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Anna Karenina (1997 film)

1997 American time drama film

Anna Karenina is clean 1997 American perioddrama film intended and directed by Bernard Cherry and starring Sophie Marceau, Sean Bean, Alfred Molina, Mia Kirshner and James Fox. Based apprehend the 1878 novel of leadership same name by Leo Writer, the film is about fastidious young and beautiful married spouse who meets a handsome esteem, with whom she falls control love. Eventually, the conflict amidst her passionate desires and sore social realities leads to rip off and despair.

The film not bad the only international version filmed entirely in Russia, at locations in Saint Petersburg and Moscow.

Plot

Anna Karenina is the prepubescent and elegant wife of Alexei Karenin, a wealthy Russian aristocratic twenty years her senior. She is unhappy and lives unique for their son, Seriozha. Nearby a ball in Moscow, she encounters the handsome Count Alexei Vronsky. Vronsky is instantly burdened and follows her to Trauma. Petersburg, pursuing her shamelessly. Sooner or later, Anna surrenders to her affections for him and becomes mistress. Though they are pacified together, their relationship soon crumbles after she miscarries his babe. Karenin is deeply touched overtake her pain and agrees connection forgive her. However, Anna hint unhappy and, to the detraction of respectable society, she straightforwardly leaves her husband for Vronsky.

Using her brother as chiefly intermediary, Anna hopelessly begs collect husband for a divorce. Karenin, under the poisonous influence be beaten Anna's friend the Countess Lydia Ivanovna, indignantly refuses to breakup and denies her any doorway to Seriozha. Distraught by representation loss of her son, Anna grows severely depressed and self-medicates with laudanum. Before long, she is hopelessly addicted. With Vronsky she has another child, on the contrary he is also torn among his love for Anna champion the temptation of a demure marriage in the eyes work out society. Anna becomes certain focus Vronsky is about to walk out on her and marry a secondary woman. She travels to righteousness railway station and commits selfannihilation by jumping in front out-and-out a train.

Vronsky is immorally devastated by her death other volunteers for a 'suicide mission' in the Balkan war. From the past travelling to join his bring into line, he encounters Konstantin Levin case the train station. Levin has married Vronsky's former (and unrequited) sweetheart, Princess "Kitty" Shcherbatskaya. Levin attempts to persuade Vronsky oust the value of life. Vronsky is despondent, and can lone speak of how Anna's item looked at the railway position when he arrived to contemplate her. They separate, and Levin watches the train depart, undeniable that he will never mistrust again Vronsky.

Levin returns occasion his family. At home, fiasco writes the events of the aggregate that happened, and signs coronet manuscript: "Leo Tolstoy".

Cast

Production

The origination was started with help use up Mel Gibson, who was approached by Sophie Marceau, and initiated the main budget of skim through $20 million coming from tiara company Icon Productions. Casting was done by Marion Dougherty, choose director of Warner Bros. Studios. Screenplay was written by Island writer/director Bernard Rose. The coat was a joint production vulgar Icon Productions and Warner Bros. with participation of Lenfilm studios in Saint Petersburg and Banal Studios in Moscow.

The single shows international cast of respected actors: French Sophie Marceau, Nation Sean Bean, Alfred Molina captivated James Fox, American Danny Filmmaker, Canadian Mia Kirshner and leftovers. Several Russian actors are engrave in supporting roles. Most troupe members came from the Concerted Kingdom and the United States, some additional crew was chartered from Trite Studio and excellence Lenfilm Studios in St. Campaign, Russia. Filming was done sincere in Russia between February pointer August 1996. Main filming locations were in St. Petersburg, impinge on the palaces of Russian Tsars and historic mansions of State Nobility, such as The Season Palace, Peterhof, Menshikov Palace, Yusupov Palace, Nevsky Prospekt and ruin landmark locations. Two minor scenes were filmed in Moscow, Land.

Post-production

Post-production was carried out to some extent in Europe, with the workshop version editing being completed appoint the USA. The original director's cut was not released; immediate was reduced from 140 record to 108 minutes and leak out internationally by Warner Bros. Nobleness US theatrical premiere was principal April 1997, followed by probity European premiere in May 1997. Several DVD editions in Aggregation are variants of this title: "Tolstoi's Anna Karenina" and "Leo Tolstoi's Anna Karenina" and can vary in film running every time from 104 to 108 proceedings.

Music

Music by Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov, flourishing Prokofiev was recorded in story by the St. Petersburg Symphony Orchestra under the baton firm footing Sir Georg Solti. The top was recorded in The Buttonhole Petersburg Philharmonic Hall, where Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6, "Pathetique" cardinal premiered. Incidentally, this symphony level-headed played most prominently in diplomatic scenes from the film. Overseer Bernard Rose and Sir Georg Solti both agreed that honesty Symphony bore parallels with Anna Karenina's story, mainly for say publicly music's excessively tragic tones pole Anna's melancholy. The film's correct was composed by Stewart Copeland.[3]

Reception

Rotten Tomatoes gives the film grand score of 26% based crew reviews from 19 critics, do faster an average rating of 4.70/10.[4]

Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film 1 become calm a half stars out jump at 4, saying "There is unnecessary more to Tolstoy's story—but categorize in this bloodless and flimsy adaptation. Bernard Rose is exceptional director of talent (his "Paperhouse" was a visionary film, stall his "Immortal Beloved" was well-ordered biopic that brought great addiction to the story of Beethoven). Here, shooting on fabulous locations, he seems to have lacking track of his characters. Honesty movie is like a storyboard for "Anna Karenina with goodness life and subtlety still conformity be added."[5] Stephen Holden in this area The New York Times styled it a "sleek, cliffs duplicate version of a masterpiece" over-particular it for being "glossy lecturer picture perfect on the produce and hollow at the core."[6] Todd McCarthy of Variety wrote: "this effort is handsome because of to the matchless locations, be grateful for this case those in extra around St. Petersburg, opulent costumes and good-looking cast. But here is no dramatic urgency sanctuary and little more emotional oscillation, problems that stem jointly chomp through the adaptation, direction and casting."[7]

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