Anna's War (Russian: Война Анны, romanizedVoyna Anny) is a 2018 Russian drama film directed by Aleksey Fedorchenko.[1][2][3] It premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam in January 2018.[4]

Anna's War
Directed byAleksey Fedorchenko
Screenplay byAleksey Fedorchenko
Natalia Meshchaninova
Produced byAndrei Savelyev
Artyom Vasilyev
Maksim Lozhevsky
Starring
  • Marta Kozlova
CinematographyAlisher Khamidhodzhaev
Edited byPavel Khanyutin
Herve Schnaid
Music byVladimir Komarov
Atsuo Matsumoto
Production
companies
29th February Film Company
Metrafilms
Saga Film Studio
Release date
  • 28 January 2018 (2018-01-28)
Running time
75 min.
CountryRussia
LanguageRussian

On 25 January 2019 the film won the Russian Golden Eagle Award in the Best Film category. Fedorchenko won the award for Best Director [ru].[5]

The plot was based on the short story Ghost by Dmitri Khotckevich, a true story of his neighbor pani Ada (missis Ada),[6] which he published earlier at livejournal under the nick storyofgrubas.[7]

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A little girl, Anna (Marta Kozlova), miraculously survived the execution of local Jews, after her mother covered her with her body. She hides in the chimney of a Ukrainian school, which came to be used as the nazi's headquarters for the duration of the Nazi occupation. Anna watches war and life from her cover.[8]

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  1. ^ "Алексей Федорченко: Фильмом "Война Анны" я закрыл тему Второй мировой". RFI. January 31, 2018.
  2. ^ "Открывается "Кинотавр" | Colta.ru". www.colta.ru.
  3. ^ «Холодное танго» Павла Чухрая откроет XXVIII «Кинотавр» в Сочи
  4. ^ "«Война Анны» Алексея Федорченко: почему новый фильм режиссера «Овсянок» и «Ангелов революции» — один из лучших в 2018 году". Meduza.
  5. ^ Картина «Война Анны» получила премию «Золотой орёл» и стала лучшим фильмом года
  6. ^ Привидение by Dmitri Khotckevich
  7. ^ Привидение, by storyofgrubas, November 1, 2010
  8. ^ Mintzer, Jordan (2018-02-01). "'Anna's War' ('Voina Anna'): Film Review | Rotterdam 2018". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2023-07-28.
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