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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]

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

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]

See also

• La Sorcière (film)

References

External links

• Olesya at IMDb

На других языках

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- [en] Olesya (film)

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[ru] Олеся (фильм)

«Оле́ся» — советский художественный фильм по одноимённой повести А. И. Куприна «Олеся» (1898).

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