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Anna Karenina (1935)
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Reviews Counted:7
Fresh:7
Rotten:0
Average Rating:7.4/10
Runtime: 1 hr 36 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: This stunning film adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's classic romantic tragedy stars the incomparable Greta Garbo in the title role. Anna Karenina, a young Russian woman trapped in a loveless marriage,... This stunning film adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's classic romantic tragedy stars the incomparable Greta Garbo in the title role. Anna Karenina, a young Russian woman trapped in a loveless marriage, meets and falls in love with Count Vronsky (Fredric March), a member of the Russian army. Karenin (Basil Rathbone), her husband, refuses to give her a divorce, but, determined to pursue true love, she leaves her marriage and child to follow the soldier to Venice. Desperate to avenge his lost love, Karenin tells their son, Sergei (played by child star Freddie Bartholomew), that his mother has died in a foreboding and tragic twist of fate. However, Anna's romance with Vronsky falters when he deserts her to join the Turkish-Serbian war. In pursuit of their love, Anna follows him to St. Petersburg, but only tragedy awaits. Garbo gives a masterful and remarkable performance as Leo Tolstoy's ill-fated heroine--one of the most remade film stories--set against the sumptuous vision of czarist Russia. [More]
Starring: Greta Garbo, Fredric March, Maureen O'Sullivan, Basil Rathbone
Starring: Greta Garbo, Fredric March, Maureen O'Sullivan, Basil Rathbone, Freddie Bartholomew, May Robson, Reginald Owen, Reginald Denny
Director: Clarence Brown
Director: Clarence Brown
Producer: David O. Selznick
Story: Leo Tolstoy
Composer: Herbert Stothart
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Sep 6, 2005
Reviews for Anna Karenina
Garbo, who also starred in the 1927 silent version of the Tolstoy story, is radiant and vulnerable throughout the film, the centre of the emotional storm that engulfs her.
In her 23rd film, Garbo's luminous performance, as the audlterous protag of Tolstoy's novel, is way above the mediocre level of the narrative and direction; the film is a remake of Love, in which Garbo starred opposite her then lover John Gilbert.
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