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Anna Karenina
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.
2012 · Directed by Joe Wright · 129 min · Drama · Romance · History · Screenplay in the scene database · 19 frames
Tagline
An epic story of love.
Plot
In the Russian Empire in 1874, Princess Darya, nicknamed "Dolly", banishes her unfaithful husband, Prince Stephan "Stiva" Oblonsky. Stiva's sister, Anna Karenina, a socialite living in Saint Petersburg with her older husband Count Alexei Karenin and son Seryozha, travels to Moscow to persuade Dolly to forgive her brother.
Stiva meets old friend Konstantin "Kostya" Levin, a landowning aristocrat despised by Moscow's elite for preferring the countryside to city life. Levin says he loves Stiva's sister-in-law, Princess Kitty, and Stiva encourages him to propose. Kitty declines as she hopes to marry Count Alexei Vronsky, a wealthy officer. Levin meets his older brother Nikolai, who has renounced his inheritance and lives as man and wife with Masha, a prostitute. Nikolai suggests that Levin should marry a peasant. On the train, Anna meets Vronsky's mother, Countess Vronskaya, isolated by her own infidelities. Anna meets Vronsky and they are instantly attracted to each other. Anna eventually convinces Dolly to take Stiva back. At a ball, Kitty dances once with Vronsky, but throughout the evening he prefers Anna, upsetting Kitty. Vronsky tells Anna he must be wherever she goes.
Back in Saint Petersburg, Vronsky and Anna soon begin to stir gossip. Even though he has a promotion awaiting him in Tashkent, he refuses it and Anna agrees that she does not want him to leave. They later meet and make love.
Plot summary from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
Crew
- Screenplay: Tom Stoppard
- Cinematography: Seamus McGarvey
- Edited by: Melanie Oliver
- Music: Dario Marianelli
- Production design: Sarah Greenwood
- Produced by: Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Paul Webster
Cast
- Keira Knightley as Anna Karenina
- Jude Law as Karenin
- Aaron Taylor-Johnson as Vronsky
- Matthew Macfadyen as Oblonsky
- Eric MacLennan as Matvey
- Kelly Macdonald as Dolly
- Alicia Vikander as Kitty
- Domhnall Gleeson as Levin
- Olivia Williams as Countess Vronsky
- Ruth Wilson as Princess Betsy Tverskoy
Production
- Country: United Kingdom, United States of America
- Language: English, French, Russian
- Studios: Working Title, Focus Features
- Budget: $40,600,000
- Box office: $68,929,150
- Themes: adultery, based on novel or book, horse race, st. petersburg, russia, death, high society, imperial russia, 19th century
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