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Anna Karina

Anna Karina

Acting • 1940-09-22 • Solbjerg, Denmark

Anna Karina  (22 September 1940 - 14 December 2019) was a Danish film actress, director, and screenwriter who spent most of her working life in France. Karina was known as a muse of the director Jean-Luc Godard, one of the pioneers of the French New Wave. Her notable collaborations with Godard include The Little Soldier (1960), A Woman Is a Woman (1961) and Vivre sa vie (1962). With A Woman Is a Woman, Karina won the Best Actress award at the Berlin Film Festival. In 1972, Karina set up a production company for Vivre ensemble (1973), her directorial debut, which screened in the Critics' Week lineup at the 26th Cannes Film Festival. She also directed the French-Canadian film Victoria (2008). In addition to her work in cinema, she worked as a singer and wrote several novels.

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Vivre Sa Vie7.7

Vivre Sa Vie

1962

Pierrot le Fou7.3

Pierrot le Fou

1965

Band of Outsiders7.5

Band of Outsiders

1964

Alphaville6.9

Alphaville

1965

A Woman Is a Woman7.3

A Woman Is a Woman

1961

Le Petit Soldat6.9

Le Petit Soldat

1963

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