Original title
Anna Karenina
Released
9/25/1977
Origin country
GB
Genre
Drama
Production companies
BBC
Status
Ended
Number of seasons
1
Number of episodes
10
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.
After her brother is found being unfaithful, Anna Karenina persuades her sister-in-law not to leave him.
Army officer Vronsky falls in love with Anna, who returns to her husband, Karenin, and their son.
Anna returns Vronsky's feelings, and becomes pregnant with his child.
Count Alexei chides his wife Anna about her most recent disrespectful behavior then asks that she admit all that has been going on.
After a difficult birth to a baby girl, Anna flees with Vronsky without obtaining a divorce from Karenin.
Levin and Kitty marry and soon after, Kitty discovers that she is pregnant.
Anna and Vronsky return to Russia. After a furious Karenin sees Anna visiting their son, she and Vronsky leave.
Anna decides to marry Vronsky.
Anna commits suicide after becoming increasingly bitter towards Vronsky.
Karenin takes custody of Anna's baby girl, and Vronsky leaves to help fight the Turks in the Serbian revolt.
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