Annychka

Annychka
Original film poster
Directed by Borys Ivchenko
Written by Viktor Ivchenko
Starring Lyubov Rumyantseva
Grigore Grigoriu
Ivan Mykolaychuk
Konstantin Stepankov
Ivan Havrylyuk
Borislav Brondukov
Production
company
Release date
  • 1968 (1968)
Running time
 89 minutes
Country Soviet Union
Language Ukrainian, Russian

Annychka (Ukrainian: Анничка) is a 1968 Ukrainian drama.

The film, which was produced at the Dovzhenko Film Studios, takes place in 1943 and is about a Hutsul girl played by Lyubov Rumyantseva. In 1969 it received a Golden Tower award at the Phnom Penh Film Festival in Cambodia. The director received a special prize at the Kyiv Film Festival. In the USSR alone, in 1969 25.1 million people saw it.

Synopsis

The film dwells of the love story in the midst of the Second World War in 1943. A Hutsul girl Annychka finds herself in the middle of hostilities and gets acquainted with a wounded soldier in the forest. Looking after the soldier, she falls in love with him and turns against her boyfriend in the village, who became a Nazi collaborator. Having told her father of the decision to elope with the soldier she drives her father to despair and eventual insanity. The story ends on a tragic note, when the father kills his daughter.

Cast

  • Lybov Rumyantseva - Annychka, Anna Kmet, daughter of pan Kmet
  • Grigore Grigoriu - Andrei, wounded red army soldier from Central Ukraine
  • Konstantin Stepankov - pan Kmet, wealthy Hutsul
  • Ivan Mykolaichuk - Roman Derych, Annychka's groom, young Hutsul, who becomes a German Hilfspolizei and guard in a detention center for prisoners of war
  • Boryslav Brondukov - Krupyak, he is also pan Krupenko, chief Hilfspolizei officer
  • Anatoly Barchuk - Yaroslav, pan Kmytiv's farmhand
  • Ivan Gavrilyuk - Yvanko, young Hutsul, Roman's friend, partisan sympathizer, whom the Hilfspolizei with the fascists made dance on broken glass and then shot
  • Olga Nozhkyna - Maria, Annychka's mother
  • Vasyl Symchych - Semyon, pan Kmet's farmhand
  • Fyodor Stryhun - Fyodor, partisan
  • Vitaly Rozstalny - Viktor, partisan
  • Nynel Zhukovskaya - Seraphima, priest's daughter
  • Viktor Stepanenko - Viktor, Soviet prisoner
  • Viktor Miroshnichenko - village headman

See also

Propala Hramota (1972) - other work of Borys Ivchenko

References

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