Anna Karina
Acting
Biography
Anna Karina (22 September 1940 - 14 December 2019) was a Danish film actress, director, and screenwriter who spent most of her working life in France. Karina was known as a muse of the director Jean-Luc Godard, one of the pioneers of the French New Wave. Her notable collaborations with Godard include The Little Soldier (1960), A Woman Is a Woman (1961) and Vivre sa vie (1962). With A Woman Is a Woman, Karina won the Best Actress award at the Berlin Film Festival. In 1972, Karina set up a production company for Vivre ensemble (1973), her directorial debut, which screened in the Critics' Week lineup at the 26th Cannes Film Festival. She also directed the French-Canadian film Victoria (2008). In addition to her work in cinema, she worked as a singer and wrote several novels.
Born: September 22, 1940
Place of Birth: Solbjerg, Denmark
Known For
A Propos D'Un Crime
In 1967, Visconti came to Algiers for the filming of The Stranger with Mastroianni and Anna Karina. Camus, during his lifetime, had always refused to allow one of his novels to be brought to the screen. His family made another decision. The filming of the film was experienced in Algiers, like a posthumous return of the writer to Algiers. During filming, a young filmmaker specializing in documentaries Gérard Patris attempts a report on the impact of the filming of The Stranger on the Algerians. Interspersed with sequences from the shooting of Visconti's film, he films Poncet, Maisonseul, Bénisti and Sénac, friends of Camus, in full discussions to situate Camus and his work in a sociological and historical context. “The idea is for us to show people, others, ourselves as if they could all be Meursault, or at least the witnesses concerned to his drama.”
Quantum Cowboys
Two hapless drifters, Frank and Bruno, team up with Linde to recover her land and trek across 1870's Southern Arizona to find an elusive frontier musician.
The Lovely Month of May
Candid interviews of ordinary people on the meaning of happiness, an often amorphous and inarticulable notion that evokes more basic and fundamentally egalitarian ideals of self-betterment, prosperity, tolerance, economic opportunity, and freedom.
Cinépanorama
Vivre Sa Vie
Twelve episodic tales in the life of a Parisian woman and her slow descent into prostitution.
Cléo from 5 to 7
Agnès Varda eloquently captures Paris in the sixties with this real-time portrait of a singer set adrift in the city as she awaits test results of a biopsy. A chronicle of the minutes of one woman’s life, Cléo from 5 to 7 is a spirited mix of vivid vérité and melodrama, featuring a score by Michel Legrand and cameos by Jean-Luc Godard and Anna Karina.
In the Darkness of Time
Conceived as a reflection on the theme of time at the turn of the millennium, "Dans le noir du temps" functions as a Pandora’s box which hides all the horrors of the world: the last moments of youth, fame, thoughts, memory, love, silence, history, fear, eternity and, of course, cinema.
Madame le Juge
Band of Outsiders
Cinephile slackers Franz and Arthur spend their days mimicking the antiheroes of Hollywood noirs and Westerns while pursuing the lovely Odile. The misfit trio upends convention at every turn, be it through choreographed dances in cafés or frolicsome romps through the Louvre. Eventually, their romantic view of outlaws pushes them to plan their own heist, but their inexperience may send them out in a blaze of glory -- which could be just what they want.
Scheherazade
Sheherazade is promised to a powerful Sultan as a gift in exchange for free passage to the Holy Land. When the Sultan's underling saves her from certain death, she falls madly in love with her hero.
Filmography
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
as Blacky's Memory
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as (archive footage)
as Self
as (archive footage)
as (segment "Artaud Double Bill") (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Gloria
as Karina
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
as Nana Kleinfrankenheim (archive footage) (uncredited)
as Anna
as Self
as Katia
as Sarah
as (archive footage)
as Edith
as Catherine
as Lola
as Self
as Susan
as Mother
as Berthe Granjeux
as Eleonore
as Self
as Regina
as Christine Olsen
as Anna
as Nathalie
as Natascha
as Emma
as Irene Cartis
as Clara Dutilleul
as Self
as Elena
as Faustine
as Julie Andersen
as Anna Bryant
as Elle
as Clara
as Jeanne
as The Young Woman
as Melissa
as Margot
as Elisabeth Kohlhaas
as Maria
as Anne
as Marie Cardona
as Lamiel
as Suzanne
as Natasha
as Natasha (segment "Anticipation, ou l'amour en l'an 2000")
as Elena / Costa
as Paula Nelson
as Self
as Self (uncredited)
as Marianne Renoir
as Béatrice Reinhof
as Elenitza
as Natacha von Braun
as Self / Narrator
as Maria
as Hélène
as Rose
as Odile
as Ginette
as Shéhérazade
as Self (uncredited)
as Veronica Dreyer
as Colombe (segment "Le corbeau et le renard")
as Nana Kleinfrankenheim
as Emma
as Anna, The Blonde Bride / Actress in Silent Film
as Anna, The Blonde Girl
as Toni Oberon
as Lady Customer (uncredited)
as Self
as Valérie
as Angela
as Self
as Self
as Clara (voice)