Annychka

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| name = Annychka

| image = Annychka_film_poster.jpg

| caption = Original film poster

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| starring = Lyubov Rumyantseva
Grigore Grigoriu
Ivan Mykolaychuk
Konstantin Stepankov
Ivan Havrylyuk
Borislav Brondukov

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| studio = Dovzhenko Film Studios

| released = {{Film date|1968}}

| runtime = 89 minutes

| country = Soviet Union

| language = Russian
Ukrainian

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Annychka ({{langx|ru|Аннычка|Annychka}}, {{langx|uk|Анничка}}) is a 1968 Russian-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

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

References

[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0312363/ Annychka] at the Internet Movie Database
[http://obereg.at.ua/load/11-1-0-21 Annychka the movie. 1968]
[https://web.archive.org/web/20110520094615/http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/168362/Annychka/overview Annychka (1968) — New York Times movies]