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The Third Planet (Tretya planeta)

DVD Cover

Country	USSR
Directed by	Aleksandr Rogozhkin
Release Date	1991
Language	Russian
Studio	Lenfilm

Main Cast
Character	Actor
Alyona	Anna Matyukhina
Anton	Boris Sokolov
Ivan	Aleksandr Bashurov
Local settler	Viktor Bychkov
Mikhail	Mikhail Kirilyuk
Soldier	Sergey Kupriyanov
Informator	Aleksey Poluyan

The Third Planet (Russian title: Третья планета, Tretya planeta) is a 1991 Soviet science fiction movie. Alyona, the fifteen-year-old daughter of Anton, who suffers from a serious and incurable disease, is once again discharged without improvement now from a foreign clinic. Anton decides to return home and try his luck in the "Zone" - that's the name of the place where an atomic catastrophe happened many years ago. Now, according to rumors and magazine publications, there live a hermits-healers. Anton and Alyona pass through the spaces infected with radiation and get to the oasis closed from the whole world, a small settlement of hermits. However, they still do not know how everything will eventually turn out.

The following weapons were used in the film The Third Planet (Tretya planeta):

Handguns

FN Barracuda (Astra Police)

Anton buys at the beginning of the film in the gun shop the FN Barracuda revolver. This particular version is named in the film as "Astra Police", wich also evidenced by the characteristic grips with logo. The gun itself is bought without any license whatsoever, which is an absolute fiction, and is apparently a direct reference to similar acts in many action films (what in real life would be commonplace for the black market, but not for the official store). Another obvious cinema stereotype is that the revolver is sold without any spare ammunition.

Astra Police (FN sold this Spaniard revolver, with minor modifications as the "Barracuda") with .357 and 9mm cylinders

Submachine Guns

Sa vz. 26

Some of the special forces fighters can be seen armed with a Sa vz. 26 SMGs.

File:Samopal vzor 26.jpg

Czech Sa.26 Submachine Gun - 7.62x25mm

Thompson M1928A1

M1928A1 Thompson, converted for using MP40 magazines fitted for 7.62x25 blank cartridges. Such movie props were widely used in Soviet movies of 1970s-90s.

Shotguns

Winchester Model 1912

One of the special forces fighters can be seen armed with the Winchester Model 1912 shotgun.

Winchester Model 1912 - 12 Gauge

Unknown Pump-Action Shotgun

Pump action shotgun can be seen in the gun shop. It may be the Mossberg 500 due the black finish, but it's hard to say for sure.

Mossberg 500 "Persuader" with standard five-shot magazine tube - 12 gauge. This is the most commonly produced version of the 500 series today.

12 Gauge Double Barreled Shotgun

Some 12 Gauge Double Barreled Shotguns is seen in the gun shop.

TOZ-BM, an improved version of TOZ-B - 16 gauge

IZh-K

Izhmekh IZh-K - 16 Gauge

Assault Rifles

APS Underwater Assault Rifle

At least one of the special forces fighters can be seen use the APS Underwater Assault Rifle.

APS underwater assault rifle - 5.66x39 MPS

AK-74

The soldiers at the checkpoint at the end of the film are visible with the AK-74s.

AK-74 - 5.45x39mm

Other

SPSh Flare Pistol

Soldier (Sergey Kupriyanov) uses at the end of the movie the SPSh Flare Pistol.

Russian Kovrov Arsenal flare pistol - 26.5mm Flares

Gun Shop

One scene in the film that requires its own section is the gun shop, where an entire bunch of weapons. Handguns are list here to save space. Almost all of them are target versions, and were clearly provided by some sport community.