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 (1967)

User Reviews

Made me actually read the whole novel

For years I put off ploughing through AK - for the same reason I have always avoided so many Russian novels. You know the syndrome; you get so far and then all the 'ovsky's begin to blur, you lose track of which character is which and you give up by Chapter Two or Three at best in defeat at keeping up with all the names. Or, like the Woody Allen joke, you speed read it. "War and Peace? It's about Russia"

Well, inspired by the performances by so many cracking actors I plunged into the full novel. And what a delight. The drama is so good that it makes even the more melancholic passages come to life. With Stephen Dillane AND Douglas Henshall to delight in here, the show was on my watch list anyway. Some wonderful performances can be found in this version which is certainly one of the best transferences to screen of a complex novel (for one thing it doesn't shirk from giving equal weight to the story of Levin and Kitty - which in the novel are just as central, if not more so in the case of Levin, musing on the issue of religion).