Anna Karenina

6.0
197750m

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Anna Karenina was a 1977 BBC television adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's novel & tragic story of the love affair between Vronsky, a Russian Count and Anna Karenina, a married upper class woman. Nicola Pagett takes the role of Anna, a young woman who is married to a man twenty years her senior (Eric Porter), and who begins a passionate affair with the handsome Count Vronsky (Stuart Wilson). When she falls pregnant, Anna decides to dissolve her marriage and wed Vronsky, but true happiness proves elusive.

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10 Episodes • Premiered 1977

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1. Part 1

After her brother is found being unfaithful, Anna Karenina persuades her sister-in-law not to leave him.

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2. Part 2

Army officer Vronsky falls in love with Anna, who returns to her husband, Karenin, and their son.

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3. Part 3

Anna returns Vronsky's feelings, and becomes pregnant with his child.

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4. Part 4

Count Alexei chides his wife Anna about her most recent disrespectful behavior then asks that she admit all that has been going on.

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5. Part 5

After a difficult birth to a baby girl, Anna flees with Vronsky without obtaining a divorce from Karenin.

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6. Part 6

Levin and Kitty marry and soon after, Kitty discovers that she is pregnant.

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7. Part 7

Anna and Vronsky return to Russia. After a furious Karenin sees Anna visiting their son, she and Vronsky leave.

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8. Part 8

Anna decides to marry Vronsky.

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9. Part 9

Anna commits suicide after becoming increasingly bitter towards Vronsky.

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10. Part 10

Karenin takes custody of Anna's baby girl, and Vronsky leaves to help fight the Turks in the Serbian revolt.

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