Annychka
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.
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Directed by | Borys Ivchenko |
Written by | Viktor Ivchenko |
Starring | Lyubov Rumyantseva Grigore Grigoriu Ivan Mykolaychuk Konstantin Stepankov Ivan Havrylyuk Borislav Brondukov |
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Running time | 89 minutes |
Country | Soviet Union |
Language | Ukrainian |
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 Havrilyuk - 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
- Fedir 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