Anna Karenina (1967 film)

Anna Karenina
USA release DVD cover
Directed by	Aleksandr Zarkhi
Screenplay by	Vasili Katanyan Aleksandr Zarkhi
Based on	Anna Karenina 1878 novel by Leo Tolstoy
Starring	Tatiana Samoilova Nikolai Gritsenko Vasily Lanovoy Yury Yakovlev
Cinematography	Leonid Kalashnikov
Edited by	N. Petrikina
Music by	Rodion Shchedrin
Production company	Mosfilm
Release date	6 November 1967 (1967-11-06)
Running time	145 minutes
Country	Soviet Union
Language	Russian

Anna Karenina (Russian: Анна Каренина) is a 1967 Soviet drama film directed by Aleksandr Zarkhi, based on the 1877 novel of the same name by Leo Tolstoy. It was listed to compete at the 1968 Cannes Film Festival,[1] but the festival was cancelled due to the events of May 1968 in France.

Plot summary

Anna Karenina is younger than her husband. She has an affair with the Count Vronsky but this has negative consequences for her.

Cast

• Tatiana Samoilova as Anna Karenina
• Nikolai Gritsenko as Aleksei Karenin
• Vasily Lanovoy as Aleksei Vronsky
• Yury Yakovlev as Stiva Oblonsky
• Boris Goldayev as Konstantin Lyovin
• Anastasiya Vertinskaya as Kitty Shcherbatskaya
• Iya Savvina as Dolly Oblonskaya
• Maya Plisetskaya as Betsy Tverskaya
• Lidiya Sukharevskaya as Lidiya Ivanovna
• Yelena Tyapkina as Knyagina Myagkaya
• Sofia Pilyavskaya as Grafina Vronskaya
• Andrei Tutyshkin as Lawyer
• Vasili Sakhnovsky as Seryozha (voiced by Klara Rumyanova)
• Anatoly Kubatsky as Camerdiner Matvey
• Yuri Volyntsev as Vronsky's brother-soldier
• Alexander Kaidanovsky as Jules Lando

References

1. "Festival de Cannes: Anna Karenina". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 3 April 2009.

External links

• Anna Karenina at IMDb