Anna Karenina

6.619611h 45mReleased

Drama

TV Movie

Overview

In Imperial Russia, Anna, wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the way, she meets charming cavalry officer Vronsky, to whom she's immediately attracted. But in St. Petersburg’s high society, a relationship like this could destroy a woman’s reputation.

StatusReleased

Release Date1961-11-03

Runtime1h 45m

LanguagesEnglish

CountriesUnited Kingdom

Keywords

based on novel or book

st. petersburg, russia

19th century

Cast & Crew

Claire Bloom

as Anna Karenina

Sean Connery

as Count Alexei Vronsky

Albert Lieven

as Alexei Karenin

Valerie Taylor

as Countess Vronsky

Jack Watling

as Stiva Prince Oblonsky

Daphne Anderson

as Dolly

June Thorburn

as Kitty

Frank Williams

as Korsunsky

Alan Tilvern

as Makhotin

David Lander

as Yashvin

Reviews

CinemaSerf

Jun 13, 2024

7/10

Even at 1¾ hours long, it's still quite tough to enliven the detail from Tolstoy's story into a television drama - and a black and white one, too. This one tries quite hard but falls just a little short on the imagination front. Clare Bloom takes the lead as the lady going through the marital motions with a junior politician then she encounters "Pr…

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