Red Sniper – Die Todesschützin

In the organizer's words:

Film screening as part of the Political May Weeks 2026

Lyudmila Pavlichenko is still a student when the German Wehrmacht invades the Soviet Union in 1941 under the code name "Operation Barbarossa". The young woman soon found herself on the front line with a weapon in her hand. Revered and feared as "Lady Death", she rises to become the most successful sniper of the Second World War. 309 soldiers die from her bullets. Her courage and accuracy make Lyudmila a legend beyond the borders of her country and her outstanding bravery leads her to the political stage of the White House. But the inhumanity of war also claims bitter victims from Lyudmila and her fame puts her in mortal danger.

"The film is emphatically balanced, neither pro-American nor pro-Soviet, and - compared to other current Russian war films - it gets by with little pathos. The reviewer of the Russian newspaper Kommersant writes: 'Not a patriotic war film, but a patriotic anti-war film'." (Gesine Dornblüth, Deutschlandfunk)

(Neslamna/ Bytwa sa Sewastopol) Ukraine/ Russia 2015, FSK 16, 110 min; Director: Sergei Mokrizki.

Organizer: Association of Persecutees of the Nazi Regime - League of Anti-Fascists, KV Osnabrück

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