[TheBossInTheWall]

Bitva za Sevastopol(Battle of Sevastopol) 2015

This film is about Lyudmila Mikhaylovna Pavlichenko the best sniper in the Soviet army during WWII. Possibly the best sniper of any of the nations involved. It takes place from a little bit before her training up until her final days in the US as a sort of diplomat. Going back and forth from her time in the US and her time before that in the war. I do not know how much of the story is true, but she seems to have become close friends with Elanor Roosevelt. The film is of very high quality. Incredibly shot and acted, particularly Yuliya Peresild who plays the lead. I really liked that the women soldiers were treated the same as the men. The worked together and fought together in the same trenches/front lines/etc. At least in the film. She herself was tough, wounded three times to back into the fight. A few things were annoying because it was fairly obvious that some of it was propaganda. A German sniper killed with a Hitler mustache. The officers who never see battle as pompous and inept, while the 'real' soldiers were smart and decisive. The copy I found, as far as I can tell its hard to get rent in the US, had an acceptable, but often incorrect, subtitles. It was a joint film made between Russia and Ukraine before the recent Crimean invasion/annexation by Russia.