The File of Anna Akhmatova / Lichnoe delo Anny Akhmatovoy(1990)
The File of Anna Akhmatova / Lichnoe delo Anny Akhmatovoy(1990)
DVD5 | VIDEO_TS | NTSC | 4:3 | 720x480 | 4900 kbps | 2.7Gb
Audio: Russian AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subtitles: English
01:05:00 | Soviet Union | Documentary
DVD5 | VIDEO_TS | NTSC | 4:3 | 720x480 | 4900 kbps | 2.7Gb
Audio: Russian AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subtitles: English
01:05:00 | Soviet Union | Documentary
An impressionistic look at the life of Russian poet, Anna Akhmatova, 1889-1966.
Director: Semyon Aranovich
Cast: Anna Akhmatova, Lidiya Chukovskaya
Russian poet Anna Akhmatova became the conscience of a generation under the brutal repression of Josef Stalin. In examining the life and art of this courageous woman, THE ANNA AKHMATOVA FILE offers a portrait of a beloved artist and a powerful examination of a violent era in the former Soviet Union.
Using rare film footage, interviews, diary entries, and photographs, director Semyon Aranovich (Sonata for Viola) examines the heart of Akhmatova and the soul of this contradictory era in which Anna s poem Requiem became the underground anthem for the millions who suffered under Stalin. Also included is footage of her 1966 funeral, though the footage was confiscated and Aranovich waited more than 20 years to complete the film.
The film also offers interviews and commentaries on Akmatova's friends and contemporaries, including Boris Pasternak (Dr. Zhivago), Vladimir Mayakovsky, and Mikhail Sostchenko.
The File of Anna Akhmatova / Lichnoe delo Anny Akhmatovoy(1990)
IMDb
This is an experimental documentary, narrating the life of poetess Anna Akhmatova through photos reading of her memoirs, a variety of documentary materials from Imperial Russia to the regime of N. Khrushchev. Associative montage here is based on the combination of images and the woman's voice, reading text by the poetess. The year in which this film was made is marked by the abundance of Christian motives and the images of "the judgment of God. Certainly in this film of S.Aranovich one can also notice such a tendency. In the first part of it you see the documentary episode showing the distraction of the Cathedral of the Resurrection, soon after that and in the last part of the film the image of some funeral in the church repeatedly appears. To say, the film is framed by 2 funerals. And everywhere in the film you can see images of icons, churches and crosses, the depressed atmosphere is emphasized by Gvaidulina's heavy music. From cinematographic point of view it's worth to point the frequent use of dissolve linking two shots very similar to each other in object and time within them. It seems to express the sense of abnormally prolonged time under Soviet regime.
~ shusei
The File of Anna Akhmatova / Lichnoe delo Anny Akhmatovoy(1990)
The File of Anna Akhmatova / Lichnoe delo Anny Akhmatovoy(1990)
