Big Bertha - Russian detective - First World War

[lars695]

smirnoffsmirnoffsmirnoff petrikoff :|

[Batner112]

Das ist absoluter Schwachsinn!

Die Dicke Bertha war kein Eisenbahngeschütz, ein normaler Feldmörser in übergröße. Zudem war dieses Geschütz gegen die neuen Stahlbeton verstärkten Forts wirkungslos weshalb man sie auch nicht mehr einsetzte.

Es gab kein Eisenbahngeschütz im 1.WK das Parisgeschütz war auch keines.

Außerdem im 1.Wk gab es keine Nazis ihr Grundschüler, Hitler kämpfte zwar auch im 1.WK aber er wurde erst nach dem Krieg mit dem Nationalen infiziert und angesteckt!

[tamtambum]

This is 38 cm SK L/45 "Max"  gun not Big Bertha

[phenobarbitalmv75]

do anyone know's where I can get this movie?

[inconsistanttruth]

this doesnt look like big Bertha, i remember that they made it to be able to fire oversea's, and had to rest on a mountain to be somewhat stable... it was obviously not fired correctly

[MYNNEZ]

@inconsistanttruth you remember that inconsistanttruth? ^^ you must be rather old for an you-tuber!

[segregator236]

I feel sorry for the ladybug

[MatKoReN]

I hate that in there in this episodes, are russians shown so helpless, with that lol music. Why they do nothing from that bunker. when see that they going bombard them. And in zeppelin episode, why they dont run away lol.

[gaindarom]

this isn't true, during the siege of Kaunas fortress, the ninth fort hasn't been damaged, because there wasn't any battle for it. The only forts who have been damaged was the first and second, they suffered really heavy destructions

[laplaceua]

@Purplecatsoup30 Wondering, what do you mean about WW2? Don't you think that Russia (or rather USSR) has lost this war?

[bpeck77]

The Germans administered many butt-whippings to the Russians in WW1. The Russians, on the other hand, administered many butt-whippings to the Austrians and Hungarians.

[boyyeudoi101090]

yes but how can people nowadays make a gun like that :)

[sewagii]

The Big Bertha wasent a railway gun

[TheCatholicHerald]

you are right. however, it was a Soviet era, 305mm MK-3-12 from ww2. historically, this is incorrect for the period filmed

[agent148]

quite correct, the 42-cm Big Bertha looked rather like the German Army's 21-cm Morser (heavy howitzer) m/10 and m/16, which were mounted on a shielded two wheeled box tail carriages. Only the greater size of the 42-cm weapon made it possible to distinguish the two weapons apart. The 42-cm could be towed for short movements in one piece, but as often as not was broken into two or three pieces, ie. barrel, carriage, etc and towed seperatedly to the gun site.

[Pocketwatch625]

@sewagii Well, strictly speaking, you are correct. However, among the Allies, the name "Big Bertha" came to refer to any very large German gun, including the really big, railway-mounted monsters. So yes and no. I believe that in this case, the movie-makers created a really big gun to be the epitome of the German super-heavy howitzers, and gave it a readily available name directly from the time in which the movie takes place.

[jman9022]

@sewagii The Scotta (spell check) was the one that was not a rail gun, the Big Bertha was.

[sewagii]

@jman9022

No :-\

The Big Bertha i know was a big german artillery gun of WWI and this was no railway gun.

The Scotta? Whats this

[jman9022]

@sewagii It was an Austrian artillery gun, it was pulled by trucks.

[Verdunveteran]

@jman9022 No it was not! The genuine Big Bertha was the 42cm M-Gerät made by Krupp in Germany. M-gerät standing for Minenwerfer gerät. Not to be confused with the 42cm Gamma, although they fired the same 42cm shell only the M-Gerät is the genuine Dicke (Big) Bertha. The crap in this clip is not even close to neither one of them!

[ImperatorZor]

How did they move that monster?

[DarkHour404]

railroad

[ImperatorZor]

I see a distinct lack of rails behind that gun. How did they pull it over land?

[DarkHour404]

what do you mean? look at 0:40. you will see the railroad curves to the left.

And there is no other way they could have transffered at one time, there is no truck or plane big enough to bring things thing over countries during ww1, even today. This probably weighed around 200-300 tons maybe.

Maybe they brought it by ship and connected it to a railroad or they dismanteled it piece by piece.

[baltostella]

They deassembled it in to tiny pieces and they transported it to the front by train. Then they put it back together.

[BorshCaen]

The fortress was battle-tested in 1915 and withstood eleven days of assault. There were 10 forts. And each of them was attaked. So it would be interesting to know what does it mean "there was no battle for the ninth fort". The ninth fort was capruted at noon of August 5 1915. This is well a known history.

[Limpmania]

No Big Bertha, but the Krupp K5 "Leopold". Big >Bertha wasn't an railwaygun!

[tecna64]

damn thats gotta give a bigass punch

[IRELANDSELITE]

whats this movie called?????

[ArmyMen333]

gibel imperii,I don't know when it was made

[IRELANDSELITE]

thx mate

[ArmyMen333]

oh and I think this movie was made in 2005 or the 1980s

[veniaminuska]

this is tre russian TV serial movie Гибель империи(death of empire)

[EdwardRommel]

These are the famous German and Austrian 42 CM guns(about the same as 16" naval guns on battleships).

The Germans had even bigger canons in WW2 with the Thor and Gustav guns that took 500 men to man them.

[ArmyMen333]

the Russian's would just build their bases underground so they can't get hit by the artillery

[ArmyMen333]

the Germans surely know how to work their "big boy's toys"(I call guns big boy's toys)

[Fridomfry]

You Russians reaaaally know to make movies! That lady bug Otchin spassiba!

In France, we call "Big Bertha" a similar gun which bombarded Paris from 120 km in 1918, just to kill civilians. This looks more like a WW1 tactical heavy gun, like those which fired at Verdun or Namur.

Regarding subtitles, 3 years ago I was in Russia, the TV in my hotel room showed episodes of "Columbo": Watching Peter Falk dubbed in Russian was real fun.

[commandoPR]

were van i buy one?

[rocksoliddude1]

you fat cow

[HenryvKeiper]

I have a question, and maybe some of the Russians on YouTube can help me.

I've noticed in a lot of these videos (from various shows and movies) that when a person speaks in a foreign language, someone speaks over the original audio in Russian. Are subtitles not commonly used in Russia?

[MrUnseen]

I'm not russian, but I know that they are not commonly used...sometimes there is even just one guy speaking over the voices of various characters.

[HenryvKeiper]

Do you happen to know why? Has it been that way for a long time, or is Cyrillic text hard to read at that size (though I doubt that's the reason)?

I'm just curious.

[lepra01]

Hi. In Russia don't like subtitles.

[HenryvKeiper]

Aaaah OK. Thanks :)

[MrUnseen]

I don't know the reason....I cant believe that they dont like it, because I've also seen russian subtitltes in some movies...so they are also readable.

[MrUnseen]

my answer came to late, really funny, that lepra is writing they "dont like subs" and me writing below "i cant believe" they dont like it :D

[boyyeudoi]

not big bertha,this is WW2 gun

[vdven]

what was the location of this battle?

[3L24]

its not big birtha casue she was used to shell britian from belgum

[dannyslater117]

this is not big bertha because it was not mounted on a train, it is ALOT BIGGER it didnt fire much but when it did it always pointed 85 degrees up and if you wer in london you could here it fire from wer it was in france.

[EnisBIGBERTA]

This is not a BIG-BERTA this an original LEOPOLD howitzer. BIG-BERTA was the fake or unpopular name for Paris Gun it was a modified version of LEOPOLD so it was bigger. The Nazis used to shot Paris from German border with France. BIG-BERTA was the first "strategic" weapon in history of warfare.

[dostal]

No Nazis on WW1, just the German empire.

[longfieldlad]

it is a gun one of the biggestin world biggest in ww1 u really cant move it 1nse u have placed it somewhere

[bubby492]

wates big bertha

[khk0510]

this is not big bertha.this is a rail gun.

[Goldenredraver]

anyway,this is NOT Big Berta. It doesn´t even look similar.

[vonSchmettern]

Without having seen this movie: I am a bit suspicious, as this is NOT Big Bertha. Looks more like a 28 cm railroad gun or something... I am curious about this nevertheless, keep it coming.

[SmearedGreyInk]

Those are out of existence man. Sad thing about is at the end of World War I the remaining 2 were split. One was kept by the U.S. and the other nobody knows what happened.

[tuskbaron]

this is great!!!!

[h3rules]

wow dat thing is huge!! how do you not win with dat!!! Wats dis movie?

[tommybui]

:( that thing has been sabotaged :(

[DrMasopic]

I could DEFinitly get into this series! Where might I aquire some dvds?:)

[1337gam3r07]

yeah wow the big bertha took 2 trains to haul and when 250 soldiers set it up it took 2 days!!! amazing!!

[Freakazoit2]

I never seen this movie, but it looks like new one. It name is "Крушение Империи" (if I didn't mistake), not russian detective

[lepra01]

Не Крушение, а "Гибель Империи". Этот фильм снимал Хотиненко для Первого канала, почему же он не русский? И это шпионский детектив на фоне исторических событий.

It's russian movie. It's an espionage detective on a background of historical events.

[Freakazoit2]

Big Bertha is real BFG !

[gabos002]

really nice moveiclip

[noobiefroobiedoobie]

lol

[vsovereign]

russian movies look authentic :) the germans speak german, etc. unlike hollywood movies where everyone speak english, lol!