Anna's War (Russian: Война Анны, romanized: Voyna 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]
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| Directed by | Aleksey Fedorchenko |
| Screenplay by | Aleksey Fedorchenko Natalia Meshchaninova |
| Produced by | Andrei Savelyev Artyom Vasilyev Maksim Lozhevsky |
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| Cinematography | Alisher Khamidhodzhaev |
| Edited by | Pavel Khanyutin Herve Schnaid |
| Music by | Vladimir Komarov Atsuo Matsumoto |
Production companies | 29th February Film Company Metrafilms Saga Film Studio |
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Running time | 75 min. |
| Country | Russia |
| Language | Russian |
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]
Plot
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]
