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starring: Vivien Leigh, Ralph Richardson, Kieron Moore, Hugh Dempster, Mary Kerridgedirected by: Julien Duvivier
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786304420812
Format: Color, NTSC
ISBN: 6304420811
Label: Monterey Home Video
Manufacturer: Monterey Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Monterey Home Video
Release Date: April 22, 1997
Running Time: 139 minutes
Sales Rank: 23352
Studio: Monterey Home Video
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Amazon.com:
Vivien Leigh is a 'Scarlett' woman as tragic heroine Anna Karenina, unhappily married to 'colossal bore' Alexei (Ralph Richardson), who neglects her to attend to affairs of state. When Anna meets the dashing Count Vronsky (Kieron Moore), she begins an affair of her own that scandalizes St. Petersburg and leads to her ostracization from high-society circles and, in a heartbreaking scene, her beloved son. Pepe Le Moko director Julien Duvivier's 1948 adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's oft-filmed book has stretches that make the film seem as long and cold as a Russian winter night, but the ravishing Leigh as the doomed Anna keeps the fires burning. The 'thoughtless and selfish' Anna is a distant relation of the willfull Ms. O'Hara from Gone with the Wind, although her ultimate comeuppance leaves no hope for 'another day.' This is a high-minded prestige production (Tolstoy gets his name above the title), but it offers the more simple, old fashioned pleasures of a Hollywood melodrama. --Donald Liebenson
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Not very good
I have never read the book, and all I know of the story is what I saw in this movie. I don't think the story was developed very well. There was little dialogue and little to show that Anna was interested in Vronsky until all of sudden she's crazy about him. It's surprising also when she says his love for her has faded and thinks he is going to marry someone else -- We hadn't really seen anything to lead us to that conclusion. So the end is especially tragic because watching this movie you can't ... Read More
Rating:  - Anna Karenina
Get a box of Kleenex and a cup of Hot Chocolate because this movie requires both. It will break your hreart and it is a love story, so put another log on the fire and get ready for a really wonderful movie.
Rating: - for your reconsideration
it is time to give vivien leigh's anna another chance.
at the time, it could have been easily eclipsed by her health problems and her second husband laurence olivier, who was coming in to his prime as england's foremost actor.
but at the end of the film, leigh is showing where is she is headed as an actress. anna's great risk, her gamble and her loss are touchingly devastating. she would cap on this with her performance as blanche du bois.
ralph richardson and ... Read More
Rating: - a forgotten film masterpiece
so many great artists came together to capture the Tolstoyan tale of woman's victimisation by society and love itself. Leigh's best performance ever alongside Richardson's icy Karenin manage to rise above Kieron Moore's lumpen Vronsky, the film's one flaw. Superb direction by the renowned French master, Duvivier, an intelligent script lifted to genius by the input (uncredited) of playwright Jean Anouilh, and period perfect costumes by Cecil Beaton all back up this triumph of Vivien Leigh.
Rating: - No Train Wreck Here
The Duvivier ANNA KARENINA has always been considered generally inferior to the Garbo MGM version, and for years was only available in substandard video transfers and dim revival prints. Fox's spiffy new DVD is cause for rejoicing from film fans -- there's plenty to enjoy in this movie. (Only the most dogged of completists will complain that the version on display is the American release print, some 12 or so minutes shorter than the British version. Trust me, you won't miss the differences.) The screenplay, ... Read More
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