Yuri Yakovlev is amusing as Stiva, and Maya Plisetskaya one of the greatest ballerinas of her day and of all time and wife of the film's composer Rodion Shchedrin is a terrific Betsy. In conclusion, imperfect but very good film, and compares extremely favourably with the rest of the Anna Karenina adaptations. Was this review helpful? Sign in to vote. Tatyana Samoilova does a decent job. I think that Aleksandr Zarkhi's adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's famous novel "Anna Karenina" is one of the best screen versions of the book.
It was filmed on the locations where the novel's events took place, its characters speak in the original language, and the spirit of the book was successfully transferred to the screen mostly due to the performances and the cinematography by Leonid Kalashnikov.
Tatiana Samoylova radiant Veronica of "The Cranes Are Flying" plays Anna exactly as Leo Tolstoy had intended her to be, a victim of overwhelming passion, a woman who had lost herself to love, for whom the whole world had concentrated in her beloved Alexei Vronskiy, and once she felt he had became tired of her, she simply could not and did not want to live. The world famous Soviet ballerina, Maya Plisetskaya took a role of Anna's friend, Princess Betsy Tverskaya and just to see her walk is worth watching the movie.
There is much more in it. Some scenes are unforgettable after so many years. Among them, the Vronsky's horse race with the rapid cuts from the faces to horses' heads scene that has to be seen to believe; the first dance of Anna and Vronsky - during the dance the lives of many people had changed forever, or the scene in the theater where Anna dared to show up after she had left her husband and moved in with Vronsky.
For a woman of her social position, it was absolutely shocking and totally unforgiving. She was crucified with the looks of the St. Petersburg's Aristocracy but she was standing on the balcony all alone, beautiful and smiling and no one knew what she was going through. The original music for the film was written by Rodion Shchedrin who would write later the ballet based on "Anna Karenina" and his wife, Maya Plisetskaya will be dancing Anna - but it is a different story altogether. Leave it to Tolstoy's people to get it right!!!
Of the three versions I have now seen,and will not see any others till I read the novel,this is by far the best. It plays like a Shakespearian tragedy,but in this case its Imperial Russia instead of England.
Ah,all unknown Russians to me but they all fit so very well and truly make the triangle believable. Old rich and powerful husband,middle aged beautiful wife,we would today call a MILF, and dashing young military officer. Bad news for love but great for us. Released in and running minutes,it may be hard to find this film,in fact,since it was made during our cold war,I don't even remember it from back in the day. Unlike the other versions, and ,this one does more then lip service to the other characters.
Anna's cheating brother,his wife and younger sister,of which Anna stole the dashing young officer from,and later she fears is trying to steal her now husband. All wounded love affairs that perhaps are metaphors for the brutal future ahead,Set in they are but under 40 years from the end of Imperial Russia.
Anyhow,I now see the selfishness of Anna,but also the child in her. Married to a much older man at 18,she never lived and now is experiencing what men call a midlife crises.
The real victim here is her honorable husband that she now hates because he's so perfect. But he did "steal from the cradle"and with all the religious references,for me,he reaped what he sowed. Like this: Like Loading Anna Karenina film and tv adaptations. Now Playing:. All Stations. Close to the Lithub Daily Thank you for subscribing! There are literary works adapted to film dozens of times, to which filmmakers return again and again, and Anna Karenina , that pinnacle of world literature, is one of them.
The romantic odyssey of its protagonist is possibly one of the works to have seen the most adaptations since the birth of cinema.
The famed novel about the tragic story of a woman married to an older man who falls in love with a young army officer was written by Tolstoy between and If we recall that movies were first screened in , we can begin to imagine the number of times such a work could have reached cinemas. How many film adaptations have dared to reproduce this great classic about love and social hypocrisy?
This observation was sparked on having recently seen in Cuba two new versions of Anna Karenina. The tragic ending courtesy of Tolstoy played mostly in urban communities, while the sugar-coated ending screened basically everywhere else in the country. A juggernaut hit. An epic at minutes, the film demanded two years! The film has a respectable 7.
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