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By the age of 25, Anna Akhmatova had been granted fate’s every conceivable gift - poetic talent, strenght of character, beauty and fame. She was then inundated with the tragedies of her century: the arrests and executions of loved ones, starvation, hardship, revolutions and wars, the Soviet terror. Akhmatova survived years of fear, isolation, betrayal. Some of her poems, too dangerous to commit to paper, survived for many years only as memorized by a few close friends.
Her victory is the core of the film.
Her victory is the core of the film.
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Cast:
Anatoly Naiman -
Original Title:
A Film About Anna Akhmatova -
Country:
Russia -
Year:
2008 - 105'
Director
Helga Landauer
Born in Moscow, Helga Olshvang Landauer creates films as passionately as she writes poetry. After graduating from the Russian State Institute of Cinematography (VGIK) in 1990, she worked on different screenplay projects for feature films, animation and documentaries. As a director, her films include Being Far from Venice (1998), Objects in Mirror are Closer than They Appear (2002), A Journey of Dmitry Shostakovich (2006, co-directed with Oksana Dvornichenko), and A Film About Anna Akhmatova (2008), which has been screened at international film festivals like Madrid Documenta (Spain), Full Frame (USA), FIFA (Canada), and at major cultural venues such as the Louvre Auditorium in Paris, Queen Elizabeth Hall in London, Carnegie Hall and Baryshnikov Art Center in New York.
