Anna Karenina (Hungarian: Karenin Anna) is a 1918 Hungarian silent drama film directed by Márton Garas and starring Irén Varsányi, Dezső Kertész and Emil Fenyvessy. It is an adaptation of the 1877 novel Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy. This is a Russian silent film based on the eponymous book by Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina is a young wife of an older husband. She is having an affair with the young and handsome Count Vronsky. Their mutual love is under social pressure. By following her desires Anna complicates her life and ends it in a suicide under a train.—Steve Shelokhonov
Plot summary
Cast
- Irén Varsányi as Anna Karenina
- Dezső Kertész as Vronsky
- Emil Fenyvessy as Karenin
- Gyula Margittai as Oblovszkij
- Jenö Balassa
- Sándor Virányi as Levin doktor
- Vilma Lakos
- Karola Gárdi
- Sandy Igolits
- Sári Almási]
- Adolf Sieder
- Mária Gajáry
References
- Cunningham, John. Hungarian Cinema: From Coffee House to Multiplex. Wallflower Press, 2004.
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