Battleship Potemkin

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Battleship Potemkin (1925)

Battleship Potemkin (Bronenosets Potyomkin)

The following guns were used in the film Battleship Potemkin (1925):

Mosin Nagant 1891

Russian sailors on board the Potemkin and the soldiers on shore are armed with Mosin Nagant 1891 rifles. Many of the rifles in this film have bayonets fixed, and indeed rifles in the ship's small arms locker are stored with bayonets fixed.

Full-length, Soviet Mosin Nagant M91/30 - 7.62x54mmR. The rifles in the film are original M1891 rifles, since the film is set and was filmed prior to 1930.

Russian marines line up to shoot the mutineers.

Mosin Nagant rifles in the small arms locker, bayonets already affixed.

The army fires upon unarmed civilians during the famous "Odessa Steps" sequence.

Steyr Mannlicher M1895

Chief Officer Giliarovsky (Grigori Aleksandrov) uses a Steyr Mannlicher Rifle in a scene. The use of the Mannlicher by the Russian Navy is incorrect, although the film-makers may have used Austro-Hungarian rifles captured during the Great War.

Steyr M1895 Long Rifle - 8x56R

Chief Officer Giliarovsky (Grigori Aleksandrov) takes aim at Grigory Vakulinchuk.

FN Model 1900

One officer defends himself with an FN Model 1900 pistol. He is then quickly overwhelmed and beaten.

FN Model 1900, .32 ACP

The FN Model 1900 lying on top of the piano as the officer scrambles on top of it. This screencap is taken from an older release of the film, hence the difference in image quality.