Battle for Sevastopol
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| Directed by | Sergey Mokritskiy |
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| Cinematography | Yury Korol' |
| Music by | Evgeniy Galperin |
| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
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Running time | 122 minutes |
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| Languages | Russian Ukrainian (dubbed) English (dubbed) Spanish (dubbed) |
Battle for Sevastopol (Russian: Битва за Севастополь, romanized: Bitva za Sevastopol, lit. 'Battle for Sevastopol'; 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.