Olesya (film)

Olesya
Olesya
Directed by	Boris Ivchenko
Written by	Vasily Dulgerov; Aleksandr Kuprin
Produced by	Tatyana Kulchitskaya
Starring	Lyudmila Chursina
Cinematography	Nikolai Kulchitsky
Edited by	Tatyana Sivchikova
Music by	Volodymyr Huba
Production; company	Dovzhenko Film Studios
Release date	December 15, 1971;
Running time	87 minutes
Country	USSR
Language	Russian

Olesya (Russian: Олеся) is a 1971 drama film directed by Boris Ivchenko based on a screenplay by Vasily Dulgerov. Adapted from the Aleksandr Kuprin's 1898 homonymous novel.^[1]

Plot

Wandering through the forest, Ivan Timofeyevich finds a dilapidated hut on the edge of the swamp. There lives an old woman with her beautiful granddaughter Olesya. Many years prior, the local peasants, considering the woman a witch, burned down her house, killing her daughter. Olesya is fascinated by Ivan, who is in turn conquered by the power of the girl's feelings, by her openness and the purity of her soul. Eventually, he falls in love with Olesya. However, she foresees a quick separation.

Cast

Lyudmila Chursina as Olesya
Gennady Voropayev as Ivan Timofeyevich
Boryslav Brondukov as Yarmola
Anatoly Barchuk as Dmitro
Maria Kapnist as Manuylikha, Olesya's grandmother
Vladimir Volkov as Yevtikhiy Petrovich
Boris Aleksandrov as Selyanin (as B. Aleksandrov)
Yuri Gavrilyuk
Fyodor Gladkov
Anatoliy Ivanov

Release

Boris Ivchenko's film takes the 616th place in the list of the highest-grossing films of the Soviet film distribution. It was watched by 25,1 million viewers.^[2]

References

^ Раззаков, Федор (2017-09-05). Гибель советского кино. Тайна закулисной войны. 1973-1991 (in Russian). Litres. ISBN 978-5-457-02172-3.
^ СССР: Самые кассовые фильмы

External links

Olesya at IMDb

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[1] Раззаков, Федор (2017-09-05). Гибель советского кино. Тайна закулисной войны. 1973-1991 (in Russian). Litres. ISBN 978-5-457-02172-3.

[2] СССР: Самые кассовые фильмы

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