Ivanna (1959 film)

Ivanna
Directed by	Viktor Ivchenko
Written by	Vladimir Belyaev
Starring	Inna Burduchenko Anatoly Motornyi
Cinematography	Aleksei Prokolenko
Edited by	L. Mkhitartants
Music by	Lev Olevskiy Anatoliy Svechnikov
Production company	Dovzhenko Film Studios
Release date	1959 (1959)
Running time	90 minutes
Country	Soviet Union
Language	Russian

Ivanna (Template:Lang-ru) is a 1959 Soviet drama film directed by Viktor Ivchenko. It was seen by 30.2 million viewers in the USSR.

Plot

The film is set in the year 1940. Ivanna Stavnichaya, the daughter of Bishop Theodos, goes to Lviv University, which opened after the establishment of Soviet power. However, the secretary of the admission committee, a hidden nationalist, declares to the girl that she was not accepted because of "social origin". Ivanna accuses the Soviet authorities of injustice, while in fact her fiancé, the fanatical Roman Catholic Roman Hereta, hid from her the truth about the call to study which came from the university. Upset Ivanna asks for help from Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky, head of the Uniate church in Ukraine, and he advises Ivanna to go to the monastery.

The Great Patriotic War begins, the Germans enter Lviv. Ivanna sees the ministers of the church cooperating with the invaders, blessing the massacre of partisans, Jews and civilians. Ivanna's girlfriend, Julia, joins up the girl with the partisans. Ivanna enters their detachment, but the Uniates learn about this and begin hunting for the young partisan ... Ivanna's life ends tragically - the German invaders arrest her and after cruel torture execute her.

Cast

• Inna Burduchenko - Ivanna
• Anatoly Motornyi - Theodosius Stavniciy
• Dana Kruk - Julia, a friend of Ivanna
• Did Panas - Panas Stepanovich Golub
• Evgeny Ponomarenko - Sadakly (comrade Taras)
• Vladimir Goncharov - Zhurzhenko, the captain
• Vladimir Arkushenko - Nikolai Andreevich Zubar, senior lieutenant of the NKVD
• Anatoly Yurchenko - Oleksa Gavrilishin
• Lev Olevsky - Frenchman Emil Leger, musician
• Dmitry Stepovoi - metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky
• Olga Nozhkina - abbess
• Georgi Polinsky - Dasko
• Alexander Korotkevich - "Railwayman"
• Vladimir Dalsky - Alfred Dietz, Oberfuhrer
• Vyacheslav Voronin - Roman Geret, the fiancé of Ivan
• Boris Mirus - Dmitry Andreevich Kablak, Secretary of the Admission Committee
• Vasily Fushchych - Zenon Verhola

Anathema

The film, released in 1960 in Catholic Poland, was anathematized by Pope John XXIII.

External links

• Ivanna at IMDb