Top billed cast

1. 

   Claire Bloom

   Anna Karenina

2. 

   Sean Connery

   Count Alexei Vronsky

3. 

   Albert Lieven

   Alexei Karenin

4. 

   Valerie Taylor

   Countess Vronsky

5. 

   Jack Watling

   Stiva Prince Oblonsky

6. 

   Daphne Anderson

   Dolly

7. 

   June Thorburn

   Kitty

8. 

   Frank Williams

   Korsunsky

9. 

   Alan Tilvern

   Makhotin

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf

Written by CinemaSerf on 2024-06-13

Even at 1¾ hours long, it's still quite tough to enliven the detail from Tolstoy's story into a television drama - and a black and white one, too. This one tries quite hard but falls just a little short on the imagination front. Clare Bloom takes the lead as the lady going through the marital motions with a junior politician then she encounters "Prince Alexei" (Sean Connery). He's more of a princeling, really, but she falls hook line and sinker for him and pretty soon their temptation is arousing the suspicion of her husband (Albert Lievin) who warns her of the dangers of her behaviour - but ...read the rest

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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

Keywords

• based on novel or book
• st. petersburg, russia
• 19th century