharov. In Autumn 1944 two inexperienced soldiers, young pretty girl Tonya Kalmykova and myopic, ungainly Tikhon Ogurtsov, serve at a decoy airfield under the command of Starshina Semibab. A real airfield, positioned not far away, is used by two fighter squadrons, one of which is fighter squadron Normandie of Free French Forces. Two pilots, Russian Ivan Kroshkin and Frenchman Jacques Larochelle, fall in love to Tonya.

The following weapons were used in the film A Noisy Household (Bespokoynoe khozyaystvo):

Pistols

Tokarev TT-33

A German spy Krauss (Sergey Filippov), disguised as a Soviet soldier, carries a TT-33. Tonya Kalmykova (Lyudmila Tselikovskaya) manages to disarm him.

Tokarev TT-33 - 7.62x25mm Tokarev. Pre-1947 version.

Tonya holds Krauss' TT.

The TT on the ground.

Tonya holds Krauss at gunpoint.

Submachine guns

PPSh-41

Starshina (Sgt.Maj.) Semibab (Mikhail Zharov) and his subordinates, Yefreytor (Corp.) Tonya Kalmykova (Lyudmila Tselikovskaya) and Pvts. Tikhon Ogurtsov (Aleksandr Grave), Sorokonozhkin (Georgiy Svetlani) and Gvozdaryov (Vladimir Uralsky), carry PPSh-41 submachine guns with drum and stick magazines.

PPSh-41 Submachine Gun - 7.62x25mm Tokarev

PPSh-41 Submachine Gun with 35-round box magazine - 7.62x25mm Tokarev

Tonya carries a PPSh with stick magazine.

Ogurtsov bears guard duty.

Starshina Semibab carries a PPSh with drum magazine.

Sorokonozhkin (at the left) and Gvozdaryov (at the right) with PPSh SMGs in dugout.

Tonya holds a PPSh with drum magazine. A spare drum and Semibab's PPSh are seen next to her.

MP40

MP40 submachine guns are used by German soldiers.

MP40 submachine gun - 9x19mm

A German spotter on the tree carries an MP40.

Another German soldier fires from the tree.

Rifles

Karabiner 98k

Some German soldiers are armed with Karabiner 98k rifles.

Karabiner 98k - German manufacture 1937 date - 7.92x57mm Mauser

A Karabiner 98k is seen at the left. A German soldier uses his rifle to fire at a Soviet plane, basing it on a stick.

Machine Guns and Autocannons

Berezin UBS

Berezin UBS machine gun is mounted on Yak-9 fighter plane.

Berezin UBS (Synchronized) - 12.7x108mm

In addition to ShVAK-20 autocannon, Yak-9 is armed with a synchronized UBS machine gun over the engine.

Shpitalnyi-Vladimirov ShVAK-20

Shpitalnyi-Vladimirov ShVAK-20 autocannons are mounted on La-7 and Yak-9 fighter planes.

ShVAK-20 autocannon - 20x99 mm R

La-7 is armed with two ShVAK autocannons in synchronized mountings over the engine.

Yak-9 has a single ShVAK, firing through a hollow propeller shaft.

Other Weapons

Model 24 Stielhandgranate

In one scene Tonya Kalmykova (Lyudmila Tselikovskaya) holds a Model 24 Stielhandgranate.

Model 24 Stielhandgranate "Potato Masher" high-explosive fragmentation hand grenade

LP-42 Flare Pistol

What appear to be LP-42 Flare Pistol is seen on decoy airfield, fitted to the "hand" of mannequin and remotely controlled by a rope.

Leuchtpistole 42 Flare Pistol - 26.65mm

Gvozdaryov (Vladimir Uralsky) attached the rope to the flare pistol.