Dead Season (Myortvyy sezon)

Original Theatrical Poster

Country	USSR
Directed by	Savva Kulish
Release Date	1968
Language	Russian
Studio	Lenfilm

Main Cast
Character	Actor
Col. Konstantin Timofeevich Ladeynikov	Donatas Banionis
Ivan Pavlovich Savushkin	Rolan Bykov
Gen. Pavel Konstantinovich Bocharov	Sergei Kurilov
Capt. Aleksey Nikolaevich Muravyov	Gennadiy Yukhtin
Police Chief Smith	Ants Eskola
Dr. Richard Haas alias Prof. Born	Vladimir Erenberg
Father Mortimer	Leonhard Merzin
Greban	Mauri Raus

Dead Season (Myortvyy sezon) is a Soviet 1968 two-part spy movie directed by Savva Kulish. Soviet intellegence officer Ladeynikov (Donatas Banionis) investigate the activities of former Nazi war criminal Dr. Haas (Vladimir Erenberg) who works under a new name in a pharmaceutical center in a small resort town of Dargate. Haas continues his wartime research of a psycho-chemical agent RH. Since Ladeynikov is unaware of Hass's appearance, he is assisted by Ivan Savushkin (Rolan Bykov) who in 1944 escaped from a POW camp where Hass was testing his gas. Together Ladeynikov and Savushkin must identify and stop Haas.

The following weapons were used in the film Dead Season (Myortvyy sezon):

Pistols

Beretta M1934

Beretta M1934 are used by Konstantin Timofeevich Ladeynikov (Donatas Banionis), Richard Haas (Vladimir Erenberg), chief of Dargate police Smith (Ants Eskola) and Catrine (Anda Zaice), secretary of Prof. O'Reilly.

Beretta Model 1934 - .380 ACP

A Beretta on Smith's table.

Smith takes his pistol.

Ladeynikov holds a Beretta (at the right).

Ladeynikov's pistol is seen on the table.

Haas holds a Beretta (at the right).

A good view of Haas' Beretta during the grapple.

Catrine fires a Beretta.

Vis wz. 35

In one scene Greban (Mauri Raus), an agent of BND (West Germany Federal Intelligence Service) draws a Vis wz. 35 pistol from a glovebox of his car. Possibly same prop is seen in several other Lenfilm productions, like Makar-sledopyt and Moy drug Ivan Lapshin.