Iwanna

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Movie
Original title Иванна
Country of production Soviet Union
original language Russian
Publishing year 1959
length 90 minutes
Rod
Director Viktor Ivchenko
script Vladimir Belyaev
production M. Rotleider
music Alexander Sveshnikov
occupation

Iwanna (original spelling: Иванна) is a Soviet film drama from 1959 directed by Viktor Ivchenko .

action

Iwanna Stawnitschaja is the daughter of a bishop in Lviv . In 1940 she was accepted as a student at the Ivan Franko National University . Once there, however, the secretary of the university's selection committee, Dmitri Kablak, informed her that she would not be accepted due to her “social background”. Iwanna blames the new Soviet regime for this.

In truth, Iwanna's fiancé, Roman Gereta, who is an avid supporter of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church and a friend of Kablak, asked him not to accept Iwanna at university. Desperate, Iwanna goes to a church to pray. There a priest gives her an audience with Metropolitan Andrej Scheptyzkyj , who recommends her to become a nun.

A year later Lviv is occupied by the German army . The Catholic Church collaborates with the National Socialists and Iwanna, who has meanwhile become a nun, has to watch how Soviet prisoners of war are locked up and how the Germans wreak pogroms on the Lviv Jews. Iwanna questions her beliefs.

Her friend Julia puts her in contact with the Soviet resistance , which she joins. Among other things, Iwanna supports the partisans in a liberation operation in which three hundred Soviet prisoners of war escape. Kablak, who has since become a police officer, learns of Iwanna's role in the liberation operation and has her arrested by the German authorities. Iwanna is executed along with other captured resistance fighters. Shortly before her death, she tears off her necklace, to which a small cross is attached, and throws it on the floor.

publication

The film premieres took place in December 1959 in Kiev and on April 14, 1960 in Moscow .

reception

The film had a total of 30 million cinema viewers and won a prize at the All Union Film Festival in Minsk in 1960.

The Roman Catholic Church under Pope John XXIII. criticized the film for its strong anti-clerical portrayal. The Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church forbade its supporters in western Ukraine to see the film.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Иванна (1959). kino-teatr.ru, accessed on March 17, 2015 .
  2. ↑ Sussanna Chernenko: КИНОРЕЖИССЕР ВИКТОР ИВЧЕНКО. ДВОЙНАЯ ЭКСПОЗИЦИЯ. gazeta.zn.ua, October 27, 2000, accessed March 16, 2015 .
  3. ^ Joshua First: Ukrainian Cinema: Belonging and Identity During the Soviet Thaw . IBTauris, 2014, ISBN 1-78076-554-1 , pp. 53 .

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