Anna, the smartest of home movies, released in the U.S. in 1996, was created in defiance of Soviet censorship. Each year from 1980 to '92, Nikita Mikhalkov, whose Burnt by the Sun won a 1995 Oscar, filmed his daughter's answers to questions — ''What do you love the most?... What scares you the most?'' — and, by intercutting news footage and propaganda films, captured her sweet flowering and the USSR's decay. A-
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