Olesya (film)

1971 film by Borys Ivchenko

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 (1971-12-15)

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[edit]

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[edit]

* 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[edit]

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]

## See also[edit]

* La Sorcière (film)

## References[edit]

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

## External links[edit]

* Olesya at IMDb

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