Anna Karenina
This film is the record of the stage performance in 1953 by the cast of the Moscow Art Theater. Based on the eponymous book by Leo Tolstoy. Anna Arkadievna Karenina is 20 years younger than her tough husband Aleksei Aleksandrovich Karenin. Anna meets the handsome Count Vronsky, and they fall in love with each other, and make a baby. But their happiness is under the pressure from Anna's husband, who is obstructing their divorce. The lovers are trying to escape from the society that is not accepting their love. But Count Vronsky does not want to abandon his social life. Anna becomes traumatized and depressed by the unbearable conflict with reality.
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Screenplay
Cast
Alla Tarasova
Anna Arkadnyevna Karenina
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Nikolai Sosnin
Aleksei Aleksandrovich Karenin
Pavel Massalsky
Count Aleksei Kirillovich Vronsky
Viktor Stanitsyn
Prince Stepan Arkadyevich Oblonsky
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Ye. Aleyeva
Darya Aleksandrovna Oblonskaya (Dolly)
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Aleksei Zakalinsky
Seryozha Karenin
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Angelina Stepanova
Princess Yelizaveta Feodorovna Tverskaya
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Mariya Durasova
Countess Lidiya Ivanovna
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N. Slastenina
Countess Vronskaya
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Grigori Konsky
Count Aleksandr Kirillovich Vronsky
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Semyon Sheynin
Cinematographer
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Nikolay Vlasov
Cinematographer