Anna Karenina

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Rare screening of the BBC's 1961 adaptation of a play based on Leo Tolstoy's famous novel.

A married socialite visits Moscow, where she falls in love with a dashing cavalry officer. Rare screening of the BBC's 1961 adaptation of a play based on Tolstoy's famous novel.

Anna, the wife of government minister Alexis Karenin, visits Moscow to help straighten out a family quarrel. There, Count Alexis Vronsky falls in love with her. Television adaptation of a play based on Leo Tolstoy's novel by Marcelle Maurette.

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