Anna Karenina (1935)
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Cast
as Anna Karenina
as Count Vronsky
as Karenin
as Sergei
as Kitty
as Countess Vronsky
as Stiva
as Yashvin
as Dolly
as Levin
as Grisha
as Anna's Maid
as Lill
as Valet
as Tania
as Butler
as Tutor
as Cord
as Princess Sorokino
as Mme. Karatasoff
as Matve
Critic Reviews for Anna Karenina
All Critics (14) | Fresh (13) | Rotten (1) | DVD (2)
With such a brief running time, it's difficult to create a convincing union - both during the moments of bliss and quarreling, which are equally rushed.
Fine, fine, and super-fine, if the least bit archaic.
If you still doubt either Hollywood's ability to deal with a masterpiece or Greta Garbo's greatness as an artist, this is the picture to see.
There seems more of anguish and more of sombre depth in this version than there was in the old silent film (with Garbo and John Gilbert). Garbo acts with a dignity and a bitter passion.
It is Greta Garbo's personality which "makes" this film, which fills the mould of the neat respectful adaptation with some sense of the greatness in the novel.
On the whole, Anna Karenina is a picture of merit. It is decorative, well-meaning, and full of neat encounters, and it certainly presents a Garbo in the high summer of her maturity, richer and more mellow than she has ever been before.
Audience Reviews for Anna Karenina
Good in a golden age of Hollywood kind of way.
Super Reviewer
Has the customary MGM sheen and Garbo is good as always but still heavy going.
Super Reviewer
Is it possible for a film to be well-made, but is as boring as humanly possible? I really don't think Anna Karenina was meant to be translated onto the silver screen. Halfway into it I was already bored to tears and I wished she would just freaking kill herself already.
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