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Anna Karenina (1997)

Anna Karenina is a 1997 film directed by Bernard Rose and starring Sophie Marceau, Sean Bean, Alfred Molina, Mia Kirshner, and James Fox. Based on the 1877 novel Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, with a screenplay by Bernard Rose, the film is about a young and beautiful married woman who meets a handsome count, with whom she falls in love. After he joins her in Saint Petersburg, they have a passionate love affair, but their happiness is eventually undermined by social pressures. Unable to obtain a divorce from her older husband, she continues her affair with the count and in time gives birth to his child. Eventually, the conflict between her passionate desires and painful social realities leads to depression and despair. The film is the only international version filmed entirely in Russia, at locations in Saint Petersburg and Moscow.

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Director: Bernard Rose|Bernard Rose (director)
Distributor: Warner Bros.
Release date: April 4, 1997
Running time: 108 minutes
Gross: $2,196,650

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