Bibliograph

Anna Karenina, screenplay, Allan Cubitt ; producer, Matthew Bird ; director, David Blair ; executive producers, George Faber, Charles Pattinson, Allan Cubbit, Suzan Harrison ; a Company Television production for Channel Four and WGBH/Boston ; senior producer, Steven Ashley ; executive producer, Rebecca Eaton ; WGBH Educational Foundation ; PBS

Type

Label

Anna Karenina, screenplay, Allan Cubitt ; producer, Matthew Bird ; director, David Blair ; executive producers, George Faber, Charles Pattinson, Allan Cubbit, Suzan Harrison ; a Company Television production for Channel Four and WGBH/Boston ; senior producer, Steven Ashley ; executive producer, Rebecca Eaton ; WGBH Educational Foundation ; PBS

Language

eng

Characteristic

videorecording

Intended audience

Rated TV14

Main title

Anna Karenina

Medium

electronic resource

Responsibility statement

screenplay, Allan Cubitt ; producer, Matthew Bird ; director, David Blair ; executive producers, George Faber, Charles Pattinson, Allan Cubbit, Suzan Harrison ; a Company Television production for Channel Four and WGBH/Boston ; senior producer, Steven Ashley ; executive producer, Rebecca Eaton ; WGBH Educational Foundation ; PBS

Runtime

240

Summary

In 1872, Anna Karenina travels by train from St. Petersburg to Moscow to sort out her brother's troubled marriage. While there, a dashing cavalry officer, Vronsky, falls madly in love with her. Anna succumbs and experiences true passion for the first time in her life. Eventually, she becomes pregnant and confronts her husband, Karenin, with her infidelities. He threatens divorce, but they reconcile as she lies near death after delivering Vronsky's child. Desperate for Anna and the child, and humiliated by Karenin's forgiveness, Vronsky shoots himself

Target audience

adult

Technique

live action

Classification