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Anna Karenina is a four-part British television adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's 1877 novel of the same name.

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Anna Karenina is a four-part British television adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's 1877 novel of the same name.

It was directed by David Blair and aired in the United Kingdom on Channel 4 from 9 to 30 May 2000 and in America on PBS Masterpiece Theatre in 2001.

Contents

Plot

Anna is travelling by train from St. Petersburg to Moscow to visit her brother, Stiva. Stiva is married to Dolly; however, he has been having an affair with the governess of his children and needs Anna's help to repair his marriage.

Anna too is married, to Karenin, an important official, with an 8-year-old son. At the end of the journey she meets Count Vronsky, the son of her travelling companion on the train, and in due course she and Vronsky begin an affair.

In the meantime, Stiva's friend Constantine Levin courts Dolly's younger sister Kitty. Levin and Kitty are both unmarried. But Kitty is initially attracted to Vronsky and rejects Levin's first proposal; he leaves Moscow and returns to his farm in the countryside.

Nikolai, Constantine Levin's brother, cohabits with a former prostitute named Masha and is constantly in debt.

Cast

Helen McCrory as Anna

Kevin McKidd as Vronsky

Stephen Dillane as Karenin

Mark Strong as Stiva

Amanda Root as Dolly

Douglas Henshall as Levin (Constantine "Kostya")

Paloma Baeza as Kitty

Abigail Cruttenden as Betsy

Paul Rhys as Nikolai

Gillian Barge as Princess Shcherbatskaya

Malcolm Sinclair as Prince Shcherbatsky

Victoria Carling as Annushka

Tom Ward as Yashvin

Reception

It received a positive review from Mark Lawson in The Guardian.

Article from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), where it is maintained by volunteer editors.

Notable quotes

“Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
— Part 1, Chapter 1, p. 5 (opening sentence)
““You set off with the mother and you return with the son,” he said, articulating each syllable, as though each were a separate favor he was bestowing.”
— Part 1, Chapter 31, p. 99
“I can't stay very long with you. I'm forced to go on to old Madame Vrede. I've been promising to go for a century,” said Anna, to whom lying, alien as it was to her nature, had become not merely simple and natural in society, but a positive source of satisfaction.”
— Part 3, Chapter 17, p. 276
“There had come back into his face the stern, reproachful expression of the dying man's envy of the living.”
— Part 5, Chapter 17, p. 456
“It was positively disagreeable to her to think that Anna was coming to see her immediately. She longed to be alone with her own thoughts.”
— Part 6, Chapter 22, p. 586
“All the theories of the significance of the Slav element in the history of the world seemed to him so trivial compared with what was passing in his own soul, that he instantly forgot it all and dropped back into the same frame of mind that he had been in that morning.”
— Part 8, Chapter 18

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.

Article

Anna Karenina is a four-part British television adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's 1877 novel of the same name.

It was directed by David Blair and aired in the United Kingdom on Channel 4 from 9 to 30 May 2000 and in America on PBS Masterpiece Theatre in 2001.

Contents

Plot

Anna is travelling by train from St. Petersburg to Moscow to visit her brother, Stiva. Stiva is married to Dolly; however, he has been having an affair with the governess of his children and needs Anna's help to repair his marriage.

Anna too is married, to Karenin, an important official, with an 8-year-old son. At the end of the journey she meets Count Vronsky, the son of her travelling companion on the train, and in due course she and Vronsky begin an affair.

In the meantime, Stiva's friend Constantine Levin courts Dolly's younger sister Kitty. Levin and Kitty are both unmarried. But Kitty is initially attracted to Vronsky and rejects Levin's first proposal; he leaves Moscow and returns to his farm in the countryside.

Nikolai, Constantine Levin's brother, cohabits with a former prostitute named Masha and is constantly in debt.

Cast

Helen McCrory as Anna

Kevin McKidd as Vronsky

Stephen Dillane as Karenin

Mark Strong as Stiva

Amanda Root as Dolly

Douglas Henshall as Levin (Constantine "Kostya")

Paloma Baeza as Kitty

Abigail Cruttenden as Betsy

Paul Rhys as Nikolai

Gillian Barge as Princess Shcherbatskaya

Malcolm Sinclair as Prince Shcherbatsky

Victoria Carling as Annushka

Tom Ward as Yashvin

Reception

It received a positive review from Mark Lawson in The Guardian.

Article from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), where it is maintained by volunteer editors.

Anna Karenina is a four-part British television adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's 1877 novel of the same name.

Not who you're looking for? Others named Anna Karenina: 1877 novel by Leo Tolstoy · 2012 film by Joe Wright · 1915 film by J. Gordon Edwards · 1935 film by Clarence Brown

Notable quotes

“Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
— Part 1, Chapter 1, p. 5 (opening sentence)
““You set off with the mother and you return with the son,” he said, articulating each syllable, as though each were a separate favor he was bestowing.”
— Part 1, Chapter 31, p. 99
“I can't stay very long with you. I'm forced to go on to old Madame Vrede. I've been promising to go for a century,” said Anna, to whom lying, alien as it was to her nature, had become not merely simple and natural in society, but a positive source of satisfaction.”
— Part 3, Chapter 17, p. 276
“There had come back into his face the stern, reproachful expression of the dying man's envy of the living.”
— Part 5, Chapter 17, p. 456
“It was positively disagreeable to her to think that Anna was coming to see her immediately. She longed to be alone with her own thoughts.”
— Part 6, Chapter 22, p. 586
“All the theories of the significance of the Slav element in the history of the world seemed to him so trivial compared with what was passing in his own soul, that he instantly forgot it all and dropped back into the same frame of mind that he had been in that morning.”
— Part 8, Chapter 18

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.