Sniper (Russian: Снайпер) is a 1931 Soviet war drama film directed and written by Semyon Timoshenko.^[1][2][3]

The film begins during the First World War. A former metallurgist goes to France as part of the Russian Expeditionary Force and there he kills a German sniper. Examining the documents of the sniper, he learns that the dead man also worked at a metallurgical plant, as a result of which he comes to the idea of the need for solidarity between the workers. After the war, returning to his homeland - to Russia, where he is employed by a brigade leader at the depot at the railway border station. Suddenly a group of bandits attacked the station. Defending himself and the station, the protagonist destroys the leader of the gang, who turns out to be his former commander.

• Boris Shlikhting as The Captain
• Pyotr Sobolevsky as The Soldier
• Pyotr Kirillov as German Sniper
• Vladimir Gardin as Colonel
• Emil Gal as French officer
• Pyotr Pirogov as Worker
• Leonid Kmit as Worker Viktor^[4]