Director: Helga Landauer

Category: Arts & Culture

Production: Darya Zhuk: Turnstyle TV LLC; Das Films / USA / Russia 2008-2012

Language: Russian, English.

Subtitles: English / Spanish / Russian

Length: 58 / 52 minutes

Anna Akhmatova the most famous Russian poet of her time, a ”femme fatale”. For the Russians, Akhmatova was iconic not just for what she had done, but for the majesty of what she had not been allowed to do. By the time Anna Akhmatova was twenty-five, fate had granted her every conceivable gift: poetic talent, strength of character and beauty. With the commentary of the poet Anatoly Naiman, who knew Akhmatova in her last years.