Anna Karenina (1918 film)

Anna Karenina
Directed by	Márton Garas
Written by	István Lázár
Based on	Anna Karenina 1878 novel by Leo Tolstoy
Produced by	Mór Klopfer Imre Kovács Jenõ Radó Mór Wellner
Starring	Irén Varsányi Dezső Kertész Emil Fenyvessy Gyula Margittai
Cinematography	Raymond Pellerin
Production company	Hungária Filmgyár
Release date	23 October 1918
Running time	53 minutes
Country	Hungary
Languages	Silent Hungarian intertitles

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

Cast

• 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

Bibliography

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

External links

• Anna Karenina at IMDb