Anna (1987 film)

• Sally Kirkland: Anna
• Robert Fields: Daniel
• Paulina Porizkova: Krystyna
• Gibby Brand: 1 director
• John Robert Tillotson: 2 Director
• Julianne Gilliam: author
• Stefan Schnabel: Professor

Anna exile ... New York (Anna ) is a film drama with Sally Kirkland from the year 1987. The film is based on the experiences of Elżbieta Czyżewska who emigrated in the 1960s in the United States.

Action

After the Prague Spring Anna, a Czech actress, was arrested and deported. In New York she studied - together with her lover Daniel - work. In a theater, she gets a job as a substitute. It also helps the young Krystyna, but which is also came from Czechoslovakia to New York can not speak English. Anna and Daniel to help her in learning the language and give her work in the film business. Since Anna Krystyna is surpassed a dispute arises between the two women. Krystyna takes Anna's life story she spreads in a television interview and sold as their own. Anna suffers a fit of rage and then it comes to the break between the two women. Posted Mentally, she brings the drama viewers on against him. After Daniel left her for Krzystyna, Anna suffers a nervous breakdown again appear on Krystynas film set and shoots at the younger antagonist. Krystyna has to be treated for several days in a hospital, as reported in a letter to her family home, but forgives Anna and Plant relax with her in Hawaii. She plans to the elderly to finance a facelift to look younger and thus to obtain role offers.

Background

Sally Kirkland had to learn Czech for the role of Anna, as well as to speak English with Czech accent. She understood the part as a part of her life and was very involved for the film. For the preparations Kirkland roamed by his own admission New York and sought a dialogue with Czech immigrants. The elevator operator in Kirklands apartment complex was a native of Prague director. This gave them the script, who read it in English, while Kirkland is said to have written down his every word phonetically in order to be able to memorize the accent better. The owner of a Czech travel agencies had carried Kirkland the script scene by scene, what the actress recorded to imitate them later. Compared Unlike many others, Anna ... exile New York from Joseph L. Mankiewicz's Oscar-winning film All About Eve (1950), Kirkland spoke of an " ultimate love story " between the two women that would result from communication problems.

For Porzkova it was the first challenging film role. "It's the first script at all, which I got, in which the girl not a total bimbo and all the time is naked. ", So the photo Model 1986 interview with The New York Times. Porizkova was born as her character from Czechoslovakia and had been brought up at the age of three years by her grandmother after her parents had fled the country in 1968 before the Soviet invasion.

Reviews

Rita Kempley wrote in the Washington Post of February 26, 1988, the film had many " wonderful " scenes. The script is at times implausible. Stephen Holden (The New York Times) saw an " intense mother -daughter relationship ," referring to a fusion of Joseph L. Mankiewicz's All About Eve (1950) and Ingmar Bergman's Persona (1966 ) develop.

The movies make loud Claudia Wefel ( Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung) on the basis of two female figures, the hardness of the American show business significantly, " a milieu in which the meteoric rise of the awkward farmer's daughter to the celebrated Mannequin and idolized actress in the same breath a dozen other ambitious head can cost and career. "That Anna does not freeze into a cliché, was up to the " compelling Art " by Sally Kirkland and Paulina Porizkova. Kirkland succeed it with the title role in the " explore all the acting range of variation " while Porizkova could öffensichtlich more than just "beautiful" look. Wefel criticized the directing style Yurek Bogayevicz ', the " obviously not a master of the subtle allusions and images " is. Similar noticed epd Film (10 /88): " What a this film but far more spoiled than Agnieszka Holland bad script, is the dolled directed by Yurek Bogayevicz. "

The filmdienst rated Anna ... exile in New York primarily as " psychologically differentiated character study, supported by convincing actors " will, especially Sally Kirkland in the title role. The actress ähnle in intensity Gena Rowlands, the film at the Hollywood classic All About Eve. Only rudimentary and prosper, the political dimension involve, the political background of the main character but remain " blurred ". Anna exile ... New York remains the " the patterns of American entertainment faithful: he is certainly well done, but is careful not to challenge the audience with too much depth. "

Awards

The performance of Sally Kirkland has won several movie awards, including the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award (1987, together with Holly Hunter for Broadcast News - Broadcast News), the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Drama and the Independent Spirit Award (both in 1988 ). Kirkland was nominated for an Oscar as Best Actress Also in 1988, but had opposite Cher ( Moonstruck ) in the cold.

Agnieszka Holland was nominated in 1988 for the screenplay for the Independent Spirit Award, as well as director and producer Yurek Bogayevicz and producer Zanne Devine (Category: Best First Feature ).