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Anna Karenina

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Anna Karenina
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2001
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WGBH Boston
Synopsis: In 1978, America's PBS made the wise decision of running the ten-part 1977 British adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's tragic novel Anna Karenina. Twenty-two years later, the Boston-based public TV station WGBH entered into another felicitous partnership with the BBC, and the result was a shorter (four-part), but no less vivid adaptation of the oft-filmed Tolstoy work. Naturally, the main emphasis was on the triangular relationship between the titular Anna (Helen McCrory), her influential older husband, ... Full Synopsis
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In this 2000 TV production, British actress Helen McCrory portrays Anna Karenina as Tolstoy wrote her: a woman tormented by passion, guilt, jealousy, and social degradation. When scandal isolates Anna from her son and her disapproving acquaintances, McCrory writes the tale of Anna's woes in the dark circles under her eyes and in the volatility of her temperament. Eventually,McCrory's Anna shows the ... Full Review
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