Anna Karenina (Russian: Анна Каренина) is a 1967 Soviet drama film directed by Aleksandr Zarkhi, based on the 1877 novel of the same name by Leo Tolstoy. It was listed to compete at the 1968 Cannes Film Festival,[1] but the festival was cancelled due to the events of May 1968 in France.
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| Directed by | Aleksandr Zarkhi |
| Screenplay by | Vasili Katanyan Aleksandr Zarkhi |
| Based on | Anna Karenina 1878 novel by Leo Tolstoy |
| Starring | Tatiana Samoilova Nikolai Gritsenko Vasily Lanovoy Yury Yakovlev |
| Cinematography | Leonid Kalashnikov |
| Edited by | N. Petrikina |
| Music by | Rodion Shchedrin |
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Running time | 145 minutes |
| Country | Soviet Union |
| Language | Russian |
Plot summary
editAnna Karenina is younger than her husband. She has an affair with the Count Vronsky but this has negative consequences for her.
Cast
edit- Tatiana Samoilova as Anna Karenina
- Nikolai Gritsenko as Aleksei Karenin
- Vasily Lanovoy as Aleksei Vronsky
- Yury Yakovlev as Stiva Oblonsky
- Boris Goldayev as Konstantin Lyovin
- Anastasiya Vertinskaya as Kitty Shcherbatskaya
- Iya Savvina as Dolly Oblonskaya
- Maya Plisetskaya as Betsy Tverskaya
- Lidiya Sukharevskaya as Lidiya Ivanovna
- Yelena Tyapkina as Knyagina Myagkaya
- Sofia Pilyavskaya as Grafina Vronskaya
- Andrei Tutyshkin as Lawyer
- Vasili Sakhnovsky as Seryozha (voiced by Klara Rumyanova)
- Anatoly Kubatsky as Camerdiner Matvey
- Yuri Volyntsev as Vronsky's brother-soldier
- Alexander Kaidanovsky as Jules Lando
References
edit- ^ "Festival de Cannes: Anna Karenina". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 3 April 2009.
External links
edit- Anna Karenina at IMDb
- ‹The template AllMovie title is being considered for deletion.› Anna Karenina at AllMovie
