Karina, Anna

Karina, Anna

▪ Danish actress
original name  Hanne Karin Blarke Bayer 
born September 22, 1940, Copenhagen, Den.

      Danish beauty prominently featured in French films of the 1960s, notably in those directed by her husband Jean-Luc Godard (Godard, Jean-Luc).

      After finishing high school, Anna Karina studied dance and worked as a model for fashion magazines. She appeared in several industrial and independent films, including the noted short film Pigin og skoene (1959; The Girl and the Shoes), which was presented at the Cannes Film Festival. She moved to Paris that same year, where her meeting with French New Wave director Godard proved fortuitous for both. Although she turned down a role in his masterpiece Breathless (1960), she made Le Petit Soldat (1960, banned until 1963; The Little Soldier) with him shortly thereafter. The two were married in 1961; their six-year marriage was not as successful as their professional union. They produced a total of seven feature films together, including some of the most influential films of the 1960s.

      Karina played a wide range of characters in Godard's films, including a nightclub dancer who desperately wants a baby in Une Femme est une femme (1961; A Woman Is a Woman), a lonely, pathetic prostitute in Vivre sa vie (1962; My Life to Live), and a member of a gang of alienated youths who attempt a robbery in Bande à part (1964; Band of Outsiders). In 1965 she starred in three significant French films of the period: Alphaville and Pierrot le fou (Pierrot Goes Wild) for Godard; and Jacques Rivette's La Religieuse (The Nun).

      Although Karina worked for other important directors in such films as Luchino Visconti (Visconti, Luchino)'s Lo Straniero (1967; The Stranger) and Rainer Werner Fassbinder (Fassbinder, Rainer Werner)'s Chinesisches roulette (1976; Chinese Roulette), it is for her work with Godard that she is most remembered. In 1973 she tried her hand at screenwriting and directing; the result,Vivre ensemble (Living Together), met with limited success. That same year, she appeared in what is regarded as her last important film, director Franco Brusati's Pane e cioccolata (Bread and Chocolate). She married director Daniel Duval in 1978, after which her screen appearances were generally unremarkable.

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