The Hyperboloid of Engineer Garin (Giperboloid inzhenera Garina)

The Hyperboloid of Engineer Garin (Giperboloid inzhenera Garina) Modern Russian Poster Country USSR Directed by Aleksandr Gintsburg Release Date 1965 Language Russian Studio Gorky Film Studios Main Cast Character Actor Pyotr Garin Evgeni Evstigneev Vasily Shelga Vsevolod Safonov Rolling Mikhail Astangov Zoya Montrose Natalya Klimova Hlynov Mikhail Kuznetsov Nikolai Mantsev Nikolai Bubnov Captain Jansen Bruno O'Ya

The Hyperboloid of Engineer Garin (Giperboloid inzhenera Garina) is a Soviet 1965 B&W science fiction movie, directed by Aleksandr Gintsburg and based on the same title novel by Aleksey Tolstoy (also released in English as "The Garin Death Ray"). In mid-1920s Russian inventor Pyotr Garin creates a powerful "Death Ray" device, called "Hyperboloid". He uses his invention as both the weapon and the tool to extract the gold from Earth's mantle. Using these advantages, Garin plans to establish his power all over the world. The 1965 movie is the first screen adaptation of the novel; in 1973 a second screen version appeared, titled Failure of Engineer Garin (Krakh inzhenera Garina).

The following weapons were used in the film The Hyperboloid of Engineer Garin (Giperboloid inzhenera Garina):

Handguns

FN Model 1900

In the opening scene Ugolovny Rozysk (crime police) Detective Vasily Shelga (Vsevolod Safonov) is seen with an FN Model 1900 pistol.

FN Model 1900 - .32 ACP

Shelga holds an FN Model 1900 when he enters Garin's hideout in abandoned house.

FN Model 1910

FN Model 1910 pistols are used by several characters, including Pyotr Garin (Evgeni Evstigneev), Vasily Shelga (Vsevolod Safonov), industrial tycoon Rolling (Mikhail Astangov), and Rolling's hired guns "Four-fingered" (Viktor Chekmaryov) and Gaston "Duck Nose" (Pavel Shpringfeld).

FN Model 1910 - .380 ACP

Shelga's previously seen FN Model 1900 switches to Model 1910.

"Four-fingered" holds an FN 1910.

"Four-fingered" fires. The slide of the pistol doesn't move so the muzzle flame must be produced by pyrotechnical means.

Garin holds an FN 1910 in the scene with Zoya Montrose in Paris.

Shelga and Rolling grapples for the pistol.

Rolling's pistol on the ground.

Shelga fires an FN 1910 at Garin's soldiers on the Golden Island.

Luger P08

In the final scene officers of Garin's private army carry Luger P08 pistols.

Luger P08 - 9x19mm

An officer fires his Luger in shootout with Shelga.

Rifles

Pattern 1914 Enfield

Soldiers of Garin's private army carry Pattern 1914 Enfield rifles.

Pattern M1914 (P 14) Enfield - .303 UK

Garin's man in center carries an Enfield P14 rifle during the expedition in Siberia.

P14 rifles are seen at the wall in barracks of Garin's troops on the Golden Island.

Soldiers fire their rifles at Shelga and Vanya Gusev (Aleksey Ushakov).

Machine Guns

Maxim M1910/30

In one scene a Maxim M1910/30 is seen mounted on a Soviet border guard boat.

Russian Maxim 1910/30 machine gun - 7.62x54mmR

A Maxim is mounted on the bow of the patrol boat.