Meetings of Anna (The)
Original Title
Les Rendez-Vous D'anna- Director: Chantal Akerman
- Writer: Chantal Akerman
- Producer: Alain Dahan; Maya Faber-Jansen
CGiii Comment
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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Cast & Characters
Aurore Clement as Anna Silver;
Helmut Griem as Heinrich Schneider;
Magali Noel as Ida;
Hanns Zischler as Hans;
Lea Massari as La mere d'Anna;
Jean-Pierre Cassel as Daniel;
Alain Berenboom;
Francoise Bonnet;
Thaddausz Kahl; Laurent Taffein