Date of birth: 1940-09-22
Place of birth: Solbjerg, Denmark
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Hanne Karin Bayer, Hanne Karine Bayer, 안나 카리나, Hanne Blarke, Karina, 아나 카리나, Анна Карина, アンナ・カリーナ, آنا کارینا
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.
1962-09-20
Twelve episodic tales in the life of a Parisian woman and her slow descent into prostitution.
1965-11-05
Pierrot escapes his boring society and travels from Paris to the Mediterranean Sea with Marianne, a
1971-12-22
In 1917, the First World War is raging. Julien is from Luxemburg, so instead of having to go to war
1961-09-06
Longing for a baby, a stripper pursues another man in order to make her boyfriend jealous.
1965-05-05
Lemmy Caution is on a mission to eliminate Professor Von Braun, the creator of a malevolent computer
1964-08-05
Cinephile slackers Franz and Arthur spend their days mimicking the antiheroes of Hollywood noirs and
1968-12-10
A teacher on a Greek island becomes involved in bizarre mind-games with the island's magus (magician
1967-03-10
While an admiral's son is hunted by secret agents, his sister plays his part on a warship.
1983-09-28
Vincent is the victim of an assassination attempt carried out by a young woman who wants to avenge h
1977-02-23
A husband and wife lie to each other about their weekend travel plans, only to both show up at the f
1967-01-27
Paula Nelson goes to Atlantic City to meet her lover, Richard Politzer, but finds him dead and deci
1969-08-06
In Alexandria, in 1938, Darley, a young British schoolmaster and poet, makes friends through Pursewa
1967-07-26
In eighteenth-century France, a girl is forced against her will to take vows as a nun. Three mothers
1974-01-01
A castaway arrives on an island. He thinks it's uninhabited, but he sees a palace with also a hidden
1964-10-16
In a chain reaction of romantic adventures, various people play musical beds in a remake of Max Ophu
1976-03-17
A dedicated clarinetist receives a valuable violin and has a difficult time deciding what to do with
1967-01-13
Anna is working at a Parisian advertising agency. The director has fallen in love with a young woman
2023-06-05
Jean-Luc Godard is synonymous with cinema. With the release of Breathless in 1960, he established hi
1961-09-29
A theatrical director's relationship with his aspiring actress girlfriend begins to unravel when she
1963-01-25
Despite his lack of political convictions, photojournalist Bruno Forestier is roped into a paramilit
1965-07-17
In WWII, Lieut. Martino and his men are assigned to lead a group of prostitutes through the mountain
1974-05-05
An Italian immigrant tries to make a new life in Switzerland, taking on a series of increasingly men
1992-06-18
An intimate window into one of the great movements in film history that brought about an evolution i
1961-01-01
A subtitle warns, "beware of dark sunglasses." Anna and her lover, whose looks in bowler and bow tie
2022-04-01
A tribute to Anna Karina (1940-2019).
1987-01-14
Rock star Billy Jackson is found dead with a bullet in his head, a death classified as suicide. His
1962-12-21
"Les quatre vérités" aka "The Four Truths" is a movie anthology that consists of four segments, all
1969-01-17
Drama/Comedy set in a refugee camp in occupied Austria after World War II. A shrewd multi-lingual in
1963-05-10
Sheherazade is promised to a powerful Sultan as a gift in exchange for free passage to the Holy Land
1969-04-11
In medieval times, a horse merchant is forced by a noble to leave part of his stock as payment for c
1964-12-28
Serge follows Hélène in the crowded streets of Paris and manages to seduce her. Werther takes Sophie
1982-01-01
An aging couple search for peace and family harmony when their only son returns home after a long ab
1970-07-08
The movie starts with a mysterious girl riding her horse into a tree. Then she's rescued by milliona
1996-06-11
After a violent dispute with her mother, sixteen-years old Chloé ends up in the streets with nowhere
2019-08-20
1971-01-15
A vet tries to create his own Garden of Eden
1964-05-19
Made for Cinéastes de notre temps series. In 1964, several French New Wave auteurs discuss the succe
2023-10-14
Two hapless drifters, Frank and Bruno, team up with Linde to recover her land and trek across 1870's
2023-06-02
55 years ago, on October 1 1968, the first brand advertising spot appeared on the French television
1971-11-20
In the Southwest of 1915 Carlos backs an intended uprising of the common countymen against his fathe
1967-04-07
A collection of sketches that tells the story of prostitution through the ages.
2020-09-30
A short film by Joel Nguyen, made for his mother. Influenced from Agnès Varda
1978-06-14
Following a car accident, four men find themselves in the hospital, where they sow discord. Meanwhil
1984-10-31
Naive villagers find themselves duped by a pair of con artists who sweep into town proclaiming thems
1986-01-01
Jim is a small child who lives in an inn run by his parents. The arrival of a strange captain to the
1967-01-01
In 1967, Visconti came to Algiers for the filming of The Stranger with Mastroianni and Anna Karina.
1962-03-31
When Francis and Douglas Oberon learn that their late grandmother has bequeathed the family fortune
1999-12-06
A compilation of the most spectacular TV moments thanks to the presence and evocation of Jean-Luc Go
2002-09-03
Conceived as a reflection on the theme of time at the turn of the millennium, "Dans le noir du temps
1995-04-12
A librarian, a gangster's ex-lover and a woman who has recovered from a coma spend an eye-opening su
1976-03-30
Brumaire, the director of public relations at the Élysée, is trying to boost the rating of his gover
1972-08-30
An American lawyer on vacation in Europe is asked by a book publisher to stop by the Austrian town o
1965-07-26
Berenice, a wealthy, spoiled and temperamental girl, loves a winter sports buddy and wants to get ma
1990-09-07
In a future surveillance and treatment society where imaginative literature is censored, author Adam
1967-10-14
Meursault is a man who feels utterly isolated from everyone and everything around him. This alienati
1967-08-30
Lamiel is a poor orphan girl who climbs to the social elite in this 19th-century costume drama. Sans
1965-04-08
1978-10-26
On his return from America, András simply cannot find his place: he has lost his wife, friends and j
1965-06-18
Actor Jean-Paul Belmondo is interviewed, along with actor Anna Karina and director Jean-Luc Godard,
1987-12-16
French Guiana has long been the site for some notorious prisons surrounded by dense jungle. In this
2003-04-09
Cesar is a young schoolboy living in Paris with his family. Their life is ordinary, but Cesar wants
1999-02-12
A coming-of-age tale centered on Hannah, a young girl who is living a troubled family life. Set in 1
1988-05-13
The Inquisition is in full swing in 16th century Flanders. Wanted for his dissident writings, the al
2008-07-16
Two struggling musicians, trying to get by performing their less-than-sterling drag show, find a mys
1973-05-03
A stodgy, married schoolteacher has a chance encounter with a free spirited young woman who loosens
1997-08-06
Jonas Mekas assembles 160 portraits, appearances, and fleeting sketches of underground and independe
1986-01-01
Jean-Luc and Catherine are chased by the police. They find refuge in a house in southern France. A p
1963-09-04
Gerard, a young man from a "good family" dreams of becoming an actor. To do this, he follows everywh
1962-01-01
1962-04-11
Agnès Varda eloquently captures Paris in the sixties with this real-time portrait of a singer set ad
1959-10-16
Anna Karina‘s film debut.
1951-11-20
On a snowy day in a Swiss village, Walter introduces Charlotte to Clara, hoping to spark jealousy. L
2002-10-25
Regina meets charming Joshua while vacationing in Martinique, as she contemplates ending her whirlwi
2019-10-06
A documentary on the occasion of Liselotte Pulver's 90th birthday.
2001-03-31
2020-06-13
Major actress of the New Wave, Anna Karina is bound to the great renewal of cinema in the 1960s. Her
1963-05-01
Candid interviews of ordinary people on the meaning of happiness, an often amorphous and inarticulab
1965-02-12
In this lighthearted crime comedy, Nicolas is a Barcelona ice cream vendor who inadvertently helps a
1962-06-22
A love triangle between 23-year-old Emma (Anna Karina), her older boyfriend (Georges Descrières) and
1978-06-07
A ringmaster, his son Max, and a monkey named Johnny are trying hard to make the business bring in m
1969-05-11
Swinging London in the 1960's. Deals with the affection of a middle-aged man for a very young woman,
2007-10-31
Commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, "To Each His Own Cinema" brou
1966-11-14
A documentary about the famous Danish film director Carl Th. Dreyer, made a few years before he died
2015-01-01
In 1515 Machiavelli stated that it is better for the Prince to be feared than loved. Some 500 years
1967-04-07
Godard's segment from the omnibus film "The Oldest Profession"
2005-06-01
A story about the riddle of femininity in French cinema.
1993-01-01
"They are combinations of fragments. There are no stories, it is possible to mount these fragments i
2025-07-25
A special version of ‘Dans le noir du temps’ for viewers in Ramallah and the Gaza Strip.