Anna Karenina (Russian: Анна Каренина) is a 1967 Soviet drama film directed by Aleksandr Zarkhi, based on the 1878 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.
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Plot summary
Anna Karenina is younger than her husband. She has an affair with the Count Vronsky but this has negative consequences for her.
Cast
Tatiana Samoilova as Anna Karenina
Nikolai Gritsenko as Aleksei Karenin
Vasily Lanovoy as Aleksei Vronsky
Yury Yakovlev as Stiva Oblonsky
Boris Goldayev as Konstantin Lyovin
Iya Savvina as Dolly Oblonskaya
Anastasiya Vertinskaya as Kitty Shcherbatskaya
Maya Plisetskaya as Betsy Tverskaya
Lidiya Sukharevskaya as Lidiya Ivanovna
Sofia Pilyavskaya as Countess Vronskaya
Yelena Tyapkina as Knyagina Myagkaya
Andrei Tutyshkin as Lawyer
Vasily Sakhnovsky as Seryozha (voiced by Klara Rumyanova)
Yuri Volyntsev as Vronsky's brother-soldier
Anatoly Kubatsky as Camerdiner Matvey
Alexander Kaidanovsky as Jules Lando