Adaptations of Anna Karenina
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This is a list of adaptations of Anna Karenina. Anna Karenina
is a novel by Leo Tolstoy
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. 1915: Anna Karenina (1915 film)
, an American version starring Danish actress Betty Nansen
. 1927: Love (1927 film)
, an American version, starring Greta Garbo
and directed by Edmund Goulding
. This version featured significant changes from the novel and had two different endings, with a happy one for American audiences. 1935: Anna Karenina (1935 film)
, the most famous and critically acclaimed version, starring Greta Garbo
and Fredric March
and directed by Clarence Brown
. 1948: Anna Karenina (1948 film)
starring Vivien Leigh
, Ralph Richardson
and directed by Julien Duvivier
. 1953: Anna Karenina (1953 film), a Russian version directed by Tatyana Lukashevich.
1960: Nahr al-Hob
(River of Love), an Egyptian movie directed by Ezzel Dine Zulficar
1967: Anna Karenina (1967 film)
, a Russian version directed by Alexander Zarkhi.
1974: Anna Karenina (1974 film), a Russian version directed by Margarita Pilikhina.
1985: Anna Karenina (1985 film)
, a TV Movie starring Jacqueline Bisset
and Christopher Reeve
, directed by Simon Langton.
1997: Anna Karenina (1997 film)
, the first US version to be filmed on location in Russia, directed by Bernard Rose
and starring Sophie Marceau
and Sean Bean
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2005: Anna Karenina (2005 film), a Russian mini-series by Sergei Solovyov
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2012: Anna Karenina (2012 film), an upcoming English version by Joe Wright
and starring Keira Knightley
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Anna Karenina
Anna Karenina is a novel by the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy, published in serial installments from 1873 to 1877 in the periodical The Russian Messenger...
is a novel by Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy
Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy was a Russian writer who primarily wrote novels and short stories. Later in life, he also wrote plays and essays. His two most famous works, the novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina, are acknowledged as two of the greatest novels of all time and a pinnacle of realist...
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Drama (Theatrical Adaptations)
- 1907: Anna Karénine by French playwright Edmond Guiraud.
- 2010: Anna Karenina by Ukrainian director and playwright Andriy Zholdak; an acclaimed Finnish stage version of the novel
Film
- 1914:
Vladimir Gardin
Vladimir Rostislavovich Gardin was a pioneering Russian film director and actor who strove to raise the artistic level of Russian cinema....
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Anna Karenina (1915 film)
Anna Karenina is a 1915 silent drama film directed by J. Gordon Edwards and starring Betty Nansen. The film is considered to be lost. It was the first American adaptation of the novel by Leo Tolstoy.-Cast:* Betty Nansen - Anna Karenina...
, an American version starring Danish actress Betty Nansen
Betty Nansen
Betty Nansen was a Danish actress and theatre director of the theater that carries her name, the Betty Nansen Theatre....
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Love (1927 film)
Love is a film directed by Edmund Goulding and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. MGM made the film in order to capitalize on its winning romantic team of Greta Garbo and John Gilbert who had starred in the 1926 blockbuster, Flesh and the Devil....
, an American version, starring Greta Garbo
Greta Garbo
Greta Garbo , born Greta Lovisa Gustafsson, was a Swedish film actress. Garbo was an international star and icon during Hollywood's silent and classic periods. Many of Garbo's films were sensational hits, and all but three were profitable...
and directed by Edmund Goulding
Edmund Goulding
Edmund Goulding was a British film writer and director. As an actor early in his career he was one of the 'Ghosts' in the 1922 British made Paramount silent Three Live Ghosts alongside Norman Kerry and Cyril Chadwick. Also in the early 20s he wrote several screenplays for star Mae Murray and...
. This version featured significant changes from the novel and had two different endings, with a happy one for American audiences.
Anna Karenina (1935 film)
Anna Karenina is a 1935 film directed by Clarence Brown. The film stars Greta Garbo, Fredric March, Basil Rathbone and Maureen O'Sullivan. It is the most famous and critically acclaimed film adaptation of Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy. There are several other film adaptations of the novel.In New...
, the most famous and critically acclaimed version, starring Greta Garbo
Greta Garbo
Greta Garbo , born Greta Lovisa Gustafsson, was a Swedish film actress. Garbo was an international star and icon during Hollywood's silent and classic periods. Many of Garbo's films were sensational hits, and all but three were profitable...
and Fredric March
Fredric March
Fredric March was an American stage and film actor. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1932 for Dr. Jekyll and Mr...
and directed by Clarence Brown
Clarence Brown
Clarence Brown was an American film director.-Early life:Born in Clinton, Massachusetts, to a cotton manufacturer, Brown moved to the South when he was 11. He attended Knoxville High School and the University of Tennessee, both in Knoxville, Tennessee, graduating from the university at the age of...
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Anna Karenina (1948 film)
Anna Karenina [p] is a 1948 British film based on the 19th century novel, Anna Karenina, by the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy. The film was directed by Julien Duvivier, and starred Vivien Leigh in the title role...
starring Vivien Leigh
Vivien Leigh
Vivien Leigh, Lady Olivier was an English actress. She won the Best Actress Academy Award for her portrayal of Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire , a role she also played on stage in London's West End, as well as for her portrayal of the southern belle Scarlett O'Hara, alongside Clark...
, Ralph Richardson
Ralph Richardson
Sir Ralph David Richardson was an English actor, one of a group of theatrical knights of the mid-20th century who, though more closely associated with the stage, also appeared in several classic films....
and directed by Julien Duvivier
Julien Duvivier
Julien Duvivier was a French film director. He was prominent in French cinema in the years 1930-1960...
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Nahr al-Hob
The River of Love, is a 1960 Egyptian romance film starring Faten Hamama and Omar Sharif. The film is directed by the Egyptian film director Ezzel Dine Zulficar and based on Leo Tolstoy's novel, Anna Karenina...
(River of Love), an Egyptian movie directed by Ezzel Dine Zulficar
Ezzel Dine Zulficar
Ezzel Dine Zulficar was an Egyptian film director, screenwriter, actor, and producer.- Career :Zulficar was born in Cairo, Egypt. As a child, Zulficar was a prodigy. He received a scholarship and studied astronomy. He loved reading, which is what had helped him succeed. He graduated from the...
Anna Karenina (1967 film)
Anna Karenina is a 1967 Soviet drama film directed by Aleksandr Zarkhi, based on the novel of the same name by Leo Tolstoy. It was listed to compete at the 1968 Cannes Film Festival, but the festival was cancelled due to the events of May 1968 in France....
, a Russian version directed by Alexander Zarkhi.
Anna Karenina (1985 film)
Anna Karenina is a United States 1985 made-for-TV movie version of the famous Leo Tolstoy novel, Anna Karenina.-Plot:Tragic Anna Karenina leaves her cold husband for the dashing Count Vronsky in 19th-century Russia...
, a TV Movie starring Jacqueline Bisset
Jacqueline Bisset
Jacqueline Bisset is an English actress. She has been nominated for four Golden Globe Awards and an Emmy Award. She is known for her roles in the films Bullitt , Airport , The Deep , Class , and the TV series Nip/Tuck in 2006...
and Christopher Reeve
Christopher Reeve
Christopher D'Olier Reeve was an American actor, film director, producer, screenwriter, author and activist...
, directed by Simon Langton.
Anna Karenina (1997 film)
Anna Karenina is a 1997 film by director Bernard Rose, and starring Sophie Marceau and Sean Bean. The film is an adaptation of the eponymous novel by Leo Tolstoy. It was the first international version to be filmed entirely in Russia, at locations in St...
, the first US version to be filmed on location in Russia, directed by Bernard Rose
Bernard Rose (director)
Bernard Rose is an English actor and film director most famous for his direction of the 1992 urban horror film Candyman and the 1994 historical romance film Immortal Beloved....
and starring Sophie Marceau
Sophie Marceau
Sophie Marceau is a French actress director, screenwriter, and author. She has appeared in 38 films. As a teenager, Marceau achieved popularity with her debut films La boum and La boum 2 , receiving a César Award for Most Promising Actress...
and Sean Bean
Sean Bean
Shaun Mark "Sean" Bean is an English film and stage actor. Bean is best known for playing Boromir in The Lord of the Rings Trilogy and, previously, British Colonel Richard Sharpe in the ITV television series Sharpe...
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- see also soundtrack to this film
Sergei Solovyov
Sergei Alexandrovich Solovyov is a Russian director, producer, writer and actor. He was awarded by the Russian SFSR People's Artist title.-Biography:...
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Joe Wright
Joe Wright is an English film director best known for Pride and Prejudice, Atonement and Hanna.-Early life and career:...
and starring Keira Knightley
Keira Knightley
Keira Christina Knightley born 26 March 1985) is an English actress and model. She began acting as a child and came to international notice in 2002 after co-starring in the film Bend It Like Beckham...
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Radio
- 1944: A radio adaptation on The Screen Guild TheaterThe Screen Guild TheaterThe Screen Guild Theater was a popular radio anthology series during the Golden Age of Radio, broadcast from 1939 until 1952, with leading Hollywood actors performing in adaptations of popular motion pictures such as Going My Way and The Postman Always Rings Twice.The show had a long run, lasting...
starring Ingrid BergmanIngrid BergmanIngrid Bergman was a Swedish actress who starred in a variety of European and American films. She won three Academy Awards, two Emmy Awards, and the Tony Award for Best Actress. She is ranked as the fourth greatest female star of American cinema of all time by the American Film Institute...
and Gregory PeckGregory PeckEldred Gregory Peck was an American actor.One of 20th Century Fox's most popular film stars from the 1940s to the 1960s, Peck continued to play important roles well into the 1980s. His notable performances include that of Atticus Finch in the 1962 film To Kill a Mockingbird, for which he won an...
. Ingrid Bergman also did a Theater Guild on the Air adaptation in 1948. - 1949: Anna Karenina, MGM Theater Of The Air Radio Broadcast on 9 December 1949, starring Marlene DietrichMarlene DietrichMarlene Dietrich was a German-American actress and singer.Dietrich remained popular throughout her long career by continually re-inventing herself, professionally and characteristically. In the Berlin of the 1920s, she acted on the stage and in silent films...
. - 1997: A 4 part BBC radio production starring Toby StephensToby StephensToby Stephens is an English stage, television and film actor who has appeared in films in both Hollywood and Bollywood. He is best known for playing megavillain Gustav Graves in the James Bond film Die Another Day , Edward Fairfax Rochester in the BBC television adaptation of Jane Eyre and Philip...
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Television
- 1961: Anna Karenina (TV programme), a BBC TelevisionBBC TelevisionBBC Television is a service of the British Broadcasting Corporation. The corporation, which has operated in the United Kingdom under the terms of a Royal Charter since 1927, has produced television programmes from its own studios since 1932, although the start of its regular service of television...
adaptation directed by Rudolph CartierRudolph CartierRudolph Cartier was an Austrian television director, filmmaker, screenwriter and producer who worked predominantly in British television, exclusively for the BBC...
, starring Sean ConnerySean ConnerySir Thomas Sean Connery , better known as Sean Connery, is a Scottish actor and producer who has won an Academy Award, two BAFTA Awards and three Golden Globes Sir Thomas Sean Connery (born 25 August 1930), better known as Sean Connery, is a Scottish actor and producer who has won an Academy...
and Claire BloomClaire BloomClaire Bloom is an English film and stage actress.-Early life:Bloom was born in the North London suburb of Finchley, the daughter of Elizabeth and Edward Max Blume, who worked in sales...
.. - 1977: Anna Karenina (1977 TV serial), a ten episode series made by the BBCBBCThe British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...
which was directed by Basil Coleman and starred Nicola PagettNicola PagettNicola Pagett is an English actress. She is best-known for her role as Elizabeth Bellamy in the 1970s TV drama series Upstairs, Downstairs.-Early life:She was educated at St...
, Eric PorterEric PorterEric Richard Porter was an English actor of stage, film and television.-Early life:Porter was born in Shepherd's Bush, London, to Richard John Porter and Phoebe Elizabeth Spall...
and Stuart Wilson. - 2000: Anna Karenina (2000 TV serial), a 4 part British TV adaptation directed by David BlairDavid BlairDavid Blair may refer to:*David Blair , British director*David Blair , British ballet dancer*David Blair , Irish Australian journalist and encyclopaedist...
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Ballet
- 1971: Anna Karenina (Shchedrin), a ballet by Rodion ShchedrinRodion ShchedrinRodion Konstantinovich Shchedrin is a Russian composer. He was one оf the leading Soviet composers, and was the chairman of the Union of Russian Composers from 1973 until 1990.-Life and Works:...
. - 2005: Anna Karenina (Eifman)Anna Karenina (Eifman)The ballet Anna Karenina was choreographed by Boris Eifman and had its world première in Saint Petersburg on Saturday, April 2nd, 2005. Its plot was based on the novel Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy.The music is by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and included excerpts from:* Symphony No. 2 in C minor Little...
, a Russian balletBalletBallet is a type of performance dance, that originated in the Italian Renaissance courts of the 15th century, and which was further developed in France and Russia as a concert dance form. The early portions preceded the invention of the proscenium stage and were presented in large chambers with...
in 2 acts choreographed by Boris EifmanBoris EifmanBoris Eifman is a prolific choreographer associated with the Eifman Ballet of St. Petersburg. He is known for his dark portrayals of anguished sexuality and extreme psychological states. The company frequently tours abroad, and has been economically successful...
, with music by Pyotr Ilyich TchaikovskyPyotr Ilyich TchaikovskyPyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Russian: Пётр Ильи́ч Чайко́вский ; often "Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky" in English. His names are also transliterated "Piotr" or "Petr"; "Ilitsch", "Il'ich" or "Illyich"; and "Tschaikowski", "Tschaikowsky", "Chajkovskij"...
. - 2006: Anna Karenina (Kohler), a ballet in 3 acts choreographed by Terence Kohler, music from Shostakovich, Rachmaninov, Khachaturian.
Musical theatre
- 1992: Anna KareninaAnna Karenina (musical)Anna Karenina is a musical with a book and lyrics by Peter Kellogg and music by Daniel Levine. Based on the classic Leo Tolstoy novel of the same name, it focuses on the tragic title character, a fashionable but unhappily married woman, and her ill-fated liaison with Count Vronsky, which...
, an ill-fated Broadway musical adaptation. - 1994: a HungarianHungarian languageHungarian is a Uralic language, part of the Ugric group. With some 14 million speakers, it is one of the most widely spoken non-Indo-European languages in Europe....
musical Anna Karenina composed by Tibor Kocsák, lyrics by Tibor Miklós (renewed in 2008).
Opera
- 1904-1905: Anna Karenina by Italian composer Edoardo Granelli, composed in years 1904-1905.
- 1905: Anna Karenina by Italian composer Salvatore Sassano on libretto by Antonio Menotti. Opera won a price at the contest of the Institute for the Advancement of Music, NaplesNaplesNaples is a city in Southern Italy, situated on the country's west coast by the Gulf of Naples. Lying between two notable volcanic regions, Mount Vesuvius and the Phlegraean Fields, it is the capital of the region of Campania and of the province of Naples...
and was premièred by Mercadante Theater in Naples in 1905. - 1907: Leoš JanáčekLeoš JanácekLeoš Janáček was a Czech composer, musical theorist, folklorist, publicist and teacher. He was inspired by Moravian and all Slavic folk music to create an original, modern musical style. Until 1895 he devoted himself mainly to folkloristic research and his early musical output was influenced by...
begun, but never finished the opera. - 1914: Anna Karénine by French composer Edmond Malherbe, unperformed.
- 1914: Karenina Anna by Hungarian composer Jenő HubayJeno HubayEugen Huber , better known by his Hungarian name Jenő Hubay , was a Hungarian violinist, composer and music teacher.-Early life:Eugen Huber was born into a German family of musicians in Pest, Hungary...
on libretto by Sándor Góth and Andor Gábor based on 1907 Edmond Guiraud's French dramatical adaptation. Premièred in 1923. - 1924: Anna Karenina by Italian verismoVerismoVerismo was an Italian literary movement which peaked between approximately 1875 and the early 1900s....
composer Igino Robbiani on libretto by Arturo Rosatto, premièred 1924 at the Teatro Costanzi in RomeRomeRome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.Rome's history spans two and a half...
. - 1930: Anna Karenina, op. 18 by Czech composer Stanislav Goldbach on libretto by Dalibor Chalupa, composed 1927-1930.
- 1970: Anna Karenina by Ukrainian composer Yuly Sergeyevich Meytus .
- 1978: Anna KareninaAnna Karenina (Hamilton)Anna Karenina is an opera in three acts by Scottish composer Iain Hamilton. The libretto, based on Leo Tolstoy's novel, Anna Karenina was written by the composer. Anna Karenina was premiered on May 7, 1981 at the London Coliseum by the English National Opera in a performance conducted by Howard...
by British composer Iain HamiltonIain Hamilton (composer)Iain Ellis Hamilton was a Scottish composer.He was educated in London where he became an apprentice engineer, and remained in that profession for the next seven years. He undertook the study of music in his spare time...
on his own libretto, premièred by ENOEnglish National OperaEnglish National Opera is an opera company based in London, resident at the London Coliseum in St. Martin's Lane. It is one of the two principal opera companies in London, along with the Royal Opera, Covent Garden...
at the London Coliseum in 1981. - 2007: Anna KareninaAnna Karenina (Carlson)Anna Karenina is an opera in two acts by American composer David Carlson, based on the novel Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, commissioned by Florida Grand Opera to celebrate the 2007 opening of the Ziff Ballet Opera House at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, co-commissioned by Opera...
, an American opera with music by David CarlsonDavid CarlsonDavid Carlson American composer.Carlson studied theory and composition at the Los Angeles High School of the Arts and with Leonard Stein at the California Institute of the Arts...
on a libretto by Colin GrahamColin GrahamColin Graham, OBE was a British-born stage director of opera, theater, and television.Graham was educated at Northaw School , Stowe School and RADA...
which premiered in April 2007 at Florida Grand OperaFlorida Grand OperaFlorida Grand Opera is an American opera company based in Miami, Florida. FGO was created in 1994 from the consolidation of two opera companies in the Miami-Fort Lauderdale region:...
starring Kelly KaduceKelly KaduceKelly Kaduce is an American soprano. She was born in Winnebago, Minnesota, United States of America. A graduate of St. Olaf College and Boston University , Kaduce won the 1999 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions...
as Anna. Second version with an added scene on text by Mark Streshinsky was premièred in 2010 by Opera San JoseOpera San JoseOpera San José is the professional opera company in San Jose, California, United States, founded in 1984 by Irene Dalis. In 1988, it formed a resident company of principal artists, for which it has purchased fourteen apartment units to provide rent-free accommodation...
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