Annychka
Annychka (Ukrainian: Анничка) is a 1968 Ukrainian drama. 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.
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| Directed by | Borys Ivchenko | 
| Written by | Viktor Ivchenko | 
| Starring | Lyubov Rumyantseva Grigore Grigoriu Ivan Mykolaychuk Konstantin Stepankov Ivan Havrylyuk Borislav Brondukov  | 
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Running time  | 89 minutes | 
| Country | Soviet Union | 
| Language | Ukrainian | 
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 Nazi 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 - Annychka, Anna Kmet, daughter of pan Kmet
 - Grigore Grigoriu - Andrei, wounded red army soldier from Central Ukraine
 - Konstantin Stepankov - pan Kmet, wealthy Hutsul
 - Ivan Mykolaichuk - Roman Derych, Annychka's groom, young Hutsul, who becomes a German Hilfspolizei and guard in a detention center for prisoners of war
 - Boryslav Brondukov - Krupyak, he is also pan Krupenko, chief Hilfspolizei officer
 - Anatoly Barchuk - Yaroslav, pan Kmytiv's farmhand
 - Ivan Havrilyuk - Yvanko, young Hutsul, Roman's friend, partisan sympathizer, whom the Hilfspolizei with the fascists made dance on broken glass and then shot
 - Olga Nozhkyna - Maria, Annychka's mother
 - Vasyl Symchych - Semyon, pan Kmet's farmhand
 - Fedir Stryhun - Fyodor, partisan
 - Vitaly Rozstalny - Viktor, partisan
 - Nynel Zhukovskaya - Seraphima, priest's daughter
 - Viktor Stepanenko - Viktor, Soviet prisoner
 - Viktor Miroshnichenko - village headman
 
See also
    
Propala Hramota (1972) - other work of Borys Ivchenko
