Lyudmila Pavlichenko - Soviet Hero - Film on Amazon

[Gator]

Luda is an incredible Soviet woman who won the Gold Star medal of the Soviet Union Hero.  She was a sniper in Odessa and Sevastopol against the Nazis.   In a period of about one year, she is credited with  killing 309 "fascists."  She even took out a Nazi tank armed only with her sniper rifle. 

Ukraine and Russia co-produced a 2015 film about her, entitled "Battle of Sevastopol."  My wife and I watched it last night, and we both thought it a good film even though she dislikes combat films.  The film is available on Amazon, and they will give you a free 30-day trial if you are not a subscriber. 

The film is better than debating politics at RWD.  It shows some interesting vignettes of life in Ukraine in the 30s and 40s.  Not much different than when I visited there.    For a trailer,

http://www.siff.net/festival-2016/battle-of-sevastopol


I was surprised that Russia and Ukraine co-produced a film in 2015. 


Amazon also has the 1967 Soviet film, the Commissar.   



 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyudmila_Pavlichenko

[BillyB]

I was surprised that Russia and Ukraine co-produced a film in 2015. 

Your link said production started a year before the conflict started between Russia and Ukraine. The conflict threatened the completion of the film but obviously they finished it. Wife watched in in her language and it was titled "Unbreakable", not "Battle of Sevastopol".

Wife also dislikes war films but tends to like them after watching them. Saving Private Ryan, We Were Men, and Fury were some she liked. I had to drag her and my son to watch the recently released Hacksaw Ridge and they thanked me afterward. Excellent movie and true story of a soldier that refused to carry a gun but did more than most men in war.

[SANDRO43]

Phil, I assume you know this other film:

Enemy at the Gates is a 2001 American-French war film written and directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud, starring Jude Law and Joseph Fiennes. The film's title is taken from William Craig's nonfiction book Enemy at the Gates: The Battle for Stalingrad (1973), which describes the events surrounding the Battle of Stalingrad in the winter of 1942/43. Although fictional, the film is loosely based on war stories told by Soviet sniper Vasili Zaitsev.

Siberian sniper Zaitsev only killed 225 soldiers and officers of the Wehrmacht and other Axis armies, including 11 enemy snipers between 10 November 1942 and 17 December 1943, during the Battle of Stalingrad.

[ML]

Phil, I assume you know this other film:

Siberian sniper Zaitsev only killed 225 soldiers and officers of the Wehrmacht and other Axis armies, including 11 enemy snipers between 10 November 1942 and 17 December 1943, during the Battle of Stalingrad.

I liked that movie.  Saw it several years ago; and then watched it again with Ochka a few months ago.

Of course, I appreciated it when the lead gal got in sleeping bag with Zaitsev to provide him with relief. 

[msmob]

The lead gal, Rachel Weisz, is David Craig's - the most recent James Bond - wife.

 

There is a memorial to Zaitsev - the Hare - on the hill (Mamayev Kurgan) where the statue commemorating the siege of 'Stalingrad' (Volgograd) overlooks the city.

The Panoram museum is well worth a visit.

[Anotherkiwi]

The lead gal, Rachel Weisz, is David DANIEL Craig's - the most recent James Bond - wife.

Next!

[msmob]

Thank you

[2tallbill]

Available on Amazon and free if you have Amazon Prime
Angel Eyes and I will watch it tonight.

From Wikipedia
Spy (Russian: Шпион) is a 2012 Russian spy film, an adaptation of Boris Akunin's novel The Spy Novel (Шпионский роман). It was directed by Alexey Andrianov, and starred Danila Kozlovsky and Fyodor Bondarchuk. Akunin adapted his own novel. It had one of the largest film budgets in Russian history.
read about it here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spy_(2012_Russian_film)

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Preview from Amazon:
In the center of Moscow, a tense duel ensues between two intelligence
services. The purpose of Hitler's secret operations is to deceive Stalin
about Germany's plan to invade the Soviet Union, setting Major
Octyabrskiy and Lieutenant Dorin against the genius of Nazi
espionage, a battle waged over the course of a great story amid the
glare of imminent war.

Starring: Danila Kozlovsky, Fedor Bondarchuk, Anna Chipovskaya Runtime: 1 hour, 44 minutes