Anna Karenina

Abridged version of the 1940 feature Film about the ill-fated love affair between Anna and the dashing military officer, Vronsky. Based on the story by Leo Tolstoy. With Greta Garbo, Frederick March, Freddie Bartholomew. A David O. Selznick production. Clarence Brown, Director.

In 1874 Russian Empire, Prince Stephan "Stiva" Oblonsky's wife, Princess Darya "Dolly," banishes her husband from their home due to his infidelity. Stiva's sister, Anna Karenina, a well-off and liked socialite living in St. Petersburg with her older husband, Count Alexei Karenin, and their son, Sergei "Seryozha" Alexeyich Karenin. Anna meets Vronsky himself and they have immediate mutual attraction. Anna betrays her feelings to Karenin when his horse falls and breaks into her desk to get a divorce. Anna

Credits

Directed by
Joe Wright
Written by
Tom Stoppard
Cast
Keira Knightley, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Susanne Lothar, Kelly Macdonald, Jude Law, Olivia Williams, Emily Watson, Shirley Henderson, Ruth Wilson, Michelle Dockery, Bill Skarsgård, Vicky McClure, Alicia Vikander, Holliday Grainger, Aubert Vanderlinden, Kyle Soller, Alexandra Roach, Pip Torrens …
Produced by
Paul Webster, Eric Fellner, Tim Bevan, Liza Chasin
Cinematography
Seamus McGarvey
Music
Dario Marianelli
Edited by
Melanie Oliver
Complete catalog record
, An abridged version of the film from the Tolstoy novel, showing a Czarist Russian society of the late nineteenth century. Describes the ill-fated romance of Anna Karenina with Count Vronsky and the inevitable tragedy resulting from their defiance of convention., NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.

Sources

  1. 16mm Filmography (legacy record) — title, year, creator, length, format, color, sound, country, genre, description, credits, catalog record
  2. Wikidata · Q80204 ↗