Anna Karenina (1918 film)

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

Anna Karenina
Directed byMárton Garas
Written byIstván Lázár
Based onAnna Karenina
1878 novel
by Leo Tolstoy
Produced byMór Klopfer
Imre Kovács
Jenõ Radó
Mór Wellner
StarringIrén Varsányi
Dezső Kertész
Emil Fenyvessy
Gyula Margittai
CinematographyRaymond Pellerin
Production
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Hungária Filmgyár
Release date
  • 23 October 1918 (1918-10-23)
Running time
53 minutes
CountryHungary
LanguagesSilent
Hungarian intertitles

Plot summary

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Cast

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  • Irén Varsányi as Anna Karenina
  • Dezső Kertész as Vronsky
  • Emil Fenyvessy as Karenin
  • Gyula Margittai as Oblovszkij
  • Jenö Balassa
  • Sándor Virányi as Levin doktor
  • Vilma Lakos
  • Karola Gárdi
  • Sandy Igolits
  • Sári Almási]
  • Adolf Sieder
  • Mária Gajáry

References

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  • Cunningham, John. Hungarian Cinema: From Coffee House to Multiplex. Wallflower Press, 2004.
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