Anna Karenina (1985 film) explained

Genre:Drama
Romance
Director:Simon Langton
Starring:Jacqueline Bisset
Christopher Reeve
Paul Scofield
Ian Ogilvy
Music:Patrick Gowers
Country:United States
Language:English
Executive Producer:Doreen Bergesen
Producer:Simon Langton
Location:Hungary
Editor:Barry Peters
Cinematography:Kelvin Pike
Runtime:150 minutes
Company:Colgems Productions
Rastar Productions
Network:CBS
Budget:$5 million[1]

Anna Karenina is a 1985 American made-for-television romantic drama film based on the famous Leo Tolstoy 1877 novel Anna Karenina starring Jacqueline Bisset and Christopher Reeve and directed by Simon Langton. The film was broadcast on CBS on March 26, 1985.

Plot

Anna Karenina (Russian: «Анна Каренина»; pronounced as /ru/)[2] leaves her cold husband for the dashing Count Vronsky in 19th-century Russia. An unfortunate series of events leaves her hopelessly depressed.

Cast

Production notes

In his autobiography Still Me, actor Christopher Reeve claimed that while making this movie he learned how to ride a horse, then fell in love with them, which eventually led to his tragic riding accident 10 years later in 1995 when he fell from a horse and became paralyzed.

Notes and References

  1. Daily Variety. December 21, 1984. 6. 'Karenina' Completes Shooting.
  2. Book: Nabokov, Vladimir . Vladimir Nabokov

    . Vladimir Nabokov . Lectures on Russian Literature . Harvest . 1980 . New York . 137 (note) . 0-15-649591-0 .