Anna Karenina
Anna Karenina is a 1935 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film adaptation of the 1877 novel Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy and directed by Clarence Brown. The film stars Greta Garbo, Fredric March, Basil Rathbone, and Maureen O'Sullivan. There are several other film adaptations of the novel.
Plot
Anna Karenina is the wife of the much older Czarist official Karenin. While in Moscow she tries to persuade her brother Stiva from a life of debauchery and adultery. She also meets military officer Count Vronsky. Back home in St Petersburg she begins an affair with him, a liaison which destroys her marriage; she is prohibited from seeing her son Sergei. As she becomes shunned by society her relationship with Vronsky also suffers, with eventual dire results.
Awards
Cast
- André Cheron
- Barry Norton
- Basil Rathbone
- Carrie Daumery
- Constance Collier
- Freddie Bartholomew
- Fredric March
- Georges Renavent
- Gino Corrado
- Greta Garbo
- Harry Beresford
- Helen Freeman
- Joan Marsh
- Mahlon Hamilton
- Mary Forbes
- Maureen O'Sullivan
- May Robson
- Phoebe Foster
- Reginald Denny
- Reginald Owen
- Robert Warwick
- Sarah Padden
- William Worthington
More details
| author | Clemence Dane S. N. Behrman Salka Viertel |
|---|---|
| award | National Board of Review: Top Ten Films |
| contentLocation | Russian Empire |
| director | Clarence Brown |
| editor | Robert J. Kern |
| genre | drama historical romance |
| keywords | military officer |
| musicBy | Herbert Stothart |
| producer | David O. Selznick |
| publisher | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| theme | romantic drama silent |