Goofs

Michail Kalashnikov could not meet his brother Victor as a prisoner on the train as he was freed long before the war.

The scene in which Kalashnikov is walking through Moscow wit his new gun during the war is unrealistic. In real life he had an escort of special forces, as a new gun would be a secret.

While it is true that in the contest there were three finalists for new guns but in real life nobody of them won. They were all sent back for a rework. And only after a while it was agreed for Kalshnikov to finish his work.

When the first AK-47 assault rifles arrive, their wooden stocks appear to be treated with shellac. This is incorrect. The very first, experimental batch came with untreated birch stocks, which were bright yellowish when new. One of these guns is on display in the Artillery Museum of St. Petersburg, and there is no shellac on the stock. The wood of that specimen naturally turned a darker brown with age.

The closing credits say that 200 million of Kalashnikovs guns were made. In real life they are only 100 millions.

Near the end Kalashnikov is driving to his mother to the Altay region. However she didn't live there since 1930.

27 minutes into the movie, there is a scene that shows a vehicle travelling on a dusty desert road revealing a wide flat plain, with low sweeping hills in the foreground, with a caption "Alma-ata Kasachsta", whereas in reality, Almaty, Kazakhstan (correct name and spelling) is located in a deep green fertile valley with soaring high snow capped alps towering above it. Alamtay had enjoyed a growing tourist industry because of the beautiful place that it is prior to Covid-19.

Alexej Sudaev said that in 1945 he wants to work on the new PPS weapons in Tula. They were never fabricated in Tula, but rather in Leningrad and Oranienburg.