The difference is that the Russian classic from 1962 examines the pointlessness of war, while the modern war flick seems to celebrate it instead. In this case, a female university student, while in Tarkovsky’s Ivan’s Childhood a 12-year-old child was sent to war. Russian films often portray unlikely soldiers. Just last week, the 2016 Eurovision winner Jamala from the Ukraine stirred enormous controversy and was nearly stripped of her title for doing a political song about the controversial region. The film is also a powerful reminder of the importance of Crimea, the island currently under de facto Russian control but claimed by Ukraine. After all, everyone wants to fight against the evil Germans. This probably helped the film to pick up its $5 million budget, a reasonably large one for Russian standards.
They depict an enemy common to Russians, Ukrainians and Americans: the Nazis and the Fascists. The events in the movie are far from controversial. The film is full of trenches, airplanes and sea battles, in very good old-fashioned Hollywood style. The film examines both the personal and war battles faced my Lyudmila, including a rollerscoaster romance and symptoms of post-traumatic stress, all with a very formulaic and aesthetically-conservative cinematic devices. After 309 confirmed kills, she is sent to the United States in order to campaign for American support, where she becomes a close friend of the first-lady Eleanor Roosevelt (Joan Blackham).īattle for Sevastopol is a very mainstream war movie with few audacious and innovative elements, apart from the topic of a female on the frontline – far more common on the Soviet frontline than in British and American army.
She fights in the Battle of Odessa (in the Ukraine) and then in the defence of Sevastopol (in Crimea).
This is how the Russian-Ukrainian production Battle for Sevastopol sets out its mission: to recreate and to celebrate the life and the bloody feats of a real-life female soldier.Īfter the German invasion of the Soviet Union during WWII, university student Lyudmila Pavlichenko (Yulia Peresild) becomes a fighter in the 25th Rifle Division of the Soviet Army. Lyudmila Pavlichenko quickly outshines him: “I killed 309”. “I killed 152 people with 154 shots”, boasts a Russian sniper.
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