''Anna Karenina'' is a 1953 Soviet

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directed by Tatyana Lukashevich and starring

Alla Tarasova Alla Konstantinovna Tarasova (russian: А́лла Константи́новна Тара́сова; – 5 April 1973) was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actress and pedagogue. She was a leading actress of Konstantin Stanislavski's Moscow ...

, Nikolai Sosnin and Pavel Massalsky. It is based on

Leo Tolstoy Count Lev Nikolayevich TolstoyTolstoy pronounced his first name as , which corresponds to the romanization ''Lyov''. () (; russian: link=no, Лев Николаевич Толстой,In Tolstoy's day, his name was written as in pre-refor ...

's 1878 novel ''

Anna Karenina ''Anna Karenina'' ( rus, «Анна Каренина», p=ˈanːə kɐˈrʲenʲɪnə) is a novel by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy, first published in book form in 1878. Widely considered to be one of the greatest works of literature ever writt ...

''.Goble p.672

Plot summary

Cast

as Anna Arkadyevna Karenina * Nikolai Sosnin as Aleksei Aleksandrovich Karenin * Pavel Massalsky as Count Aleksei Kirillovich Vronsky *

Viktor Stanitsyn Viktor Yakovlevich Stanitsyn (russian: Ви́ктор Я́ковлевич Стани́цын; 1897–1976) was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor.Riley p.73 He appeared in a number of Soviet era films including portraying Winston Churchill ...

as Prince Stepan Arkadyevich Oblonsky * Ye. Aleyeva as Darya Aleksandrovna Oblonskaya (Dolly) * Aleksei Zakalinsky as Seryozha Karenin *

Angelina Stepanova Angelina Iosifovna Stepanova ( rus, links=no, Ангели́на Ио́сифовна Степа́нова, , ɐnɡʲɪˈlʲinə ɪˈosʲɪfəvnə sʲtʲɪˈpanəvə; 23 November 1905 – 17 May 2000) was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actre ...

as Princess Yelizaveta Feodorovna Tverskaya * Mariya Durasova as Countess Lidiya Ivanovna * N. Slastenina as Countess Vronskaya * Grigori Konsky as Count Aleksandr Kirillovich Vronsky * Irina Gosheva as Varya Vronskaya * Boris Petker as Attorney * Yevgeniya Khovanskaya as Princess Myagkaya * Sofiya Pilyavskaya as Ambassador's wife * N. Mikhajlovskaya as Anna's friend *

Nikolai Svobodin Nikolai Svobodin (20 May 1898 - 20 September 1965) was a Soviet actor of the Socialist realism genre. He was born in village Uzmore, Novouzensk uyezd, Samara Governorate, Russian Empire (modern-day Engelssky District, Saratov Oblast, Russia) as N ...

as Diplomat *

Vladimir Kirillin Vladimir Alekseyevich Kirillin (russian: Владимир Алексеевич Кириллин; – 29 January 1999) was a Soviet physicist specializing in energetics and thermophysics and a member of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Un ...

as Tushkevich * P. Lyudvigov * A. Guzeyev as a member of the royal family * V. Damsky as Karmasov * Galina Shostko as Karmasova * Sofya Garrel as Freylina * V. Markov as Sanovnik * Vladimir Popov as Kapitonich, Karenina's butler * Aleksei Zhiltsov as Kornei, Karenina's valet * V. Dementyeva as Mariya Yefimova * Anna Kolomijtseva as Annushka

References

Bibliography

* Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film''. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.

External links

* 1953 films 1950s historical drama films Soviet historical drama films 1950s Russian-language films Films based on Anna Karenina 1953 drama films Soviet black-and-white films {{1950s-USSR-film-stub