Serge, the shy boss of an advertisement company, by chance photographs a young woman in a train station. He instantly falls in love with her. But the beauty vanishes. With the help of a friend, and requisitioning his whole crew, he'll do everything he can to find her in a wild adventure full of twists and turns...

Where does the famous song "Sous le soleil exactement'' come from ? In Anna, you'll be able to hear it in its original setting. Check out the cast: Anna Karina in the title role, Jean Claude Brialy, Serge Gainsbourg, Marianne Faithfull...

Photography is by Willy Kurant, head cameraman for Agnes Varda and Jean-Luc Godard. Made for TV, this film commissioned by Michel Arnaud for the ORTF, was shot in Paris in 1966, in public, with loudspeakers playing the soundtrack in the streets to the amazement of passers-by. Anna is a sort of ideal musical, sweet, carefree, reeking of freedom, and typical of Serge Gainsbourg's rebellious spirit, also the composer of the musical score : songs in rhymes, with their sharp word games, with arrangements and orchestrations already by Michel Colombier, who in 1967 will collaborate with Pierre Henry on "Messe pour le temps présent", something you can sense when you hear the first measures of "Roller Girl" !  Though the film fits into the period when Demy's cinema explodes (Les Demoiselles de Rochefort will be released a few months after Anna's broadcast), Koralnik is more influenced by English pop music and it's wild outfits, where the present mutates into science fiction. Victor Upshaw's choreographies strongly break away from what was being done in France at the time. It's hard not to be swept away by this communicative and joyous breeze.

Screening in partnership with the INA .