Anna Karenina: Vronsky's Story
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| Directed by | Karen Shakhnazarov |
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| Based on | Anna Karenina 1878 novel by Leo Tolstoy |
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| Cinematography | Aleksandr Kuznetsov |
| Edited by | Irina Kozhemyakina |
| Music by | Yuri Poteyenko |
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| Distributed by | Central Partnership |
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| Country | Russia |
| Language | Russian |
Anna Karenina: Vronsky's Story (Russian: Анна Каренина. История Вронского, romanized: Anna Karenina. Istoriya Vronskogo) is a 2017 Russian drama film directed by Karen Shakhnazarov.[1][2][3] An expanded eight-part version titled Anna Karenina aired on the Russia-1 television channel.[4]
It is a free adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's 1878 novel of the same name which also combines the publicistic story "During the Japanese War" and the literary cycle "Stories about the Japanese War" by Vikenty Veresaev.[5][6][7]
Plot
The film unfolds along two interconnected storylines; the events take place in the second half of the 19th century in the Russian Empire (1872–1875) and in the early 20th century during the Russo-Japanese War in China (1904).
The narrative begins thirty years after the tragic death of Anna Karenina, on the battlefields of the Russo-Japanese War — a setting not described in Leo Tolstoy's novel.
The main events of the film occur in 1904, in Manchuria. The war is ongoing. A field hospital convoy is retreating alongside the Russian Imperial Army. Amid the chaos, the chief doctor and the hospital superintendent go missing. Senior resident Sergey Alexeyevich Karenin is forced to take over the hospital's leadership. In a semi-abandoned Chinese village where the hospital has been relocated after the retreat, Karenin operates on a wounded colonel named Alexey Kirillovich Vronsky.
That night, Sergey visits Vronsky’s ward and asks him to explain why his mother, Anna Karenina — whom the count had known thirty years earlier — threw herself under a train, and whether anything could have changed the course of that fateful day. The aged Vronsky reluctantly agrees, cautioning that every person has their own truth. He then begins to tell the grown son of the woman he once loved the story of his love for Anna.
Cast
- Elizaveta Boyarskaya as Anna Karenina[8]
- Maksim Matveyev as Vronsky
- Kirill Grebenshchikov as Sergey Karenin
- Vitali Kishchenko as Karenin
- Vladimir Ilyin as General
- Dmitry Miller as Aleksandr, Vronsky's brother
- Tatyana Lyutaeva as Countess Vronskaya
- Viktoriya Isakova as Dolly
- Evdokiya Germanova as Countess Kartasova
- Ivan Kolesnikov as Stepan Arkadievich Oblonsky
- Anastasiya Makeyeva as Betsi Tverskaya
Reception
The majority of viewers reacted negatively to the film.[9] Anna Karenina: Vronsky's Story has an approval rating of 20% on review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, based on 5 reviews, and an average rating of 4/10[10]
References
- ^ Dale, Martin (9 December 2016). "Mosfilm's Karen Shakhnazarov: 'Russian Cinema Is Very Different From Soviet Cinema'". Variety. Retrieved 23 August 2017.
- ^ "Russian film director says Anna Karenina: Vronsky's Story will contend for Oscar". TASS. 23 August 2017. Retrieved 23 August 2017.
- ^ Лидия Графова. Международный телекинофорум назвал победителей Archived 2024-08-04 at the Wayback Machine // Российская газета, 17 сентября 2018
- ^ "Анна Каренина". Russia-1. Archived from the original on 21 November 2020. Retrieved 18 September 2017.
- ^ «Всё смешалось в доме Карениных». — На «России 1» стартует новый сериал Карена Шахназарова по роману Льва Толстого. «Российская газета» // rg.ru (16 апреля 2017 года)
- ^ Олег Пакшин. ВИДЕО. Громкая премьера: «Анна Каренина» от Карена Шахназарова. Сюжет программы «Vesti» на телеканале «Россия-1», выпуск от 17 апреля 2017 года. // vesti.ru
- ^ Премьера телесериала «Анна Каренина» Шахназарова состоится в понедельник. «РИА Новости» // ria.ru (17 апреля 2017 года)
- ^ Провал кинофильма «Анна Каренина»" в прокате — как неизбежная закономерность.
- ^ ""Анна Каренина" Шахназарова: все за и против Сериал по мотивам романа Льва Толстого — без Левина, но зато с Русско-японской войной". Meduza (in Russian). Retrieved 11 October 2022.
- ^ "Anna Karenina: Vronsky's Story". Rotten Tomatoes.