Annychka

Annychka (Аннычка, Анничка) is a 1968 Russian-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.

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 as Annychka, Anna Kmet, daughter of pan Kmet
 * Grigore Grigoriu as Andrei, wounded Red Army soldier from Central Ukraine
 * Konstantin Stepankov as pan Kmet, wealthy Hutsul
 * Ivan Mykolaichuk as Roman Derych, Annychka's groom, young Hutsul, who becomes a German Hilfspolizei and guard in a detention center for prisoners of war
 * 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
 * Olga Nozhkyna as Maria, Annychka's mother
 * Vasyl Symchych 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