Anna's War


Anna's War is a Russian drama film directed by Aleksey Fedorchenko. It premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam in January 2018.
On January 25, 2019, the film won the Russian Golden Eagle Award in the Best Film category. Fedorchenko won the award for :ru:Премия «Золотой орёл» за лучшую режиссёрскую работу|Best Director.
The plot was based on the short story Ghost by Dmitri Khotckevich, a true story of his neighbor pani Ada, which he published earlier at livejournal under the nick storyofgrubas.

Plot

A little girl, Anna, 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.