Anna Karenina DVD 1997 / Directed by Bernard Rose / Starring: Sophie Marceau, Sean Bean / Lev Tolstoy's classic novel film adaptation

UPC 5999553601640 / 5999016350214 / IPH 7159 / 5998282100257

REGION 2 PAL DVD

MADE IN EU

AUDIO: Hungarian 5.1, English 2.0

SUBTITLES: Hungarian

Total Runtime: 104 minutes

English Summary:

Anna Karenina is a 1997 American period drama film written and directed by Bernard Rose and starring Sophie Marceau, Sean Bean, Alfred Molina, Mia Kirshner and James Fox. Based on the 1877 homonymous novel by Leo Tolstoy, the film is about a young and beautiful married woman who meets a handsome count, with whom she falls in love. Eventually, the conflict between her passionate desires and painful social realities leads to depression and despair.

Anna Karenina is a young and elegant wife of Alexei Karenin, a wealthy nobleman twenty years her senior. She is unhappy and lives only for their son, Seriozha. During a ball in Moscow, she encounters the handsome Count Alexei Vronsky. Vronsky is instantly smitten and follows her to St. Petersburg, pursuing her shamelessly. Eventually, Anna surrenders to her feelings for him and becomes his mistress. Though they are happy together, their relationship soon crumbles after she miscarries his child. Karenin is deeply touched by her pain and agrees to forgive her. However, Anna remains unhappy and, to the scandal of respectable society, she openly leaves her husband for Vronsky.

Using her brother as an intermediary, Anna hopelessly begs her husband for a divorce. Karenin, under the poisonous influence of her friend the Countess Lydia Ivanovna, indignantly refuses to divorce and denies Anna any access to Seriozha. Distraught by the loss of her son, Anna grows severely depressed and self-medicates with laudanum. Before long, she is hopelessly addicted. With Vronsky she has another child, but he is also torn between his love to Anna and the temptation of a respectable marriage in the eyes of society. Anna becomes certain that Vronsky is about to leave her and marry a younger woman. She travels to the railway station and commits suicide by jumping in front of a train.

Hungarian Summary:

A bájos és szellemes fiatal nő, Anna, aki a moszkvai szalonok szokásai szerint idősebb férfi feleségeként él, egy nap szenvedélyes szerelemre gyúl egy lovas- sági tiszt iránt. Hatalmas botrányt kavar az eset a meglehetősen belterjes társadalmi osztályban, ami tragédiába taszítja Anna életét.

Cast / Szereplők:

• Sophie Marceau as Anna Arkadievna Karenina
• Sean Bean as Count Aleksei Kirillovich Vronskiy
• Alfred Molina as Konstantin Dmitrievich Levin
• Mia Kirshner as Princess Ekaterina Alexandrovna Shcherbatskaia, "Kitty"
• James Fox as Aleksei Aleksandrovitch Karenin
• Fiona Shaw as Countess Lidia Ivanovna
• Danny Huston as Prince Stepan Arkadievich Oblonsky, "Stiva"
• Saskia Wickham as Princess Darya Aleksandrovna Oblonskaya, "Dolly"
• Phyllida Law as Countess Vronskaya
• David Schofield as Nikolai Dmitrievich Levin
• Jennifer Caron Hall as Princess Elizaveta, "Betsy"
• Anna Calder-Marshall as Princess Schcherbatskaia
• Petr Shelokhonov as Kapitonich, Karenin's butler
• Vernon Dobcheff as Pestov
• Larisa Kuznetsova as Agatha
• Jeremy Sheffield as Boris
• Justine Waddell as Countess Nordston
• Valerie Braddell as Embassadour's wife