All Quiet on the Western Front..rifle ID

[imarangemaster]

I was showing the 1979 version of "All Quiet on the Western Front" to my World History class and am having trouble IDing the rifles they are carrying in the film. They look like a cross between a WWI Gewehr 98 and an 88 Commission rifle. I am not a Mauser guy (I hang out mostly on the M1 Carbine forum). Researching the movie, I read somewhere that they made it in the Czech Republic (or somewhere that was Com-Bloc) and used 88s in the filming, but they don't look right - they have no magazine protruding down in-front of the trigger guard. The bayonets look like Arisaka bayos.

Sorry to intrude, but it is just driving me nuts... Using the wrong weapons in movies is one of my pet peeves.

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