Battle for Sevastopol

Битва за Севастополь (2015)

Timing: 1:50 (110 min)

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Actors and characters

Release date

2015-04-02

Country

Russia, Ukraine

Production

Kinorob, Ukrainian State Film Agency, New People Film Company, Algous studio

Genre

War, Drama, Romance

Budget

$124 000 000

Revenue

$9 054 676

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Director

Sergey Mokritsky

Actors

Yulia Peresild, Yevgeni Tsyganov, Natella Abeleva-Taganova, Nikita Tarasov, Joan Blackham, Polina Pakhomova, Oleg Vasilkov, Vladimir Lilitskiy, Anatoly Kot, Valeriy Grishko
All actors and roles (10)

Scenario

Maxim Budarin, Maxim Dankevich

Producer

Ulyana Savelyeva, Natalya Mokritskaya

Operator

Composer

Evgueni Galperine

Artist

Audition

Editing

Viktor Onysko
All team (30)

• Lyudmila Mikhailovna Pavlichenko wrote an autobiographical book titled "Heroic Truth: The Defense of Sevastopol, 1941-1942".
• Work on the film began in 2012, and filming took place from the end of 2013 to June 2014 in Kyiv, Odessa, Kamianets-Podilskyi, and Sevastopol.
• At the very end of the film, they show Lyudmila Pavlichenko with her son and Eleanor Roosevelt in 1957. In the film, the boy appears to be around 15 years old, but in reality, Lyudmila's son was 25 years old in 1957.
• The film depicts Pavlichenko's life from 1937 to 1942, and Lyudmila is shown as unmarried. In reality, Pavlichenko married in 1932, and her son was born then as well.
• At the shooting range, when the range officer is distributing cartridges, it is visible that the cartridges are training rounds, with a primed cap.
• Lyudmila Mikhailovna Pavlichenko wrote the autobiographical book 'Heroic Saga: The Defense of Sevastopol 1941–1942'.