Anna

Anna: 6–18 (Анна: от 6 до 18, 1993) is Nikita Mikhalkov's documentary, free to watch online on iFILM. The idea is deceptively small: every year from 1980 onward, the director sits his daughter Anna in front of the camera and asks her the same handful of questions — what do you fear most, what do you want, what do you hate, what do you love.

Across twelve years the girl grows from six to eighteen, and her answers shift along with the country around her. A child's voice lets the era seep in: empty shelves, leaders on posters, perestroika, and the slow collapse of a familiar world. What starts as a family home movie quietly turns into the portrait of a vanishing Soviet life.

Mikhalkov weaves the yearly interviews together with archival newsreel into one meditation on growing up and on how history bleeds into the most private corners of a life. Anna herself later admitted the film is hard for her to watch — it cuts too close. It's a rare case of home footage maturing into something genuinely large. Stream Anna: 6–18 (1993) online on iFILM.