Anna Karenina (1948) (Alexander Korda\'s Production of Tolstoy\'s Anna Karenina)

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This 1948 version of the Tolstoy novel is a sumptuously designed and beautifully photographed film, but it’s also the kind of elephantine literary adaptation that makes people roll their eyes and hate the entire genre outright. Sure, it’s positively lovely to look at, but it never quite takes off, remaining too remote, cold and detached for its own good to properly get us invested in Anna’s ... read more

Stefan and Dolly Oblonsky have had a little spat and Stefan has asked his sister, Anna Karenina, to come down to Moscow to help mend the rift. Anna's companion on the train from St. Petersburg is Countess Vronsky who is met at the Moscow station by her son. Col. Vronsky looks very dashing in his uniform and it's love at first sight when he looks at Anna and their eyes meet. Back in St. Petersburg they keep running into each other at parties. Since she has a husband and small son, they must be very discreet if they are going to see each other alone.