Anna Karenina (2000– )

Stars:

Helen McCrory, Kevin McKidd, Douglas Henshall

1 win & 3 nominations.

Cast

Credited cast:
Helen McCrory	...	Anna Karenina
Kevin McKidd	...	Count Vronsky
Douglas Henshall	...	Levin
Mark Strong	...	Oblonsky
Amanda Root	...	Dolly
Paul Rhys	...	Nikolai
Paloma Baeza	...	Kitty
Abigail Cruttenden	...	Betsy
Sara Kestelman	...	Countess Vronskaya
Stephen Dillane	...	Karenin
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
David Allister	...	Col. Demin
Tamara Arciuch	...	Princess Sorokina (as Tamara Arciuch-Szyc)
Maddie Armstrong	...	Dolly's Child
Gillian Barge	...	Princess Shcherbatskya
Gennaro Canfora	...	Estate Agent

Storyline

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Plot Keywords:

husband wife relationship | love | minister | army | adultery | 

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Genres:

Drama

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Details

Official Sites:

Channel 4 [uk] PBS [us]

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Release Date:

18 February 2001 (USA)

Also Known As:

Ana Karenjina

Filming Locations:

Suomenlinna, Helsinki, Finland

Company Credits

Production Co:

Company Pictures

Technical Specs

Runtime:

90 min 90 min (4 episodes)

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Trivia

Throughout the movie, any character who wears a wedding band is shown wearing it on their left hand. In the Slavic countries, such as Russia, Ukraine, and Poland, the wedding band is worn on the ring finger of the right hand. Wearing a wedding band on the left hand often indicates that the wearer is widowed.

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Goofs

When Anna takes the carriage she tells the driver to take her to the station. At the time when the action is set (1876) there were several railway stations in Moscow. It would have been necessary to tell the driver to which railway station he should go.

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Connections

Version of Anna Karenina (1911)

User Reviews

A disappointment

Anna Karenina is one of the great novels of the nineteenth century that has inspired a great many adaptations for cinema or television. This most recent TV version (aired now in North America) is one too many. It is appallingly rudderless, maybe because it is increasingly more difficult to see a point in adding to the already high stack of versions. The acting lacks zest for the most part, the length or the treatment of this version does not do justice to the richness of the novel, and the sex scenes are so disingenuously artsy as to be laughable. More critically, the key characters of Anna and Vronsky are played by actors lacking both presence and chemistry. In my opinion, this version fares very poorly compared with the other TV miniseries, that of 1977 starring Nicola Pagett (Anna), Eric Porter (Karenin) and Stuart Wilson (Vronsky).