Karina, Anna

(Hanna-Karin Bayer / September 22, 1940, Soljberg, Denmark-)

   A teenage model for a fashion magazine, she also ap­peared in commercials. A short in which she played (1959 Pigen og skoene, Ib Schmedes) obtained a prize at the Cannes Film Festival, and she decided to settle in France, where she briefly worked as a mannequin. In 1960, she co-starred in her first French film (Ce Soir ou jamais, Michel Deville) and met Jean-Luc Godard, who hired her for Le Petit Soldat / UK and USA: The Little Soldier. She married her director in 1961 and remained his wife and muse until 1967 (1961 Une Femme est une Femme / La donna è donna / UK and USA: A Woman Is a Woman, France / Italy; 1962 Vivre sa Vie / Vivre sa Vie: Film en Douze Tableaux / UK: It's My Life / USA: My Life to Live; 1964 Bande à Part / UK: The Outsiders / USA: Band of Outsiders; 1965 Alphaville, une étrange Aventure de Lemmy Caution / Agente Lemmy Caution, missione Alphaville / UK: Alphaville, a Strange Adventure of Lemmy Caution / Alphaville, a Strange Case of Lemmy Caution / USA: Dick Tracy on Mars, France / Italy; Pierrot le Fou / Il bandito delle ore undici / Il bandito delle undici / UK: Crazy Pete / Pierrot Goes Wild, France / Italy; 1966 Made in USA; 1967 Le plus vieux Métier du Monde / L'amore attraverso i secoli / Das alteste Gewerbe der Welt / UK: Love Through the Centuries / The Oldest Profession in the World / USA: The Oldest Profession, segment "Anticipation ou L'Amour en l'An 2000", France / Italy / West Germany). Her acting ca­reer was eclectic. She performed Shéhérazade (Pierre Gaspard-Huit, 1963) as well as La Religieuse / Suzanne Simonin, la Religieuse de Diderot (Jacques Rivette, 1967) and co-starred in British and American productions (1968 The Magus, Guy Green, UK; 1969 Before Winter Comes, J. Lee Thompson, UK; Justine, George Cukor, USA). She directed only one film.

 Filmography

1973 ◘ Vivre ensemble (also screenwriter, dialogist)