''Annychka'' ( uk, Анничка) is a 1968

Ukrainian Ukrainian may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to Ukraine * Something relating to Ukrainians, an East Slavic people from Eastern Europe * Something relating to demographics of Ukraine in terms of demography and population of Ukraine * So ...

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. The film, which was produced at the Dovzhenko Film Studios, 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 Grigore Grigoriu (4 April 1941 – 20 December 2003) was an actor from the Republic of Moldova, known especially for interpreting the role of horse thief Luiku Zobar from the movie ''"Gypsies Are Found Near Heaven" ''(1975). Biography Grigor ...

as Andrei, wounded Red Army soldier from Central Ukraine *

Konstantin Stepankov Kostiantyn Petrovich Stepankov ( uk, Костянтин Петрович Степанков, by name of Kostiantyn Petrovich Voloshchuk; 3 June 1928 – 22 July 2004) was a Ukrainian soviet actor. He appeared in more than fifty films betwee ...

as pan Kmet, wealthy Hutsul *

Ivan Mykolaichuk Ivan Vasylyovych Mykolaichuk ( uk, Іван Васильович Миколайчук) (15 June 1941, Chortoryia, Ukrainian SSR – 3 August 1987) was a Ukrainian actor, producer, and screen writer. He is best known for playing the Hutsul I ...

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 ( uk, Борислáв Миколáйович Брондукóв; russian: Борислав Николаевич Брондуков; 1 March 1938 – 10 March 2004) was a Ukrainian film character actor, People's ...

as Krupyak, he is also pan Krupenko, chief Hilfspolizei officer *Anatoly Barchuk as Yaroslav, pan Kmytiv's farmhand *Ivan Havrilyuk as Yvanko, 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 Vasyl Ilich Symchych ( uk, Василь Ілліч Симчич) (January 8, 1915 – March 1, 1978) was a Ukrainian actor. Symchych was born in Seredniy Bereziv, Kolomya powiat, Austro-Hungary (today Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast) and died in Marc ...

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

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* Dovzhenko Film Studios films 1968 films Soviet-era Ukrainian films Ukrainian-language films Films set in 1943 Soviet black-and-white films Ukrainian black-and-white films Eastern Front of World War II films Soviet World War II films Ukrainian World War II films {{Ukraine-film-stub

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