A serial offender, all of her athletics results from 17 August 2008 to 5 February 2016 have been disqualified due to doping. [7] She finished third in the 800 metres final, but still maintained her lead and initially became the world heptathlon champion with a personal best total of 6880 points. Joseph Fiennes. She was born to the supportive parents, George Weisz and Edith Ruth. Ed Harris. Ganiyeva was awarded the combat of the Red order and Banner of the Red Star. Tania Chernova : There aren't any donkeys in the forest. She was credited with 19 confirmed kills. Her injuries did not permit her to rejoin the war where she spent 11 months recovering in hospital. Screenplay. Petrova was credited with killing 122 enemy soldiers and although she survived the war she died in a tragic car accident just seven days after the war had ended. Later that summer she won the Hypo-Meeting in a personal best score of 6618 points and managed a performance of 6591 points at the 2008 Summer Olympics. Born in Yeleninskoye, Russia, to a peasant family, Zaytsev learned marksmanship from an … She survived the war even seeing action in the Battle for Berlin in 1945 where she commanded an entire company of 100 female snipers. Tanya fought on the Belorussian front and was made to parachute behind enemy lines as part of a secret mission. After that incident, she joined the resistance. She played Dr. Lily Sinclair, Tania Chernova, and Evelyn Carnahan. Not many will be familiar with this name but Tania inspired the female sniper character by the same name in the movie “Enemy at the Gates” which was played by Rachel Weisz who acted alongside Jude Law. Rachel Weisz Tania Chernova . On her senior global debut at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics she failed to finish the competition. Tania Chernova Joseph Fiennes. In 1940, she enrolled at University in Perm, and when Germany invaded the Soviet Union, she began to attend nursing courses in the evening, while training to become a sharpshooter. Vassili Zaitsev : On this day, September 20th 1942, a young shepherd boy from the Urals arrived in the city of Stalingrad on the banks of the Volga. This was a meeting record and represented an improvement of more than 150 points over her previous best. Koulikov Eva Mattes. I prayed for the first time since I was a little girl. the political commissar (Joseph Fiennes) and the love interest Tania Chernova (Rachel Weisz). Read on to know 10 of the most deadly Russian female snipers in military history. Her family was killed during the war and the only thing she wants is revenge. Films include The Lobster, The Favourite, and The Fountain Tatyana Sergeyevna Chernova (Russian: Татьяна Серге́евна Чернова; born 29 January 1988 in Krasnodar) is a Russian heptathlete. Many of these women became famous heroes of Russia earning accolades and medals of Honor especially the one named Lady death. Russia immersed itself into the war where even village schoolteachers were cast into action. Help Center ... Full Cast & Crew: Enemy at the Gates (2001) Cast (69) Jude Law. Rachel Weisz was born in Westminster, London, England, the UK on 7 March 1970 with the sun sign Pisces. Watch Enemy at the Gates Full Movie Streaming Online Duration 131 minutes and broadcast on 2001-03-16 MPAA rating is 243. Vassili Ed Harris. Not many will be familiar with this name but Tania inspired the female sniper character by the same name in the movie “Enemy at the Gates” which was played by Rachel Weisz who acted alongside Jude Law. The tagline for one of her movies is "The Legend You Know. 8.Tania Chernova. Overview. See the full list of Enemy at the Gates cast and crew including actors, directors, producers and more. Vassili Zaitsev. [1], At the start of the 2010 season, she originally was awarded the bronze medal in the pentathlon at the 2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships, finishing behind Jessica Ennis and Nataliya Dobrynska. Jean-Jacques Annaud. The surrounding story of the film is, of course, dramatic licence, as is the characterisation of Krushchev (Bob Hoskins). Film profile for Rachel Weisz, Actor, born 7 March 1971. The 10th post of my #herstory series is Russian War Hero Tania Chernova: Due to lack of records kept all we know is that Tania Chernova was born in 1920 in New York and was a Russian-American who went to Belarus during WWII to get her grandparents out of Russia. Hitler like Napoleon did not bargain for two major factors that would turn the tide of the war. - Vassili: The donkey lives longer because he's more useful. Tania was an American –Russian who travelled to Belarus to get her grandparents out of Russia but they had already been killed by Germans. Lyudmila Pavlichencko born in 1916 in Ukraine was by far the most famous of Russian female snipers nicknamed “Lady Death”. Ziba Ganiyeva was one of the most charismatic figures in the Russian army having been a Russian celebrity and a film actress in Azerbaijan before the war. Enemy At The Gates (2001) Vassily and Tania Chernova's Romantic Moments - Duration: 3 minutes, 29 seconds. [12], On 29 November 2016 it was announced that she had been further disqualified from all results between 15 August 2011 and 22 July 2013, including her 2011 World Championships gold and 2012 Olympics bronze.[13]. Nina Pavlovna Petrova also known as “Mama Nina” and could well have been the oldest Russian female snipers in World War II. Movie Cast . Status : Released Release Date of film : 2001-03-16 Original title : Enemy at the Gates Tagline : Some Men Are Born To Be Heroes. Russian Female Snipers of World War II. Nikita Khrushchev Ron Perlman. - Tania Chernova: That must be a proverb from the Urals. She was a braveheart who crossed over into enemy lines an impressive 16 times and killed 21 German soldiers. Log In Once logged in, you can add biography in the database. - Tania Chernova: There aren't any donkeys in the forest. Add to list. Vasily Zaytsev was a Russian sniper who served during the World War II. Rachel Hannah Weisz (born 7 March 1970) is an Academy Award-winning English actress. Trailer. Born Today Most Popular Celebs Most Popular Celebs Celebrity News. She had run a personal best in the 100 metres hurdles (13.32 seconds), but her consistency over all seven events proved to be the reason for the definitive improvement. Tania Chernova is an American with family ties to Russia. Ganiyeva fought in the Soviet Army’s 3rd Moscow Communist Rifle Division. She was the first woman sniper to be awarded the Order of Glory and fought in the famous battle of Vilnius. Some Men Are Born To Be Heroes. Born in the city of Glazov in Udmurtia, Baramzina graduated from the Glazov State Pedagogical Institute and spent two years teaching a kindergarten class in a village school at Kachkashur. INTRODUCTION Quite surprisingly, nearly all of the events in the story are true — even though some of them were denied by certain individuals involved. Klavdiya Kalugina was one of the youngest soldiers and the youngest sniper in the Red Army. She started her war career working at a munitions factory but soon entered sniper school and was subsequently sent to the 3rd Belorussian front. Movie Genre : War, Languages spoken : Deutsch Film Note :-movie_rating- Societies of production : Swanford Films Alain Godard. Before the war Pavlichenko was a university student and an amateur sharpshooter. Russian Snipers Nadezhda Kolesnikov: img via flickr.com. Community. [3] She failed to build upon this in 2009 and ended the year with a season's best of 6386 points, having come eighth at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics. 69. She entered the war when she was just 17. Actors. Check In. She then became a sniper in the Russian army joining the Hares, a sniper group formed by the famous Vatsily Zaytsev who was also portrayed as a character in the same movie and played by Jude Law. Nina Lobkovskaya joined the Russian army after losing her father to the war in 1942. Videos. A Russian and a German sniper play a game of cat-and-mouse during the Battle of Stalingrad in WWII. She died the next day on 27th January 1945. Some Men Are Born To Be Heroes. Before doing so she had already chalked up 16 kills and killed a further 20 during her mission. She was nicknamed the Unseen terror of East Prussia and entered the war before she was even 20 years old. This actress, whose mother is Austrian-born and father is Hungarian-born, studied English at Trinity Hall college, Cambridge. Chernova represented Russia at the 2010 European Athletics Championships and finished fourth in the heptathlon with 6512 points. Add comment. [6] At the championships in Daegu, she equalled her bests in the 200 metres and the 100 m hurdles, and set an outright best in the shot put. Tania was credited with 24 kills before being wounded in the abdomen from a mine. On 24 April 2017 she was disqualified and stripped of her bronze medal in 2008 Summer Olympics due to doping. Russian Female Snipers of World War II. I prayed for the first time since I was a little girl. The Famous English actress Rachel Hannah Weisz and she is also known as Rachel Weisz.Rachel Weisz was born on 7 March 1970 in Westminster, London, England and grew up in the Hampstead Garden Suburb. Tania Chernova was a Russian-American who went to Belarus to get her grandparents out of Russia. The German sniper, Major Köning, is well played by the always excellent Ed Harris. Home. She took an active part in the battle of Moscow and was severely wounded. You made it up. This is the result of a hard working breeder. Roza Shanina chalked up 59 kills but did not survive the war. It makes no sense to me. Her mother name is Edith Ruth is a Vienna, Austria and also is a teacher.Her father name is George Weisz he was a Hungarian-born inventor and engineer. Not many will be familiar with this name but Tania inspired the female sniper character by the same name in the movie “Enemy at the Gates” which was played by Rachel Weisz who acted alongside Jude Law. A Russian and a German sniper play a game of cat-and-mouse during the Battle of Stalingrad in WWII. She joined the sniper school run by Zaitsev and became one of his top students as well as his lover, however her hotheadedness held her back from success because of her anger towards the German Army. She was the winner of the 2010 Décastar event, recording a total 6453 points, and this moved her into first place in the IAAF Combined Events Challenge rankings. Hitler’s biggest mistake of World War II which led to the decline of his marauding army was the invasion of Russia. Tania fortunately survived the war. 1 Information 2 Filmography 2.1 Animation 3 Films 4 Video Games 5 Drama CD 6 Dubbing Roles 6.1 Live action 7 Animations Atsuko Satō (佐藤 敦子, Satō Atsuko, born November 14, 1962), known professionally as Atsuko Tanaka (田中 敦子, Tanaka Atsuko), is a Japanese voice actress and narrator associated with Mausu Promotion (formerly Ezaki Productions). Add to history. Deadliest Russian Female Snipers of World War II, Top 10 Russian Female Snipers of World War II. Sergeant Guard Lubya Makarova was one of the fortunate 500 who survived the war. In an attempt to save a wounded Russian officer, she was mortally wounded by shrapnel that tore her chest open and disemboweled her. Tania Chernova was a Russian-American who went to Belarus to get her Grandparents out of Russia. Whois Vasily Zaytsev, Sniper,birthplace is Yeleninka , Russia ,date of birth March 23,1915,died at the age of76,sign of the zodiac Aries For her service, Kolesnikov was awarded the medal of courage after the war in Russia. Pavlichecnko was perhaps the most successful female sniper in war history where she fought in Sevastopol on the Crimean border and in Odessa. Whether or not it was true, grumpy and impatient me found the budding love story between American-born Tania Chernova and Zaytsev a little distracting from the overall action of the book involving the Nazi sharpshooter Thorvald, a character that I think the author did not evolve as much as Chernova or Zaytsev. [8] Chernova won the Decastar Meeting a month later to take a consecutive series win on the IAAF Challenge circuit, having amassed 20,332 points over three competitions. Rachel Hannah Weisz (/ ˈ v aɪ s / vys; [1] born 7 March 1970) [2] is an English film and theatre actress and former fashion model.. Weisz began her acting career at Trinity Hall, Cambridge in the early 1990s, then started working in television, appearing in Inspector Morse, the British mini-series Scarlet and Black, and the television film Advocates II. She was 53. Tania Chernova Russian Female Snipers of World War II Not many will be familiar with this name but Tania inspired the female sniper character by the same name in the movie "Enemy at the Gates" which was played by Rachel Weisz who acted alongside Jude Law. Many of these were women who fought not in the open but as snipers becoming notorious and deadly in their actions chalking up kill after kill gunning down Nazi officers and professing an uncanny but ruthless skill with the sniper rifle. Nina was credited with 89 kills. [14] This means she no longer has medals from any major championships. See what Clela Meusboen (57cjm) has discovered on Pinterest, the world's biggest collection of ideas. Tatyana Sergeyevna Chernova (Russian: Татьяна Серге́евна Чернова; born 29 January 1988 in Krasnodar) is a Russian heptathlete.She was originally awarded the bronze medal at the 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics, and the gold medal at the 2011 World Championships in Athletics before being stripped of those medals for doping. Nadezhda Kolesnikov was a sniper volunteer serving on the Volkhovsky Eastern front in 1943. Rachel Hannah Weisz (born 7 March 1970) is an Academy Award-winning English actress; she is also a fashion model.She became famous after her roles in the Hollywood movies The Mummy and The Mummy Returns, and has since continued appearing in major movie roles.. She is of Jewish descent. [2], She rebounded the following year at the 2008 IAAF World Indoor Championships, where she came seventh in the women's pentathlon. She was then taken to Tashkent where she spent a considerable time in recovery. You made it up. Tania Chernova : Because we've only just met. 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