Film · 2019

Anna

Name: Anna
Genre: Action, Thriller
Released: 2019-06-21
Duration: 119 min
Rating: 4.8
Cast: Yuriy Zavalnyouk, Sasha Luss, Helen Mirren, Luke Evans, Cillian Murphy

Directed by Luc Besson · starring Yuriy Zavalnyouk, Sasha Luss and Helen Mirren

1 h 59 min
15
Action · Thriller
France USA
Released in the UK 4 July 2019

4.8 AverageMovieNCo
4.8 Users5 votes
4.9 Critics6 reviews

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Synopsis

Anna Poliatova is an incredibly beautiful woman who tries her luck in the fashion world. She goes to different castings and meets other aspirants to be a model with who she talks to. Step by step she becomes a supermodel in Moscow and get her dream: to live like she is in a fairy tale. She is in the same room as the high class of the society.

But Anna is more than a cute face. The main character of this story hides a huge secret: she is a strong and skilled hitman, one of the most feared ones in the world. This will allow her to travel around the world to eliminate the targets that are assigned to her. The missions would be more and more complicated and they will call the attention of the authorities. Nevertheless, this will not be a trouble for Anna, who will the police to fall into her trap.

'Anna' is directed and written by Luc Besson ('Lucy', 'Léon') and starred by Sasha Luss ('Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets'), Helen Mirren ('Winchester', 'Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw'), Luke Evans ('Angel of Mine', 'The Alienist'), Cillian Murphy ('Peaky Blinders', 'The Dark Knight Rises'), Lera Abova and Alexander Petrov ('Belovodye. Tayna zateryannoy strany', 'Politseyskiy s Rublyovki. Novogodniy bespredel'), among others.

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The essentials

Runtime: 119 min1 hour and 59 minutes
Budget: €30.7mEuropa Corp.
Box office: $3.6min US
Rating: 15Suitable only for 15 years and over

How long is Anna?: 1 hour and 59 minutes (119 minutes).
When was Anna released in the UK?: It was released in the UK on 4 July 2019.
Who directed Anna?: Luc Besson.
Who is in Anna?: It stars Yuriy Zavalnyouk, Sasha Luss, Helen Mirren and Luke Evans.
Where can I watch Anna?: In the UK it is available to rent on Apple TV and Prime Video.
How much did Anna make?: It took $3.6 million in US. It cost €30.7 million.

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Cast

Full cast (22)

Director: Luc Besson
Writers: Luc Besson
Producers: Jason Cloth, Luc Besson, Marc Shmuger

Videos and trailers

All 7 videos

'Anna' Trailer with Spanish Subtitles 2:1230 May 2019

Photos and posters

All 45 photos

+37 photosand 23 posters

Reviews

All 6 reviews

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What the critics say average 4.9 from 6 outlets

7.0 Los Angeles TimesNoel Murray As a slick, over-the-top action picture, Anna works splendidly. It features multiple jaw-dropping set-pieces, including a restaurant hit where Anna walks in with an unloaded gun and walks out after… Read
6.0 New York TimesBilge Ebiri Anna isn?t as stylish or gripping as ?Nikita,? but it does have its own demented charm, particularly in how it toys with structure, nesting competing narrative timelines within each other. Read
5.0 IndiewireDavid Ehrlich By the time it?s finally over, the only person more exposed than its star is her director. Read

Box office

Weekend by weekend

Budget €30.7m
US $3.6m
UK £198,391

Soundtrack

All 9 songs

38ème DonneMixed, Jérôme Devoise, at D, E, S Studio Spotify
Pump Up The JamTechnotronic Spotify
La Donna E MobileArranged, Julian Gallant, PRS, David Tobin, PRS Spotify
La Brindisi (La Traviata)Arranged Paul Martin Pritchard Spotify

Trivia

All 10 facts

Besson's model

With '[ANNA]'. Luc Besson continues with his classic strategy of choosing a model to play the role of the protagonist
Fast & Furious

This film is the second reunion of two well-known actors like Helen Mirren and Luke Evans, who had already met previously with the eighth movie of 'Fast and Furious'
An unfortunate cashier

There is chronological failure in the film in which an ATM is involved when they did not arrive in Russia until 1994 (appearing in the film years ago).
Outdated technology

On many occasions, technological devices that existed long before shown in the film are shown
Advanced Czech Republic

Another chronological failure that happens in his argument is that the protagonist is sent to the Czech Republic in 1991. When in fact this country did not really become configured until 1993.