Anna (1970)

Directed by

Jörn Donner

Genre

drama film

Country

Sweden

Runtime

1h 22m

Rated

K-12

Rating

5.7 of 10 from 7 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A woman named Anna navigates personal relationships and societal expectations in 1970s Finland. The film focuses on her internal struggles and the reactions of those around her.

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What happens

Anna is a 1970 Finnish movie co-written by Jörn Donner and Eija-Elina Bergholm, and directed by Donner, featuring Harriet Andersson, Pertti Melasniemi and Marja Packalén. It was filmed in Kustavi and Turku, Finland. There was controversy about the nudity in the film. It has been described as "perhaps [Donner's] most thoughtful film", and been listed among "the most important films made in Finland in the 1960s and 1970s". Both Finnish-language and Swedish-language versions were made of the film. In the Finnish version, Andersson's lines are voiced by Liisamaija Laaksonen. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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