''Anna'' is a 1970 Finnish movie co-written by

Jörn Donner Jörn Johan Donner (5 February 1933 – 30 January 2020) was a Finnish writer, film director, actor, producer, politician and founder of Finnish Film Archive. Biography Born into the Donner family of German descent, Jörn Donner was the son of ...

and Eija-Elina Bergholm, and directed by Donner, featuring

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, Pertti Melasniemi and Marja Packalén. Filmed in

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and

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, Finland. There was controversy about the nudity in the film. It has been described as "perhaps onner'smost thoughtful film", and been listed among "the most important films made in Finland in the 1960s and 1970s".

Plot

Thirty-eight-year-old Anna Kivi (Harriet Andersson), a Finnish

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and divorceé recently awarded a doctorate after her thesis, retreats to a summer studio on an island for the annual national summer holiday where she contemplates modern hardships and Northern European socialism.

References

1970 films Finnish drama films Films directed by Jörn Donner {{Finland-film-stub