| Anna's War | |
| Director: | Aleksey Fedorchenko |
| Producer: | Andrei Savelyev Artyom Vasilyev Maksim Lozhevsky |
| Screenplay: | Aleksey Fedorchenko Natalia Meshchaninova |
| Music: | Vladimir Komarov Atsuo Matsumoto |
| Cinematography: | Alisher Khamidhodzhaev |
| Editing: | Pavel Khanyutin Herve Schnaid |
| Studio: | 29th February Film Company Metrafilms Saga Film Studio |
| Country: | Russia |
| Runtime: | 75 min. |
| Language: | Russian |
Anna's War (ru|Война Анны|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]
On 25 January 2019 the film won the Russian Golden Eagle Award in the Best Film category. Fedorchenko won the award for .[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]
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]