Anna Akhmatova (1889-1966) - Muse of Keening

  • November 2011
  • 18mins

  • Documentary
  • Starring

    Pauline Burton,

    A short film by Barry Lowe and Dino Mahoney, starring Pauline Burton as Anna. The film is an introduction to the great Soviet era modernist poet, Anna Akhmatova; shot in winter in Saint Petersburg (Leningrad), it contains rare interviews with people who knew her, academics, and dramatized readings of some of her poems.