Annychka (Russian: Аннычка, romanized: Annychka, Ukrainian: Анничка) is a 1968 Russian-Ukrainiandrama. 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 Nazicollaborator. 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
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
