Anna
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Nikita Mikhalkov
Anna Mikhalkova
Nikita Mikhalkov
Vadim Alissov
Vadim Alissov
Vincent Anardi
Film Details
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Synopsis
Nikita Mikhalkov began filming his six-year-old daughter Anna each year on her birthday at a time when home movies where illegal in the Soviet Union. His questions (What do you want most? What do you hate?) receive imaginative answers from the child (a pet crocodile; beet soup). With political indoctrination, Anna's greatest wish becomes "peace," her greatest fear "war." Perestroika's cataclysmic changes and Anna's more complex teenage responses are explored through newsreels and documentary scenes which record some of the outer edges to which a newly liberated people flock (e.g. a televised birthday party for a particularly flamboyant transvestite). Mikhalkov searches for the essential meaning of the lost Soviet empire, not in its pomp and slogans, nor in the rise and fall of its famous leaders, but in its effects upon the impressionable mind of Anna and, by implication, a generation who grew up under the weight of a dying order, and now look toward an uncertain but hopeful future.
Director
Nikita Mikhalkov
Crew
Vadim Alissov
Vadim Alissov
Vincent Anardi
Edward Artemiev
Alexandre Balachov
Armand Barbault
Evgueni Bazanov
Valentin Bobroski
Nicole Caan
Levtchenko Elekxai
Edward Guimpel
Vadim Ioussov
Vadim Ioussov
Elisbar Karavaev
Elisbar Karavaev
Pavel Lebeshev
Pavel Lebeshev
S Lomov
Viktor Lyssak
Nikita Mikhalkov
Nikita Mikhalkov
Nikita Mikhalkov
Anna Mikhalkova
Serguei Mirochnitchenko
E Orlov
Jean-louis Piel
Eleonora Praskina
André Rigaut
Michel Seydoux
Leonid Vereshchagin
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Miscellaneous Notes
Winner of the award for Best Documentary at the 1996 Hamptons International Film Festival.
Released in United States Fall November 13, 1996
Released in United States on Video February 16, 1999
Released in United States February 1994
Released in United States October 1996
Shown at Berlin International Film Festival (Panorama) February 10-21, 1994.
Shown at Hamptons International Film Festival (Truth is Stranger...) East Hampton, New York October 16-20, 1996.
Released in United States Fall November 13, 1996 (NY)
Released in United States on Video February 16, 1999
Released in United States February 1994 (Shown at Berlin International Film Festival (Panorama) February 10-21, 1994.)
Released in United States October 1996 (Shown at Hamptons International Film Festival (Truth is Stranger...) East Hampton, New York October 16-20, 1996.)
