Anna Karenina
IMDB Rating: 5.90, 1464 votes
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Taglines
- In a world of power and privilege, one woman dared to obey her heart.
Storyline
Anna is a young and elegant wife of Mr. Karenin, who is wealthy and old. She meets the handsome Count Vronsky. Anna and Vronsky fall in love with each other, and he comes to be with her in St. Petersburg. They are very happy together and make a great looking couple, but soon their happiness gets under social pressures. Anna is hopelessly begging Mr. Karenin for a divorce, but he wants to keep the mother of their child. She has another baby born from her lover Vronsky. Conflict between her untamed desires and painful reality causes her a depression...
Actors
| Anna Karenina | Sophie Marceau |
| Vronsky | Sean Bean |
| Levin | Alfred Molina |
| Kitty | Mia Kirshner |
| Karenin | James Fox |
| Lydia | Fiona Shaw |
| Stiva | Danny Huston |
| Vronskaya | Phyllida Law |
| Nikolai | David Schofield |
| Dolly | Saskia Wickham |
| Betsy | Jennifer Hall |
| Princess Schcherbatksy | Anna Calder-Marshall |
| Kapitonich | Petr Shelokhonov |
| Ambassador's Wife | Valerie Braddell |
| Doctor | Niall Buggy |
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Posted in: 1997, Drama, Romance
Tagged: 1880s, 19th century, adultery, aristocrat, atmospheric, based on novel, career, character name in title, classic literature, courtship, death, extramarital affair, Family, human relationship, husband, husband wife relationship, loneliness, love, love triangle, lover, marriage, melodrama, moscow, Music, obsessive love, passion, period piece, rivalry, Romance, royalty, russia, self esteem, sensuality, son, st. petersburg russia, star crossed lovers, suicide, tragedy, tragic love, train, wife