Alla Tarasova
Anna Arkadyevna Karenina
This film is the record of the stage performance in 1953 by the cast of the Moscow Art Theater. Based on the eponymous book by Leo Tolstoy. Anna Arkadievna Karenina is 20 years younger than her tough husband Aleksei Aleksandrovich Karenin. Anna meets the handsome Count Vronsky, and they fall in love with each other, and make a baby. But their happiness is under the pressure from Anna's husband, who is obstructing their divorce. The lovers are trying to escape from the society that is not accepting their love. But Count Vronsky does not want to abandon his social life. Anna becomes traumatized and depressed by the unbearable conflict with reality.
Anna Arkadyevna Karenina
Aleksei Aleksandrovich Karenin
Count Aleksei Kirillovich Vronsky
Prince Stepan Arkadyevich Oblonsky
Darya Aleksandrovna Oblonskaya
Seryozha Karenin
Princess Yelizaveta Feodorovna Tverskaya
Countess Lidiya Ivanovna
Countess Vronskaya
Count Aleksandr Kirillovich Vronsky
Varya Vronskaya
attorney
Princess Myagkaya
Ambassador's wife
Anna's friend
diplomat
Tushkevich
englishman
person of the royal family
Karmasov
Director
