Annychka

Annychka

Directed by Borys Ivchenko • 1968 • USSR/Ukraine

A wartime melodrama shot through with the folkloric magic and vivid imagination that defined Ukraine’s so-called “poetic cinema” of the 1960s. In the dark days of Nazi occupation, a young girl native to the Carpathian mountains falls in love with a wounded Soviet partisan. Their affair sets in motion a tragic chain of events, as her family turns against her with shocking results. Borys Ivchenko’s roving camera and the striking performances of Lyubov Rumyantseva, Grigore Grigoriu, and Ukrainian screen icon Ivan Mykolaichuk make this a classic of Ukrainian cinema.

ANNYCHKA • АННИЧКА
Directed by Borys Ivchenko
Written by Viktor Ivchenko
Cinematography by Nikolai Kulchitskiy
Music by Vadim Homolyaka
Starring: Lyubov Rumyantseva, Grigore Grigoriu, Ivan Mykolaychuk

In Ukrainian with English subtitles

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Annychka
  • Annychka

    Directed by Borys Ivchenko • 1968 • USSR/Ukraine

    A wartime melodrama shot through with the folkloric magic and vivid imagination that defined Ukraine’s so-called “poetic cinema” of the 1960s. In the dark days of Nazi occupation, a young girl native to the Carpathian mountains falls in love with ...

Extras

  • Introducing Ukrainian poetic cinema

    Klassiki curator Sam Goff introduces viewers to the world of Ukrainian poetic cinema: a formally radical and politically subversive movement that emerged in Kyiv in the mid-1960s, and which turned to Ukraine’s folkloric past in order to reimagine the nation’s cinematic future.

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