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Battle for Sevastopol (2015)

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Original title
Битва за Севастополь
Directed by
Sergey Mokritsky
Genre
drama film, war film, biographical film, historical film
Country
Ukraine, Russia
Runtime
1h 50m
Rated
14
Rating
7.3 of 10 from 503 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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A young Soviet woman volunteers to fight in World War II and becomes a top sniper. The film follows her experiences in the sieges of Odessa and Sevastopol and her later tour of the United States.

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What happens

Battle for Sevastopol (Russian: «Битва за Севастополь», romanized: Bitva za Sevastopol, lit. 'Battle for Sebastopol'; titled in Ukrainian: «Незламна», romanized: Nezlamna, lit. 'Unbreakable') is a 2015 biographical war film about Lyudmila Pavlichenko, a young Soviet woman who joined the Red Army to fight the German invasion of the USSR and became one of the deadliest snipers in World War II. The film, a joint Russian-Ukrainian production, was released in both countries on 2 April 2015, and its international premiere took place two weeks later at the Beijing International Film Festival. The film principally revolves around the events of the siege of Odessa and the siege of Sevastopol of 1941–42. The film was directed by Sergey Mokritskiy and stars Yulia Peresild as Pavlichenko. In addition to the Beijing International Film Festival, where Peresild was awarded the Best Actress award, the film was also screened at the Cannes Film Festival. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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