Anna's War (russian: Война Анны, Voyna Anny) is a 2018 Russian

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directed by

Aleksey Fedorchenko Aleksey Fedorchenko (russian: Алексе́й Станисла́вович Федо́рченко; born 1966) is a film director from Yekaterinburg Yekaterinburg ( ; rus, Екатеринбург, p=jɪkətʲɪrʲɪnˈburk), alternatively ...

. It premiered at the

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in January 2018. On 25 January 2019 the film won the Russian Golden Eagle Award in the Best Film category. Fedorchenko won the award for . The plot was based on the short story ''Ghost'' by Dmitri Khotckevich, a true story of his neighbor pani Ada (missis Ada), which he published earlier at

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Plot

A little girl, Anna (Marta Kozlova), miraculously survived the execution of local

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, after her mother covered her with her body. She hides in the chimney of a Ukrainian school, which came to be used as the nazi's headquarters for the duration of the

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occupation. Anna watches war and life from her cover.

References

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«Кинотавр». Печёная свастика и временные трудности
{{Nika Award Best Picture Russian war drama films 2018 war drama films Eastern Front of World War II films Films set in the 1940s Holocaust films 2018 drama films Films directed by Aleksey Fedorchenko Russian World War II films 2010s Russian-language films