Anna Karenina
About Anna Karenina
Anna Karenina (Irén Varsányi) is married to the older statesman Karenin (Emil Fenyvessy) and becomes involved with Count Vronsky (Dezső Kertész). The affair sets her against the rules of Russian high society and strains the marriage, her reputation, and her family. As the relationship goes on she is more and more isolated. She kills herself by stepping in front of a train.
Cast & crew
More about Anna Karenina
Márton Garas directed and István Lázár wrote the adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's 1878 novel. Mór Klopfer, Imre Kovács, Jenő Radó, and Mór Wellner produced it at Hungária Filmgyár. The Hungarian title is Karenin Anna.
Themes
Background
It opened in Budapest on 23 October 1918, in the last weeks of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy.
Making
Hungária Filmgyár mounted Tolstoy's novel as a silent feature with Hungarian intertitles, with Irén Varsányi as Anna.
Look
Raymond Pellerin photographed the Hungária Filmgyár production.
Music
Silent, with Hungarian intertitles.
Preservation
A print is on the Internet Archive.
Notes
- Gyula Margittai plays Oblonsky. Sándor Virányi is billed as Levin doktor.
- Raymond Pellerin was the cinematographer.
- John Cunningham's Hungarian Cinema: From Coffee House to Multiplex (Wallflower Press, 2004) is the reference Wikipedia cites for the film.
- A print is on the Internet Archive.
Scenes
- Anna's affair with Vronsky puts her outside her marriage and outside society.
- She throws herself under a train.
Influenced by
- Anna Karenina (novel by Leo Tolstoy, 1878)
Also available
- Internet Archive (silent-anna-karenina)