My favourite film

speech at a conference that influenced the outcome of World War II, the desire to live and the fear of losing a loved one - will a fragile woman cope with all this?

full—length feature film directed by Sergei Mokritsky, shot in 2015. The film tells about the fate of the legendary female sniper of the 25th Chapaev Rifle Division of the Red Army, Hero of the Soviet Union, Lieutenant Lyudmila Pavlichenko, who destroyed 309 soldiers and officers of Nazi Germany during the Great Patriotic War.
The script of the tape was written by Maxim Budarin, Sergey Mokritsky, Leonid Korin and Maxim Dankevich based on the idea of Egor Olesov and based on Pavlichenko's book "Heroic Past: The Defense of Sevastopol. The filming took place in Sevastopol, Balaklava, Kiev, Odessa and Kamenets-Podolsk and took almost a year.
the filmmakers characterized their work as a psychological biography film about the tragic fate of a woman in the war.

on real events. The facts mentioned in it are based on the biography of the legendary Soviet sniper Lyudmila Mikhailovna Pavlichenko.
The Great Patriotic War found Lyudmila, a graduate student of Kiev State University, on a diploma internship in Odessa. After short-term sniper courses in the first days of the war, she volunteers to go to the front, becoming a fighter of the 25th Infantry Chapaev Order of Lenin of the Red Banner Division of the Red Army, and begins her heroic combat path: border battles in the Moldavian SSR — defense of Odessa — defense from Sevastopol. Having won many personal victories in duels with Nazi snipers, becoming a living legend, Lyudmila leaves Sevastopol wounded a few days before its fall.In addition to the battle scenes, much attention in the plot is paid to the emotional experiences of the characters, a prominent place is occupied by the "love line" because the director was very concerned about the topic of women in war.
During a tour of American cities organized by Eleanor Roosevelt, Lyudmila Pavlichenko uttered her famous words in Chicago:
"I'm twenty-five years old. At the front, I have already managed to destroy three hundred and nine Fascist invaders. Don't you gentlemen think you've been hiding behind my back for too long?!"

Army Rifle Division
Evgeny Tsyganov — Leonid Kitsenko, sniper captain
Oleg Vasilkov — Makarov, Captain
Nikita Tarasov — Boris Yefimovich Chopak, military doctor
Joan Blackham - Eleanor Roosevelt, wife of U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Polina Pakhomova — Masha, nurse, friend of Lyudmila.
Vladimir Lilitsky — Grisha, pilot, Masha's fiance.

Anatoly the Cat — Nikolai, pilot
Natella Abeleva-Taganova — Sonya, Boris's sister, librarian
Valery Grishko — Ivan Efimovich Petrov, Major General
Sergey Barkovsky — Philip Sergeevich Oktyabrsky, Admiral
Vitaly Linetsky — Major of the KMB
Sergey Puskepalis — Commander
Gennady Chentsov — Commissioner
Svetlana Osadchenko — a girl reader