Anna Karenina

Anna Karenina

1948 · 139 min · EN · 6.0 (63 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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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.

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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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