Anna Karenina

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Anna Karenina

Release Date: January 22, 1948

Year	:	1948
Slogan	:	«Vivien Leigh in the most magnificent love story ever written!»
Genres	:	Drama, Romance
Production Companies	:	London Films Productions
Director	:	Julien Duvivier
Producers	:	Alexander Korda, Dorothy Holloway, Ronald Kinnoch, Herbert Mason
Writers	:	Leo Tolstoy, Julien Duvivier, Jean Anouilh, Guy Morgan, Elizabeth Montagu
RunTime	:	139 mins.

Stefan and Dolly Oblonsky have had a spat and Stefan has asked his sister, Anna Karenina, to come down to Moscow to help mend the rift. Anna's companion on the train from St. Petersburg is Countess Vronsky who is met at the Moscow station by her son. Col. Vronsky looks very dashing in his uniform and it's love at first sight when he looks at Anna and their eyes meet.