Director
HELGA LANDAUER

Original Literary Synopsis,
Interviews
ANATOLY NAIMAN

Executive Producers
ALEKSANDER ZHUKOV
EVGUENIA JOUKOVA

Producer
DARYA ZHUK

Director of Photography
YULIY OSHVANG

Editor
ADELAIDE PAPAZOGLOU

Production Manager
ANNA GOLIKOVA

Camera
SERGEI MALTSEV

Additional Photography
ALEKSEI GRITSENKO

Production Sound Mixer
ALEKSANDER KOLOSOV

Light Technicians
VLADIMIR BRAGIN
MIKHAIL GRIDIN

Color Correction
BLERTI MURATAJ

Online Editing
Edit4 Inc.
New York

Additional Editing
DMITRIY ROZIN

Archival Research
ALEKSANDRA KONASHENKOVA

Supervising Sound Editor
DAVID NELSON

Sound Re-recording Mixer
DAVID NELSON

Sound Design
DAVID NELSON
MIIK DINKO

Additional Sound Design
ADELAIDE PAPAZOGLOU

Dialog Editors
MIIK DINKO
JIM LIVELY

Post-production
Audio Coordinator
TRAVIS AMES

Mixed at Outpost Studios,
San Francisco

Acoustic Canvas™
by Structured Silence™

Crane Operators
CONSTANTIN IVANOV
ALEKSEY TETEREV

Consultant and Translator
MARGO SHOHL ROSEN

Drivers
NIKOLAI KOROBOV
RAHMATILLO SHUHNAZAROV
ANDREI DEMIDOV

Technical Consultant
DMITRIY ROZIN

Legal
“Kilishin i K”
LEONID DUTOV
Loeb & Loeb LLP

Materials used in this film include:

archival materials from
Russian State Archive of Cinema
and Photographic Documents

drawings, paintings by
NATAN ALTMAN
YURI ANNENKOV
ALEKSANDER ANICHKOV
LEON BAKST
DMITRY BUSHEN
ELIZAVETA KRUGLIKOVA
AMEDEO MODIGLIANI
ALEKSANDER OSMERKIN
KUZMA PETROV-VODKIN
ZINAIDA SEREBRIAKOVA
SERGEI SUDEIKIN
NIKOLAI TYRSA
ALEKSANDER TYSHLER

photographs by
JOSEPH BRODSKY
NIKA GLEN
LEV GORNUNG
PAVEL LUKNITSKY
MOISEI NAPPELBAUM
LEV POLIAKOV
NIKOLAI PUNIN
BORIS SHVARTSMAN
VLADIMIR VINOGRADOV
SERGEI SHERVINSKY

and unknown photographers from
the archive of The ANNA AKHMATOVA Museum in St. Petersburg,
also from the private collections of
A.NAIMAN
A.KAMINSKAYA
B.STAVROVSKI

translations of ANNA AKHMATOVA’s
poetry by Margo Shohl Rosen

recordings of ANNA AKHMATOVA’S
voice provided by
PAVEL KRUCHKOV

sound collection provided by
IRINA TSATUROVA

fragments from the
opera “Dido and Aeneas”
by HENRY PURCELL
performed by
LORRAINE HUNT LIEBERSON
LISA SAFFER
PAUL ELLIOTT
MICHAEL DEAN
with Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra
and conductor NICHOLAS MCGEGAN,
recorded by Harmonia Mundi

Special thanks to BORIS and
OLGA STAVROVSKI
for providing unique archival materials

the director of The ANNA AKHMATOVA
museum in Gradnitsy village

Production support
“HOROVOD”

©DAS films 2008