Isidor ANNENSKY Исидор АННЕНСКИЙ Issidor ANNENSKI   USSR, 1954, 87 mn  Colour, fiction

The Anna cross ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ Анна на шее    La Croix de Sainte-Anne  Anna na shee

Plot synopsis

Based on the short story by A. P. Chekhov. To save her family from disgrace and hunger, a young dowerless girl gets married to a rich old man, only to turn into an unscrupulous kept woman who forgets her close ones…It was the fourth film by an acclaimed master of literary adaptations, Isidor Annensky (1906-1977), made after A. Chekhov’s works (“The Bear”, “Man in a Shell”, “Marriage”). The director’s high culture and professionalism, faithfulness to the literary original, and the amazingly talented acting ensemble were always the marks of his films. Starring in “The Anna Cross” were such outstanding Russian film and theatre actors as the beautiful Alla Larionova (after this picture was released, the actress was invited by Charlie Chaplin to film in Hollywood), the idol of millions Mikhail Zharov, the highly popular chansonnier Alexander Vertinsky, who returned to the USSR ten years earlier, the Moscow Art Theatre star Alexei Gribov, and others. This wonderful, never-aging film is so perfect that each generation of viewers will find it interesting, discovering in it still new unfading gems.
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Selected in the following festivals :

- Retrospective Russian cinema at the "Reflet Médicis", Paris (France), 2010

- Festival ''Cinema and literature'', Gatchina (Russia), 2010

- Festival "Vivat Kino Rossii", St Petersburg (Russia), 2009

- Russian films in the cinema Arlequin, Paris (France), 2006

- Nantes Russian Film Festival ''Univerciné'', Nantes (France), 2002

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