Battle for Sevastopol is a 2015 biographical war film, about which Ukrainian Red Army Soviet sniper during World War II?
Battle for Sevastopol Battle for Sevastopol (Ukrainian: "Незламна" "Indestructible"; Russian: "Битва за Севастополь" ) is a 2015 biographical war film about Lyudmila Pavlichenko, a young Soviet Ukrainian who joined the Red Army to fight the Nazi invasion of the USSR and became one of the deadliest snipers in World War II. The film, a joint Ukrainian-Russian production, was released in both countries on April 2, 2015; its international premiere took place two weeks later at the Beijing International Film Festival.
Simon Ostrovsky Simon Ostrovsky (Russian: Симо́н Остро́вский ; born February 2, 1981) is a Soviet-born American documentary filmmaker and journalist at CNN best known for his coverage of the 2014 crisis in Ukraine for VICE News and Selfie Soldiers, a 2015 documentary in which he re-enacted a Russian soldier's social media posts to track him to Ukraine. He was briefly held hostage by pro-Russia militants there in April 2014. Ostrovsky won an Emmy Award in 2013 for his work with VICE.