Battle for Sevastopol

Battle for Sevastopol (2015)

Битва за Севастополь

One Woman Who Changed The World

The story of Lyudmila Pavlichenko, the most successful female sniper in history.

Date of release
2015-04-02
TMDB
7.3 / 10 (520)
Runtime
1h 50m
Genres
War, Drama, Romance
Director
Sergey Mokritskiy

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Box office: $8M
  • Budget: $5M
  • Earned 1.6× its budget
  • Filmed in: Sevastopol, Balaklava, Kyiv, Odesa, and Kamianets-Podilskyi

Battle for Sevastopol 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.

Production

Filming began in 2012 after the first archive material devoted to Pavlichenko was examined. Serhiy Mokrytskyi, who is better known as a cinematographer, served as director; after his arrival, the plot was altered to more closely match Pavlichenko's life. During production, there was concern of the growing political tension between Russia and Ukraine.

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