Anna Karenina | |
Director: | Márton Garas |
Producer: | Mór Klopfer Imre Kovács Jenõ Radó Mór Wellner |
Starring: | Irén Varsányi Dezső Kertész Emil Fenyvessy Gyula Margittai |
Cinematography: | Raymond Pellerin |
Studio: | Hungária Filmgyár |
Runtime: | 53 minutes |
Country: | Hungary |
Language: | Silent Hungarian intertitles |
Anna Karenina (Hungarian: Karenin Anna) is a 1918 Hungarian silent drama film directed by Márton Garas and starring Irén Varsányi, Dezső Kertész and Emil Fenyvessy. It is an adaptation of the 1877 novel Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy. This is a Russian silent film based on the eponymous book by Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina is a young wife of an older husband. She is having an affair with the young and handsome Count Vronsky. Their mutual love is under social pressure. By following her desires Anna complicates her life and ends it in a suicide under a train.—Steve Shelokhonov