''Annychka'' (, ) is a 1968 Russian- Ukrainian

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. The film, which was produced at the

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, takes place in 1943 and is about a

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girl played by Lyubov Rumyantseva. In 1969, it received a ''Golden Tower'' award at the

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Film Festival in

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. The director received a special prize at the Kyiv Film Festival. In the

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alone, in 1969 25.1 million people saw it.

Synopsis

The film dwells of the love story in the midst of the

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in 1943. A

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

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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 Kostiantyn Petrovich Stepankov (, by name of Kostiantyn Petrovich Voloshchuk; 3 June 1928 – 22 July 2004) was a Ukrainian soviet actor. He appeared in more than fifty films between 1958 and 1999. He was a member of the jury at the 11th Mo ...

as pan Kmet, wealthy Hutsul *

Ivan Mykolaichuk Ivan Vasylyovych Mykolaichuk (; 15 June 1941 – 3 August 1987) was a Ukrainian actor, producer, and screen writer. He is best known for playing the Hutsul Ivan in '' Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors'' (1964), based on Mykhailo Kotsyub ...

as Roman Derych, Annychka's groom, young Hutsul, who becomes a German

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and guard in a detention center for

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Boryslav Brondukov Boryslav Mykolayovych Brondukov (; ; 1 March 1938 – 10 March 2004) was a Ukrainian film character actor, People's Artist of Ukraine.

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

Annychka
at the

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Annychka the movie. 1968Annychka (1968) — New York Times movies

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