The Meetings of Anna (1978)
Les rendez-vous d'Anna (original title)Reference View | Change View
- 2h 8min
- Drama
- 08 Nov 1978 (France)
- Movie
Anna, a detached and diffident director, arrives in Germany to show her latest film; she checks into a hotel, invites a stranger to her bed, and abruptly tells him to leave. He asks her to a birthday lunch with his mother and daughter; she...
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Cast
| Aurore Clément | ... |
Anna Silver
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| Helmut Griem | ... |
Heinrich Schneider
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| Magali Noël | ... |
Ida
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| Hanns Zischler | ... |
Hans
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| Lea Massari | ... |
La mère d'Anna
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| Jean-Pierre Cassel | ... |
Daniel
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Alain Bonnet |
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Françoise Bonnet |
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Thaddausz Kahl |
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Laurent Taffein |
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Victor Verek |
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Directed by
| Chantal Akerman | ||
Written by
| Chantal Akerman | ... | (writer) |
Produced by
| Alain Dahan | ... | producer |
| Maya Faber-Jansen | ... | producer: ZDF |
| Emile Poppe | ... | producer: pre-production |
Cinematography by
| Jean Penzer | ||
Editing by
| Francine Sandberg | ||
Editorial Department
| Pierre Louis Lecoeur | ... | assistant editor |
| Catherine Spanu | ... | assistant editor |
Production Design by
| Philippe Graff | ||
Art Direction by
| Andre Fonteyne | ||
Makeup Department
| Christiane Sauvage | ... | makeup artist |
Production Management
| Philippe Allaire | ... | unit manager |
| Catherine Huhardeaux | ... | production manager |
| Evelyne Paul | ... | production manager |
| Stephan Rossié | ... | unit manager |
| Jean-Marie Vervisch | ... | unit manager |
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
| Romain Goupil | ... | first assistant director |
| Marilyn Watelet | ... | second assistant director |
Art Department
| Michel Farge | ... | property master |
Sound Department
| Vincent Arnardi | ... | sound mix technician |
| Jacky Dufour | ... | sound effects |
| Jean-Jacques Ferran | ... | boom operator |
| Pierre Louis Lecoeur | ... | sound editor |
| Jean-Paul Loublier | ... | re-recording mixer |
| Henri Morelle | ... | sound |
| Suzanne Sandberg | ... | sound editor |
Camera and Electrical Department
| Rémon Fromont | ... | camera operator |
| Michel Houssiau | ... | assistant camera |
| Louis Parola | ... | gaffer |
| Henri Roesems | ... | key grip |
Production Companies
- Centre du Cinéma et de l'Audiovisuel de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles (support)
- Hélène Films
- Paradise Films
- Unité Trois
- Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF)
Distributors
- Eclipse from the Criterion Collection (2010) (United States) (DVD)
- Gaumont/Columbia TriStar Home Video (2007) (France) (DVD)
- La Sept (1991) (France) (tv)
- Proserpine (1982) (France) (VHS)
- The Criterion Channel (2019) (United States) (tv) (digital)
- World Artists (1988) (United States) (subtitled)
- World Artists Home Video (1993) (United States) (VHS)
- World Artists Home Video (2000) (United States) (DVD)
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Storyline
| Plot Summary |
Anna, a detached and diffident director, arrives in Germany to show her latest film; she checks into a hotel, invites a stranger to her bed, and abruptly tells him to leave. He asks her to a birthday lunch with his mother and daughter; she goes. Afterward, in Cologne, she meets an old friend, a Polish Jew and war refugee. In Brussels, she spends the night at a hotel with her mother, whom she rarely sees. On the train, a stranger tells his story. Last, it's home to Paris, where her lover Daniel picks her up and they go to a hotel. Throughout, people make personal revelations to her, and Anna listens with little affect. Although it was 30 years ago, the war seems ever present.
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Did You Know?
| Trivia | This film is included in the "Chantal Akerman in the Seventies" box-set, which is part of the Criterion Collection, Eclipse series 19. See more » |
| Movie Connections | Featured in Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema (2018). See more » |
| Soundtracks | Les Amants d'un Jour See more » |
| Quotes |
Anna Silver:
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I wash the dishes, Fix coffee with cream, I'm so busy, Have no time to dream. I work all day, In this cheap little place, Flowers on the table, Curtains of lace. Young lovers come here holding hands, Wide-eyed, hopeful, They make no demands. They bring in the sun, My life they enchant, A bed built for two, Is all they want. I can't forget how happy they seem, Joy on their faces, Smiles that beam, When I think of them in that sad little room, It chases away my workaday gloom, Faces that shine, Like rays of the sun, So bright that it hurts, So bright that it hurts... See more » |