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Anna Karenina (2000 miniseries)

Anna Karenina
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 (2000-05-09) – 30 May 2000 (2000-05-30)

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.


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