A Film about Anna Akhmatova
A Film about Anna Akhmatova is not a biopic. Rather, it is a live process of recreating a story akin to ancient tragedy. Before the viewer's eyes it emerges from archival and modern footage, unique sound recordings of Ak
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A Film about Anna Akhmatova is not a biopic. Rather, it is a live process of recreating a story akin to ancient tragedy. Before the viewer's eyes it emerges from archival and modern footage, unique sound recordings of Ak
A documentary about the life of one of the greatest Russian poets of the 20th century, her battles with and tragedies under the Soviet regime.
Dmitri Shostakovich called her the "Queen of Russian Poetry". She remained a queen in the memory of those who knew her, a queen who survived great glory and the bitterness of humiliation, trampled down by the authorities
A short film by Barry Lowe and Dino Mahoney, starring Pauline Burton as Anna. The film is an introduction to the great Soviet era modernist poet, Anna Akhmatova; shot in winter in Saint Petersburg (Leningrad), it contain
"That imbecile grandiose who does not know Lourie!" – Vladimir Mayakovsky once proclaimed. At the beginning of the century, the name of this composer and musician thundered no less than the names of Prokofiev or Stravins