Anne Wiazemsky

Anne Wiazemsky
Anne Wiazemsky in Il seme dell'uomo (1969).
Born	14 May 1947(1947-05-14) Berlin, West Germany
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1966 - 1988

Princess Anne Wiazemsky (born 14 May 1947 in Berlin, West Germany) is a French actress and novelist, of the Russian Rurikid family of Princes Vyazemsky-Counts Levashov. Through her mother, she is the granddaughter of François Mauriac. She appeared in Robert Bresson's Au hasard Balthazar (1966) and in Godard's films La Chinoise (1967) and Week End (1967). She was married to Jean-Luc Godard between 1967 and 1979; they divorced.

Wiazemsky is also an author. She has written several novels: Canines (1993), Une Poignée de Gens, Aux Quatre Coins du Monde and Hymnes à l’Amour (1996). The 2003 film All the Fine Promises, directed by Jean-Paul Civeyrac and starring Valérie Crunchant and Bulle Ogier, is based on Hymnes à l'Amour. Her 2007 novel, Jeune Fille, is based on her experience starring in Au hasard Balthazar at the age of 18.

Filmography

Actress (partial listing)

• 1966: Au hasard Balthazar directed by Robert Bresson
• 1967: La chinoise directed by Jean-Luc Godard
• 1967: Week End directed by Jean-Luc Godard
• 1968: Theorem directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini
• 1968: Les Gauloises bleues directed by Michel Cournot
• 1969: Il seme dell'uomo directed by Marco Ferreri
• 1969: Pigsty directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini
• 1970: Sympathy for the Devil directed by Jean-Luc Godard
• 1970: Le Vent d'est directed by the Dziga Vertov Group
• 1971: Raphael, or The Debauched One directed by Michel Deville
• 1971: Vladimir et Rosa directed by the Dziga Vertov Group
• 1972: Tout va bien directed by Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin
• 1973: The Train directed by Pierre Granier-Deferre
• 1978: Flesh Color directed by Francois Weyergans
• 1984: Rendez-vous directed by André Téchiné

Screenplay

• 1994: U.S. go Home directed by Claire Denis
• 2003: All the fine promises (Prix Jean Vigo), directed by Jean-Paul Civeyrac with Valérie Crunchant and Bulle Ogier

Director

• 2004: Les Anges 1943, histoire d’un film with Jean-Paul Civeyrac

Bibliography

Novels

• 1989 : Mon beau navire
• 1991 : Marimé
• 1993 : Canines
• 1996 : Hymnes à l'amour (1996 Prix Maurice Genevoix)
• 1998 : Une poignée de gens (1998 Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française) ISBN 2070746763
• 2001 : Aux quatre coins du monde
• 2002 : Sept garçons
• 2004 : Je m'appelle Elizabeth
• 2007 : Jeune Fille ISBN 2070774090
• 2009 : Mon Enfant de Berlin
• 2012 : Une Année studieuse

Short stories

• 1988 : Des filles bien élevées

Juvenile

• 2003 : Les Visiteurs du soir (illustrations by Stanislas Bouvier)

Biography

• 1992 : Album de famille
• 2000 : Il était une fois... les cafés (photographies by Roger-Viollet)
• 2000 : Tableaux de chats
• 2001 : Venise (photographies by Jean Noël de Soye)

Preface

• 1994 : En habillant

External links

• Anne Wiazemsky at the Internet Movie Database