Ivanna (film)
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''Ivanna'' () is a 1959 Soviet anti-religious
drama film In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. The drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular ...
directed by
Viktor Ivchenko Viktor Ilarionovych Ivchenko ( Ukrainian: ''Віктор Іларіонович Івченко'') was a Soviet film director and writer. He was the father of another film director, Borys Ivchenko. Ivchenko was born in the city of Bohodukhiv, Kha ...
. It was seen by 30.2 million viewers in the USSR.


Plot

The film is set in the year 1940. Ivanna Stavnichaya, the daughter of Greek Catholic priest Theodos, goes to Lviv University, which opened after the establishment of Soviet power. However, the secretary of the admission committee, a hidden nationalist, declares to the girl that she was not accepted because of "social origin". Ivanna accuses the Soviet authorities of injustice, while in fact her fiancé, the fanatical Greek Catholic Roman Hereta, hid from her the truth about the call to study which came from the university. Upset Ivanna asks for help from Metropolitan
Andrey Sheptytsky Andrey Sheptytsky, OSBM (; ; 29 July 1865 – 1 November 1944) was the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Metropolitan of Galicia and Archbishop of Lviv from 1901 until his death in 1944. His tenure in office spanned two world wars and six political r ...
, head of the Greek Catholic church in Ukraine, and he advises Ivanna to go to the monastery. The Second World War begins, the Germans enter Lviv. Ivanna sees the ministers of the church cooperating with the invaders, blessing the massacre of partisans, Jews and civilians. Ivanna's girlfriend, Julia, joins up the girl with the partisans. Ivanna enters their detachment, but the Ukrainian Greek Catholics learn about this and begin hunting for the young partisan ... Ivanna's life ends tragically - the German invaders arrest her and after cruel torture execute her.


Cast

* Inna Burduchenko as Ivanna * Anatoly Motornyi as Theodosius Stavnycyi * Dana Kruk as Yulya, a friend of Ivanna * Did Panas as Panas Stepanovych Holub * Evgeny Ponomarenko as comrade Taras Sadakly * Vladimir Goncharov as captain Zhurzhenko * Vladimir Arkushenko as Mykola Andriovych Zubar, senior lieutenant of the NKVD * Anatoly Yurchenko as Oleksa Gavrylyshyn * Lev Olevsky as Émile Léger, French musician * Dmitry Stepovoi as metropolitan
Andrey Sheptytsky Andrey Sheptytsky, OSBM (; ; 29 July 1865 – 1 November 1944) was the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Metropolitan of Galicia and Archbishop of Lviv from 1901 until his death in 1944. His tenure in office spanned two world wars and six political r ...
* Olga Nozhkina as abbess * Georgi Polinsky as Dasko * Alexander Korotkevich as "railwayman" * Vladimir Dalsky as oberfuhrer Alfred Dietz *
Vyacheslav Voronin Vyacheslav Nikolayevich Voronin (; born 5 April 1974 in Vladikavkaz) is a Russian track and field athlete who specialised in the high jump. Voronin was a World Champion (1999) and European Indoor Champion (2000). His personal best is 2.40 metre ...
as Roman Gereta, the fiancé of Ivanna * Boris Mirus as Dmytro Andriovych Kablak, Secretary of the Admission Committee * Vasily Fushchych as Zenon Verhola *
Maria Kapnist Maria Rostyslavivna Kapnist (), née Marietta Rostyslavivna Kapnist-Sirko (9 (22) March 1913, St. Petersburg – 25 October 1993, Kyiv) was a Ukrainian actress, and an Merited Artist of Ukraine, Honored Artist of the Ukrainian SSR (1988). During ...
as nun


Anathema

The film, released in 1960 in Catholic Poland, was
anathema The word anathema has two main meanings. One is to describe that something or someone is being hated or avoided. The other refers to a formal excommunication by a Christian denomination, church. These meanings come from the New Testament, where a ...
tized by
Pope John XXIII Pope John XXIII (born Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli; 25 November 18813 June 1963) was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 28 October 1958 until his death on 3 June 1963. He is the most recent pope to take ...
.


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* 1959 films 1959 drama films 1950s Soviet films 1950s Russian-language films Soviet drama films Russian-language drama films Soviet black-and-white films Dovzhenko Film Studios films Films critical of Christianity and Christians Soviet World War II films Soviet war drama films Russian-language war drama films {{1950s-USSR-film-stub