"Goodbye Bambino", "Really a good bridge" These classic and picture-like lines will remind us of the Yugoslav film "Bridge", released in 1969, the Yugoslav film "Bridge" may not be a very important work in the history of world cinema, but for our Chinese "Bridge" is a military theme film that cannot be forgotten, the film as a translation and production in China, soon swept the country, the interlude in the film "Ah Friends Goodbye" is still boiling today.
"The Bridge" tells the story of a Partisan Partisans who went deep behind the enemy to blow up the bridge that the enemy had to retreat, and its plot was ups and downs, with a revolutionary optimistic spirit and without losing its tragic grandeur, although there were many exaggerated performance techniques in the battle scenes, but as a film released in 1969, it did not need to be too harsh.
"The Bridge" was filmed on the Tara Valley Bridge in Montenegro
The "Bridge" of that year was also a visual feast for military fans, and a large number of German World War II standard equipment appeared. The German uniforms and equipment that appear in the film are very elaborate, not to lose the excellent modern war movies, and the Chinese military fans of that year were impressed not only by the excellent acting skills of the main actors, but also by the mp40 submachine gun they used in the film.
Mp40 submachine gun is a classic equipment of the German army in World War II, it can be said that the gun appeared in the war movie against Germany in World War II as normal as cooking salt, most of the Members of the Partisan Yugoslavia during World War II were civilians, and some former regular troops, most of their weapons sourced by capture, and the continuously controllable, lightweight, and rapidly firepower mp40 submachine gun was also the most popular weapon of the Partisan Yugoslavia fighting behind enemy lines.
A shot of a young guerrilla fighter, Bambino, using an mp40 submachine gun in The Bridge
If you look at the weapons and equipment that appear in "Bridge" strictly, there are many former Italian regular army members, The Yugoslav Partisans have a lot of Italian equipment, and there are many Soviet-supported equipment, if the types of equipment that appear in "Bridge" are more realistic. Weapons such as the Soviet Bobosha submachine gun would appear more realistic.
The Yugoslav Partisans, equipped with the Beretta Type 38 submachine gun and the mp40 submachine gun, the MG34 machine gun and mg42 machine gun that appeared in "The Bridge" also had a high degree of popularity that year, and the "Tiger" and the female guerrilla Yelena used 2 mg42 machine guns to shoot alternately, and the rapid fire of the gun suppressed a large group of German soldiers. And this firepower was relatively strong at that time. The two MG-42 machine guns provided cross-type cover and could block the enemy for a while.
There was also a mg34 machine gun in Bridge, and at that time, the German army in the Yugoslav region had many mountain troops and paratroopers, and they were equipped with a lot of mg34 machine guns in the machine gun, which shows that Bridge also worked props. This is also where the film is worth watching, and it is also valuable to be able to highly restore the use of weapons at that time.
There is also a misunderstanding that domestic military fans often have, that the MG42 machine gun is a simplified version of the MG34 machine gun, in fact, the two guns do not have too much connection, although they are short barrel recoil automatic principle, but in the way of locking the two are very different, mg34 machine gun uses rotary locking, and mg42 machine gun uses roller locking, these two machine guns are also developed by different companies.
At the time, the Partisans armed with MG34 machine guns were very powerful and the highlight of the film. There is also a crossing gear in "The Bridge", which is also a small flaw in the props of the film, "Tiger" uses a zastava m55 triple anti-aircraft gun at the end of the film, which is a Swiss HSS-804 anti-aircraft gun imitated by Yugoslavia in 1955. The zastava m55 appeared in "The Bridge" is obviously crossed, perhaps the crew originally wanted to find a German flak38 anti-aircraft gun, but the World War II flak38 anti-aircraft gun is mostly scrapped, and can only find a modern weapon of the same type.
Yugoslav film "Bridge" can be said to belong to the unique memory of a generation of Chinese, although the film is a Yugoslav film, but its correct values and the Chinese people do not contradict, although Yugoslavia has become a piece of history, but such an excellent film and television work as "Bridge" will never fade.
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