Annychka

Annychka
Annychka
	Borislav Brondukov
Production; company	Dovzhenko Film Studios
Release date	1968;
Running time	89 minutes
Country	Soviet Union
Languages	Russian, Ukrainian

Annychka (

USSR

alone, in 1969 25.1 million people saw it.

Synopsis

The film dwells of the love story in the midst of the

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