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Battle for Sevastopol (Russian: Битва за Севастополь, lit. 'Battle for Sevastopol'; Ukrainian: Незламна, lit. 'Indestructible') 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. [1]
The number of soldiers Pavlichenko is credited with killing during World War II was 309, [12] [9] including 36 Axis snipers. In June 1942, Pavlichenko was hit in the face with shrapnel from a mortar shell. When she was injured, the Soviet High Command ordered for her to be evacuated from Sevastopol via submarine. [13]
The siege of Sevastopol, also known as the defence of Sevastopol (Russian: Оборона Севастополя, romanized: Oborona Sevastopolya) or the Battle of Sevastopol (German: Schlacht um Sewastopol; Romanian: Bătălia de la Sevastopol), was a military engagement that took place on the Eastern Front of the Second World War.
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The film or miniseries must be concerned with World War II (or the War of Ethiopia and the Sino-Japanese War) and include events which feature as a part of the war effort. For short films, see the List of World War II short films. For documentaries, see the List of World War II documentary films and the List of Allied propaganda films of World ...
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But the Netflix show is, in a way, a return to simpler times. This particular walled city is located in Nazi-occupied France, on the verge of American liberation in August 1944.
The film is based on the real story of the feat of the crew of a Soviet KV-1 tank under the command of Semyon Konovalov, [1] which took part in an unequal battle on 13th July 1942, and destroyed 16 tanks, two armored vehicles and eight other vehicles from enemy forces in the area of the village of Nizhnemityakin , Tarasovsky District, Rostov ...