Fire and Ice documentary
Fire and Ice documentary
OK,
so the shooting of the second half of Fire and Ice in Finland is over. The first two days of the shoot involved about 55 reenactors from St Petersburg, Petrozavodsk and London, the second two days involved smaller number of men, they were from Southern Häme reserve district.
The shoot happened in two places: Miehikkälä Salpa Line museum and Tank Brigade firing range in Parola. Some of the exciting scenes:
- massive attack of Red Army infantry (some 40 reenactors) coming under Finnish artillery barrage
- Finns firing Maxim from bunker
- execution of kombrig Vinogradov
- night fighting in trenches
- assault of Red Army with artillery and armor support (Parola, 1 T-26 tank)
- execution of Captain Ryazanov, battalion commander of 76th Light Tank Battalion, Lemetti motti
- Finnish assault on anti-tank artillery battalion of 44th Rifle Division on Raattee road
- Burning a T-26 tank with Molotov cocktail
- blowing up a T-26 tank wtih a satchel charge
- sausage war
- the last moments of war
Some pictures will be available on my webpage in about a week.
with best regards,
Bair
so the shooting of the second half of Fire and Ice in Finland is over. The first two days of the shoot involved about 55 reenactors from St Petersburg, Petrozavodsk and London, the second two days involved smaller number of men, they were from Southern Häme reserve district.
The shoot happened in two places: Miehikkälä Salpa Line museum and Tank Brigade firing range in Parola. Some of the exciting scenes:
- massive attack of Red Army infantry (some 40 reenactors) coming under Finnish artillery barrage
- Finns firing Maxim from bunker
- execution of kombrig Vinogradov
- night fighting in trenches
- assault of Red Army with artillery and armor support (Parola, 1 T-26 tank)
- execution of Captain Ryazanov, battalion commander of 76th Light Tank Battalion, Lemetti motti
- Finnish assault on anti-tank artillery battalion of 44th Rifle Division on Raattee road
- Burning a T-26 tank with Molotov cocktail
- blowing up a T-26 tank wtih a satchel charge
- sausage war
- the last moments of war
Some pictures will be available on my webpage in about a week.
with best regards,
Bair
- Juha Hujanen
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- Juha Hujanen
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Pictures from the shooting of the documentary finally added to
http://www.mannerheim-line.com/fire-and-ice01.htm
with best regards,
Bair
http://www.mannerheim-line.com/fire-and-ice01.htm
with best regards,
Bair
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Looks rather nice. I wish there weren't M39 rifles in the documentary. A Soviet in the middle of the picture is shooting one. I recall seeing one other photo where a Soviet is carrying one. Are the other two soldiers shooting Finnish rifles also?
Only 10 rifles [M39] had been produced by the start of the Winter War with the Soviets in November of 1939. As a result of this conflict, the production of the rifle was put on hold and emergency production of the m/91 was again undertaken.
http://www.mosinnagant.net/finland/finn ... antm39.asp
Only 10 rifles [M39] had been produced by the start of the Winter War with the Soviets in November of 1939. As a result of this conflict, the production of the rifle was put on hold and emergency production of the m/91 was again undertaken.
http://www.mosinnagant.net/finland/finn ... antm39.asp
Hi,
Yes I know we screwed up with M39 rifles but that was due to limited budget and we decided to rent rifles for only part of the Red Army so that Red Army reenactors would use mostly M91 rifles and men with M39 would be in the background. On the spot of course everyone got mized up and some guys with M39s emerged in the foreground
As for burning T-26 - tank museum in Parola has a lot os fpare hulls and turrets for T-26 so they just put an empty T-26 together and the special effects guys could burn it as much as they wanted
Yes in many cases uniforms were too clean but that is due to the fact that all the actors are reenactors and well... you know reenactors - they never want to look dirty and stain their beautiful uniforms with anything.
I am a Russian and live/work in Helsinki.
With best regards,
Bair
Yes I know we screwed up with M39 rifles but that was due to limited budget and we decided to rent rifles for only part of the Red Army so that Red Army reenactors would use mostly M91 rifles and men with M39 would be in the background. On the spot of course everyone got mized up and some guys with M39s emerged in the foreground
As for burning T-26 - tank museum in Parola has a lot os fpare hulls and turrets for T-26 so they just put an empty T-26 together and the special effects guys could burn it as much as they wanted
Yes in many cases uniforms were too clean but that is due to the fact that all the actors are reenactors and well... you know reenactors - they never want to look dirty and stain their beautiful uniforms with anything.
I am a Russian and live/work in Helsinki.
With best regards,
Bair