''Ivanna'' (russian: Иванна) 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. Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super ...

directed by

Viktor Ivchenko Viktor Illarionovich Ivchenko (Ukrainian: Віктор Іларіонович Івченко) was a Soviet film director and writer. He was the father of another film director, Boris Ivchenko. Ivchenko was born in the city of Bohodukhiv, Kharkov ...

. 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 (; uk, Митрополит Андрей Шептицький; 29 July 1865 – 1 November 1944) was the Metropolitan Archbishop of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church from 1901 until his death in 1944. His tenure span ...

, 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

* Olga Nozhkina as abbess * Georgi Polinsky as Dasko * Alexander Korotkevich as "railwayman" * Vladimir Dalsky as oberfuhrer Alfred Dietz *

Vyacheslav Voronin Vyacheslav Nikolayevich Voronin (russian: Вячеспав Никопаевич Воронин; 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 Eu ...

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 ( uk, Марі́я Ростисла́вівна Капні́ст), née Marietta Rostyslavivna Kapnist-Sirko (9 (22) March 1913 – 25 October 1993, Kyiv) was a Ukrainian actress, Honored Artist of the Ukrainian SSR ...

as nun

Anathema

The film, released in 1960 in Catholic Poland, was

anathema Anathema, in common usage, is something or someone detested or shunned. In its other main usage, it is a formal excommunication. The latter meaning, its ecclesiastical sense, is based on New Testament usage. In the Old Testament, anathema was a cr ...

tized by

Pope John XXIII Pope John XXIII ( la, Ioannes XXIII; it, Giovanni 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 in June 19 ...

References

External links

* 1959 films Soviet drama films 1959 drama films Dovzhenko Film Studios films Films about religion {{1950s-USSR-film-stub