Battle for Sevastopol (2015)
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Country:
Russia, Ukraine
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Duration:
118 min
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Genre:
biography, drama, melodrama
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Director:
Sergey Mokritskiy
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Producer:
Natalya Mokritskaya, Egor Olesov
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Cast:
Yuliya Peresild, Evgeniy Tsyganov, Oleg Vasilkov, Nikita Tarasov
About film
Love under the ceaseless fire from the enemy, friendship with Eleanor Roosevelt, speech on a conference that influenced the outcome of World War II, desire to live and fear to lose the beloved – can one woman carry all that load? This is a biographical story about the legendary sniper Lyudmila Pavlichenko. Soldiers went into battle with her name on their lips, and enemies were trying to hunt her down.
The film by Sergey Mokritskiy won the Fiddler on the Roof Award from the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia for its unexpected Jewish character Boris Chopak, played by Nikita Tarasov.
Rewards and nominations
- Beijing International Film Festival 2015 — Tiantian Award, Best Actress; nominated: Best Picture
- Golden Eagle Awards 2016 — Best Actress, Best Cinematography
- Nika Awards 2016 — nominated: Best Film, Best Actress
- Russian Guild of Film Critics Award 2015 — nominated: Best Actress
Director
57-year-old Russian cinematographer, director, and screenwriter of Ukrainian origin. After graduating from the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography in 1991, where Mokritskiy studied Cinematography, he worked on several films at Mosfilm and Odessa Film Studio. He was the cinematographer for the TV show of political satire Puppets fon NTV Channel from 1997 till 2002. He worked with director Kirill Serebrennikov on television shows Rostov-Papa and The Murderer’s Diary, and on feature film Playing the Victim. The release of Battle for Sevastopol was timed to coincide with the 70th anniversary of Russia's victory in the Great Patriotic War. The film won the Fiddler on the Roof Award from the FJCR in 2015.
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Director
57-year-old Russian cinematographer, director, and screenwriter of Ukrainian origin. After graduating from the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography in 1991, where Mokritskiy studied Cinematography, he worked on several films at Mosfilm and Odessa Film Studio. He was the cinematographer for the TV show of political satire Puppets fon NTV Channel from 1997 till 2002. He worked with director Kirill Serebrennikov on television shows Rostov-Papa and The Murderer’s Diary, and on feature film Playing the Victim. The release of Battle for Sevastopol was timed to coincide with the 70th anniversary of Russia's victory in the Great Patriotic War. The film won the Fiddler on the Roof Award from the FJCR in 2015.
