Anna Karenina | |
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Genre | Period drama |
Based on | Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy |
Written by | Allan Cubitt |
Directed by | David Blair |
Starring |
Helen McCrory Kevin McKidd Stephen Dillane Mark Strong Amanda Root Douglas Henshall Paloma Baeza Abigail Cruttenden Paul Rhys Gillian Barge Malcolm Sinclair Victoria Carling |
Composer(s) | John E. Keane |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Original language(s) | English |
No. of series | 1 |
No. of episodes | 4 |
Production | |
Executive producer(s) |
George Faber Allan Cubitt Rebecca Eaton Charles Pattinson Suzan Harrison |
Producer(s) | Matthew Bird |
Production company(s) |
Company Pictures WGBH Boston |
Distributor | All3Media |
Release | |
Original network | Channel 4 |
Picture format | 16:9 |
Audio format | Stereo |
Original release | 9 May | – 30 May 2000
Anna Karenina is a four-part British television adaptation of Tolstoy's novel.
It was directed by David Blair and aired in the United Kingdom on Channel 4 9 to 30 May 2000 and in America on PBS Masterpiece Theatre in 2001.
Anna is traveling by train from St. Petersburg to Moscow to visit her brother Stiva. Stiva is married to Dolly. However, Stiva has been having a sexual affair with his governess.
Anna is a married woman with an 8-year-old son who has an extra-marital affair with Count Vronsky. Constantine Levin courts a young woman named Kitty. Levin and Kitty are both unmarried.
Nikolai, Constantine Levin's brother, cohabits with a former prostitute named Masha.