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[[SimilarlyNamedWorks No relation]] to the [[VideoGame/{{Anna}} 2012 horror game]].
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[[SimilarlyNamedWorks No relation]] to the [[VideoGame/{{Anna}} 2012 horror game]]. And not to be confused with ''Film/{{Hanna}}''.
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''Anna'' is a 2019 action spy thriller film directed by Creator/LucBesson.
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''Anna'' is a 2019 action spy thriller film directed directed, written and produced by Creator/LucBesson.
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* YourCheatingHeart: Anna has a relationship with Maude (even if it's just a tool to her), then also gets involved with Alex ''and'' Leonard. When they meet, Leonard acidly asks if she has more lovers to introduce. Anna insists that she loves them both.
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* AmbiguouslyBi: Was Anna ever actually attracted to Maude, or just use her as a tool?
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* AmbiguouslyBi: Was Anna ever actually attracted to Maude, or just use using her as a tool?
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* HoneyTrap: Initially the only use Olga sees for Anna, and although she does come around eventually, Anna really does use her looks frequently to get close to her targets.
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* HoneyTrap: Initially this is the only use Olga sees for Anna, and although she does come around eventually, Anna really does use her looks frequently to get close to her targets.
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* ModestyBedsheet: After they have sex in the hotel, Anna holds up the sheet around her chest while talking with Leonard, then holds it there when getting up.
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* ModestyBedsheet: After they have sex in the hotel, Anna holds up the sheet around her chest while talking with Leonard, then holds keeps it there when getting up.
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* PintSizedPowerhouse: Anna is a slender, petite young woman yet skilled enough at martial arts to kill multiple much larger men in hand-to-hand combat. She's in trouble when they get her pinned against something or under them, but always managed to break free somehow.
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* PintSizedPowerhouse: Anna is a slender, petite young woman yet skilled enough at martial arts to kill multiple much larger men in hand-to-hand combat. She's in trouble when they get her pinned against something or under them, but always managed manages to break free somehow.
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* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Ironically, the much more feminine-looking Anna is the tomboy to Maude's girly girl by virtue of being a highly skilled assassin with little apparent interest in traditionally female fields whereas Maude is clearly into modeling, interior decoration and fancy parties.
* WallBangHer: Alex and Anna have sex in a tight, enclosed space with her stuck against a wall as their reunion.
* WallBangHer: Alex and Anna have sex in a tight, enclosed space with her stuck against a wall as their reunion.
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* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Ironically, the much more feminine-looking Anna is the tomboy to Maude's girly girl by virtue of being a highly skilled assassin with little apparent interest in traditionally female fields whereas Maude is clearly into modeling, interior decoration and fancy parties.
parties. Maude also has the more {{tomboy}}ish look, with her buzz cut.
* WallBangHer: Alex and Anna have sex in a tight, enclosed space with herstuck against propped up on a wall as their reunion.when they reunite.
* WallBangHer: Alex and Anna have sex in a tight, enclosed space with her
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* YourCheatingHeart: Anna has a relationship with Maude (even if it's just a tool to her), then also gets involved with Alex ''and'' Leonard. When they meet, Leonard acidly asks if she has more lovers to introduce.
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* YourCheatingHeart: Anna has a relationship with Maude (even if it's just a tool to her), then also gets involved with Alex ''and'' Leonard. When they meet, Leonard acidly asks if she has more lovers to introduce. Anna insists that she loves them both.
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* ModestyBedsheet: After having sex with him in the hotel, Anna holds up the sheet around her chest while talking with Leonard, then holds it there when getting up.
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* ModestyBedsheet: After having they have sex with him in the hotel, Anna holds up the sheet around her chest while talking with Leonard, then holds it there when getting up.
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* BoyishShortHair: Maude sports a buzz cut, though her looks and interests are otherwise feminine.
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* BoyishShortHair: Maude sports a buzz cut, though her looks and interests are otherwise feminine. However, she is a lesbian.
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* BoyishShortHair: Maude sports a buzz cut, though her looks and interests are otherwise feminine.
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* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: Creator/LukeEvans only barely puts on a Russian accent as KGB officer Alex.
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* ActionGirl: The eponymous character herself.
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* ActionGirl: The eponymous character herself. She's a highly trained assassin for the KGB, and puts down numerous far larger men with just martial arts, never mind guns.
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* AmbiguouslyBi: Was Anna ever actually attracted to Maude, or was their relationship solely to help Anna's work?
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* AmbiguouslyBi: Was Anna ever actually attracted to Maude, or was their relationship solely to help Anna's work? just use her as a tool?
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* AmbiguouslyBi: Was Anna ever actually attracted to Maude, or was their relationship solely to help Anna's work?
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* BettyAndVeronica: Anna has two love interests: Alex of the KGB and Leonard of the CIA.
* BigBad: [[spoiler: Vassiliev.]]
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* BulletproofHumanShield: Anna uses the corpse of a large man she just killed as a human shield while in a gunfight.
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* DepravedBisexual: {{Subverted}}. Anna has a girlfriend and also gets involved with two different men, while also being a brutal KGB assassin. However, she loathes her work and wants to quit, while really being a nice woman at heart.
* FanserviceExtra: As part of her modeling work, a lot of other attractive models are seen with Anna.
* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: Even at close range, the KGB officers can never manage to shoot Anna.
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* LockedOutOfTheLoop: Maud is completely unaware of Anna's secret life as an assassin.
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* LockedOutOfTheLoop: Maud Maude is completely unaware of Anna's secret life as an assassin.
* ModestyBedsheet: After having sex with him in the hotel, Anna holds up the sheet around her chest while talking with Leonard, then holds it there when getting up.
* MsFanservice: Anna is a gorgeous model along with a KGB assassin, and often seen not only modeling but having sex, scantily clad plus topless once briefly.
* MsFanservice: Anna is a gorgeous model along with a KGB assassin, and often seen not only modeling but having sex, scantily clad plus topless once briefly.
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* PlotTwist: Can't be a spy plot without this.
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* PintSizedPowerhouse: Anna is a slender, petite young woman yet skilled enough at martial arts to kill multiple much larger men in hand-to-hand combat. She's in trouble when they get her pinned against something or under them, but always managed to break free somehow.
%%* PlotTwist: Can't be a spy plot without this.
%%* PlotTwist: Can't be a spy plot without this.
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* WallBangHer: Alex and Anna have sex in a tight, enclosed space with her stuck against a wall as their reunion.
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* YourCheatingHeart: Anna has a relationship with Maude (even if it's just a tool to her), then also gets involved with Alex ''and'' Leonard. When they meet, Leonard acidly asks if she has more lovers to introduce.
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* BaldWoman: In the last scene Anna is shown to have shaved her head entirely, using a blonde wig for disguising the fact.
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* UsefulNotes/ColdWar: Provides the setting for this SpyFiction movie.
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* DecapitationStrike: [[spoiler:A rare literal, though inverted example. The film begins with Vassiliev arresting Leonard's entire spy network that was put in place to assassinate him - and then sending their severed heads to Leonard at CIA headquarters, in individual packages.]] It is strongly implied that this specifically is what pisses the CIA off enough to want to kill [[spoiler: Vassiliev specifically]]
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* DecapitationStrike: [[spoiler:A rare literal, though inverted example. The film begins with Vassiliev arresting Leonard's entire spy network that was put in place to assassinate him Moscow - and then sending their severed heads to Leonard at CIA headquarters, in individual packages.]] It is strongly implied that this specifically is what pisses the CIA off enough to want to kill [[spoiler: Vassiliev specifically]]Vassiliev]].
* DepravedBisexual: {{Subverted}}. Anna has a girlfriend and also gets involved with two different men, while also being a brutal KGB assassin. However, she loathes her work and wants to quit, while really being a nice woman at heart.
* DepravedBisexual: {{Subverted}}. Anna has a girlfriend and also gets involved with two different men, while also being a brutal KGB assassin. However, she loathes her work and wants to quit, while really being a nice woman at heart.
* HitmanWithAHeart: Though a highly skilled assassin, Anna hates it and most of the film involves her effort to quit.
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* ResignationsNotAccepted: According to Vassiliv, you're in the KGB for life, no retirement, no resignation.
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* ResignationsNotAccepted: According to Vassiliv, Vassiliev, you're in the KGB for life, no retirement, no resignation.
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** While laptops did exist then, Vassiliev's is far too modern looking.
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* NonActionBigBad: Although [[spoiler: Vassiliv]] does threaten Anna with a gun at one point, he's not a skilled fighter and [[spoiler: Anna takes him down with a [[BoomHeadshot shot to the head]] while playing chess with him in the climax.]]
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* NonActionBigBad: Although [[spoiler: Vassiliv]] Vassiliev]] does threaten Anna with a gun at one point, he's not a skilled fighter and [[spoiler: Anna takes him down with a [[BoomHeadshot shot to the head]] while playing chess with him in the climax.]]
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Anna, a young Russian beauty who has been the victim of domestic abuse, will do anything to escape the life she is trapped in. In a twist of fate, she reluctantly accepts an offer by KGB officer Alex. After a year of training, she is to work as a KGB assassin for five years under a handler named Olga, after which she will be free to continue her life as she pleases. KGB head Vassiliev is not willing to honor this agreement, implying that the only way out of the KGB is death.
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Dewicking per TRS decision.
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* BiTheWay: Anna's primary love interests are men, but she also has a girlfriend and says the sex is great. She doesn't show any indication of actually caring about Maud, though.
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* WomanInWhite: Used repeatedly by Anna, especially in the restaurant fight where he ends up covered in blood.
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* OneWomanArmy: Over the course of her missions Anna regularly slaughters ''dozens'' of mooks singlehandedly. Special mention goes to the restaurant hit, where she kills at least two dozen men.
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* ItWorksBetterWithBullets: [[spoiler:In a shockingly stupid lapse of judgement for a trained assassin, Anna fails to notice that the gun Olga gave her for her very first mission isn't actually loaded.]] Cue six minutes of brutal CQC against a couple dozen mooks in a fancy restaurant.
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[[SimilarlyNamedWorks No relation]] to the [[VideoGame/{{Anna}} 2012 horror game]].
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* ExploitationFilm: The movie is a bit too mainstream to be in this genre, but definitely comes close at times. Anna's restaurant fight where she ends up [[CoveredInGrunge covered in blood]] comes to mind.
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* ExploitationFilm: The movie is a bit too mainstream to be in this genre, but definitely comes close at times. Anna's restaurant fight where she ends up [[CoveredInGrunge [[CoveredInGunge covered in blood]] comes to mind.
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* AnachronicOrder: The main plot is generally linear, but the narrative repeatedly makes 5-10 minute detours to further explain the backstory or [[OnceMoreWithClarity clarify what actually happened]].
* AnachronismStew: The film is set in the early 90's but the technology depicted seems to skew more towards the late 90's or above.
* AnachronismStew: The film is set in the early 90's but the technology depicted seems to skew more towards the late 90's or above.
** Anna is sent in to assassinate a target and retrieve his phone. Such a trope would not really be necessary in a time when all phones did was make phone calls, as call logs by themselves are easy to retrieve.
* BlackComedy: The movie skews in this direction, especially when reflecting it's exploitation roots. One particular moment has [[spoiler: Anna being captured and turned into a double agent for the CIA by Leonard, who are protecting her original target. Unfortunately, she was supposed to get a finger from the target as proof of death. When she returns to the room saying she has to maintain her cover by getting the finger, the other officers in the room force the target down while [[{{Fingore}} she removes a finger]]]]. Dark, but hilarious at the same time.
* ExploitationFilm: The movie is a bit too mainstream to be in this genre, but definitely comes close at times. Anna's restaurant fight where she ends up [[CoveredInGrunge covered in blood]] comes to mind.
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* MexicanStandoff: Between the [=CIA=] and [=KGB=] after [[spoiler: Anna fakes her death]]. A BlastOut is averted however, and both sides walk away without violence.
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* MexicanStandoff: Between A rather hilarious version involving 30 people between the [=CIA=] and [=KGB=] after [[spoiler: Anna fakes her death]]. A BlastOut is averted however, and both sides walk away without violence.violence as they just wanted to extract their agent.
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* WomanInWhite: Used repeatedly by Anna, especially in the restaurant fight where he ends up covered in blood.
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* WeaponOfChoice: Anna seems to have a thing for the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beretta_92 Beretta 92]] fitted with a suppressor, provided she can choose her equipment herself. [[CombatPragmatist Otherwise she makes do with what's at hand]].
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* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Ironically, the much more feminine-looking Anna is the tomboy to Maude's girly girl by virtue of being a highly skilled assassin with little apparent interest in traditionally female fields.
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* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Played with. Anna ends up bruised, cut, shot and generally battered quite often, but her injuries rarely persist into the next scene. Most of the time she looks flawless regardless of what she just went through a bit earlier.
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* InstantDeathBullet: Anna rarely shoots someone more than once before they drop dead. She's also never seen making sure that her target is actually dead, so she seems to treat this trope as a given InUniverse.
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* PrettyLittleHeadshots: Although there is a spray of blood every time Anna headshots someone, the corpses never show any of the gruesome wounds they should have after this treatment. [[spoiler:Vassiliev]] only has a neat round spot on his forehead, with a tiny trickle of blood oozing out.
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* SteelEardrums: During her first mission, Anna fires a handgun barely an inch from her ear to get rid of a guy who grabbed her from behind. In RealLife this would've deafened her at least on this ear, but it doesn't seem to faze her at all.
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* SmartPeoplePlayChess: Mocked when Olga notes that Anna's talent for chess is meaningless in the espionage business
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* SmartPeoplePlayChess: Mocked when Olga notes that Anna's talent for chess is meaningless in the espionage businessbusiness.
* TheStarscream: [[spoiler:Olga handily exploits the ongoing GambitPileup to have Anna eliminate Vassiliev and take over as director of the KGB.]]
* TheStarscream: [[spoiler:Olga handily exploits the ongoing GambitPileup to have Anna eliminate Vassiliev and take over as director of the KGB.]]
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Poor Maude simply disappears from the story after the CIA's home invasion leaves her a nervous wreck.
