Anna Karenina

Anna, the wife of government minister Alexis Karenin, visits Moscow to help straighten out a family quarrel. There, Count Alexis Vronsky falls in love with her. Television adaptation of a play based on Leo Tolstoy's novel by Marcelle Maurette.

Genre : Drama

Runtime : 105 mins

Release Date : 1961-11-03

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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 motio...

Cast

Claire Bloom

(Anna Karenina)

Sean Connery

(Count Alexis Vronsky)

Albert Lieven

(Alexis Karenin)

Valerie Taylor

(Countess Vronsky)

Jack Watling

(Stiva Prince Oblonsky)

Daphne Anderson

(Dolly)

June Thorburn

(Kitty)

Frank Williams

(Korsunsky)

Alan Tilvern

(Makhotin)

David Lander

(Yashvin)

Robert Percival

(Prince Tverskoy)

Patricia Laffan

(Betsy, Princess Tverskoy)

Campbell Cotts

(The Grand Duke)

Derek Aylward

(General Prince Serpoukhovskoi)

Bobby Bannerman

(Sergei)

John Barrett

(Cord)

Elaine Inescourt

(Countess Lydia)

Alice Esmie-Bell

(Princess Miagki)

Enid Lindsey

(Nana)

Laurie Leigh

(Annushka)

Frances Cohen

(Tania)

Sidney Vivian

(Misha)

Graham Leaman

(Matvey)

Arthur Ridley

(Korney)

Gertan Klauber

(Stationmaster)

Endre Muller

(Priest)

Peter Rutter

(Server)

Elaine Laniado

(First Lady)

Joy Shelton

(Second Lady)

Peter Augustine

(Opera Attendant)