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.
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Plot
In 1937, Lyudmila Pavlichenko is a student who has just passed the entrance exams for Kiev State University; to celebrate, she goes to a shooting range with her friends including a female classmate named Masha. In a twist of events, her almost perfect shooting results at the range eventually result in the Red Army contacting her to enter a sharpshooting program. A Jewish doctor named Boris attempts to court her, but she rejects him and leaves to fight on the Eastern Front following the German invasion.
