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    Anna, Seven Years on the Frontline

    Masha NOVIKOVA 2008 Netherlands Documentary color 78min Russian Digi Beta
    This film is about Anna POLITKOVSKAYA, who had spent seven years on the frontline and put herself in danger so often. We see the same images she saw and meet the same people she met, people who she always thought about. In order to understand Anna’s work and duties, character, fears and feelings of loneliness, we meet three women that stood by her during hard times.
    Galina MUSALIYEVA, a colleague of Anna who had shared a room with her in the editorial office of Novaya Gazeta. She tells us about two other journalists from the same office who were murdered before Anna. Lidia YUSUPOVA, a lawyer from Grozny, has spent many years searching for the lost people in Chechnya. In 2003 she received a Martin Ennals prize in Geneva for her bravery. She used to work with Anna and her own life is at constant risk as well. Svetlana GANNUSHKINA has also worked with Anna. She helps a lot of fugitives and emigrants from the former Soviet Union republics. They are called “blacks” by racists in Russia and the new fascists have threatened Svetlana with death.

    Director

    Masha NOVIKOVA

    Masha NOVIKOVA was born in 1956 in Moscow. She studied Pedagogy at the University of Moscow. Shortly before the fall of the Berlin Wall she came to the Netherlands, since then she has been living and working in Amsterdam. In 2005 she directed her rst lm Fallen Engel. She also worked with Amnesty International on a lm about Lidia YUSUPOVA, which won the Martin ENNALS Award in Geneve in 2003. Then she made Three Comrades in 2006 and in 2007 she directed Between Heaven and Earth with Frank van den HENGEL.

    Masha NOVIKOVA

    2004 Greca Crossed the River 2004 The Road to Kremlin 2005 Fallen Engel
    2006 Three Comrades

    2007 In Memoriam Alexander Litvinenko
    2007     懸空人生 Between Heaven and Earth
    2008 In the Holy Fire of Revolution
    2008     安娜之死 Anna, Seven Years on the Frontline

    Director/Masha NOVIKOVA

    Producer/Sasha OURIKH

    Screenplay/Masha NOVIKOVA

    Cinematographer/Masha NOVIKOVA, Rob BROUWER,

    Lidia YUSUPOVA, Zarema MUKUSHEVA, Igor MINAKOV

    Editor/Lena REM

    Sound/Masha NOVIKOVA, Rob BROUWER, Lidia YUSUPOVA,

    Zarema MUKUSHEVA, Igor MINAKOV Music/John van der VEER

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    安娜之死 / Anna, Seven Years on the Frontline

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