Anna (1970 film)

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Anna is a 1970 Finnish movie co-written by Jörn Donner and Eija-Elina Bergholm,Women Screenwriters: An International Guide, edited by Jill Nelmes and Jule Selbo (2015), s.v. "Bergholm". and directed by Donner, featuring Harriet Andersson, Pertti Melasniemi and Marja Packalén. Filmed in Kustavi and Turku, Finland. There was controversy about the nudity in the film.The Women's Companion to International Film, edited by Annette Kuhn and Susannah Radstone (1994), p. 40. It has been described as "perhaps [Donner's] most thoughtful film",{{Cite web|url=https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/6842-a-half-century-of-friendship-with-finnish-renaissance-man-j-rn-donner |title=A Half-Century of Friendship with Finnish Renaissance Man Jörn Donner |author=Peter Cowie |date= 28 February 2020 |website=criterion.com}} and been listed among "the most important films made in Finland in the 1960s and 1970s".Jim Hillier, Cinema in Finland: An Introduction (British Film Institute, 1975), p. 48.