My favourite film

1. My favourite film

The battle for Sevastopol.
«Битва за севастополь»

2. Love under the endless enemy fire, friendship with Eleanor Roosevelt, a speech at a conference that influenced the outcome of

World War II, the desire to live
and the fear of losing a loved one - will a fragile woman
cope with all this?

3. History of creation

"The Battle for Sevastopol" is a Russian and Ukrainian full—length feature film directed by
Sergei Mokritsky, shot in 2015. The film tells about the fate of the legendary female sniper of
the 25th Chapaev Rifle Division of the Red Army, Hero of the Soviet Union, Lieutenant
Lyudmila Pavlichenko, who destroyed 309 soldiers and officers of Nazi Germany during the
Great Patriotic War.
The script of the tape was written by Maxim Budarin, Sergey Mokritsky, Leonid Korin and
Maxim Dankevich based on the idea of Egor Olesov and based on Pavlichenko's book "Heroic
Past: The Defense of Sevastopol. The filming took place in Sevastopol, Balaklava, Kiev,
Odessa and Kamenets-Podolsk and took almost a year.
the filmmakers characterized their work as a psychological biography film about the tragic
fate of a woman in the war.

4. The plot of the film

The plot of the film is based on real events. The facts mentioned in it are based on the biography
of the legendary Soviet sniper Lyudmila Mikhailovna Pavlichenko.
The Great Patriotic War found Lyudmila, a graduate student of Kiev State University, on a
diploma internship in Odessa. After short-term sniper courses in the first days of the war, she
volunteers to go to the front, becoming a fighter of the 25th Infantry Chapaev Order of Lenin of
the Red Banner Division of the Red Army, and begins her heroic combat path: border battles in
the Moldavian SSR — defense of Odessa — defense from Sevastopol. Having won many personal
victories in duels with Nazi snipers, becoming a living legend, Lyudmila leaves Sevastopol
wounded a few days before its fall.In addition to the battle scenes, much attention in the plot is
paid to the emotional experiences of the characters, a prominent place is occupied by the "love
line" because the director was very concerned about the topic of women in war.
During a tour of American cities organized by Eleanor Roosevelt, Lyudmila Pavlichenko uttered
her famous words in Chicago:
"I'm twenty-five years old. At the front, I have already managed to destroy three hundred and
nine Fascist invaders. Don't you gentlemen think you've been hiding behind my back for too
long?!"

5. Main actors

Yulia Peresild — Lyudmila Mikhailovna Pavlichenko,
sniper of the Red Army Rifle Division
Evgeny Tsyganov — Leonid Kitsenko, sniper captain
Oleg Vasilkov — Makarov, Captain
Nikita Tarasov — Boris Yefimovich Chopak, military
doctor
Anatoly the Cat — Nikolai, pilot
Natella Abeleva-Taganova — Sonya, Boris's sister,
librarian
Valery Grishko — Ivan Efimovich Petrov, Major General
Sergey Barkovsky — Philip Sergeevich Oktyabrsky,
Admiral
Joan Blackham - Eleanor Roosevelt, wife of U.S.
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Vitaly Linetsky — Major of the KMB
Polina Pakhomova — Masha, nurse, friend of
Sergey Puskepalis — Commander
Lyudmila.
Gennady Chentsov — Commissioner
Vladimir Lilitsky — Grisha, pilot, Masha's fiance.
Svetlana Osadchenko — a girl reader

6. Thank you attention