A married woman's affair with a dashing young officer has tragic results.A married woman's affair with a dashing young officer has tragic results.A married woman's affair with a dashing young officer has tragic results.
Niall MacGinnis
- Levin
- (as Niall Macginnis)
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- TriviaVivien Leigh's costumes were made in Paris by Barbara Karinska to Cecil Beaton's designs. She was in such pain wearing them that she even went to her doctor fearing she had broken her ribs. It was subsequently discovered that the dresser had been putting the corsets on upside down.
- Quotes
Anna Karenina: My dear Korsunsky, you know very well I never dance unless I can help it.
- Crazy creditsClosing credits: "And the light by which she had been reading the book of life, blazed up suddenly, illuminating those pages that had been dark, then flickered, grew dim, and went out forever".
- Alternate versionsU.S. release version runs approximately 112 minutes. This is the version issued by Fox DVD in 2007.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Vivien Leigh: Scarlett and Beyond (1990)
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Viven Leigh shines
Rumor had it that Vivien Leigh was not anxious to take on the remake of "Anna Karenina" partly because she had just recovered from tuberculosis, and maybe also because the ghost of Greta Garbo was too real. But she had one film left to do for Alexander Korda, and this was it. "Anna Karenina" released in 1948, stars Leigh as the tragic Anna. The story is based on Tolstoy's novel. Anna meets a handsome colonel, Count Vronsky (Kieron Moore) and falls in love with him. The trouble is, she is married to a high-level Russian bureaucrat (Ralph Richardson) and has a son. Anna's husband is a self-absorbed politician type, somewhat cold and aloof, consumed with his image in Russian politics. He sees marriage as a "duty" something he says a few times. Anna runs away with Vronksy, a horrendous scandal at the time and probably still would be today. It all ends tragically. Comparisons between this film and the 1935 one are inevitable. While both films are respectable, I prefer Viven Leigh's performance of Anna. Perhaps it was because Leigh had her own personal demons that she made this part so amazingly real, as she would in "A Streetcar named Desire" three years later. While I admire Garbo, I did not think of her as a great actress. Too aloof in some ways to believe she would fall head over heels for Vronsky. Ralph Richardson plays his part with consummate discipline; he can only see Anna's betrayal in terms of how it effects him. Kieron Moore is harder to judge. In the first part of the movie, he isn't given much to do except show off his good looks. He does, however, get a few good scenes as the movie progresses, and plays Vronksy as a decent man but also a flawed one. If you only know the 1935 version of this film, at least be open-minded enough to give this remake a chance. For me, Viven Leigh was reason enough for me to see it.
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- Oct 8, 2010
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- Alexander Korda's Production of Tolstoy's Anna Karenina
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- Monterey, California, USA(racetrack and steeplechase scenes)
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- $2,000,000 (estimated)
- Runtime2 hours 19 minutes
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- 1.37 : 1
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