Annychka () 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. 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 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 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 See also Propala Hramota (1972) — other work of Borys Ivchenko References Annychka at the Internet Movie Database Annychka the movie. 1968 Annychka (1968) — New York Times movies External links 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