Pavlichenko also doesn’t count her first two victims, as they were “test shots.” And these were just the confirmed kills observed by a third party. That’s more deaths than in all of the Rambo films combined. Over the course of just one year, Lyudmila killed at least 309 enemy soldiers. The original Russian title, Indestructible, is far more appropriate. The doomed Soviet struggle to hold onto the besieged Crimean port is not actually the focus of this Russian-Ukrainian film. That’s a topic so compelling in and of itself that it’s worth putting up with Battle for Sevastopol’s often clunky dialogue and uneven story-telling in order to appreciate its tale of feminism, violence, war-time love triangles and post-traumatic stress. The 2015 film Battle for Sevastopol is the true story of how Lyudmila Pavlichenko, a female Soviet sniper who killed more than 300 Axis soldiers during World War II, became a gal-pal of the first lady of the United States. ‘Battle for Sevastopol’ capture ‘Battle for Sevastopol’ is less impressive than its subject
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