Anna Karenina

Anna Karenina

1948 · 139 min · EN · 6.1 (48 votes)
Dir. Julien Duvivier · Starring Vivien Leigh, Ralph Richardson, Kieron Moore, Hugh Dempster, Mary Kerridge, Marie Lohr · Music Constant Lambert

Vivien Leigh in the most magnificent love story ever written!

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Stefan and Dolly Oblonsky have had a spat and Stefan has asked his sister, Anna Karenina, to come down to Moscow to help mend the rift. Anna's companion on the train from St. Petersburg is Countess Vronsky who is met at the Moscow station by her son. Col. Vronsky looks very dashing in his uniform and it's love at first sight when he looks at Anna and their eyes meet.

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A sweeping, opulent tragedy of forbidden passion and societal ruin. It feels like a grand, doomed romance played out against a backdrop of rigid aristocracy, where every stolen glance and desperate embrace leads closer to inevitable heartbreak.

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