Anna Karina
Birthday: 1940-09-22
Place of Birth: Solbjerg, Denmark
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.
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Vivre Sa Vie
Twelve episodic tales in the life of a Parisian woman and her slow descent into prostitution....
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Pierrot le Fou
Pierrot escapes his boring society and travels from Paris to the Mediterranean Sea with Marianne, a ...
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Appointment in Bray
In 1917, the First World War is raging. Julien is from Luxemburg, so instead of having to go to war ...
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A Woman Is a Woman
Longing for a baby, a stripper pursues another man in order to make her boyfriend jealous....
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Band of Outsiders
Cinephile slackers Franz and Arthur spend their days mimicking the antiheroes of Hollywood noirs and...
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Alphaville
Lemmy Caution is on a mission to eliminate Professor Von Braun, the creator of a malevolent computer...
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The Magus
A teacher on a Greek island becomes involved in bizarre mind-games with the island's magus (magician...
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Tender Sharks
While an admiral's son is hunted by secret agents, his sister plays his part on a warship....
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A Friend of Vincent
Vincent is the victim of an assassination attempt carried out by a young woman who wants to avenge h...
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Chinese Roulette
A husband and wife lie to each other about their weekend travel plans, only to both show up at the f...
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Made in U.S.A
Paula Nelson goes to Atlantic City to meet her lover, Richard Politzer, but finds him dead and deci...
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Justine
In Alexandria, in 1938, Darley, a young British schoolmaster and poet, makes friends through Pursewa...
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The Nun
In eighteenth-century France, a girl is forced against her will to take vows as a nun. Three mothers...
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Morel's Invention
A castaway arrives on an island. He thinks it's uninhabited, but he sees a palace with also a hidden...
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Circle of Love
In a chain reaction of romantic adventures, various people play musical beds in a remake of Max Ophu...
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The Musician Killer
A dedicated clarinetist receives a valuable violin and has a difficult time deciding what to do with...
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Anna
Anna is working at a Parisian advertising agency. The director has fallen in love with a young woman...
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Godard Cinema
Jean-Luc Godard is synonymous with cinema. With the release of Breathless in 1960, he established hi...
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Tonight or Never
A theatrical director's relationship with his aspiring actress girlfriend begins to unravel when she...
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The Little Soldier
Despite his lack of political convictions, photojournalist Bruno Forestier is roped into a paramilit...
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The Camp Followers
In WWII, Lieut. Martino and his men are assigned to lead a group of prostitutes through the mountain...
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Bread and Chocolate
An Italian immigrant tries to make a new life in Switzerland, taking on a series of increasingly men...
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Cinéma! Cinéma! The French New Wave
An intimate window into one of the great movements in film history that brought about an evolution i...
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Fiancés on the Bridge
A subtitle warns, "beware of dark sunglasses." Anna and her lover, whose looks in bowler and bow tie...
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Last Song
Rock star Billy Jackson is found dead with a bullet in his head, a death classified as suicide. His ...
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The Four Truths
"Les quatre vérités" aka "The Four Truths" is a movie anthology that consists of four segments, all ...
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Before Winter Comes
Drama/Comedy set in a refugee camp in occupied Austria after World War II. A shrewd multi-lingual in...
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Scheherazade
Sheherazade is promised to a powerful Sultan as a gift in exchange for free passage to the Holy Land...
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Michael Kohlhaas - The Rebel
In medieval times, a horse merchant is forced by a noble to leave part of his stock as payment for c...
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All About Loving
Serge follows Hélène in the crowded streets of Paris and manages to seduce her. Werther takes Sophie...
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Regina Roma
An aging couple search for peace and family harmony when their only son returns home after a long ab...
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The Time to Die
The movie starts with a mysterious girl riding her horse into a tree. Then she's rescued by milliona...
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Chloé
After a violent dispute with her mother, sixteen-years old Chloé ends up in the streets with nowhere...
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La Nouvelle Vague par elle-même
Made for Cinéastes de notre temps series. In 1964, several French New Wave auteurs discuss the succe...
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Quantum Cowboys
Two hapless drifters, Frank and Bruno, team up with Linde to recover her land and trek across 1870's...
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L'Âge d'or de la pub
55 years ago, on October 1 1968, the first brand advertising spot appeared on the French television ...
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Carlos
In the Southwest of 1915 Carlos backs an intended uprising of the common countymen against his fathe...
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The Oldest Profession
A collection of sketches that tells the story of prostitution through the ages....
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Anna and the Jellyfish
A short film by Joel Nguyen, made for his mother. Influenced from Agnès Varda...
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Surprise Sock
Following a car accident, four men find themselves in the hospital, where they sow discord. Meanwhil...
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Ave Maria
Naive villagers find themselves duped by a pair of con artists who sweep into town proclaiming thems...
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Treasure Island
Jim is a small child who lives in an inn run by his parents. The arrival of a strange captain to the...
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A Propos D'Un Crime
In 1967, Visconti came to Algiers for the filming of The Stranger with Mastroianni and Anna Karina. ...
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She'll Have to Go
When Francis and Douglas Oberon learn that their late grandmother has bequeathed the family fortune ...
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Godard on TV: 1960-2000
A compilation of the most spectacular TV moments thanks to the presence and evocation of Jean-Luc Go...
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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...
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Up, Down, Fragile
A librarian, a gangster's ex-lover and a woman who has recovered from a coma spend an eye-opening su...
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Scrambled Eggs
Brumaire, the director of public relations at the Élysée, is trying to boost the rating of his gover...
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The Salzburg Connection
An American lawyer on vacation in Europe is asked by a book publisher to stop by the Austrian town o...
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Husband for Sale
Berenice, a wealthy, spoiled and temperamental girl, loves a winter sports buddy and wants to get ma...
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Manden der ville være skyldig
In a future surveillance and treatment society where imaginative literature is censored, author Adam...
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The Stranger
Meursault is a man who feels utterly isolated from everyone and everything around him. This alienati...
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Lamiel
Lamiel is a poor orphan girl who climbs to the social elite in this 19th-century costume drama. Sans...
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Just Like at Home
On his return from America, András simply cannot find his place: he has lost his wife, friends and j...
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Panorama: Jean-Paul Belmondo, 1965
Actor Jean-Paul Belmondo is interviewed, along with actor Anna Karina and director Jean-Luc Godard, ...
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Cayenne Palace
French Guiana has long been the site for some notorious prisons surrounded by dense jungle. In this ...
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I, Cesar
Cesar is a young schoolboy living in Paris with his family. Their life is ordinary, but Cesar wants ...
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Set Me Free
A coming-of-age tale centered on Hannah, a young girl who is living a troubled family life. Set in 1...
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The Abyss
The Inquisition is in full swing in 16th century Flanders. Wanted for his dissident writings, the al...
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Victoria
Two struggling musicians, trying to get by performing their less-than-sterling drag show, find a mys...
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Living Together
A stodgy, married schoolteacher has a chance encounter with a free spirited young woman who loosens ...
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Birth of a Nation
Jonas Mekas assembles 160 portraits, appearances, and fleeting sketches of underground and independe...
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Blockhaus USA
Jean-Luc and Catherine are chased by the police. They find refuge in a house in southern France. A p...
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Sweet and Sour
Gerard, a young man from a "good family" dreams of becoming an actor. To do this, he follows everywh...
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Cléo from 5 to 7
Agnès Varda eloquently captures Paris in the sixties with this real-time portrait of a singer set ad...
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Presentation, or Charlotte and Her Steak
On a snowy day in a Swiss village, Walter introduces Charlotte to Clara, hoping to spark jealousy. L...
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The Truth About Charlie
Regina meets charming Joshua while vacationing in Martinique, as she contemplates ending her whirlwi...
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Lilos Lachen - Das erstaunliche Leben der Liselotte Pulver
A documentary on the occasion of Liselotte Pulver's 90th birthday....
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Anna Karina, Remember
Major actress of the New Wave, Anna Karina is bound to the great renewal of cinema in the 1960s. Her...
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The Lovely Month of May
Candid interviews of ordinary people on the meaning of happiness, an often amorphous and inarticulab...
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The Thief of Tibadabo
In this lighthearted crime comedy, Nicolas is a Barcelona ice cream vendor who inadvertently helps a...
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Sun in Your Eyes
A love triangle between 23-year-old Emma (Anna Karina), her older boyfriend (Georges Descrières) and...
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Ausgerechnet Bananen
A ringmaster, his son Max, and a monkey named Johnny are trying hard to make the business bring in m...
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Laughter in the Dark
Swinging London in the 1960s. Deals with the affection of a middle-aged man for a very young woman, ...
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To Each His Own Cinema
Commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, "To Each His Own Cinema" brou...
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Carl Th. Dreyer
A documentary about the famous Danish film director Carl Th. Dreyer, made a few years before he died...
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Every Day Words Disappear
In 1515 Machiavelli stated that it is better for the Prince to be feared than loved. Some 500 years ...
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Anticipation, or Love in the Year 2000
Godard's segment from the omnibus film "The Oldest Profession"...
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Dark Galaxy
"They are combinations of fragments. There are no stories, it is possible to mount these fragments i...
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Sang titre
A special version of ‘Dans le noir du temps’ for viewers in Ramallah and the Gaza Strip....
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