Anna Karenina (1948 film)

Anna Karenina p also known within the UK as Tolstoys Anna Karenina is a 1948 British film based on the 19thcentury novel, Anna Karenina, by the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy.

Anna Karenina Vivien Leigh is married to Alexei Karenin Ralph Richardson, a cold government official in St Petersburg who is apparently more interested in his career than in satisfying the emotional needs of his wife. Called to Moscow by her brother Stepan Oblonsky Hugh Dempster, a reprobate who has been unfaithful to his trusting wife Dolly Mary Kerridge once too often, Anna meets Countess Vronsky Helen Haye on the night train. They discuss their sons, with the Countess showing Anna a picture of her son Count Vronsky Kieron Moore, a cavalry officer.Vronsky shows up at the train to meet his mother, and is instantly infatuated with Anna. He boldly makes his interest known to her, which Anna demurely pushes away but not emphatically so. At a grand ball, Vronsky continues to pursue the married Anna, much to the delight of the gossiping spectators. But poor Kitty Shcherbatsky Sally Ann Howes, Dollys sister who is smitten with Vronsky, is humiliated by his behaviour and leaves the ball much to the distress of Konstantin Levin Niall MacGinnis, a suitor of Kittys who was rejected by her in favour of Vronsky. However, after a change of heart, Kitty marries Levin. ........

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