Anna Karina died

On December 14, actress Anna Karina, a star of the French “New Wave” of the 1960s, died in Paris at the age of 79.

It is reported by Le Monde .

Hannah Karin Black Bayer was born in 1940 in Copenhagen, still a schoolgirl began to sing in a cabaret and perform on the radio, at the age of 14 she starred in a short film, which received the prize of the Cannes festival. In 1958, she moved to Paris, where she became a fashion model and, on the advice, Coco Chanel took the professional pseudonym Anna Karina.

In 1959, her acquaintance with Jean-Luc Godard occurred and a year later Anna Karina starred in him in the film “Little Soldier” ( Le Petit Soldat , was released in 1963). In 1961, the role in his painting “Woman is a woman” ( une femme est une femme ) brought the young center a prize of the Berlin Film Festival. In the same year, Anna Karina and Jean-Luke Hodar became her husband and wife (their marriage lasted until 1967), the actress played in six more films.

Anna Karina also starred in Jacques Rightt, Lukino Visconti, Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Marta Mesarosh. Her musical career also continued-in the late 1960s, the songs of Serge Gensbur “Sous Le Soleil Exactement” and “Roller Girl” in her execution became hits in the late 1960s. Two more Songs of Gensbur were recorded for the film “Live Together” ( Vivre Ensemble ), which Anna Karina set in 1973 as a director.

In addition, Anna Karina played in television films and on the theater stage, published four novels. Her last work in the cinema was the film Victoria Victoria (2008), where she starred in the role of herself.