Anna Karenina [videorecording] / Twentieth Century Fox ; a Alexander Korda's production ; screenplay by Jean Anouilh, Guy Morgan and Julien Duvivier ; directed by Julien Duvivier.
Format:
[videorecording] /
Edition:
CliffsNotes version
Publisher:
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment,
Copyright Date:
2007
Description:
1 videodisc (ca. 112 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in., in case 21 x 14 cm. + 1 CliffsNotes study guide (77 p. ; 21 cm.)
Vivien Leigh, Ralph Richardson, Kieron Moore, Hugh Dempster, Mary Kerridge. Anna Karenina notes / by Marianne Sturman. New York : Wiley Publishing, Inc., c1965. Based on the novel by Leo Tolstoy. Originally produced as motion picture in 1948. Special features: Tolstoy: the man behind Anna featurette; The Tolstoy legacy featurette; film restoration comparison still gallery.
Summary:
Beautiful Anna Karenina is comfortably married to a Russian statesman until she falls in love with a dashing young soldier. When she runs away with the officer, she is ostracized by society, denied a divorce by her husband and forbidden to see her son. The hopelessness of her situation prompts Anna to believe life is no longer worth living.
Series:
Cinema classics collection CliffsNotes ultimate study guide
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