Anna Karenina

Title:

Anna Karenina

ISBN:

9781593752316

Publication Information:

[Boston, Mass.] : WGBH Boston Video, 2004, 2000.

Physical Description:

2 videodiscs (ca. 240 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

General Note:

Based on the novel by Leo Tolstoy.

Originally shown in 2000 as an episode of the television mini-series in England, ExxonMobil Masterpiece Theatre.

Special features: DVD-ROM: Printable teacher's guide for Anna Karenina (PDF); A link to the Masterpiece Theatre web site.

Summary:

"This richly detailed film charts the tragic romantic triangle formed when the dashing Count Vronsky defies social conventions and falls into forbidden love with Anna, the ignored wife of an aristocrat. Soon, Anna's children--a son by Karenin and an illegitimate daughter by Vronsky--become pawns in Karenin's game to see that Anna pays a terrible price for her indiscretion."--Container.

Subject Term:

Marriage -- Drama.

Adultery -- Drama.

Mothers and sons -- Drama.

Suicide -- Drama.

Social values -- Drama.

Geographic Term:

Russia -- Social conditions -- 1801-1917 -- Drama.