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A Film about Anna Akhmatova
By the time Anna Akhmatova was twenty-five, fate had granted her every conceivable gift: poetic talent, strength of character and beauty. She was then inundated with the tragedies of her century: the arrests and executions of her loved ones, starvation, hardships, wars and revolutions, the Soviet regime’s destruction of the culture itself and almost everyone who was part of it, persecution, isolation, betrayal. Yet Akhmatova emerged victorious and that victory is the core of the film. With the commentary of the poet Anatoly Naiman, who knew Akhmatova in her last years, A Film about Anna Akhmatova is not a biopic. Rather, it is a live process of recreating a story akin to ancient tragedy.
Russia - 2008 - 2 x 52 mn - HD • 16/9 - Colour and B&W
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