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Anna Karenina on DVD (1947)

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Average rating: 57%
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3.0
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Starring: Vivien Leigh, Ralph Richardson, Kieron Moore, Marie Lohr, Sally Ann Howes, Niall MacGinnis, Michael Gough
Director: Julien Duvivier
Studio: WARNER HOME VIDEO
Run time: 110 mins
Certificate: PG
Genres: Drama
Languages: English
Released: 28/06/2004

Brief synopsis of Anna Karenina

Vivien Leigh stars as Anna Karenina, Tolstoy's enduring tragic heroine. Anna leaves her socialite husband behind for a more exciting military officer. In search of a meaningful relationship as well as an exciting and more adventurous life, Anna goes through a string of emotions when she becomes the third party of a strenuous love triangle. From depression to happiness to near emotional destruction, she must learn to deal with the elements that surround her tragic existence.

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Rating of 1 stars out of 5 Halliwell's Film Guide

Vivien Leigh is lashed about by the tremendous role of Anna like a pussy cat with a tigress by the tail. She is not helped by a script which insists on sentimentally ennobling one of fiction's most vehemently average women.

Time Out

Visually opulent but lifeless Korda production which reduces Tolstoy's novel to a routine triangle situation. Leigh and... Read more on www.timeout.com

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Rated - 2 starsI agree

A customer from lanarkshire, scotland , 17/09/2006

I have to agree with the reviewer below, I am also a Vivien Leigh fan but I found this film dull and boring. Perhaps I have been spolied with the Kevin McKidd version which was great, rent that version instead. Not even the excellent Vivien can make this film enjoyable.

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Rated - 1 starsNot good

A customer from Scotland , 04/02/2005

As a devoted Vivien Leigh fan, I couldn't beleive that I switched this film off half way through out of boredom. There was no chemsitry between the two leads and their rapid change from 'just met' to 'can't live without you' was totally unbeleivable.

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Rated - 4 starsGood film

A customer from uk , 28/11/2006

Well worth watching. Good acting.

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Rated - 4 starsTHE BEST OF ALL

A customer from LONDON , 02/05/2007

A VERY GOOD FILM .FROM ALL THE 'ANNA KARENINA' FILMS THAT I SAW THIS IS THE MOST SUCCSESSFUL OF ALL

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Rated - 1 starsNot good

A customer from Scotland , 04/02/2005

As a devoted Vivien Leigh fan, I couldn't beleive that I switched this film off half way through out of boredom. There was no chemsitry between the two leads and their rapid change from 'just met' to 'can't live without you' was totally unbeleivable.

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