Maksim Perepelitsa

Maksim Perepelitsa DVD cover Country USSR Directed by Anatoli Granik Release Date 1955 Language Russian Studio Lenfilm Main Cast Character Actor Maxim Perepelitsa Leonid Bykov Private Ezhikov Aleksandr Susnin Private Taskirov Radner Muratov Kondrat Perepelitsa Nikolai Yakovchenko Marusya Lyudmila Kostyrko Private Samus Sergei Sibel

Maksim Perepelitsa (Russian Title: Максим Перепелица) is a 1955 Soviet сomedy directed by Anatoli Granik. Maxim Perepelitsa is a cheerful, mischievous and resourceful young man from the one Ukrainian village. He loves to invent different fables and jokes. He didn't stop his antics, even when he was drafted into the Soviet Army.

P.S. It was the first appearance of Kalashnikov rifles in movies

The following weapons are featured in the film Maksim Perepelitsa:

Assault Rifles / Battle Rifles

AK-47

Type II AK-47 with prototype slab sided magazine - 7.62x39mm

Private Ezhikov (Aleksandr Susnin) with his AK-47

Private Perepelitsa (Leonid Bykov) with his AK

Private Perepelitsa fires an AK-47

SKS rifle

Russian Simonov Type 45 aka the Russian SKS rifle - 7.62x39mm.

Private Taskirov (Radner Muratov) with his SKS rifle

Same soldier

Taskirov holds SKS with unfolded bayonet.

Machine Guns

RPD light machine gun

RPD Light Machine Gun - 7.62x39mm

Private Samus with a RPD light machine gun

Private Ezhikov demonstrates his skills of disassembling machine gun with eyes closed

Same episode

Private Samus fires his RPD

Degtyaryov DT

DT machine gun, 7.62x54mm R

Degtyaryov DT tank machine gun can be seen at the rear of the IS-2 turret

Goryunov SG-43 Machine Gun

Goryunov SG-43 Machine Gun On 'Sokolov' mount with shield - 7.62x54mm R

Soviet soldiers fire Goryunov SG-43 Machine Gun

Goryunov SGMB, mounted on BTR-152 - 7.62x54mm R

The Goryunov SGMB mounted on the BTR-152 armored personnel carrier.

Other

57mm anti-tank gun M1943 (ZiS-2)

100mm field gun M1944 (BS-3)

122mm howitzer M1938 (M-30)

T-34-85 tank

IS-2 (Iosif Stalin) heavy tank