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Critics rate it 16 points higher than audiences do.
Synopsis
In Imperial Russia, Anna, wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the way, she meets charming cavalry officer Vronsky, to whom she's immediately attracted. But in St. Petersburg’s high society, a relationship like this could destroy a woman’s reputation.
Ratings
IMDb7/10
Rotten Tomatoes86%
Critics rate it 16 points higher than audiences do.
102 audience votes
Key crew
- Salka ViertelScreenplay
- Clarence BrownDirector
- Clemence DaneScreenplay
- Herbert StothartOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Greta GarboAnna Karenina
- Fredric MarchCount Vronsky
- Freddie BartholomewSergei
- Maureen O'SullivanKitty
- May RobsonCountess Vronsky
- Basil RathboneAlexei Alexandrovitch Karenin
- Reginald OwenStiva
- Phoebe FosterDolly
- Reginald DennyYashvin
- Gyles IshamKonstantin Demitrievitch Levin
- Joan MarshLili
- Ethel GriffiesMme. Kartasoff
Stills
Themes
infidelityhusband wife relationshipbased on novel or bookmarriagest. petersburg, russialovetrainlove affairhusband wife estrangementliterary adaptation19th centurystatesman