No Way Back (Obratnoj dorogi net)

Obratnoj dorogi net DVD Cover Country Soviet Union Directed by Grigori Lipshits Release Date 1971 Language Russian Main Cast Character Actor Major Toporkov Nikolay Olyalin Yegor Gonta Aleksandr Yanvarev Andreyev Aleksei Chernov Galya Galina Polskikh Lyovushkin Nikolai Merzlikin Bertolet Igor Yasulovich Stepan Boris Yurchenko Solomon Berkovich Lev Lemke Mitrokhin Valeri Malyshev

No Way Back (Obratnoj dorogi net) is a 1971 Soviet three-part made-for-TV movie about the partisan movement in Ukraine during the WWII. A group of partisans is sent to escort a supply train. But they don't know that the supply train is fake and was sent in order to identify a traitor in the partisan detachment.

The following weapons can be seen in No Way Back (Obratnoj dorogi net):

Handguns

Luger P08

German officers carry the Luger P08 as their sidearm.

Luger P08 - 9x19mm. This is blank adapted movie gun.

Submachine Guns

MP38/40

The Germans and the partisans was widely used a MP38 and MP40 submachine guns.

The MP38. The sub-machine gun of the German Military Before 1940. It was still used in small quantities in 1941 and 1942.

MP40 submachine gun - 9x19mm

German soldier fires his submachine gun.

Major Toporkov (Nikolay Olyalin) in combat.

Yegor Gonta (Aleksandr Yanvarev) confiscates traitor´s gun and prepares to shoot him with it.

Partisan Lyovushkin (Nikolai Merzlikin) readies to fire.

Mitrokhin (Valeri Malyshev) fires a machine gun.

PPS-43

Several partisans use PPS-43 submachine guns.

Soviet PPS-43 Submachine Gun - 7.62x25mm Tokarev

Lyovushkin (Nikolai Merzlikin).

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Major Toporkov (Nikolay Olyalin).

PPSh-41

Only Galya (Galina Polskikh) and a few partisans has a PPSh-41 submachine guns.

Soviet PPSh-41 Submachine Gun - 7.62x25mm Tokarev

Galya (Galina Polskikh) and Lyovushkin (Nikolai Merzlikin) (right).

Galya covers commander´s back in the fight.

Bertolet (Igor Yasulovich) expected enemy with a gun in his hand.

Solomon Berkovich (Lev Lemke) with his PPSh-41.

Rifles

Karabiner 98k

Standard weapons of German troops is a Karabiner 98k rifle.

Karabiner 98k - 7.92x57mm

While the soldiers holds a rifles, the officer is equipped with a MP40.

German infantryman goes in the attack with a rifle in his hand.

Mosin Nagant Rifle

Full-length, Mosin Nagant M91/30 Sniper Rifle with Russian PU 3.5x sniper scope and down turned bolt handle - 7.62x54mm R

Full-length, Soviet Mosin Nagant M91/30 - 7.62x54R

Partisan Andreyev (Aleksei Chernov) focuses on the destruction of a German officer.

Bertolet (Igor Yasulovich) (left) gives the sniper rifle to Lyovushkin (Nikolai Merzlikin).

Partisan-grooms Stepan (Boris Yurchenko) carries his rifle over his shoulder ...

... and takes in the hand just in case of danger.

Machine Guns

Degtyaryov DP Series Machine Gun

The only one Degtyarev DP-28 machine gun operated a deputy commander Yegor Gonta (Aleksandr Yanvarev).

Degtyarev DP-28 machine gun, 7.62x54mm R

MG34

German troops use in the film still only a MG34 machine guns.

MG34 7.92x57mm Mauser with 75-round ammo drum

The German side car equipped with a MG34 machine gun.

German machine-gunner fired from one bank of the river for the fleeing partisans.

Hand Grenades

Model 24 Stielhandgranate

German soldiers and the partisans mostly used a Model 24 Stielhandgranates.

Yegor Gonta (Aleksandr Yanvarev) with a Model 24 Stielhandgranate in his belt.

Partisan Lyovushkin (Nikolai Merzlikin) threw volume grenades at the German column.

F-1 hand grenade

Only in hands of partisans are appear the Soviet F-1 hand grenades.

Yegor Gonta (Aleksandr Yanvarev) took a several F1 hand grenades ...

... and handed them to major Toporkov (Nikolay Olyalin).