The film revolves mainly around the events of the Siege of Odessa and the Siege of Sevastopol of 1941–42. The film is directed by Sergey Mokritskiy and stars Yulia Peresild in the role of Pavlichenko. In addition to Beijing, where Peresild was awarded the Best Actress award, the film has also been shown at the Cannes Film Festival.
Korin received internal company awards: the Gold Cross, the Medal of Courage, the Blood and Courage, which were designated for his merits in battle. He was posthumously awarded the Order of Courage. 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 classmate named Masha. In a twist of events, her near-perfect shooting results in the field eventually result in the Red Army contacting her to enter a shooting program.
A Jewish doctor named Boris attempts to woo her, but she rejects him and leaves to fight on the Eastern Front after the German invasion. Eventually Lyudmila partners with a grizzled veteran sniper named Makarov, with whom she falls in love. He does not return her affections, however, and explains that he lost his family when the Germans invaded. She is also reunited with Masha, who is now a nurse caring for a young pilot. While defending the city of Odessa, she is wounded, and Makarov drags her safely to a local hospital, where Boris has volunteered as a military doctor. After waking up, Lyudmila manages to get Boris to sign her papers to return to the front lines, but discovers that Makarov has died in battle and the Soviets are retreating to Sevastopol.
Once back at the front, Lyudmila is paired with a male sniper named Leonid. She begins wounding enemy soldiers to watch them suffer, much to her new partner's horror. Despite the rough start to their relationship, the two eventually develop a close romance. Masha, now a front-line nurse, invites them to her wedding, but then reveals the death of her fiancé. This development leads Lyudmila to privately tell Leonid that she wants a son. While patrolling a field, Leonid steps on a mine that sets off a flare, signaling artillery fire towards the couple's position.
Lyudmila wakes up again in a hospital, where Boris tells her that Leonid died in the ambush. Although wounded and exhausted, she is ordered to kill a top enemy sniper for Soviet propaganda. The duel lasts for an entire day. Tired of waiting, Lyudmila steps out of cover, completely exposing herself. She is shot, but manages to pinpoint the enemy sniper's location and kill him. As Sevastopol is evacuated under siege, Boris carries a wounded and injured Lyudmila to a submarine that is evacuating the city. As panicked citizens try to board, Lyudmila realizes that Boris gave her his own papers to leave the city.
A voiceover reveals that Boris, Masha, and countless civilians and soldiers died defending the city from the Germans. Lyudmila’s military background makes her a vital propaganda tool for the Soviets, who parade her around the world to raise money for the fight against fascism. Encouraged by a meeting with America’s First Lady, Eleanor Roosevelt, Lyudmila attempts to embrace her femininity by wearing a dress during a speech in New York. Although the Soviet propaganda minister on tour with her forces her to re-enter in a Red Army uniform, she makes a vital impression on the predominantly male crowd, asking: “Don’t you think, gentlemen, that you’ve been hiding behind my back for too long?” After the success of Lyudmila's speech, she is approached by American folk singer Woody Guthrie, who eventually writes a song based on her exploits.
Roosevelt later visits Lyudmila after the war in Moscow during a trip in 1957. The two attend the opera together with Lyudmila's son, who is implied to be Leonid's as well.
Lyudmila Pavlichenko - Biography
Korin received internal company awards: the Gold Cross, the Medal of Courage, the Blood and Courage, which were designated for his merits in battle. He was posthumously awarded the Order of Courage. 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 classmate named Masha. In a twist of events, her near-perfect shooting results in the field eventually result in the Red Army contacting her to enter a shooting program.
A Jewish doctor named Boris attempts to woo her, but she rejects him and leaves to fight on the Eastern Front after the German invasion. Eventually Lyudmila partners with a grizzled veteran sniper named Makarov, with whom she falls in love. He does not return her affections, however, and explains that he lost his family when the Germans invaded. She is also reunited with Masha, who is now a nurse caring for a young pilot. While defending the city of Odessa, she is wounded, and Makarov drags her safely to a local hospital, where Boris has volunteered as a military doctor. After waking up, Lyudmila manages to get Boris to sign her papers to return to the front lines, but discovers that Makarov has died in battle and the Soviets are retreating to Sevastopol.
Once back at the front, Lyudmila is paired with a male sniper named Leonid. She begins wounding enemy soldiers to watch them suffer, much to her new partner's horror. Despite the rough start to their relationship, the two eventually develop a close romance. Masha, now a front-line nurse, invites them to her wedding, but then reveals the death of her fiancé. This development leads Lyudmila to privately tell Leonid that she wants a son. While patrolling a field, Leonid steps on a mine that sets off a flare, signaling artillery fire towards the couple's position.
Lyudmila wakes up again in a hospital, where Boris tells her that Leonid died in the ambush. Although wounded and exhausted, she is ordered to kill a top enemy sniper for Soviet propaganda. The duel lasts for an entire day. Tired of waiting, Lyudmila steps out of cover, completely exposing herself. She is shot, but manages to pinpoint the enemy sniper's location and kill him. As Sevastopol is evacuated under siege, Boris carries a wounded and injured Lyudmila to a submarine that is evacuating the city. As panicked citizens try to board, Lyudmila realizes that Boris gave her his own papers to leave the city.
A voiceover reveals that Boris, Masha, and countless civilians and soldiers died defending the city from the Germans. Lyudmila’s military background makes her a vital propaganda tool for the Soviets, who parade her around the world to raise money for the fight against fascism. Encouraged by a meeting with America’s First Lady, Eleanor Roosevelt, Lyudmila attempts to embrace her femininity by wearing a dress during a speech in New York. Although the Soviet propaganda minister on tour with her forces her to re-enter in a Red Army uniform, she makes a vital impression on the predominantly male crowd, asking: “Don’t you think, gentlemen, that you’ve been hiding behind my back for too long?” After the success of Lyudmila's speech, she is approached by American folk singer Woody Guthrie, who eventually writes a song based on her exploits.
Roosevelt later visits Lyudmila after the war in Moscow during a trip in 1957. The two attend the opera together with Lyudmila's son, who is implied to be Leonid's as well.
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“She was like a model, with well-manicured nails, fashionable clothes and a hairstyle. Pavlichenko wanted to hold a gun and fight,” said a military official. He then laughed and asked if she knew anything about rifles.
Even when she presented her sniper certificate and the medal from OSOAVIAKhIM, military officials asked her to work as a nurse. “They didn’t want to take girls into the army, so I had to resort to various tricks to get in,” Pavlichenko explained.
Famous Soviet Female Sniper Who Killed 309 Nazis in World War II: Lyudmila Pavlichenko
Finally, the Red Army gave her a chance to prove her talent, giving her a rifle and pointing it at two Romanian soldiers who were collaborating with the Germans. She killed the two soldiers with ease, and was then accepted into Chapayev, the 25th unit of the Red Army.
Pavlichenko then found herself in the war zones of Greece and Moldova. In a very short time, she distinguished herself as a formidable sniper, killing 187 Germans in her first 75 days on the battlefield.
After becoming known in Odessa and Moldova, Pavlichenko moved to Crimea to fight in the Battle of Sevastopol.
Her reputation led to increasingly dangerous missions. The Smithsonian reports that she killed 36 snipers, some of whom were top marksmen in their field.
She fought for 8 months in Sevastopol, where she was promoted by the Red Army. She was wounded on several occasions, but was only removed from the battlefield when she was hit in the face by shell fragments from the Germans – who were desperate to break her record.
She had become a well-known figure during the war, as a leading figure in Red Army propaganda, and the scourge of German soldiers throughout the Eastern Front. The Germans went so far as to shout at her over loudspeakers – in case she wanted to defect, they would offer her candy and warmth! (German humor, I guess!)
Pavlichenko became a sniper instructor and was soon invited to the White House.
He was the first Soviet soldier to visit the White House, where he met with President Franklin Roosevelt and the first lady, Eleanor Roosevelt.
However, Pavlichenko was a woman and the US media treated her as a woman. She was angry at the sexist treatment she received. When asked if she wore makeup on the battlefield, she replied, “There’s no rule that says you can’t, but who has time to think about your nose shining during a fight?”
Lyudmila Pavlichenko speech
"I wear my uniform with honor. It has the Order of Lenin. It is soaked in blood. Apparently, for women in America what matters is whether they wear silk underwear under their uniforms. They haven't yet learned what their uniform represents," she told Time magazine in 1942.
Pavlichenko is one of 2,000 female snipers who fought in the Red Army in World War II, and one of only 500 who survived. The number of 309 places her in the top five snipers of all time, but her casualties were probably higher.
After the war, Pavlichenko returned to Kiev University to finish her master's degree.
In April 2015, history immortalized her in a film called “The Battle for Sevastopol” in Russia and “Indestructible” in Ukraine. The film was shot during the 2013 protests in Ukraine, and was funded by both sides at the start of a conflict that would become bloody and divisive, yet the film is a testament to Pavlichenko’s extraordinary career, a heroine shared by both sides.
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