Anna (2019)

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Movie
German title Anna
Original title Anna
Anna (2019) Logo.svg
Country of production France
original language English
Publishing year 2019
length 119 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Luc Besson
script Luc Besson
production Luc Besson,
Marc Shmuger
music Eric Serra
camera Thierry Arbogast
cut Julien Rey
occupation
synchronization

Anna (original spelling: ᴀɴᴎᴀ) is a feature film by the French director Luc Besson , who also acted as screenwriter and producer for the film. Sasha Luss , Helen Mirren , Luke Evans and Cillian Murphy can be seen in leading roles . Internationally, the film was released in theaters in June 2019 and on July 18 in Germany.

action

The opening scene shows Moscow in 1985, with a hunt for American agents. Two years later, the drug addict Anna is a victim of domestic violence. Reluctantly, she then accepts an offer from KGB officer Alex. After a year of training, she will work for four years as a KGB agent under the direction of Olga. After that, she can get out and continue her life at will.

She is hired as a model for work as an undercover agent in Paris. At the same time she does various missions and assassinations. When she is exposed by the CIA , she agrees to work for them as a double agent, with Agent Miller as her reference person. In return, she is promised immediate retirement and a carefree life in Hawaii. Miller assigns her to murder Vassiliev. The CIA hopes his demise would lead to smoother relations with the KGB.

Anna kills Vassiliev and fights her way out of the KGB building. She later arranged a meeting with Alex and Miller and exchanged information stolen from both services in exchange for a six-month grace period. When she leaves, she is attacked by Olga and shot for her betrayal. However, she uses a body duplicate to fake her death and flee.

Olga confesses to Anna that she knew about their connection with the CIA and the planned assassination of Vassiliev. Both women pledged to follow the CIA's plan so that Olga could follow in Vassiliev's footsteps and later faked Anna's execution to deceive both services and make Anna disappear.

production

On October 9, 2017, it was reported that Luc Besson's next film would be called Anna , with newcomer Sasha Luss in the title role, who had a supporting role in Valerian - The City of a Thousand Planets (as Princess Lïhio-Minaa ). Helen Mirren , Luke Evans and Cillian Murphy were named as other actors . The film will be produced by Luc Besson's production company EuropaCorp , while Lionsgate will handle distribution.

Shooting of the film began in early November 2017.

The score was composed by Eric Serra . The soundtrack for the film, which comprises a total of 28 pieces of music, is to be released by EuropaCorp as a download on July 10, 2019 and also on CD at a later date.

The film was released in German cinemas on July 18, 2019.

Cast and dubbing

The German-language dubbing of the film was done at Christa Kistner Synchronproduktion in Berlin. The dialogue book was written by Klaus Bickert and the dialogue was directed by Susanna Bonaséwicz .

role actor Voice actor
Anna Poliatova Sasha Luss Rubina Nath
Olga, senior KGB officer Helen Mirren Kerstin Sanders-Dornseif
Alex Tchenkov, KGB officer Luke Evans Torben Liebrecht
Leonard Miller, called Lenny, CIA agent Cillian Murphy Norman Matt
Maude, friend of Anna Lera Abova Nicole Hannak
Vassiliev, KGB chief Eric Godon Roland Hemmo
Oleg Vilenkov, Anna's first victim in Paris Andrew Howard Michael Deffert
John, head of the modeling agency Adrian Can He himself
Dorothée, Anna's booker Alison Wheeler Lena Schmidtke
Samy, model scout Jean-Baptiste Puech Fabian Oscar Vienna
Mario, fashion photographer in Paris Laurent Ferraro Olaf Reichmann
Nato, fashion photographer in Milan Eric Lampaert NN
Piotr, called Petya, Anna's Moscow friend before her new start Alexander Petrov OmU
Vlad, Piotr's crook pal Nikita Pavlenko OmU
Jimmy, Piotr's crook pal Alexei Maslodudov OmU
Nika, Piotr's crook pal Anna Krippa OmU

reception

Reviews

“The Russian model Sasha Luss, who was discovered by Karl Lagerfeld in 2011, looks like a decal of the cool trigger-happy heroines from earlier Luc Besson films. But in contrast to Natalie Portman or Scarlett Johansson, it leaves the viewer pretty cold, a doll-like killer machine that even does quick sex in the narrow toilet without emotion. Helen Mirren, on the other hand, plays the chain-smoking KGB boss with thick glasses close to the parody, but at least quite amusing. "

- Krischan Koch, NDR culture

“The agent story, which is narrated in a complicated way, but basically quite unsurprising, leads the audience by the nose with many false bottoms and a fragmented time structure. The parallel guidance of the model and the murderess remains mere attitude and is neither narrative nor in a figurative sense of knowledge. "

- Film service

The flick was praised for its unconventional, non-linear narrative style and the fast-paced action sequences - in the style of Luc Besson. Noel Murray from Los Angeles Times is enthusiastic about the "numerous back and forth shifts". He was particularly fond of the restaurant scene in which Anna left a mountain of corpses behind. Movie Nation's Roger Moore criticizes the film as a cheap copy of Nikita .

Gross profit

The film grossed around 30.9 million US dollars worldwide, of which 7.7 million US dollars were in North America alone.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for Anna . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF). Template: FSK / maintenance / type not set and Par. 1 longer than 4 characters
  2. ↑ Instagram photo by Luke Evans from December 2, 2017 . Retrieved December 3, 2017. 
  3. ↑ Luc Besson Sets Next Film 'Anna' With Helen Mirren, Luke Evans (EXCLUSIVE) . In: Variety , October 9, 2017. Retrieved November 7, 2017. 
  4. ↑ Luc Besson Debuts the First Anna Photo from the Set . In: ComingSoon.net , November 5, 2017. Retrieved November 7, 2017. 
  5. ↑ 'When Nikita meets Leon': Luke Besson starts filming 'Anna' . In: The Malay Mail Online , November 7, 2017. 
  6. ↑ Soundtrack Album for Luc Besson's 'Anna' to Be Released. In: filmmusicreporter.com, July 4, 2019.
  7. ↑ Start dates Germany ( Memento from June 13, 2019 in the Internet Archive ).
  8. ^ German dubbing files - Films - Anna. In: synchronkartei.de . Retrieved December 24, 2019 .
  9. ↑ "Anna": Action thriller with Helen Mirren on ndr.de, accessed on December 24, 2019
  10. ↑ Anna (2019) on filmdienst.de, accessed on December 24, 2019
  11. ↑ As a chic, exaggerated action flick, Anna does an excellent job. .
  12. ↑ Anna - just a copy from Nikita .
  13. ↑ box office results. In: Box Office Mojo . Accessed December 24, 2019 .