Anna Karenina (2000 miniseries)
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Anna Karenina is a four-part British television adaptation of Tolstoy's novel.
It was directed in 2000 by David Blair and aired in America on PBS Masterpiece Theatre in 2001.
Plot
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.
Cast
- Helen McCrory as Anna
- Kevin McKidd as Vronsky
- Stephen Dillane as Karenin
- Mark Strong as Stiva
- Amanda Root as Dolly
- Douglas Henshall as Levin (Constantine "Kostya")
- Paloma Baeza as Kitty
- Abigail Cruttenden as Betsy
- Paul Rhys as Nikolai